Afghan government loses 5 percent of territory in 4 months: U.S. government watchdog

[pakistani342]

Master degrees in Aerospace and High Performance Computing. Anything else..May I know your background?

HPC ??? we should connect offline -- but then I won't have my anonymity --

Where in the US

 

[war&peace]

oh wow pleased to make your acquaintance

me Academic work in: EE, CS, Statistics, AI

Nice so lets chart out different scenarios then

 

[pakistani342]

Nice so lets chart out different scenarios then

Actually I know someone who was trying to model the Afghan/Taliban quagmire using game theory -- lost touch with him. Sadly he was the only Afghan American I know who was also a quant.

 

[war&peace]

HPC ??? we should connect offline -- but then I won't have my anonymity --

Where in the US

Yes but the funny thing is that my business is entirely different but I still use HPC and our apps benefit from HPC in security risk analysis.

 

[pakistani342]

Yes but the funny thing is that my business is entirely different but I still use HPC and our apps benefit from HPC in security risk analysis.

you got to be kidding me. you got to be kidding me. you got to be kidding me.

 

[war&peace]

Actually I know someone who was trying to model the Afghan/Taliban quagmire using game theory -- lost touch with him. Sadly he was the only Afghan American I know who was also a quant.

Well I normally model the physical phenomena especially the fluid simulations and also coupling between fluid and thermal boundary layers at hypersonic speeds. But I won't dare go further than that here or I will blow my lid away

you got to be kidding me. you got to be kidding me. you got to be kidding me.

threaded application can benefit from multiple cores even in embedded systems and also mobiles. image processing is a heavy task and on iPad Pro we can harness the more power than the desktops...
By the way which language is your forte...have your worked with Erlang, Scala, Ada and functional programming?

 

[pakistani342]

Well I normally model the physical phenomena especially the fluid simulations and also coupling between fluid and thermal boundary layers at hypersonic speeds. But I won't dare go further than that here or I will blow my lid away

Hey -- lots of respect -- what do you guys use these days is Fluent still the rage? Any open source framework that does similar stuff?

And, game theory always bent my mind -- the Nash stuff was really too much -- but some of my ex-Mathematical olympiad friends tell me I should not be too hard on myself -- the wretched stuff is pretty hard [boy do I hate game theory -- I never felt so humiliated by anything -- lol]

threaded application can benefit from multiple cores even in embedded systems and also mobiles. image processing is a heavy task and on iPad Pro we can harness the more power than the desktops...
By the way which language is your forte...have your worked with Erlang, Scala, Ada and functional programming?

Erlang -- a little a long time ago -- I used to do tinker with systems in my youth
Scala -- a little for fun -- I'm from a much older generation LISP was the langua franca for -- so Clojure is the heir -- but I don't like the syntax of Clojure -- it's mostly my ossified brain cells.

I only write code for fun these days: R, matlab(though less and less) a little Mathematica, sometimes JVM based stuff, sometimes C [for very low level routines to interface to stuff like GPUs] again when I'm having my middle aged crisis -- I mostly cheer younger lads these days.

Functional yes: LISP is one of the two oldest languages and was the original functional programming -- but not some of the modern puritan stuff like Haskell [without no side-effect bullshit] -- I also used to write custom programming languages but that was a long long long time ago

When you said securities -- was that like Financial securities or like cybersecurity or physical security

 

[somebozo]

talibans are a reality..and Afghan government is a gang of clowns..that is also a reality!
the best is can do is suck up to india and find lame excuses to blame others.

 

[BetterPakistan]

Oops.

 

[Sher Malang]

@A-Team @Sher Malang bro i think both of you have stated that Taliban contest more land now but this report says otherwise ........... prefer your version as you are actually on the ground

Suppose the report says 30% but how one could make up such percentages sitting in air conditioned offices? I wonder so

My mother-in-law is from Kunduz; I have been to that province like more than 10 times and who ever comes from there I ask them about the security and their answer is 'it's better than last year'.

We (@A-Team) in this forum state our personal facts and figures without any political views in between. We gather information from people to people engagements in real life.

The only thing this year increased is insecurity due to thieves, smugglers, traffickers, kidnappers all over Afghanistan. Such reports only have one motive.... the return of Americans/west.

 

[pakistani342]

Suppose the report says 30% but how one could make up such percentages sitting in air conditioned offices? I wonder so

My mother-in-law is from Kunduz; I have been to that province like more than 10 times and who ever comes from there I ask them about the security and their answer is 'it's better than last year'.

We (@A-Team) in this forum state our personal facts and figures without any political views in between. We gather information from people to people engagements in real life.

The only thing this year increased is insecurity due to thieves, smugglers, traffickers, kidnappers all over Afghanistan. Such reports only have one motive.... the return of Americans/west.

yar -- this is the US account GAO :-/

I mean seriously ??

 

[WaLeEdK2]

I've got an idea. Let's try dialogue and hope the US doesn't sabotage it.

 

[war&peace]

Hey -- lots of respect -- what do you guys use these days is Fluent still the rage? Any open source framework that does similar stuff?

And, game theory always bent my mind -- the Nash stuff was really too much -- but some of my ex-Mathematical olympiad friends tell me I should not be too hard on myself -- the wretched stuff is pretty hard [boy do I hate game theory -- I never felt so humiliated by anything -- lol]

No commercial licences, We have some in-house developed codes in C99 and Fortran with lattice Boltzman method, Large Eddy Simulations, DES, DNS, and some fluid suspension problems involving non-Newtonian fluid models.

Erlang -- a little a long time ago -- I used to do tinker with systems in my youth
Scala -- a little for fun -- I'm from a much older generation LISP was the langua franca for -- so Clojure is the heir -- but I don't like the syntax of Clojure -- it's mostly my ossified brain cells.

I only write code for fun these days: R, matlab(though less and less) a little Mathematica, sometimes JVM based stuff, sometimes C [for very low level routines to interface to stuff like GPUs] again when I'm having my middle aged crisis -- I mostly cheer younger lads these days.

Functional yes: LISP is one of the two oldest languages and was the original functional programming -- but not some of the modern puritan stuff like Haskell [without no side-effect bullshit] -- I also used to write custom programming languages but that was a long long long time ago

When you said securities -- was that like Financial securities or like cybersecurity or physical security

That's splendid. I have to know these languages as I interact with different research groups. But at my business we are trying to standardise things and either will select one main PL however it seems difficult as we have to cater for different platforms for Mac/iOS we have using objective-C and now slowly transitioning to Swift...we have not looked at Android yet of course two internees are working at that to convert some of our Apps for Android but in beta phase and are pending approval for release since security is a concern there.
Most we work with integrated security system involving different sensors including cameras.

 

[pakistani342]

No commercial licences, We have some in-house developed codes in C99 and Fortran with lattice Boltzman method, Large Eddy Simulations, DES, DNS, and some fluid suspension problems involving non-Newtonian fluid models.

That's splendid. I have to know these languages as I interact with different research groups. But at my business we are trying to standardise things and either will select one main PL however it seems difficult as we have to cater for different platforms for Mac/iOS we have using objective-C and now slowly transitioning to Swift...we have not looked at Android yet of course two internees are working at that to convert some of our Apps for Android but in beta phase and are pending approval for release since security is a concern there.
Most we work with integrated security system involving different sensors including cameras.

fascinating

 

[war&peace]

Suppose the report says 30% but how one could make up such percentages sitting in air conditioned offices? I wonder so

My mother-in-law is from Kunduz; I have been to that province like more than 10 times and who ever comes from there I ask them about the security and their answer is 'it's better than last year'.

We (@A-Team) in this forum state our personal facts and figures without any political views in between. We gather information from people to people engagements in real life.

The only thing this year increased is insecurity due to thieves, smugglers, traffickers, kidnappers all over Afghanistan. Such reports only have one motive.... the return of Americans/west.

People just tell you everything is ok so that you don't stressed. But otherwise, the situation is getting bad and reports shows that.