Post No.: 0624 Fluffystealthkitten says: Some might disagree with this but deep learning (DL) is a subfield of artificial neural networks (ANN), which in turn is a subfield of machine learning (ML), which in turn is a subfield … Read More
Post No.: 0623 Furrywisepuppy says: As a furry primer on international law before we continue on our exploration of International Humanitarian Law (IHL), which started in Post No.: 0612 – the two main sources of international law are … Read More
Post No.: 0622 Furrywisepuppy says: We’ve been learning throughout this blog that our brains don’t interpret the physical world or reality objectively – there are individualised interpretations of the world and our brains interpret the world according to … Read More
Post No.: 0621 Furrywisepuppy says: We should understand that the web isn’t regulated by or for the truth. A web search can bring up dodgy health advice, legal advice and other falsehoods that affect our beliefs, values and … Read More
Post No.: 0620 Fluffystealthkitten says: Sometimes people continue to support particular political leaders despite their clear and constant lies. That’s because their lies serve these people’s agendas (or at least they believe so). So people don’t despise lies … Read More
Post No.: 0619 Furrywisepuppy says: Acts of corruption include bribes, kickbacks (collusion), extortion (coercion), embezzlement (theft), money laundering, blackmail and undue influence (exploitation). It also includes nepotism, cronyism or otherwise favourably helping one’s relatives or mates in professional … Read More
Post No.: 0618 Furrywisepuppy says: Many of us wish we had more willpower. (Go away biscuits!) It’s about seeking our pleasure now versus our greater happiness or pleasure later. Being a risk-taker or risk-averse, or trusting or … Read More
Post No.: 0617 Fluffystealthkitten says: PR and advertising is often just about brands ‘virtue signalling’ with ‘woke capitalism’ and trying to jump onto a current bandwagon without authenticity. They’re trying to commercialise and capitalise on popular movements or … Read More
Post No.: 0616 Furrywisepuppy says: On social media, we’ve got to be highly cautious of coming across ‘false flags’ – where a person pretends to belong to or support one side of an issue in order to give … Read More
Post No.: 0615 Fluffystealthkitten says: Several previous posts so far have explored negotiations mainly in terms of big items like when buying or selling a house or hammering out a salary package. But haggling should be a more … Read More
Post No.: 0614 Furrywisepuppy says: In ‘everyday’ life nowadays, many people take drugs in the hope of losing weight, fighting ageing, improving their sexual performance, and now increasingly to hopefully enhance their productivity or academic performance. ‘Nootropics’ … Read More
Post No.: 0613 Furrywisepuppy says: We’ve learnt that people frequently exhibit inconsistency and thus irrationality with their own choices – as examined in Post No.: 0576. This isn’t to say that humans are always irrational. Organisms don’t have … Read More
Post No.: 0612 Furrywisepuppy says: I recently became deeply intrigued by International Humanitarian Law (IHL). The following series of posts centred on this area of international law will present an overview to hopefully whet your appetite on the … Read More
Post No.: 0611 Furrywisepuppy says: Advertising isn’t just about products and brands – adverts convey a whole host of other social and cultural information such as norms, stereotypes, values, gender roles, how to ‘supposedly’ live, what our houses … Read More
Post No.: 0610 Furrywisepuppy says: ‘Cumulative prospect theory’ (and its predecessor ‘prospect theory’) modifies classical economic utility theory to take into account real human decision-making behaviours – particularly by accounting for reference points from which gains/losses are compared … Read More
Post No.: 0609 Fluffystealthkitten says: Without getting technical, antioxidants are compounds that can protect the body from unstable and potentially harmful molecules called free radicals, which can accumulate over time and promote oxidative stress and damage DNA and … Read More
