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Atabak Ashfaq
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Right vs Wrong ft. Peter Singer

(This is a collection of my thoughts after reading The Expanding Circle by Peter Singer, a book on moral philosophy.) We live in a post-truth world where everyone feels their position is right and the spawns of the devil on the other side have abominable views about everything that matters…

Philosophy

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Right vs Wrong ft. Peter Singer
Right vs Wrong ft. Peter Singer
Philosophy

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Dec 5, 2020

Promised Animal Farm

(These are my recent musings about Vegetarianism triggered after watching the anime “The Promised Neverland”.) I pride myself on my ability to debate ideas about moral philosophy and especially defend my own moral positions. I know this sounds like any conspiracy theory nut who is convinced about their tinfoil theories…

Nonfiction

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Promised Animal Farm
Promised Animal Farm
Nonfiction

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Apr 16, 2020

Once upon a Starry Night

The streets get quaint by the time the boy gets back to his home. It is a habit of his to take a walk, late into the night when all the noises from the city ‘s hustle-bustle have died down. …

Fiction

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Once upon a Starry Night
Once upon a Starry Night
Fiction

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Apr 7, 2020

Puddles on the Street

“Is that a pond or a puddle?” — This ironical question comes to my mind as I start losing myself in thoughts while looking at the street outside my house from my bedroom window. This is a worthless exercise in figuring out if I can construe an optical illusion. It…

Introspection

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Introspection

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Mar 23, 2020

Who’s there?

Knock. Knock. Knock. A slight tapping sound seeps into the room as darkness engulfs the room. The noises from the outside world become audible as soon as I wish to sleep as if your mind wants something to be distracted about. …

Suspense

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Suspense

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Apr 7, 2019

Capitalism vs Socialism. Craft vs Art.

#HalfBakedThoughts #orOvercookedOnes People should be communist and then grow out of it. It is not a good political philosophy but to be a communist, you need a great humanist core and even if the political ideology washes away that core shall remain and protect you from deviating towards any political…

Politics

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Politics

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Feb 3, 2019

A Murder on the Bayesian Express

The year is 2049. It was 6'o clock on a winter morning in Shenzhen. …

Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence

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Jan 19, 2019

Ideas about Project/Team management

How to start a new project: A top-down approach Start with a small team that works in pods of 3–4 people. Each pod should have 1 senior, 2 juniors and 1 intern. They should be given a task in general and they must be free to come up with solutions. The task of higher management is to give these…

Leadership

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Leadership

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Jan 12, 2019

Will you choose left, right or something trite?

“The only way humans have figured out how to move forward is to leave something behind.” — TARS#Best robot ever. The quote registered in his mind, as he watched the blockbuster movie “Interstellar” for the umpteenth time. It lay there dormant when suddenly it returned to him as he went…

Short Story

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Short Story

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Aug 14, 2018

Failed Atavism: The chronicles of Ata’back

A sense of foreboding makes no logical sense to someone who believes in the nullity of all actions, a nihilist. Still, the apparent truth of the absurd world is unable to help us in averting us from the edge of the precipice, staring directly into abyss of inevitable death. It…

Self Help

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Self Help

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