As I sit down to write this paper, I am also waiting for my laundry to finish. I set the machine to “auto” load size and dumped my clothes in, oblivious to the actual size of the load. The machine can calculate the size of the load for me, and assure that my clothes are washed at the proper temperature for the proper amount of time. This is accomplished through the use of what is referred to as soft computing, pioneered by a man named Lofti Zadeh (Peterson). Lofti Zadeh was born in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1921. The son of an Iranian journalist and a Russian physician, Zadeh’s early life was spent under the influence of Soviet ideas. In an interview with Betty Blair, Zadeh speaks of how the Soviet schools of his childhood placed great …show more content…
The choice is no longer just zero or one.” Fuzzy logic allows for “fuzzy sets,” which do not rigidly follow a “yes or no” logic when attempting to determine the elements of such a set. Fuzzy sets can include partial elements; elements that may or may not belong to the set depending on other circumstances (Peterson). Because of this flexibility, fuzzy sets are used in soft computing, a process engineers now use in many modern home appliances. Prior to the 1970’s, fuzzy logic had not been put into practical, real-world use. This changed when many Japanese manufacturers began to implement simple fuzzy systems in their household products, leading to the vast amount of items which make use of soft computing today (Zadeh).
To go back to a previous example, my washing machine determines which type of cycle to use based on the weight of the clothing. A “small” load or a “medium” load is not rigidly defined, but the fuzzy logic allows the washing machine to approximate the type of cycle it should use. An amount of clothes on the cusp of both “small” and “medium” could be placed in either category, depending on other variables such as fabric mix and the amount of detergent (“Fuzzy logic”). In this specific example fuzzy logic and soft computing can lead to errors, such as a wash cycle erroneously stopping after the clothes become heavier due to
To begin with, this book educated the reader about the past. Everyone in the Soviet Union looked up to the leader, Stalin, even though he wasn’t a good leader at all. He caused many problems for the citizens including uncomfortable living conditions. This book educates the reader by showing that back then even when people were treated badly, they still had to look up to their leader even though he was the cause of all
Not only is Petrukhina’s family falling apart, she also experiences professional distress. After the war, she remains an authoritative figure as a headmistress. Nevertheless, her new profession requires her to fulfill a maternal role. In the school, her rough demeanor makes her mean and unpopular among her students. Her failure to help a problematic student makes her appear unsuitable for her job in the school. It shows her failure to achieve “professional self-realization” as expected for the women in the new post-war society (77). Her professional failure seems to contradict her independent personality, showing the ambivalent interpretation of gender equality before and after the war. Women gained equality during the war when they were recruited into the military, but the post-war equality is based on maternal images of the women. This paradox of gender equality causes Petrukhina to feel frustrated when her personality from the war clashes with a new identity that she tries to foster in order to fit into the post-war soviety.
Soviet Ukraine was a terrible place to be in the late 1900s for Jewish people. There was strong anti-semitism during this time in the waning days of the Cold War. The Cold War was a state of political hostility between countries that was characterized mainly by threats and propaganda. Lev Golinkin wrote on his experiences about being a Jew living in Ukraine in his memoir, A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka. Golinkin possesses an interesting writing style that includes a terribly harsh tone of fear, yet he also incorporates humor that forces the reader to connect with him. Golinkin utilized tone superbly to allow the reader to better understand the topics of his memoir.
Kerman discusses first, the historical necessity of Soviet paranoia towards the U.S. As Soviet philosophy began with the origins of Communist and marxist ideology, something he interprets as a constantly evolving form of social theory, with no defined edge or parameter. Kerman assumes a government built on such a philosophy would be equally disorganised. Kerman further describes such a philosophy on the workers part as a way to rationalise selfish desires, and criticises the original doctrine as being ill thought out for future circumstance thus valuing the larger scale communist government as poorly managed, with no organisation of industry and ill fit definitions on how to fit the truly lower class, peasants, which would not fit under the liberated 'proletariat.' class, into society. Kerman feels it necessary to point out that the average Russian have no understanding of their nations economy. Kerman discusses how the original rise of Communism as a minority seizing a nation and then forcing their ideals onto a
Not many Ukrainian-Americans are easily recognizable to the average American. They may identify some actors, such as Mila Kunis or Milla Jovovich, but many do not realize the significant impact they’ve had on the American way of life or the world as a whole. George Kistiakowsky is a great example of an important Ukrainian-American who has influenced everyone’s life. Kistiakowsky was a physical chemistry professor at Harvard, worked on the Manhattan Project, and was President Eisenhower’s Science Advisor. His work could have possibly saved the modern world as we know it.
Efficiency – The machines need to function at a standard or above level while helping consumers to keep water and energy use at a minimum. This keeps costs down and also decreases the environmental footprint of the machines. Within this category, consumers appreciate the ability to set a timer so that their clothes can be washed or dried at off-peak times. They can set a timer for 2am if they would like to, so that their water and electricity use is less expensive than it would be otherwise. (Where did this info come from?)
Less than three months later, Ivinskaya and her daughter were sentenced to a Siberian labor camp again” (Mitzi par. 13). The comparison between the events in Doctor Zhivago and the impossible to predict events documented by history are uncanny and suggests Boris Pasternak wrote Doctor Zhivago to accurately represent a life in Soviet Russia.
I was born in the ceramics-village turned military-industrial-complex of Ulyanovsk, Russia. Laboratories and universities were the main commodity of the city, and were the setting of the early years of my life.
A fierce commitment to education marks Dr. Safi’s life and works – and his father’s yearning to see his son succeed in life. Although he raised his son’s enthusiasm for education and taught him that school is important for success in life, he could not afford him to send his son to high school in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan due to their poverty. Dr. Safi recalls this episode in his memoir One Life: An Afghan Remembers (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012).
I was born in Kaunas, Lithuania on June 27, 1869 to a Russian-Jewish family. My mother’s name was Taube Bienowitch and my father’s name was Abraham Goldman. In 1881, after the assassination of Russian Czar Alexander II my family moved to East Prussia. There I was educated in St. Petersburg. Throughout my entire childhood and early adolescence I lived in a world filled with fear of Russia's secret police and not being able to live how I wanted to with my family. I detest having no freedom to do what I please unlike the rich and powerful Russian government. In my teenage years this dislike grew more into hatred and I chose to embrace ideas of a Russian revolutionary movement. I believe society should be of free equals, compared to a society of
It is his education in the Soviet boarding school that introduces Sabitzhan to the idea of controlling people via radio waves to create what Coombs calls a “dystopian, thoroughly deracinated modernity” (52). Aitmatov’s protagonist, by comparison, is shown to hold the true spiritualistic values of his ancestors. Coombs parallels Aitmatov’s text to Russian village prose, in its “narratives of nostalgia [which] rehearsed the trauma of Soviet modernization, whose manifestations were typically cast as the large-scale construction projects entailed in the NTR (scientific-technical revolution) and the GES (hydroelectric station) program” (51). Thus, following the tradition of Russian village prose, Aitmatov, through a portrayal of the extreme modernization
Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein) was born in 1979 to a wealthy but illiterate Jewish peasant family in Ukraine. His parents are generally too preoccupied with their work on the farm, and hence were unable to devote any significant time to their children. Due to his Jewish heritage he was forced to attend a Jewish primary school, where his experience of schooling was one of frustration and disappointment due to his social isolation and mediocre academic performance. In 1888 at the age of nine he was sent to Odessa, a culturally diverse city, where he stayed with the Spentzers and continued his schooling. Here, a wide spectrum of ideas challenged his narrow prejudices and broadened his horizons beyond the simple, yet dull world of his
Born in Kabul Afghanistan on March 4 in the year 1965, Khaled Hosseini is an American novelist. He was born in a family of five and was the oldest. His father was a diplomat in Afghanistan while his mother was a high school teacher in Kabul. Hosseini has lived in the US since he was the age of fifteen and currently is an American citizen. While in Afghan, there was a communist coup, which led Hosseini’s family to seek asylum in the US, and they moved to San Jose, California. After high school, he attended Santa Clara University and earned a bachelor’s degree in Biology. Later on, he went to California San Diego medicine school and graduated with a medical degree (Famous authors.org). Hosseini completed his residency at
Victor Zalsavsky was born on September 26, 1937 in what was Leningrad, Russia at the time, now being St. Petersburg. His occupation was a Professor of Political Sociology Theorist and taught political sociology at various institutions throughout his long academic career. Some of those institutions included LUISS (Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli), Leningrad State University, Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John 's, Canada, University of California at Berkeley, and Stanford. He became a naturalized citizen of Canada, and had a passion for analyzing the Soviet Union before and after its downfall. He wrote 3 books, with Class Cleansing being the most prominent, receiving the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought from the Heinrich Boell Foundation. He was also on the board of the political journal TELOS for several decades. Some of his other works include From Union to Commonwealth: Nationalism and Separatism in the Soviet Republics Co-Author (Cambridge University Press, 1992) and The Neo-Stalinist State: Class, Ethnicity, and Consensus in Soviet Society" (ME Sharpe Inc, 1994). His noteworthy journal articles are as follows: "The Rebirth of the Stalin Cult in the USSR" (TELOS, Summer 1979), "The Regime and the Working Class in the USSR" (TELOS, Winter 1979-80), "The Price of Sovietization" (TELOS, Spring 1987), "Three Years of Perestroika" (TELOS, Winter 1987-88), and "Why Afghanistan?" (TELOS, Spring 1980). He died in Rome on
Many involved in legal practice would argue that a case in a court of law is only won on the basis of evidences and witnesses. But those people don’t mention logic; because they sub-consciously take logic for granted; as you would take a premise understood in an enthymeme. Many scholars, both inside and outside the field of law argue that law’s today are the result of years’ of experience and observation and try to keep law outside the scope of logic. The aim of this study is to dispel any ignorance of principles and use of logic in legal practices and emphasize how logic forms an integral basis of legal practices and laws (Cohen) 1. We will show how logical elements like syllogism, fallacies etc. developed hundreds of years ago are still used in the structuring of legal arguments. We will also throw light upon how Aristotelian logic is used in legal