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• 12:21, 6 August 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Digital Operational Resilience Act (Created page with "{{a|euregulation|}}The Digital Operational Resilience Act — so named even though the EU doesn’t technically ''have'' “acts”, we think, because “DORA” is a neat and quite cute acronym whereas “DORR” sounds a bit intellectually challenged and “DORD” sounds like what you find in a Galway lavatory — is an EU Regulation aimed at strengthening the IT security of financial entities and ensuring the European financial sector remains resilient during severe...")
• 08:05, 6 August 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Neil Postman (Created page with "{{a|author|}}Neil Postman (March 8, 1931 – October 5, 2003) was an American author, educator, media theorist, cultural critic and Pink Floyd bass-player inspirer and author of {{br|Amusing ourselves to Death}} (1986) and {{br|Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology}} (1992) among others, which JC is now fiendishly hoovering up because {{br|Technopoly}}, in particular, is AMAZING. {{sa}} {{br|Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology}}")
• 07:52, 6 August 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Data modernism capsule (Created page with "{{D|Data modernism|/ˈdeɪtə ˈmɒdənɪzm/|n|}} The conviction that sufficiently powerful machines running sufficiently sophisticated algorithms over sufficiently large quantities of data can, by themselves, solve the future.")
• 07:50, 6 August 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (Created page with "{{a|book review|}}Neil Postman — a man capable of inspiring Pink Floyd Bassists to write epically self-indulgent solo albums — wrote this book in 1992. Now most people had never ''heard'' of the internet in 1992: Postman — something of a techno refusenik, who died in 2003 — was thinking about television, CDs, but boy does the prescription apply with feeling to our modern times. In the usual vague attempt to pin down a series of interconnected dark thoughts about...")
• 19:28, 5 August 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Construal (Redirected page to Read/write) Tag: New redirect
• 19:11, 5 August 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Wmc (Created page with "{{subtable|[[{{{1}}}|frameless|center|{{{2}}}]]}}")
• 09:36, 4 August 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs deleted page File:Sparklemotion.jpg
• 23:00, 3 August 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Table of healthcare serial murderers (Created page with " {| class="wikitable" |+ Caption text {{aligntop}} ! Name !! Situation !! Reason for suspicion !! Direct evidence !! Key evidence !! Evidence of foul play !! Motive !! Tendency !! Status {{aligntop}} | '''Beverley Allitt''' <br>(UK) || Unusually high number of child deaths. While originally statistical, post-mortem examinations revealed toxins which could not have been administered accidentally or for legitimate medical reasons.|| Suspect was present during a dispropor...")
• 22:56, 3 August 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Talk:Healthcare serial murder (Created page with "{{small|80}} {| class="wikitable" |+ Caption text {{aligntop}} ! Name !! Situation !! Reason for suspicion !! Direct evidence !! Key evidence !! Evidence of foul play !! Motive !! Tendency !! Status {{aligntop}} | '''Beverley Allitt''' || Unusually high number of child deaths. While originally statistical, post-mortem examinations revealed toxins which could not have been administered accidentally or for legitimate medical reasons.|| Suspect was present during a dispro...")
• 17:32, 3 August 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Healthcare serial murder (Created page with "{{a|crime|}}We characterise “healthcare serial murder” cases as ones where: {{healthcare serial murder capsule}} The case par excellence is Harold Shipman, a British doctor, who systematically murdered hundreds of elderly patients by administering lethal doses of medication, exploiting the trust placed in him as their healthcare provider. Other famous cases are a little less edifying for the legal profession: *'''Lucia de Berk''': A Dutch nurse wrongly convicted of m...")
• 16:53, 3 August 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Healthcare serial murder capsule (Created page with "{{L3}}There is an unusual series of deaths or medical incidents that significantly exceed statistical averages, and for which there is no obvious “innocent” explanation <li>A given carer or medical professional was present for all the incidents<li>There is no reliable direct evidence of the identified carer actually harming any of the patients<li>There are several pieces of ''circumstantial evidence'' that are each consistent with the carer’s involvement in...")
• 13:57, 2 August 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Base rate (Redirected page to Bayesian prior) Tags: New redirect Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• 13:50, 2 August 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Base rate neglect (Redirected page to Bayesian prior) Tags: New redirect Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• 08:44, 2 August 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs moved page Ignore to Ignorance over redirect Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• 08:44, 2 August 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs deleted redirect Ignorance by overwriting (Deleted to make way for move from "Ignore") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• 08:21, 2 August 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Ignorance (Redirected page to Ignore) Tags: New redirect Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• 14:10, 1 August 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Consistent with (Created page with "{{a|crime|}}{{d|Consistent with||n}}A phrase which sounds more damning that it has any right to be. Consistency is an attestation of correlation that is often taken by people who should know better, to be one of causation. That, for example, “blotched, mottled skin is consistent with air embolus” is of little “probative value” unless blotched, mottled skin is not consistent with any other explanation. If the condition is consistent with a range of commo...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• 13:39, 1 August 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Code crime (Created page with "{{anattitle-crime}}") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• 13:38, 1 August 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Anatnavigation-crime (Created blank page) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• 13:38, 1 August 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Anatresources-crime (Created page with "{{catbox|criminal law}}") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• 13:36, 1 August 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Category:Criminal law (Created page with "{{c|litigation}}") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• 13:35, 1 August 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Anattitle-crime (Created page with "Crime & Punishment {{c|criminal law}}") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• 13:33, 1 August 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Circumstantial evidence (Created page with "{{a|crime|}}{{d|Circumstantial evidence||n|}} Circumstantial evidence as “information that changes the prior probability of the fact in issue.” {{Sa}} *Direct evidence *Beyond reasonable doubt *Prosecutor’s tunnel vision") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• 08:54, 28 July 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Talk:ChatGPT (Created page with "ChatGBT is the wrong side of the reed right proposition. Humans have no great need to generate more screeds of text with or without embedded meaning. The challenge is assimilating all that information and transmitting it into a brain. Here is where the read/write symbol processing metaphor badly falls down. If we take it back an important part of natural language construction is between this, in the sense of an interpreters own cultural reference points and the interpr...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• 15:41, 26 July 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Anchor (Redirected page to Prosecutor’s tunnel vision) Tag: New redirect
• 15:39, 26 July 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Tunnel vision (Redirected page to Prosecutor’s tunnel vision) Tag: New redirect
• 15:39, 26 July 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Peter Ellis (Redirected page to Prosecutor’s tunnel vision) Tag: New redirect
• 15:38, 26 July 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Lindy Chamberlain (Redirected page to Prosecutor’s tunnel vision) Tag: New redirect
• 15:38, 26 July 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page David Bain (Redirected page to Prosecutor’s tunnel vision) Tag: New redirect
• 08:19, 26 July 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Boggis v Rummins (Redirected page to You can’t dust for vomit) Tag: New redirect
• 07:54, 26 July 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs moved page Template:Image to Template:I
• 07:50, 26 July 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Talk:Many-faced heroes, blockbusters and the Long Tail (Created page with "{{image|long tail|svg|Whatever you want, it’s down there somewhere.}}")
• 15:56, 25 July 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Talk:You can’t dust for vomit (Created page with "{{image|Custard|jpg|Do not put money here.}}")
• 10:03, 25 July 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Pn (Created page with "{{:talk:{{PAGENAME}}}}")
• 09:56, 25 July 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Talk:Prosecutor’s tunnel vision (Created page with "{{image|14-46-35-f-mutzig|jpg|This way, folks.}}")
• 09:52, 25 July 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs deleted page File:Chat Chat.png
• 08:42, 25 July 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Talk:Electric monk (Created page with "{{image|Original Cyberman (6502043765)|jpg|An Electric Monk, yesterday.}}")
• 10:19, 24 July 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M sa design mark-up the last deal (Created page with "*{{br|The Unaccountability Machine}}")
• 10:18, 24 July 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Accountability sink (Redirected page to The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost Its Mind) Tag: New redirect
• 10:04, 24 July 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M intro design mark-up the last deal (Created page with "{{Drop|W|hen JC was}} but a young eaglet he had his first crisis encounter with the General Counsel of an investment bank. General Counsel, as we all know, are a source of infinite wisdom, metis, pragmatism and robust creativity. No formal legal problem is so intractable that a good GC can’t confect a way out of it. We had a problem, boss, and we weren’t sure what to do. The GC scratched his chin thoughtfully for a minute, then fixed JC with the stare of...")
• 09:32, 24 July 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Mark-up the last deal (Created page with "{{freeessay|design|mark-up the last deal|}}{{nld}}")
• 16:46, 19 July 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Isdadefs Effective Date summ (Created page with "{{effective date trade date termination date}}")
• 16:46, 19 July 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Isdadefs Effective Date comp (Created page with "Amazing how many words you can contrive to take to say nothing when you put your mind to it. The first day of your Transaction. Thanks for writing in, ISDA.")
• 16:45, 19 July 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:ISDA Definitions Effective Date (Created page with " ====2006==== {{2006 ISDA Definitions 3.2}} ====2021==== 2021 ISDA Interest Rate Derivatives Definitions ???")
• 16:43, 19 July 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Isdadefs TOC summ (Created page with " === Genealogy of the Definitions === '''1991 ISDA Definitions''': The first set of definitions published by ISDA, covering interest rate and currency derivatives.<br> '''1998 Supplement to the 1991 ISDA Definitions''': A supplement that added new definitions and provisions for interest rate and currency derivatives, such as day count fractions, business day conventions, and compounding methods.<br> '''1998 ISDA Euro Definitions''': A supplement that addressed the intro...")
• 16:43, 19 July 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Isdadefs TOC comp (Created page with "One of many compendious and stupefying booklets containing the minute details of how one calculates for example, {{isdadefsprov|Floating Rate Option}}s, should your currency happen to be South African Rand. There were 2000 ISDA Definitions, and they were superseded by the even drearier, more compendious, 2006 ISDA Definitions. Good work, everyone.")
• 16:42, 19 July 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:ISDA Definitions TOC (Created page with " {{2006 ISDA Definitions TOC}}")
• 16:41, 19 July 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Res isdadefs (Created page with "{{catbox|ISDA}}")
• 16:38, 19 July 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs moved page Template:Isdadefs Banking Day comp to Template:Isdadefs Business Day comp without leaving a redirect
• 16:38, 19 July 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs moved page Template:Isdadefs Banking Day summ to Template:Isdadefs Business Day summ without leaving a redirect