person:andrew smith

De l’imbrication algorithmique
▻http://www.internetactu.net/a-lire-ailleurs/de-limbrication-algorithmique

On se souvient de la mort d’Elaine Herzberg, première humaine tuée par une voiture autonome en mars 2018 (voir l’enquête qu’en dressait l’écrivain Thierry Crouzet). Pour le Guardian, le journaliste Andrew Smith (@wiresmith) revient sur les hésitations de l’algorithme de la voiture à reconnaître ce qu’il se passait. Pour la (...)

#A_lire_ailleurs #Enjeux #Recherches #algorithme #intelligence_artificielle #programmation

#Michael_Fallon : criticising Saudi Arabia ’not helpful’ for UK arms sales | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/25/michael-fallon-urges-mps-prioritise-arms-sales-human-rights

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Le ministre de la défense du #royaume_uni à des députés britanniques : il faut arrêter d’évoquer les #droits_humains parce que cela peut entraîner l’#arabie_saoudite à ne plus nous acheter des #armes.

MPs have been outspoken in criticising Saudi Arabia over its intensive bombing campaign of Yemen which has resulted in heavy civilian casualties. Andrew Smith, spokesperson for the Campaign Against Arms Trade, said: “These comments from the secretary of state for defence are disgraceful. He is calling on other parliamentarians to join him in putting arms sales ahead of human rights, democracy and international humanitarian law.”

#civils #victimes_civiles #monde_civilisé #Yemen

Attaques concertées contre BDS en France, au Canada, aux Etats-Unis, en Angleterre...
►http://seenthis.net/messages/459796

Réaction en Angleterre :

« Interdire le boycott d’Israël est antidémocratique »
The Independant, le 20 février 2016
►http://www.aurdip.fr/interdire-le-boycott-d-israel-est.html

Lettre signée par : Ahdaf Soueif, Roger Waters, Tommy Sheppard MP, Cat Smith MP, Malia Bouattia, NUS Black Students’ Officer, Len McCluskey, General Secretary, Unite the Union, Alex Cunningham MP, Chris Stephens MP, Clive Betts MP, Dave Anderson MP, Kate Osamor MP, Marie Rimmer MP, Martyn Day MP, Nic Dakin MP, Steven Paterson MP, Yasmin Qureshi MP, Louise Haigh MP, Lord Ahmed Nazir, Baroness Jenny Tonge, Matt Wrack, General Secretary FBU, Mick Whelan, General Secretary ASLEF, Tim Roache, General Secretary Elect GMB, Mick Cash, General Secretary RMT, Piers Telemancque, Vice president Society and Citizenship, NUS, Shelly Asquith - Vice President Welfare, NUS, Ken Loach, Mark Thomas, Rizwan Ahmed, Mike Leigh, Andrew Smith, Campaign Against Arms Trade, Alexei Sayle, Anna Carteret, April De Angelis, Baroness Jenny Tonge, Caryl Churchill, Fionn Travers-Smith, Move Your Money, Gillian Slovo, Hari Kunzru, Hugh Lanning, Chair of Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Jeremy Hardy, Jo Ram, Community Reinvest, Joel Benjamin, Community Reinvest, John Hilary, Executive Director of War on Want, Maggie Steed, Maxine Peake, Mick Bowman, Newcastle City Council, Michael Radford, Miriam Margolyes, Niall Buggy, Pauline Melville, Peter Kosminsky, Rachel Holmes, Riya Hassan, Palestinian BDS National Committee, Robert Wyatt, Vica Rogers, Debt Resistance UK

On y trouve des parlementaires, des dirigeants de centrales syndicales, et des artistes dont Roger Waters, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, mais aussi Robert Wyatt (de Soft Machine).

A propos d’artistes anglais, Jospeh Coward, un jeune chanteur (que je ne connais pas mais qui vient d’enregistrer un titre avec Thurston Moore de Sonic Youth), vient aussi de s’engager pour BDS, très explicitement dans cet article :
▻http://www.thefourohfive.com/music/article/the-405-meets-joseph-coward-145

#Palestine #Royaume_Uni #BDS #Boycott #Censure #criminalisation_des_militants #artistes

Twitter is teetering because it has turned into one big pyramid scheme | Andrew Smith | Comment is free | The Guardian

▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/06/twitter-teetering-pyramid-scheme-social-media

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Numbers are great, aren’t they? Just look at all the things you can do with them. You can add, subtract, divide. You can calculate the number of atoms in the known, observable universe, or the times you had to ask your daughter to tidy her room; use them to order more than one pizza, underestimate the pace of global warming or exaggerate the size of things as various as planets and fish that got away. For quantitative assessment, numbers rule.

#twitter #réseaux_sociaux

How PowerPoint is killing critical thought | Andrew Smith

Notamment pour les liens internes, et une analyse assez éclairante des slides projetées pendant les réunions où les dirigeants de la NASA ont décidé de ne pas pousser les recherches sur les dommages de la navette Columbia avant qu’elle ne revienne dans l’atmosphère

▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/23/powerpoint-thought-students-bullet-points-information?CMP=share_btn_fb

And bored is the least of it. It’s no coincidence that the two most famous PowerPoint presentations are: a) the one presented to Nasa managers by engineers, explaining with unarguable illogic why damaged tiles on the space shuttle Columbia were probably nothing to fret about; and b) General Colin Powell’s equally fuzzy pitch for war with Iraq. Now, blaming PowerPoint for Iraq would be a bit like blaming Darwin for Donald Trump, but the program made scrutiny of the case harder. Not for nothing did Brigadier General McMaster, of the US military, subsequently liken the proliferation of PP presentation in the military to an “internal threat”, saying: “It’s dangerous because it can create the illusion of understanding and the illusion of control. Some problems are not bullet-izable.”

#Powerpoint #Columbia #NASA

How PowerPoint is killing critical thought | Andrew Smith | Comment is free | The Guardian

▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/23/powerpoint-thought-students-bullet-points-information

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still remember the best lecture I ever attended. It was part of a joint series offered by the English and philosophy departments in my first term at university and, given that the subject was Sartre’s Being and Nothingness, should have been the dullest event in Christendom that night. But it wasn’t. The lecturer, Thomas Baldwin, had a deceptively simple style: he would write a proposition on the blackboard facing us and gaze at it for a moment, like a medium beckoning a spirit. Then he would turn and smile, and start to explain.

#powerpoint #microsoft