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عجفت الغور

iraq letter Doing Fieldwork in Iraq

(not) Science Fiction

1975 Algiers Agreement

1997 asian financial crisis

2006 lebanon israel war

2009 niger river delta insurgency

48 palestine vs 67 palestine

a conflict time forgot (Western Sahara and Maurtania)

abd al-karim al-uzri

abdul hadi al-darraji

abdul karim qasim

abstract and reasoning corpus

abu ali al-basri/adnan ibrahim al-najjar

abu hamid al-ghazali

abu mahdi al-muhandis

abu zainab al-lami/hussein falal aziz al-lami

Abu-Rish: Lebanon's Uprising in a Time of Crisis

Acehan - Turkish Leatherworkers in Peabody, Massachusetts

Aciksoz - Sacrificial Limbs of Soverignty

actor network theory

Adalet - Hotels and Highways

Adamcyzk: Twenty years of protection of civilians at the UN Security Council

Adar - Emotions and Nationalism: Armenian Genocide as a Case Study

adil abdul-mahdi

adjacency lists

Adversarial NLI (ANLI)

advisory group of experts (AGE)

Adya et al: Slicer Auto-Sharding for Datacenter Applications

aerobic capacity

afghanistan visa

afl (american fuzzy lop)

african union (au)

Ahmed - Afghanistan Rising

Aiken et al: Deconstructing Process Isolation

airbus 350 servers

airlines bailout - 2020

Akdedian et al: State atrophy and the reconfiguration of borderlands in Syria and Iraq

al zajel express

al-abbas combat division (brigade 26)

al-Dewachi - Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq

al-fadl discussion

al-Fadl: What Type of Law is Islamic Law

al-Jabbar - The Shiite Movement in Iraq

al-khoei foundation

al-Qassem brigades

Alaaldin et al: The Rise and the Future of Militias in the MENA Region

alfred north whitehead

algeria and prostitution

algorithms for decision making

algorithms for optimization

Ali Abdullah Saleh

ali shakir al-khafaf

alloy (spec lang)

american amnesia

american reverie

amman message (2005)

amnesty and post-conflict

analogy and cognition

Anastasio Somoza

Anderson - Imagined Communities

andrei kolmogorov

Anscombe - State, Faith, and Nation

anthropology as an ill-structured domain blog post

antinarcotics in afghanistan

antonio guterres

api machinery (k8s)

approximate nearest neighbor

Arab Image Foundation

arabian satire - poetry from hmedan

archives-introduction.org

Archiving a Revolution: Smartphones, Social Media, & Protest

are experts real?

Arendt - The Human Condition

arms management and destruction

asa'ib ahl al-haqq (aah)

Asad - Formations of the Secular

Asad - Secular Translations

asian development bank

astronomy in iraq

atlantic meridional overturning circulation

audio detection

austin's theory of law

authoritarial intent and fixing things when they're generating profit

authoritarian problems with humantiarian aid

autodefensas unidas de colombia (AUC)

autograd (pytorch)

automatic differentiation

Average is Over

average pooling

avocados in the middle east

Ayatollah al-Khoei

ayn al-asad air base

aynas naji al-maksusi

Azam - Sexual Violation in Islamic Law

azimuth thrusters

Azoulay: Archive

Barber et al: Trading is Hazardous to Your Wealth

Barnett et al: International Organizations and the Diffusions of Power

base period training

basel committee on banking supervision

baseyian optimization

Bateson - Steps to an Ecology of Mind

battle of solfernio

Bayat - Revolution without Revolutionaries

Beath et al - The National Solidarity Program in Afghanistan

behdini and iraqi arabic and lack of grammar

beirut trash riots

Berdal: What Are the Limits to the Use of Force in UN Peacekeeping?

bertrand russel

bharatiya janata party (bjp)

bias nlp project

big data processing

biking in nyc website

binary decision diagrams

black axe (nigeria)

black box optimization

Blanch - Sabers of Paradise

Blaydes - State of Repression

Blocq: The Fog of UN Peacekeeping

blogging platforms

Blumi - Ottoman Refugees, 1878-1939

Blumi: The Albania Question Looms Over the Balkans Again

boogaloo boys blog post

bottle sorters blog post

Bouillion et al - Iraq: Preventing Another Generation of Conflict

Bovcon: France's Conflict Resolution Strategy in Côte d'Ivoire and its Ethical Implications

bowes: level triggering and reconciliation

bpf for storage

Braben - Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization

broadcasting and multicast

Brubaker: Religious Dimensions of Political Conflict and Violence

bully algorithm

Bunz: School Will Never End: On Infantilization in Digital Environments

byzantine fault tolerance (BFT)

c/cpp shared resources

cabinet degree 301 (2014)

Caliskan et al: Semantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like biases

Can - Spiritual Subjects

cap theorm (brewer's conjecture and the feasibility of consistent, available, partition-tolerant web services

capability trap blog post

Card and DiNardo: Skill-Biased Technological Change and Rising Wage Inequality

Carse - Finite and Infinite Games

cash based incentives for ddr

category theory

cbs independent review

cellular networks

central african republic (CAR)

Chaterjee - The Nations and Its Fragments

cheating blog post

Chilton and Kopytowska - Religion, Lanugage, and the Human Mind

china and the middle income trap

chinese science statistics

chinese urban/rural divide

Chomsky - Language and Mind

Chomsky - Syntatic Structures

chomsky grammar

Chopra: Building State Failure in East Timor

citizens and other human kinds

civil engineering

Civil Society Assembly

Claude: Collective Security as an Approach to Peace

Cliffe: UN Peace and Security Reform

climate change tech

clocks (distributed systems)

close calls and near misses in programming

cloudflare outage

coalition against is

code generation

codebases as communication post

collusion rings

commonwealth of independent states (cis)

community detection

community detection libraries

community detection with org-roam library

Comphrensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro

compile time regex

compilers classes

complexity is not a vice

comprehensive test ban treaty (CTBT)

computational linguistics

computational social science

computational syntax

computer graphics

computer science testability

computers feel, not see, we need new primatives

conference on iraq - 20-02-28

confidential computing blog post

configuration langauges

conflict and violence

conflict prevention

Consistent Hashing

constitution making (research handbook)

continental philosphy

controllers (k8s)

convolutional neural networks (cnn)

Cook - The Aswan Low Dam and Modernizing the Nile

Coppercock - Invitation into Formal Semantics

correlation != causation

correlation coefficients

counter insurgency as an infinite game

counter terrorism service (iraq)

counterfactual regret

Cramer - Civil War is Not a Stupid Thing

criu/kernel checkpointing

Crosslingual NLI (XNLI)

crypto (for cryptography)

Culicover and Rochemont: Stress and Focus in English

Curran and Hunt: Stabilization at the Expense of Peacekeeping in UN Operations

custom resource definitions (crds)

Danforth: A Ottoman Empire from 1923 to Today

data plane development kit (dpdk)

data structures

day and kreutzner: civil society

Dayon et al: Career Foreign Fighters

DBSP: Automatic Incremental View Maintenance for Rich Query Languages

de Soto & del Castillo: Implementation of Comphrensive Peace Accords

declaration of the shia in iraq

democratic republic of the congo (DRC)

dennard scaling

Derrida - Archive Fever

dev jargon blog post

development theory

dhofar campaign

DiCapua - Gatekeepers of the Arab Past

Diehl and Druckman: Not the Same Old Way: Trends in Peace Operations

digga (tribal practice)

disarmingly forthright mscs advice

disaster nationalism

disaster response

Dispossession (fall 2021)

distributed systems

distributed systems for fun and profit

distributed transactions

diyala governate

docker/containers

Dodge - Bourdieu goes to Baghdad

Dodge - Rethinking Political Identities in Iraq After 2003

Domain Fronting in Signal Article

dominican republic

Dorn: Intelligence Lead Peacekeeping - The United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti

dos Santos et al: Improving Security of United Nations Peacekeepers

double buffering

double loop learning

dual circulation program

Duara - The Crisis of Global Modernity

Duenas - Unwanted Witnesses

Duffield - Development, Security, and Unending War

dujayla land project

effectiveness of scaling data and its relationship to anthropology questions

Egypt Iron and Steel Company

egyptian demographics

Einsidel - What Works in UN Resident Coordinator-led Conflict Prevention

Eldeeb et al: Chablis: Fast and General Transactions in Geo-distributed Systems

election memes as america's reflection

electoral systems

electrical engineering

elements of programming interviews

elixir and erlang stacktraces

elixir driver for cassandra/scylla

Ellerby: A Seat at the Table is not Enough: Understanding Women's Substantive Representation in Peace Processes

embedding text into vector spaces

emerging markets

emotional intelligence

energy based models

engineers don't solve problems

ensemble average vs time average

ensemble learning

epimenides paradox

Epstine - Range

equal cost multipath (ECMP)

Erbil Agreement

erlang beam vs jvm

erlang in kubernetes

erlang live market parser api on kubernetes

erlang pc2 postmortem

etherium yellow paper

ethnicity, nationalism, and conflict

ethnography of iraqi journalists

euclid's theorem

eva as an automatic religion

Evans: Cooperative Security & Intrastate Conflict

everything is correlated

exactly once semantics in kafka (atomic broadcast)

executive order 237 (2019)

executive order 328 (2019)

executive order 331 (2019)

executive order 85 (2018)

executive order 91 (2016)

explaining away

explicit knowledge

Fact Extraction and Verification (2018)

faleh al-fayyad

falih al-khazali

fall 2020 classes

fall 2021 classes

fall 2022 plans

FARC in Colombia

fatah (political party)

fawj amerli (brigade 52)

fed helicopter money march-april 2020

federenko - EMNLP Keynote

fedora silverblue

fetishization of doctrine

Fiebelman - A PhD is Not Enough

file picker meme

financial action task force (FATF)

financial discourse

finite state languages

finite state machines

flatbuffers project

food for training

footnotes in webpages

force bundling for graphs

force intervention brigade (FIB)

foreign fighter returnees in iraq

foreign langugages vs programming languages

formal semantics

Fortna: Does Peacekeeping Keep Peace?

forward oil sales iraq

fourier transform

FraCas Test Suite

framing shia rituals as political

francis fukuyama

freelancing/contracting

french archival science

french revolution

frozen data structures in c++

full text static search

future of digital research in the middle east

Future of the Middle East Talk

Gambetta et al - Streetwise

gambling is good actually

Garling: Approaching religion through linguistics

gasch: events, the dna of kubernetes

Gatti - Suriving Forced Disapperance in Argentina and Uruguay

gaussian distribution

gaussian mixture model

Gauvain - Salafi Ritual Purity: In the Presence of God

geb chaper 4 (consistency, completeness, and geometry)

geb chapter 3 (figure and ground)

geb chapter 5 (recursive structures)

geb chapter 6 (the location of meaning)

geb chapter 7 (the propositional calculus)

geb chapter 8 (typographical number theory)

geb, ecology of mind, psychosis and islam blog post

gender bias paper

Ghassan Kanafani

Gilligan: Do UN Interventions Cause Peace? Using Matching to Improve Causal Inference

Ginty: Hybrid Peace: The Interaction Between Top-Down and Bottom-Up Peace

giorgio agamben

Gleitman et al: The Impossibility of Language Acquisition (and How They Do It)

Glick and Paluck: The Aftermath of Genocide

godel's incompleteness theorem

good cpp codebases to read

Goode: Artifical Intelligence and the Future of Nationalism

google ngrams for historians

Gordon: Secularization, Genealogy, and the Legitimacy of the Modern Age: Remarks on the Löwith-Blumenberg Debate

gorno-badakhasan

Gorur and Sharland: Prioritizing the Protection of Civilians in UN Peace Operations

gossip protocols

Goulding: The Evolution of United Nations Peacekeeping

government interaction and the postal system

government of national accord (GNA)

gpt3 test case generation

grad school fellowships

gradient descent

grammar in the brain

graph based approximate nearest neighbor search (granne)

graph traversal

graph-tool (python)

Gregg - BFP Performance Tools

gross national income

gross national income (gni)

Gu et al: Efficiently Modeling Long Sequences with Structured State Spaces

gulf cooperation council

gz (green zone)

Haddad - Understanding Sectarianism

haider al-abadi

haider al-furaiji

Hajdarpasic: Reflections on the Ottoman Legacy in South-eastern Europe

Halevi - Modern Things on Trial

halting problem

hamid al-shatri

Hanf - Coexistence in Wartime Lebanon

Hansen - The Saffron Wave

Haplin - Thirteen Ways to Make a Plural

harakat hezbollah al-nujaba

Harmes: Political Marketing in Post Conflict Elections

Hart - Why Don't We Learn From History?

hart's theory of law

hashd al-shaabi (PMF)

hashd commission

hashd in sinjar

Hassan - Longing for the Lost Caliphate

hassan al-banna

hassan al-kaabi

hassan nasrallah

hassan shakir al-kaabi

hausenblas - programming kubernetes

hayam al-hayderi

heart rate zones

Held: The Diffusion of Authority

Herbert - Erlang in Anger

hierarchical navigable small-world graph (HNSW)

high performance erlang project (HiPE)

High-Level Independent Panel on UN Peace Operations (HIPPO)

higher (fb library)

Higher Ed Readings

hindyia barrage

Hinnebusch - Identity and State Formation in Multi‐sectarian Societies

hiring an editor

hisham al-hashimi

history of islamic law

history of islamic law essay draft

Hizb al-Tahriri al-Islami

Ho - Graves of Tarim

Hobbes - Introduction to Religious Language

Hofstadter - Godel, Escher, Bach

Homo Sacer dot Country

Homogenous Time: Ibn Khaldun and Transaction Logs

Hooker - The Hardware Lottery

how jit compilers are implemented and fast: pypy, luajit, graal, and more

how to make a complete map of every thought you think

how to write a technical paper

Humanism in Ruins - Discussion Questions

humanism in ruins discussion questions

humanitarian aid

humanitarian data projects

Hunt: All Necessary Means to What ends?

hussein ismail khalil

hyperemployment

idea ecology blog post

ideal/pure types

Idris - Lessons from DDR Programs

implicit knowledge

impossibility of consensus with one faulty process

increasing violence in afghanistan - 2020-12-15

information cascade

information paradox

information theory

informers (k8s)

init containers

inside iraqi politics issue 219 notes

institute of international finance (iif)

integrated ddr standards

integrated information theory

international criminal court

international security assistance force (ISAF)

International Smart Card

interview with Dr. Nofour Abbas

io completion ports

IOM: If We Leave We Are Killed

iran's kidney market

iranian revolution

iraq agricultural exports

iraq photos blog post

iraq tech ventures

Iraq UN Reports

iraq visa on arrival

iraqi 2021 draft budget

iraqi agriculture

iraqi air strikes

iraqi communist party

iraqi constitutionalism

iraqi electricity

iraqi finance committee

iraqi ghost militias

iraqi parliment

iraqi political parties

iraqi prime minister

iraqi tech community

Irrigation in Egypt/Iraq Paper

irrigation in iraq

islamic jurisprudence

islamic jurisprudence lecture 11

islamic jurisprudence lecture 12

islamic jurisprudence lecture 13

islamic jurisprudence lecture 3

islamic jurisprudence lecture 5

islamic jurisprudence lecture 7

islamic jurisprudence lecture 8

islamic modernism

islamic political thought

islamic state (is/isis/isil)

islamic supreme council of iraq (isci)

j programming language

jaeger deep dive

Jamal al-Din Afghani

Janert - Feedback Control for Computer Systems

japanese permanent residency

Jiries - Balkan Fighters in the Syrian War

Johnson - Automatic Religion

Jonassen and Hung: Learning to Troubleshoot: A New Theory-Based Design Architecture

jupyter notebooks

jurf al-sakhar/jurf al-nasr

Kalyvas - The Logic of Violence in Civil War

Kapstein - Aid and Stabilization in Afghanistan

Karim and Beardsley: Explaining Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Peacekeeping Countries

Karlstrud: The UN at War

Karp et al: The Organization of Computations for Uniform Recurrence Equations

kataib al-imam ali

kataib hezbollah (kh)

kataib jund al-imam (brigade 6)

kataib sayyid al-shuhada

Katharopoulos: Transformers are RNNs: Fast Autoregressive Transformers with Linear Attention

kelly criterion

Khalifat movement

khamis al-khajar

Khan - The Great Partition

Khoshaba - Iraqi Dialect vs Standard Arabic

Kilcullen - Out of the Mountains

kll approximate quantiles

Knight et al - Honored, Not Contained

Kolbert - Field Notes from a Catastrophe

kolmogorov complexity

Kosek et al: MUST, SHOULD, DON'T CARE: TCP Conformance in the Wild

kosovo force (KFOR)

krg visitor visa notes

KRG/iraqi kurdistan

kube/ooda loop blog post

kubernetes (k8s)

kurdistan democratic party

kurdistan worker's party (pkk)

kvms (keyboards and mice)

lambda calculus

Lamport: Time Clock and the Ordering of Distributed Systems

langlands program

language accomodation in arabic

Language and the Brain (class)

languages/linguistics

Larson - An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

latex flavors (luatex, contex, xetex)

learning languages blog post

learning to learn and learning to teach

learning tower of babel

LeCun, Bengio, Hinton - Deep Learning

legal basis of the hashd

lenin was a mushroom

Levien: Towards GPGPU JSON parsing

Li - The Universal Enemy

libyan national army (LNA)

life in baghdad

ling 1012 lecture 1 - introduction and scope

ling-ga 1012 (nlp and semantics)

literature maps

Liu: XFT: Practical Fault Tolerance beyond Crashes

liwa al-muntazier

liwa al-tafuf (brigade 13)

liwa ali al-akbar (brigade 11)

Locke: A Letter Containing Toleration

Lockman - Contending Visions of the Middle East

lome peace accord

looking at religion through linguistical methods

low interest rates and marketing

Lu et al: Influence Paths for Characterizing Subject-Verb Number Agreement in LSTM Language Models

M1 macs feeling faster than Intel

Macaes - History has Begun

macbook butterfly keyboard repair

Maher - Salafi-Jihadism: The History of an Idea

Mahmood - Religious Difference in a Secular Age

Mahmoud Darwish

Mahsan et al: The Role Domain Expertise in User Trust and the Impact of First Impressions with Intelligent Systems

majida al-tamimi

Makdisi - The Ecumenical Frame

Mamdani - Trans-African Slaveries Thinking Historically

maoist fighters in nepal

Marantz - What do linguists do?

market multicast

Martin Riesebrodt

mass immersion approach

master's thesis

masters while working blog post

Mattson: Status-Based Definitions of Need in Early Islamic Zakat and Maintenance Laws

McQuinn: DDR and the Internal Organization of Non-State Armed Groups

mecca declaration (2006)

mechanized proofs

Meeker - A Nation of Empire

Mervin - The Shi'a worlds and Iran

mesa optimizer and linguistic recursion draft

mesa optimizer and scaling laws draft

metastable failures blog post

mexico city drainage issues

microservices and counter-insurgency

middle income trap

migrant workers in jordan

military equipment

military service and retirement law no. 3 (2010)

ministry of defense (iraq)

ministry of interior (iraq)

misinterpretations of what ai is

Mitchel - Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-politics, Modernity

Mitchel: Economentality

Mitzenmacher: The Power of Two Random Choices: A Survey of Techniques and Results

ml on satellite imagery

modernist (nationalism)

modernizing investor definition

Mohamed Bouazizi

Moraru et al: There Is More Consensus in Egalitarian Parliaments

Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)

morocco/western sahara ceasefire

muhammad al-haidari

muhammad al-halbusi

Muhammad Baqir as-Sadr

Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr

muhannad al-aqabi

muhsin abu-tbikh

mulla mustafa barzani

multi-country demobilisation and reintegration programme (MDRP)

multi-dialect bert

Multi-Genre NLI (MNLI)

multicore ocaml

multidimensional integrated stabilisation mission in the central african republic (MINUSCA)

Mumby - Graduate School

Munive and Stepputat - Rethinking Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration Programs

Muqtada al-Sadr

Murphy: United Nations Peacekeeping in Lebanon and Somalia, and the Use of Force

mushroom neural networks

muslim brotherhood

mustafa al-kadhimi

mutuality and asad

my work as a system blog post

Nagel, Ferran - Politics of Religion and Nationalism

nahjul balaghah

nash equilibrium

national guard law (2015)

national soldiarity program (NSP)

national university of singapore

Nationalism and Outsiders in the Middle East

Nationalism and Outsiders in the Middle East - Midterm Draft

Nationalism and Outsiders in the Middle East - Midterm Final

nationalism and outsiders in the middle east - thesis

nationalism and outsiders in the middle east - thesis proposal

natural language inference lecture

Navigating Islamic Interpretation During the Pandemic

nearest neighbor

network printers

new election laws iraq 2020

newlines practitioner in residence

Newport - Deep Work

next generation disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration

ngo exodus - iraq

nicaragua electricity

nlu crowdsourcing lab

nols wilderness first aid

normalization and capitalization in nlp blog post

notation as a tool of thought

Notes on Surviving Grad School

nouri al-maliki

number theory book club

nyc -> montreal bike ride

nyc water tunnel no 3

Nystrom - Crafting Interpreters

obscure features of jpeg

occupy movement

Oil Outputs in Iraq

on digital humanities programs

on doing too much

on giving a shit

on historiography

on taking ideas slowly

one belt one road

ooda (observe orient decide act)

open graph protocol

open source commercialization

operating systems

operation cast lead

operation moshtarak

operation pillar of defense

operation protective edge

operators (k8s)

org roam migration

org-latex-export

organization for grad school blog post

organizational structure of the hashd

organized labor

Ottaway and Kaysi - The State of Iraq

outage and debugging for the warring programmer

overemphasis of the discrete blog post

overheating car engine

palestine liberation organization (PLO)

paper mario orgami king

Paper Topics for Post Ottoman Near East

papua new guinea

parallel computing and the os

parallelizing shell scripts

Parks - Stuff You Can Kick

parlimentarism recidivus

parlimentary delays as a tool for sectarianism

parser combinators

Paterson: Strong AI vs Metadata Analysis

path dependency

patriotic revolutionary youth movement (YDG-H)

patriotic union of kurdistan (PUK)

patterns that eventually fail

paul feyerabend

Pavlick and Kwiatkowski: Inherent Disagreements in Human Textual Inferences

paxos vs raft reading group

payment processors

peace studies blog post

peripheralization

perjorative titles

Peters - Getting What You Came For

Pfieffer et al: MAD-X: An Adapter-Based Framework for Multi-Task Cross-Lingual Transfer

philips: introducing operators

Philliou: Interpreting the Ottoman Past through the National Present

philosophy of science

philosphy of programming

phoenix live view

physalia - amazon ebs

Piketty - Capital in the Twenty-First Century

pilgrimage sites

places to write for

podcast script draft

polisario front

political risk career

political science

popular mobilization comission law (2016)

Porter - Military Orientalism

porting jits to apple silicon

positive labeling

post-conflict statebuilding organization

post-ottoman iraq/egypt irrigation essay research

post-ottoman iraq/egypt irrigation paper proposal

Post-Ottoman Near East

postmortems and outages

Potential Advisors for Master's Thesis

Potential Schools for Phd

Pouligny - Peace Operations Seen From Below

power, subjectivity, agency

presentation tools

pricing software

principa mathmatica

principal component analysis

problems and methods

Problems and Methods - Archival Turn

problems and methods - final

Problems and Methods - Revolutions

procrastination

procyclical and countercyclical

product quantization

professional development session with thanassis cambanis

programming frameworks

programming kubernetes chapter 1 - intro

programming kubernetes chapter 2 - kube api server

programming kubernetes chapter 3 - client-go

programming languages

progressive socialist party (lebanon)

progressive-jpeg-pr

Provonce - The Last Ottoman Generation

Public Predictions

Pursely - Familiar Futures

python objective c bindings

python type checking

pytorch-lightning

pytorch/torchtext incompatibility issues

qadisiyah governate

qassim dahif al-zubaidi

qi card article draft

quantization/discretization

quantum computing resource list

query optimizers

question answering

queueing theory

queues and visibility

quick history of nlp

quwat al-turkmen (brigade 16)

Rabindranath Tagore

rafha camp blog post

ram (computer memory)

random early detection

Rashid: The Way Out of Afghanistan

Rasmussen and Lind: Coping With Complexity

raspberry pi kubernetes clusters

Rayburn - Iraq After America

read the damn error message draft

Reader and Shultz - Pilgrims Until We Die: Unending Pilgrimage in Shikoku

reading books article

real time systems (rts)

recoll from emacs

Recongizing Textual Entailment (RTE)

recurrent neural networks (rnn)

reed-solomon encoding

reflections on programming 5 years

Regional Leadership (Iraq)

religion and linguistics

religion and modernity

religious minorities in iraq

religious peacebuilding

relocation read only (relro)

replication crisis

republic of the congo (RoC)

responsbility shared is responsbility denied blog post

Revolutionary Command Council

rights of hashd members

rpc tools blog post

ruhollah khomeini

rules for writing

russel's paradox

safer oil tanker

Safouan - Why are the Arabs Not Free?

sahwa (awakening)

sairun (sadr political party)

salah ad din governate

Salah ud-Din al-Bitar

saraya al-salam

saraya talia al-khurasani (brigade 18)

Saunders - The Ummah as a Nation: A reappraisal in the wake of the 'Cartoons Affair'

sayej - ayatollah sistani

scaling law seminar

scaling laws draft

scaling laws survey paper (information bottleneck, minimum description length, etc)

search for common ground program

second order effects blog post

Secor - Children of Paradise

secular stagnation

secure chat apps

security sector reform (ssr)

Senegal and Mauritania ethnic conflicts

Sentences Involving Compositional Knowledge (SICK-E)

settler colonialism

Shannon - A Mathematical Theory of Communication

Sheeran and Case: The Intervention Brigade

sheikh abdul rahman al-kakhimi

shia reading list

Simic & O'Brien: Peacekeeper Babies

similar sites for note taking

Simon - Imposition of Nationalism on Non-Nation State

Simpson - War from the Ground Up

simulation spiral of death

sinjar agreement (2020)

sinjar resistance units

sistani successors

sistaniyun brigades

Sloan-White: Corporate Islam

small arms stockpiling

small arms stockpiling jobs

small business finance

Smith - How University Budgets Work

snap (stanford network analysis platform)

social sciences

software is eating the world

Sokal and Bricmont - Fashional Nonsense

soldier life support fund

Soper, Fetzer - Religion and Nationalism in Global Perspective

sorani vs bahdini

Soren - Taking Smart Notes

source explorers

south Hiraak movement

special economic zones

speicher (tikrit air base)

Spengler and the Search for a Science of Human Culture

spirituality (modern)

spring 2022 classes

Stanford NLI Corpus (SNLI)

Staniland - Networks of Rebellion

state machine replication (SMR)

state oil marketing organization (somo)

statistical methods

stats from org roam

Stedman and Downs: Evaluating Issues in Peace Implementation

steelmanning divination response

Steen and Tanenbaum - Distributed Systems

sterio and levy: social cohesion and inclusivity

stochastic process

stock options for software engineers

stockholm initatives in ddr

Stoica et al: Chord - A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications

Stoler: Colonial Archives and the Arts of Governance

strategies for implementing braben's ideas

string matching

strong and weak generative capacity

structural adjustment and neoliberalism

Structure and Interpretation of the Hashd al-Shaabi

structured logs

structured space modeling

stuart hamaroff

Subedi - Combatants to Civilians

submarine cable map

sultan al-musawi

superintelligence as an infohazard

supply chain management

Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI)

surrealism and mediation of reality

Sutton: The Bitter Lesson

symphony chat platform

syracuse (satellite)

systems thinking

tacit knowledge

tail call optimization

Tariq al-Hashemi

tawke and peshkabir oil fields

taxi driver sectarianism

Tay et al: Efficient Transformers: A Survey

Tay et al: Sparse Sinkhorn Attention

tech reporting is to user centric

telegraph cables

territorality of data

text boundary analysis

text generation

thamir al-tamimi

the chicago plan

the danger of treating ideas from finance as generalized self help

the frontier, settler colonialism, the united states

the information plane within deep learning

the metaphysics of bullshit

the twin insurgency

theories of conciousness from physists

thesis proposals help

thread building blocks

thubactics battlion

tilt up construction

tim mitchell, carbon democracy, oil, and USO

time and consistency as a universal currency

timer lawn: low latency timer data structure

toby dodge/bassel salloukh talk (2020-12-22)

Tomassetti et al: Reflections on the Lack of Adoption of Domain Specific Languages

Toufic - Palestine Ltd: Neoliberalism and Nationalism

towards a theory of a young girl

training periods

training, validation, and tests sets

traitlets in python

transitional justice

trench warfare problems blog post

trial/error vs theory/insight in work/academia

Tribal Disputes Regulation Act

tropical geometry

trust blog post

trust in media blog post

truth and reconciliation program

Tsagourias: Consent, Neutrality/Impartiality and the Use of Force in Peacekeeping

Tu et al - Multi-hop Reading Comprehension across Multiple Documents

Tufekci - Twitter and Tear Gas

Tukey: Sunset Salvo

Turabian - A Manual for Writers

twitter developer api

two sigma problem

type systems (programming)

type theoretic sandwhiches

UN and Global Governance

un and global governance blog post

un and global governance lecture 1

un and global governance lecture 10

un and global governance lecture 11

un and global governance lecture 12

un and global governance lecture 13

un and global governance lecture 14

un and global governance lecture 2

un and global governance lecture 3

un and global governance lecture 4

un and global governance lecture 5

un and global governance lecture 6

un and global governance lecture 7

un and global governance lecture 8

un and global governance lecture 9

un and global governance lit review

un department of peacekeeping (DPKO)

un development program (UNDP)

UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN)

un peacekeeping

un policy for post-conflict employment creation, income, generation, and reintegration

UN Regional Office for West Africa (UNOWA)

un sustainable development goals

uniformed capabilities support division (UCSD)

united nations assistance mission to iraq (unami)

united nations multidimensional integrated stabilization mission in mali (MINUSMA)

united nations multidimensional integrated stabilization mission in the central african republic (MINUSCA)

united nations operation in somalia (UNOSOM)

united nations stabilization mission in the democratic republic of the congo (MONUSCO)

uprisings against the left

uruguay - 6 months

Uwiano Platform for Peace

vaccine manufacturing

Vaswani et al: Attention is All You Need

virtualization (VMs)

visual question answering

vitis libraries

Wang et al: On the Parallels between Paxos and Raft, and how to Port

Wang et al: On the Parallels between Paxos and Raft, and how to Port Optimizations

war diary nlp project

we are all financers now

website design ideas

week 2 reading response

Weinstein: Resources and the Information Problem in Rebel Recruitment

Weiss - In the Shadows of Sectarianism

Weng: Are Deep Neural Networks Dramatically Overfitted?

west texas intermediate

western notions of mapping

wgs-84 vs gcj-02

Where does responsibility for violence suffered by migrants lie?

where have the iraqi thinkers gone?

wilderness alpine personal statement

Williams - Research Handbook on Post-Conflict Statebuilding

windows failover clusters (hci)

winograd schemas

Woodward: The Paradox of State Failure

word embeddings

word error rate

work with the garage door up

world top incomes database

worldwide food production

writing a thesis

Wu et al: BPF for Storage

Yasser al-Habib

yemen bank notes

you're allowed to do whatever

Young - Ultralearning

yt and computational social sciences

Yusuf Salman Yusuf

Zaatari: History and Photographic Memory

Zadrozna: Reconstructing the past in a post-Ottoman Village

zakat al-fitrah

Zaman - Islamic Traditions of Refuge in Iraq and Syria

Zampieri et al: SemEval-2020 Task 12: Multilingual Offensive Language Identiﬁcation in Social Media (OffensEval 2020)

zeno's paradoxes

Zhang et al: Tropical Geometry of Deep Neural Networks

zine el abidine ben ali

Zwet and Cator: The Significance Filter, the Winner's Curse, and the Need to Shrink