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Citizenship Amendment Act: Why you need religion as a label to define and identify cruelty?

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Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 is providing a path to Indian citizenships to persecuted Hindu refugees. As a secular country, how it matters, one is Hindu, Muslim or any other religion. Can't we coin the draft something like this: Anyone who is prosecuted based on religion and has spent a minimum of 5 years in India can apply for citizenship. You can get your citizenship after the evaluation of the authenticity of your appeal. It's a suggestion, and can also be further improved. Policies are the mental models, it gives the guidance of how we think and operate, it should be precise and unambiguous without room for confusion, and should give an objective truth that doesn't change with time. Allowing citizenship based on religion generates wrong mental models, and creates uncertainty for other religions. The first principle is don't allow cruelty, it doesn't matter whether you are Muslim or Hindu. Now, Hindus are being prosecuted by some Muslim countries, you never kn...

Why scientists will join the democracy app?

Details of Fair democracy: https://iambrainstorming.wordpress.com/2019/01/09/from-hypocrisy-to-democracy-this-way-delegated-proof-of-stake-2/ Why will experts join the democracy network in the beginning? What are the Incentives?? 1) Professional Reputation Provide problems documentation of departments with evidence Provide solutions documentation of the departments with evidence Provide criticisms and solutions to the policies of departments Market the solutions in social media Even though its a replacement of present democracy, for now, it will be used to keep the present govt accountable if they are doing something wrong. Documentation will go through peer review, all the participants of the department can review it, with scientific professionalism. It's not like social media, you have to use every sound logic with providing references to your arguments. 2) Crowdfunding Department scientists and voters can crowdfund their solutions and gain incentives for solving problems through...

All most all general knowledge books and questions are about parroting

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Books lack the depth, inquiry, reasoning and critical thinking, it is just about memorising names of persons and places, and dates through parroting the quizzes and questions. Students given to memorise names of famous artists Take for example: Book asks to name the national parks of India. What's the point in memorizing names of different national parks, if you don't know anything about ecology; if you can't see and feel the environment and lifestyle of exotic and endangered wildlife in that national park? In many entrances including B.Ed, GK in one of the subjects, and students end up parroting the names. It also takes a huge chunk of time in schools, what if it were used for more meaningful learning. Do the content help in transfer of learning? How questions and content needs to be designed? https://iambrainstorming.wordpress.com/2018/02/17/question-designing-should-be-brain-friendly-cue-based/ Features of great book: https://iambrainstorming.wordpress.com/2017/01/14/all...

IIT JEE is a scam, it's not about intelligence but parroting and solving unnecessary formulas.

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In a usual physics book designed for IIT JEE preparation, each chapter contains an average of 50 complicated short cut formulas, and there are about 24 chapters, so in total there can be about 50*24 = 1200 formulas. An almost impossible challenge to be memorized by an average student, which makes the entrance so hard to crack. IIT JEE preparation is not about critical thinking, it's about remembering the formulas, and speed of executing the formulas. This is the 2018 solved paper: Not a single seems to have without formula. https://drive.google.com/file/d/16HkkgWtiOT7T4p0ajYhis9gTqBT2SPGo/view?usp=sharing Please go through the book: Paul Hewitt Conceptual Physics Each chapter contains not more than two to three important formulas, that's all required because all other short cut formulas are based on it. An example question from the book of Paul Hewitt, that helps you to understand conceptual understanding, not executing complicated formulas: An example sample of content that...

Why students don't learn looping?

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The most difficult concept for teaching programming to new students is looping. Students often fail to understand looping because they don't run the loop in their head , and don't think what will be the value of the variable in each loop. The following way of commenting on the loop will help students to understand the loop quickly. Ask them to run the loop in the head, and then comment on what the variables will be in each step of the loop. Remember to maintain the format while writing the comment, don't use short cuts, it will hinder the understanding. Loops with comments squares = [] for value in range(1,11): #loop1 -> value=1, #loop2 -> value=2, #loop3 -> value=3 square = value**2 #loop1 -> value=1, square=1, #loop2 -> value=2, square=4, #loop3 -> value=3, square=9 print(squares) #loop1 -> squares=[], #loop2 -> squares=[1], #loop3 -> squares=[1,4] squares.append(square) #loop1 -> square=1, squares=[1], #loop2 -> square=4, squares=[1,4...

One-sided Economics

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Economics can't be one-sided, where you have some 100 sellers and billions of buyers. One's income is others' spending. #OneSidedEconomy https://youtu.be/PHe0bXAIuk0 How the Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio Snapshot of Inequality: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/07/bloomberg-businessweek-wealth-number-ranking-shows-inequality.html?sf110844641=1

Traffic rule violation and hefty fines

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Center has declared Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2019 using which different states are charging a hefty amount of fines from the citizen for violating traffic rules. Death and Probability: Death in the roads is about probability or chance. There are many ways to decrease the death rates in roads. It includes wearing helmets, following the signals, roads without potholes, wider roads. To follow signals, one needs to know and learn different kinds of traffic signals, and if you are driving on roads, you need to know the driving. For the purpose of evaluating driving skill and the knowledge about traffic signals, RTOs are providing the driving license. All these processes are meant for decreasing the probability of dying on the roads. But in reality, the probability is context-dependent. Take of example, you are travelling a short distance, in narrow roads where traffic is usually high, you can't drive faster than a slow cycle. Whats probability of dying here? The main cause of dea...