Good day and hopefully you had a nice long weekend.
It seems that COVID-19 vaccines have been inoculated to about two million people in the USA. Apparently the vaccine is being well received by recipients. The issue at this point seems to be able to determine the efficacy against different virus mutations and how long our bodies will maintain resistance to it. In my humble opinion these two factors will take time to determine and must be backed up the actual (non edited) and unbiased data.
My sister sent me a link to the article “History isn’t just for patriots” by Daniel Immerwahr published by The Washington Post. I enjoy reading (mostly computer science related books, papers and articles) but also enjoy reading different subjects in order to understand the world which is inhabited by humans. In general we are extremely complex and hard to understand.
Reading the article I detected a taste of political bias. If you are interested I encourage you to read the article and form your own opinion.
At some point the author makes a comparison between history and geometry, in specific to the Pythagorean Theorem. I asked my wife when was the last time she recalls using it, if any, and for what purpose. She had no recollection of ever using it outside the geometry class while attending middle school. On the other hand, I use it often due that I design and develop software and have interest in algorithms and data structures among other computer science subjects.
On the other hand, we both have read several history books from different countries and at different times. To me unbiased history, which is very hard to find, provides facts that we can process and formulate an idea of what had happened in a certain part of the world during a specific period in time. With that information I hope to be able to better understand opinions from others. It is a fact that the winners write history.
Now a day we have a different type of influence. It comes in different forms and sources. For example I read the article in question that was published by The Washington Post and was sent to me by my sister who currently is living and teaching in China. After understanding the sources I need to read the article in an unbiased manner attempting to understand the set of points the author is providing and to understand the logic behind them. I have made my opinion and hopefully if you have a chance to read the article, you will also be able to generate your own educated opinion. Continue reading “Design HashMap – Third approach”