#certificates

[bey-life]

[amalgamasreal]

This is so goddamn real, I once saw an unnamed company DDoS itself multiple times in one week because they didn't take into account how their network would be affected by forcing OS patches across the entire fleet through their VPN if they happened all at the exact same time.

And the person who knew how to script the staggering so that wouldn't happen had been laid off because they cost too much less than a year prior.

[adam-trademark]

Wall of Accomplishments

(Unknown Date, 2018)

[jojo-rolo]

And here comes all the awards I made for the Gala Event itself!! I had so much fun making these - this was my way to give all my appreciation to the winners and to give back to the community X3

I won't tag everyone who appears in here since this is really more of a means to archive this for me, BUT I will link you to all the artists' who's art I used to make the RaphCass and Apritello collages! So please peruse the works of @/turtsmcgurts, @/blymathin-cove, @/lovelyladylavie, @/shiveagit, @/lastknownstatus-alive, @/plaidartist and lastly Squeaky!! ((though I don't have her instagram handle yet- will be editing it in))

[lifehacksthatwork]

Harvard also has a free introduction to programming with python. You can check it out here: https://cs50.harvard.edu/python/2022/

[izicodes]

Sunday 12th March 2023

- Lua

Last night I completed the 'Learn Lua Course' on Codecademy! I really liked it! Did 3 projects but only documented 2 of them! Will I continue learning Lua? Yeah sure, I liked it and the course made me more interested in the language than I thought I would before starting. Lua isn't a priority language to learn but it's fun so I will learn it slowly, bit by bit. It'll be in the "fun language but don't need it at work" category, along with Python 🥰

>> note: have a nice day/night and good luck with your studies and in life!

[xaltius]

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[spockvarietyhour]

Attendance cards for the medical faculty conferences, McGill University, 1828-1830

[mrmossmichael]

Yo! I've got two more @tubebuddy certificates, one is my @youtube channel reached the 4,000 views milestone in November-22-2024 and two is that my YouTube channel also reached the 450 subscribers milestone certificate in December-20-2024 which was yesterday. Let's keep it going, y'all!

[baosen-blog]

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I got certificates for the Kuternetes Beginner Course in Udemy!

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[jcmarchi]

MIT delegation mainstreams biodiversity conservation at the UN Biodiversity Convention, COP16

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MIT delegation mainstreams biodiversity conservation at the UN Biodiversity Convention, COP16

For the first time, MIT sent an organized engagement to the global Conference of the Parties for the Convention on Biological Diversity, which this year was held Oct. 21 to Nov. 1 in Cali, Colombia.

The 10 delegates to COP16 included faculty, researchers, and students from the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI), the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), and the Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy.

In previous years, MIT faculty had participated sporadically in the discussions. This organized engagement, led by the ESI, is significant because it brought representatives from many of the groups working on biodiversity across the Institute; showcased the breadth of MIT’s research in more than 15 events including panels, roundtables, and keynote presentations across the Blue and Green Zones of the conference (with the Blue Zone representing the primary venue for the official negotiations and discussions and the Green Zone representing public events); and created an experiential learning opportunity for students who followed specific topics in the negotiations and throughout side events.

The conference also gathered attendees from governments, nongovernmental organizations, businesses, other academic institutions, and practitioners focused on stopping global biodiversity loss and advancing the 23 goals of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF), an international agreement adopted in 2022 to guide global efforts to protect and restore biodiversity through 2030.

MIT’s involvement was particularly pronounced when addressing goals related to building coalitions of sub-national governments (targets 11, 12, 14); technology and AI for biodiversity conservation (targets 20 and 21); shaping equitable markets (targets 3, 11, and 19); and informing an action plan for Afro-descendant communities (targets 3, 10, and 22).

Building coalitions of sub-national governments

The ESI’s Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) Program was able to support two separate coalitions of Latin American cities, namely the Coalition of Cities Against Illicit Economies in the Biogeographic Chocó Region and the Colombian Amazonian Cities coalition, who successfully signed declarations to advance specific targets of the KMGBF (the aforementioned targets 11, 12, 14).

This was accomplished through roundtables and discussions where team members — including Marcela Angel, research program director at the MIT ESI; Angelica Mayolo, ESI Martin Luther King Fellow 2023-25; and Silvia Duque and Hannah Leung, MIT Master’s in City Planning students — presented a set of multi-scale actions including transnational strategies, recommendations to strengthen local and regional institutions, and community-based actions to promote the conservation of the Biogeographic Chocó as an ecological corridor.

“There is an urgent need to deepen the relationship between academia and local governments of cities located in biodiversity hotspots,” said Angel. “Given the scale and unique conditions of Amazonian cities, pilot research projects present an opportunity to test and generate a proof of concept. These could generate catalytic information needed to scale up climate adaptation and conservation efforts in socially and ecologically sensitive contexts.”

ESI’s research also provided key inputs for the creation of the Fund for the Biogeographic Chocó Region, a multi-donor fund launched within the framework of COP16 by a coalition composed of Colombia, Ecuador, Panamá, and Costa Rica. The fund aims to support biodiversity conservation, ecosystem restoration, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and sustainable development efforts across the region.

Technology and AI for biodiversity conservation

Data, technology, and artificial intelligence are playing an increasing role in how we understand biodiversity and ecosystem change globally. Professor Sara Beery’s research group at MIT focuses on this intersection, developing AI methods that enable species and environmental monitoring at previously unprecedented spatial, temporal, and taxonomic scales.

During the International Union of Biological Diversity Science-Policy Forum, the high-level COP16 segment focused on outlining recommendations from scientific and academic community, Beery spoke on a panel alongside María Cecilia Londoño, scientific information manager of the Humboldt Institute and co-chair of the Global Biodiversity Observations Network, and Josh Tewksbury, director of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, among others, about how these technological advancements will help humanity achieve our biodiversity targets. The panel emphasized that AI innovation was needed, but with emphasis on direct human-AI partnership, AI capacity building, and the need for data and AI policy to ensure equity of access and benefit from these technologies.

As a direct outcome of the session, for the first time, AI was emphasized in the statement on behalf of science and academia delivered by Hernando Garcia, director of the Humboldt Institute, and David Skorton, secretary general of the Smithsonian Institute, to the high-level segment of the COP16.

That statement read, “To effectively address current and future challenges, urgent action is required in equity, governance, valuation, infrastructure, decolonization and policy frameworks around biodiversity data and artificial intelligence.”

Beery also organized a panel at the GEOBON pavilion in the Blue Zone on Scaling Biodiversity Monitoring with AI, which brought together global leaders from AI research, infrastructure development, capacity and community building, and policy and regulation. The panel was initiated and experts selected from the participants at the recent Aspen Global Change Institute Workshop on Overcoming Barriers to Impact in AI for Biodiversity, co-organized by Beery.

Shaping equitable markets

In a side event co-hosted by the ESI with CAF-Development Bank of Latin America, researchers from ESI’s Natural Climate Solutions Program — including Marcela Angel; Angelica Mayolo; Jimena Muzio, ESI research associate; and Martin Perez Lara, ESI research affiliate and director for Forest Climate Solutions Impact and Monitoring at World Wide Fund for Nature of the U.S. — presented results of a study titled “Voluntary Carbon Markets for Social Impact: Comprehensive Assessment of the Role of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLC) in Carbon Forestry Projects in Colombia.” The report highlighted the structural barriers that hinder effective participation of IPLC, and proposed a conceptual framework to assess IPLC engagement in voluntary carbon markets.

Communicating these findings is important because the global carbon market has experienced a credibility crisis since 2023, influenced by critical assessments in academic literature, journalism questioning the quality of mitigation results, and persistent concerns about the engagement of private actors with IPLC. Nonetheless, carbon forestry projects have expanded rapidly in Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and local communities’ territories, and there is a need to assess the relationships between private actors and IPLC and to propose pathways for equitable participation. 

Panelists pose at the equitable markets side event at the Latin American Pavilion in the Blue Zone.

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The research presentation and subsequent panel with representatives of the association for Carbon Project Developers in Colombia Asocarbono, Fondo Acción, and CAF further discussed recommendations for all actors in the value chain of carbon certificates — including those focused on promoting equitable benefit-sharing and safeguarding compliance, increased accountability, enhanced governance structures, strengthened institutionality, and regulatory frameworks  — necessary to create an inclusive and transparent market.

Informing an action plan for Afro-descendant communities

The Afro-Interamerican Forum on Climate Change (AIFCC), an international network working to highlight the critical role of Afro-descendant peoples in global climate action, was also present at COP16.

At the Afro Summit, Mayolo presented key recommendations prepared collectively by the members of AIFCC to the technical secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The recommendations emphasize:

creating financial tools for conservation and supporting Afro-descendant land rights;

including a credit guarantee fund for countries that recognize Afro-descendant collective land titling and research on their contributions to biodiversity conservation;

calling for increased representation of Afro-descendant communities in international policy forums;

capacity-building for local governments; and

strategies for inclusive growth in green business and energy transition.

These actions aim to promote inclusive and sustainable development for Afro-descendant populations.

“Attending COP16 with a large group from MIT contributing knowledge and informed perspectives at 15 separate events was a privilege and honor,” says MIT ESI Director John E. Fernández. “This demonstrates the value of the ESI as a powerful research and convening body at MIT. Science is telling us unequivocally that climate change and biodiversity loss are the two greatest challenges that we face as a species and a planet. MIT has the capacity, expertise, and passion to address not only the former, but also the latter, and the ESI is committed to facilitating the very best contributions across the institute for the critical years that are ahead of us.”

A fuller overview of the conference is available via The MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative’s Primer of COP16.

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[learning2fly05]

11/13/2024:

Since my last post, many things have happened, as always. I'm not sure if I mentioned in any of my posts that my supervisor added me to a list of promotions. I was happy when she told me this and well it was a long wait and process. At the end of last month, I got the news and got promoted to Senior agent. I got noticed my actions and that is why I was added to the list. I didn't do anything different with any of my actions and I just keep asking questions and writing notes down of changes. I also got my certificate from a course my supervisor signed me up for called Lean Six Sigma, which I never heard of before this but it's very educational in learning how to break down a problem with different methods to get to a solution. There are different levels of this Lean Six Sigma, but I got my Yellow Belt Certificate.

My husband also got a job at the beginning of this month. We both were taking an Electrical class our community pantry church provides. It showed us the basics of installation of outlets, GFCI outlets, wiring and a bit more of that. We took it towards the middle of September and it ended in the beginning of November and we went every Saturday for it. We graduated and got a certificate for it and at the same day, my husband got offered a job from one of our instructors. It's something out of his norm and he has been wanting to get out of the IT field and go into a different career path. The IT field has not been stable and it may continue from what he has seen. This will be a great new path for him and he just needs to adjust to it. So since then I've been home alone and still working from home. They also offer a plumbing class there and we are planning on taking it when available again. It doesn't hurt to learn new skills especially that will help around the house.

Since he got a new job, our schedule has changed when we wake up and the tasks we do around the house before I clock in. We wake up earlier during the week and go to sleep earlier. Our stray cats do still get attended to and some do still show up. We have noticed that some have not come by much or at all. Calypso, Drox, Sherbet, TJ and Cleo have left the crowd and it makes me sad every time I look out our windows and not see them. We also gained kittens from Salt, 4 total, and Pepper also 4 total, and their mother Callie had 5 total. As of last night, we finally saw Juniors' kittens and she had 3 total. Indoors we gained another kitten which was Salts' baby and we named her Mittens. She's happy, healthy and at times a troublemaker. We got 6 cats total now indoors and that is our limit. Alas, they get attended earlier than before and before bedtime as well.

Since we wake up early, I have some time before I clock in to work. I decided to make a list of things I want to organize around the house and do. So far I have done 4, if not 5 tasks completed that were on my list. There are more, but some will need to wait for the weekend for my husband to help. Not only that I have decided to make and sell calendars with the photos I took. I did it last year and decided to do it again and I got people already asking to buy a copy. I'm hoping we can travel more than we did this year, but next year. I didn't get to photograph much this year, nor mainly had the ambition and I don't want to loose that. I need to find ways and places to use my drone and get better photos with it. I'm also hoping that we can do something different and big next year for our anniversary. It will be our 10 year one and I want it to be special. We shall see how the new year goes. Until next time, which might be the new year!