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The inventor of fuzzy logic died at age 96.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotfi_A._Zadeh

He was born in Azerbaijan to an Iranian father and Russian-Jewish mother. Although he died in California as a naturalized U.S. citizen, he actually wanted to be buried in Azerbaijan where he was born.

Heracleum Persicum wrote:.


Turks are great "killing machine", but that epoch is past, America killed millions in Vietnam, in Afghanistan, in Iraq .. AND ? all wars lost.


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That's the whole point... The Turks often defeated the Pomegranates in any serious military conflict.


My money is on the Turks.

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Turkey is beginning to establish a buffer zone in Syria, which is a prelude to expansion into the already disintegrating Arab world. This was only a matter of time. By mid-century, Turkey will probably dominate most of the Sunni Arab world not only economically and politically, but even geographica...

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