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Fwd: Workshop: Paris.PolygenicAdaptation.Mar10-14

Begin forwarded message: > From: evoldir@evol.biology.mcmaster.ca > Subject: Workshop: Paris.PolygenicAdaptation.Mar10-14 > Date: 16 October 2024 at 05:45:04 BST > To: rdmpage@gmail.com > > > > On behalf of the organizing committee, it is my pleasure to announce the > workshop "Polygenic adaptation: from quantitative genetics to population > genomics", part of the QLife Quantitative Biology Winter School Series. > > Topic: Adaptation to novel environments depends on many alleles with > largely undetectable fitness effects. With the advance of DNA sequencing > technologies, the combination of genome-wide association analyses with > genomic prediction methods has become the state-of-the-art approach to > link adaptive trait responses to genetic changes at the molecular level. > The workshop will introduce students to evolutionary theory and the > tools employed to test alternative models of polygenic adaptation. > Current advances in detecting polygenic adaptation in experimental and > natural populations will be discussed. The course will introduce the > participants to the analysis of phenomic and genomic data covering the > latest software. > > When and where: March 10-14, 2025; Ecole Normale Superieure, 46 Rue > d'Ulm, 75005 Paris - France. > > Faculty: Neda BARGHI, Vienna/Ploen; Nicholas BARTON, Vienna; Timothée > FLUTRE, Paris; Frédéric GUILLAUME, Helsinki; Susan JOHNSTON, Edinburgh; > François MALLARD, Paris > Katrina McGUIGAN, Brisbane; Luisa PALLARES, Tübingen; Patrick PHILLIPS, > Eugene;  Christian SCHLÖTTERER, Vienna; Bertrand SERVIN, Toulouse; Erik > SVENSSON, Lund; Jacqueline SZTEPANACZ, Toronto; Henrique TEOTÓNIO, > Paris; Céline TEPLITSKY, Montpellier; Pierre de VILLEMEREUIL, Paris; Ben > WÖLFL, Vienna > > Organizers: Patrick CHARNAY, Paris; Christian SCHLÖTTERER, Vienna; > Henrique TEOTÓNIO, Paris > > Format: The course will include introductory and research lectures in > the mornings, followed by computer practicals in the afternoons. The > evenings will include keynote speaker seminars and poster presentations > by the students. Common lunches and dinners with the speakers and > instructors will foster informal discussions. > > Public: The winter school is limited to 25 participants. It is open to > advanced master students, PhD students,  as well as postdocs and junior > scientists, with backgrounds in life sciences, physics, computer science > or mathematics. > > Requirements: Strong interest in evolutionary genetics, and experience > in file manipulation under Unix/Linux and Python or R programming. > > Apply by January 8, 2025, at : https://ift.tt/dTMPk7Z. A > participation fee of 150 euro includes access to materials, lunches > and some dinners Monday to Friday. Please send a CV, a motivation > letter and a supporting letter from a supervisor as a single pdf file > with “Qlife Polygenic Adaptation Winter School2025_LASTNAME” as > subject header to Aida.Fakhr@curie.fr. Informal inquiries are welcome: > teotonio@bio.ens.psl.eu > > Additional information including a detailed program at: > https://ift.tt/aACfuZQ > > > Henrique Teotónio > Institut de Biologie de l'ENS > 46 Rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris, France > https://ift.tt/0uCh9Dk > > > teotonio@bio.ens.psl.eu > > (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to > golding@mcmaster.ca

[aiweirdness]

2020 headlines

Midway through 2020, people started suggesting that I train a neural net on 2020 headlines, and I was skeptical that there would be enough weird ones to make a decent project. Then 2020 continued to be 2020. We started to get headlines such as:

Mysterious alien-like monolith discovered in Utah desert What you need to know about 'murder hornets' The Mystery of The Platypus Deepens With The Discovery of Its Biofluorescent Fur Famous Vienna hotel turns to drive-in cake

And by the time we got to December, with more bioluminescent marsupials, mysterious monoliths, and the Galactic Federation, my course was clear.

I decided to use GPT-3, whose internet training data was all collected before October 2019. In other words, before 2020 happened. I gave GPT3 a list of 2020 headlines and let it add more text to the list. Having no data from 2020, would it even treat these as real headlines?

A lot of the generated headlines were from the natural world, in part because my list of examples tended to favor those. I really can’t tell if these are attempts to do novel but realistic headlines, or to completely goof around.

Swarming bears are given deadly slingshots by Russian hunters Good news / Bad news about crows in Burlington schools When Killer Orchids Attack: How the Deadly Corpse Orchid Is Turning Up in U.S. Backyards Apparently There is No Good Photo of the "Melbourne Spider" Desert mystery - what is this rock that looks like a plane ticket? Fears rise of new dwarf hippo public relations disaster after rise in sightings Mysterious Origin of Monster Deep-sea Toads Solved What are 'dragon cats' and why they are getting hyped? Massive radioactive sinkhole continues to grow in Russia Why scientists believe the 'Killer Raccoons of the Pacific Northwest' are responsible for this kill Lycoperdons, the tiny deadly puffballs, are on the march again From deep in the Earth, darkness “boils” to the surface A sassy tardigrade previews new Doctor Who

With other generated headlines, it looks more like GPT-3 assessed the 2020 headlines and went, “Murder hornets? Yeah okay and hellhounds too.” (This is clearly an algorithmic error; hellhounds are MUCH more likely to be found at the Denver International Airport.)

Proof that a hellhound is living at Los Angeles Airport has been provided in the photos below First naked bogman has been found out walking the great British countryside Reports of a '10-foot tall penguin' roaming about on the Family Islands in the Solomon Islands are investigated Albino green sea monster filmed ... at the wrong time Scientists discover the alien ant farm under the Antarctic ice Lizardman: The Terrifying Tale of the Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp

I like its science/technology headlines. So many good little bots.

Researchers fear our solar system is being interfered with by alien space lasers Mars rover finds only artificial organic matter on surface Scientists Recreate Giant Liopleurodon In Lab 'Lost' NASA space shuttle repair robot comes back to life after four decades in complete darkness Hey, Curiosity Rover, Don't Go Chasing Shadow Bugs Small drone takes on six killer sharks in Shipwreck (Video) Mysterious Hole Observed On the Sun How did we miss this massive alien spaceship lurking on an abandoned asteroid? Scorpions on the dark side of the moon NASA: Has Earth 'Halted' And Stopped Spinning - If What NASA States is True, We Must All Celebrate! NOW!

i only showed the most interesting sorts of headlines; plenty were just ordinary news from 2019 or earlier. Others were new, technically, but not exactly news:

Breathing Is "Supercharging" Brain Voyager 1 images: See contents of interstellar space Scientists Take Photos In See-Through Scuba Gear, and This Is What They Got Scientists do science… … and then write about it! Scientists say climate change deniers should sit on a beach until it is underwater

Subscribers get bonus content: I tried another experiment in which I tried to produce more targeted headlines, around the theme of… tumbleweeds. (It turns out there were a LOT of dramatic tumbleweed headlines in 2020, due to their habit of descending on various places in apocalyptic numbers).

On the subject of GOOD things that have existed in 2020: please consider my book on AI, You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: Amazon - Barnes & Noble - Indiebound - Tattered Cover - Powell’s - Boulder Bookstore

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Exploring Philosopher Carl Hempel's Connection to Chinese Philosophy

This post was written by Simone Mohite, a recipient of an Archival Scholar Research Award for the 2021 Spring Semester.

2020 has proved to be anything but ordinary. With the sudden onset of the coronavirus, millions of people comprising a non-scientific jury tried to determine the rules of survival. To wear a mask or not to wear a mask? Are vaccines safe or is the data weird? Is this science, or is it pseudo-science?  

Although dismissive statements about science and questionable “scientific” claims in the public sphere are routine, the coronavirus epidemic has shown us that it is even more difficult to know who and what to trust when the doctors and scientists offer conflicting guidance. We all want to know the truth that science can tell us—in this case, to keep us safe���but what classifies something as science in the first place? To answer this question, I turned to philosopher Carl Gustav Hempel’s work on logical empiricism. I examined a manuscript from 1981 in which to understand how Hempel developed his ideas before they were ‘fixed’ into print and disseminated.  

The manuscript I chose was titled “Logical empiricism: Its problems and changes.” It is the revised text of a lecture delivered by Hempel in China in 1981. On the very first page, there is a note that says, “Revised and Submitted to Hung.” I was curious to know why Hempel was in China giving this lecture on the recent history of Western philosophy. As it was towards the end of his career, I wanted to know if Hempel had taken an interest in Chinese Philosophy, or if philosophers in China had taken an interest in him.

(Above) Title with inscription “Revised, Submitted to Hung, 6/9/81,” Logical Empiricism: It’s Problems and It’s Changes by Carl G. Hempel, Box 57, Folder 7, Carl Gustav Hempel Papers, 1903-1997, ASP.1999.01, Archives of Scientific Philosophy, Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System.

Before assessing the content, I began by examining the document itself. The first half of the manuscript is mainly typewritten. In the second half of this document are what appear to be Hempel’s notes for the lecture, mainly made using a black ink pen; however, visible changes and edits were made with a pencil. It looks as if the document were written in a journal notebook, from both the size of the writing and comparing it to the typewritten pages. His handwriting on these notes is significantly more legible than other notes available at the archive under Hempel’s name, which made me think someone else was probably supposed to read this – possibly for more edits.

(Above) Page 1, typed, Logical Empiricism: It’s Problems and It’s Changes by Carl G. Hempel, Box 57, Folder 7, Carl Gustav Hempel Papers, 1903-1997, ASP.1999.01, Archives of Scientific Philosophy, Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System.

(Above) Page 2, notes. Logical Empiricism: It’s Problems and It’s Changes by Carl G. Hempel, Box 57, Folder 7, Carl Gustav Hempel Papers, 1903-1997, ASP.1999.01, Archives of Scientific Philosophy, Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System.

Another thing I found interesting was Hempel’s remarks on the second page in the handwritten journal. They stated, “I remember my teachers with great respect and gratitude, but in the course of time, I have found certain difficulties in their ideas” (Hempel, 1981). Hempel then omits this from the revised text. I plan to delve deeper into Hempel’s correspondence to see which teachers he may be referring to and how he came to disagree with their ideas. I noticed other omissions between the two versions of the text, but they seem generic, as if he was refining his language for publishing this text.  

(Above) Page 22, notes. Examples of generic corrections in the lecture. Logical Empiricism: It’s Problems and It’s Changes by Carl G. Hempel, Box 57, Folder 7, Carl Gustav Hempel Papers, 1903-1997, ASP.1999.01, Archives of Scientific Philosophy, Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System.

I then turned my attention to the content of these versions of Hempel’s texts. My brief analysis helped me develop two insights, and additional research helped me begin to answer my questions about Hempel’s relation to China and Chinese philosophy. First, this manuscript helped me figure out what the Logical Empiricists and members of the Vienna Circle characterized ‘pseudoscience’. To my surprise, figuring out what separated scientific truth from metaphysics was an issue that logical empiricists, like Hempel, were thinking about back in the 1930s! They were concerned with verifications and considered any metaphysical statement meaningless.  

Second, this manuscript provides evidence of who had influenced Hempel’s philosophy and who he may have had corresponded with. In Hempel’s lecture he mentioned a few recurring references to philosophers in Berlin and the Vienna Circle, such as Otto Neurath, Hans Reichenbach and Rudolph Carnap. However, the one that particularly interested me was “Professor Hung” – likely the same Hung from the first page!  

As it turns out, I soon discovered that ‘Professor Hung’ was Tscha Hung, a Chinese Philosopher who was curious about logical empiricism and the foundations of truth (Cohen, 1996). This evidence provided an answer to my initial question: it seems Hempel was invited to China because Hung had an interest in Logical Empiricism and Western philosophy. Cohen (1996) mentions that he had heard of Hung while having a conversation with Marie Neurath Reading Hempel’s notes in the second half of this manuscript, I found Hempel’s account of meeting Professor Hung in Vienna.  Apparently, Hung also attended the Vienna Circle meetings or one of the classes taught by either Moritz Schlick or Carnap. Hempel also mentions that the next encounter he had with Professor Hung was when he was giving a lecture in China 50 years later! Comparing the handwritten lecture and the revised version, I saw that Hempel had omitted this story about meeting Hung, which was surprising to me, considering that he was delivering this lecture in person, with Professor Hung in attendance. However, the final typewritten version might be an article he wrote, based on said lecture, so that may have led him to cut out all the informal sentences spoken at this lecture.  

Works Cited  

Cohen, R. S., Risto. Hilpinen, and Renzong. Qiu. “Realism and Anti-Realism in the Philosophy of Science : Beijing International Conference, 1992 ” Dordrecht ;: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996.

Carl Gustav Hempel Papers, 1903-1997, ASP.1999.01, Archives of Scientific Philosophy, Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System

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What Comes First, Theory or Reality?

In the history of natural philosophy and in fact all philosophy and much academic work besides, there has been a strong tendency to create theory, whether this is Aristotle's Physics or even a topic like modern critical theory. In fact every university subject today is brimming with theory, and a churn of half baked theories continues; it is what drives academic careers. One can question this: Should there be theories for everything? Also, can we know if there is a valid theory for all topics? Can we even justify turning all this theorising into syllabus, and of course dogma, that is taught, read, and absorbed into our beliefs as part of the creative greater self?

There have been philosophers like Sir Karl Popper who held that knowledge wasn't proven, but theorised, and these theories were tested, if not falsified, then held as provisional pragmatic truths. But given that there is almost an infinity of theory and likely only one true minimal and complete description, it doesn't seem to me that Popper's approach would be very successful in finding a true description of the universe unless there was a pre-selection, a seeing of what is going on in order to select/build a theory. However, empirical observation relies on a theory of logical consistency, a theory of how the domain works, an analysis of objects in the field, the mindset of the observer, and a number of factors local to the experiment. So it becomes clear that most theorising is the process of adding layers of philosophical speculation to other philosophical speculation. Is all this theory a load of rubbish?

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With empirical results there is often a repeatable observation, however with theory there is just the adding of layers, one on top of the other. If a single flaw exists then the tower is unsound. There is also a difference between the mathematical descriptions of physics and economics and the analysis of critical theory in literature studies or psychoanalysis. The mathematical sciences are more highly defined, with problems fitting to the world as described in blog 15, 'What Does It All Mean?', but interpretations are less of an issue. Other subjects have greater interpretation issues, for example finding it inexact when offering theories about theory about descriptions about interpretations. As a result, the theories morph according to things like political interest. An example of disagreement is a Marxist interpretation of counter revolutionary facts, like believing the CIA can drive history and economics single handed. This is less of a problem in physics, but still dogmas persist like the millenium long reign of Aristotle's physics, only punctured by the heroic efforts and experiments of free thinking giants like Galileo, Newton, and Einstein who rejected more theory than they created.

In the analytical philosophy tradition of the 20th Century there was a rejection of some theorising, particularly metaphysics, as it was argued it was meaningless because it had become detached from its empirical foundations. An aggressive form of empiricism became dominant in the UK. I see this historical debate as flawed on both sides (see blog 11: 'What Makes Us for Real?'), however it has asked some questions which are still important like:

1) How can we justify theories and theorising;

2) Does everything need theories;

3) Are more abstract theories like cultural theories valid like scientific ones, or are they pseudo-intellectual and meaningless;

4) Is it possible to create grand narratives from systematizing theory or are they all just local and observable?

I have previously touched on a number of these themes, but we will briefly try to answer these questions here with reference to the previous blogs as a conclusion to our endeavours that will help you understand and argue with people who want to inflict a grand narrative on you, or their value judgements, as is often the case in education, religion, politics, debate, or even just the marketing of products promoting a way of doing things.

The first question, how can we justify theories, is another way of asking about justifying generalisations that we discussed in blog 5: 'Were You or Your Big Data Given to Generalising...?'. If we are making a generalisation, we are creating a simple theory that the world works in a particular way. The problem becomes a new problem when we extend the theory so that it changes from becoming a local theory, for example Napoleon was erratic, to becoming so wide and far from the evidence; for example Napoleon was an agent of the spirit of history that had manifested itself since creation (to slightly abuse Hegel). This proceeds to our second question, does everything need theories. For example, has Hegel's view of history been a positive influence, is it valid, is it false, can we tell the difference?

These questions lie within the last blog on religion, (blog 17: 'What Good Is Religion after the Lies?'); for if a theory is not a local scientific theory, given at the correct level of non-reduction (as mentioned in blog 8: 'Is AI & Science Stuck in an Unhelpful Reductionist Paradigm...?'), then the role of the theory must be religious. We have accepted that although grand narrative theories (or religious theories) may not or can not be proven or even correct, we need religion. So we need religious theory to provide us with a framework for our worldview, lives, and judgements.

This answers our third question, are abstract theories like religious ones meaningless. The answer to this is they define people, so even if you think square circles lay eggs on Tuesdays, this is still meaningful even though it doesn't apply to anything. Many theories may be pseudo-intellectual as, like religion, they can't be falsified, and this is the definition of pseudo-scientific provided by the Vienna Circle group of philosophers. Unlike the Vienna Circle, we can see this lack of falsifiability does not make the theory meaningless, but religious.

Religious or grand narrative theories can certainly be produced, in fact they are impossible to get rid of, but I would disagree with the claim they are scientific as part of the answer to the third question. Many theorists mistake their religious beliefs for scientific ones. particularly when they apply inappropriate scientific thought to areas out of scope in sphere confusions (as discussed in blog 1: 'A Little Understanding Has Big Implications'). I would define the opposite of Post-Atheism (discussed in the previous blog) to be Moral Totalitarianism, and this term applies equally to extreme religion as extreme politics like marxism, fascism, or absolute rule. There is a framework that defies justification in scientific terms, but still controls the narrative in participants through a grand narrative of a religious order.

So answering the fourth question, you can create positive impact grand narratives, although attempts to do so usually have a less good conclusion. There are some clear examples of dodgy narratives having positive effects: For example the US constitution making everyone equal before God and the law, when it is not clear that there is any true equality; but at least this helps rather than hinders justice, even if the laws themselves are sometimes highly prejudiced like the war on drugs. However, I do not think claiming equality before 'God' is a valid scientific claim. So while, like Hegel, it is possible to make grand claims, and for them to be meaningful, I don't think they are likely to be correct or justified in absolute terms.

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We have an important branch of thought that is not scientific, but is rational and hyper real (see blog 11: 'What Makes Us for Real?'). It sits between mathematics, religion, science, and empirical description. I claim this whole archipelago, this whole continent, in the name of philosophy. You as philosophers shall find your kingdom here, and your hyper reality. You shall rule academies with your exciting theorising, your refining, analysing, and defining. Thinkers of all types will hang on your every word as you define their deepest prejudices.

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The conclusion is passed, now we are in the post-note, the health warning; and we shall discuss the pratfalls of theory and philosophy that you need to avoid. There is the naive view that philosophers can be wrong, but we know this is usually not the biggest problem for theory. More dangerous is being confused; however the biggest existential threat is being illogical; but if you deny, defy, mould, and redefine your theory, selling it as you go, then you may hold onto it for generations until it becomes a permanent religious feature.

Being logical is not that hard, a simple guide to logic may help if it is unclear, but anyone with exposure to truth tables, computer code, electronics gates, will already be familiar with most of the useful content. To be useful with logic, you need a knack for good definitions; this comes with practice. An eye for synthesising arguments is a creative skill, like writing verse, but even your garbled thoughts can be clarified and will probably be seen as genius where there is a gap in the theory.

Now we will consider a topic of philosophy that was open to confusion in the past and even rejected from some of the philosophy canon, 'ontology' the way of existence. The aim of this exercise is for you to criticise the arguments and come up with your own bits of ontology.  There will be some clues after this stack argument:

1) Properties are real

2) Causation is the actualisation of properties

3) Emergence is caused

4) The hyper real is emergent

5) Language is hyper real

6) Description is language

7) The impossible are descriptions

Therefore: 8) The impossible are real

So perhaps you like this argument? This argument is a good example of religious thinking as it takes arguments from across the blogs, but probably this is a distraction from how you define what is real. The argument is somewhat consistent (or circular as you might otherwise call it), especially if you leave out steps 2-6.

Of course every argument benefits from follow up arguments. So if you rejected the first step ('premise 1'), consider this:

1) Unused properties do not exist in the real

2) Scientific laws are mostly about unused properties

Therefore 3) Scientific laws mostly do not exist in reality

4) Properties are a thing's nature

5) A thing's nature exists

6) Scientific laws express a thing's properties

Therefore 7) Scientific laws exist

8) If a thing is contradictory, then it is impossible

Therefore 9) The existence of scientific laws is contradictory being both true and false

Therefore 10) Scientific laws are impossible

I think this argument is interesting and is a bit like that popular meme:

Cheese has holes

More cheese = more holes

More holes = less cheese

So more cheese = less cheese

So the reason ontology is not as popular as it was two centuries ago is that there are probably multiple definitions of real, and probably even no grand narratives to realness. So ontology is a muddle that is mostly semantic; it is also highly religious and so it is difficult to be definitive; for example, does Hegel's world spirit of history exist when you can't really prove empirically that it doesn't? Accordingly, this is just one example where you can freely make up your own philosophy and add it to any theory you are interested in, so following a rich tradition of thinkers of all types, left, right, ancient, modern, scientific, or religious; examples include Plato's forms, Newton's universal time, Marx's march of history, Aristotle's forces, various theisms, the free market, mathematical objects, etc.

Based on what I said about identity in blog 6: 'Is Cause and Effect the Wonderwall of Everything?', you can also add that while properties like motion exist, the objects in motion do not persist, and this applies to all properties over time. Further factor in emergent properties and latent properties. Thus to make claims about the things existing in the world is to be open to a massive confusion of identity and the real, lending itself to much interpretation. This should keep you in theory for a while.

Before anyone decides it is clear the impossible works better than science, I will dig you out of the stack argument the way I see best: This is to say that scientific laws only exist as descriptions, like the impossible. A real description is not the same as being real unless you are talking about a theory like mathematics; so scientific laws are only descriptions of the possible. But whether you think latent properties are real, I leave to you. Perhaps they are just part of the impossible, also described like the possible, when considered in absolute terms like whether they have causal existence, which they don't. When they do have that causal existence, their identities will have changed; so that what exists in the latent category is the cause of a cause or the cause of an ability to interact to create an emergent property. This would unwrap the problem for you so you may redefine everything to your taste.

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I shall now end with some final words. Philosophy is sometimes ignored, but it can be a battleground. There is something to the cliche that philosophy can alienate people, however this is much less likely if you take a post-atheist approach as described in the last blog. Although the possibility remains that people will alienate you, normally this will be based on something you now understand and can feel empowered to reason with. Philosophy is a many sided coin; one side is the power of theory to interpret meaning and change lives.

Our final conclusion to this blog question of what comes first, theory or reality, is that they live together in our minds' eye. So although much theory is a waste of time, it will define our thinking and concepts.

[eyeofthestorm888]

The Zugun case, world famous – and much disputed – in its day, is unique in several aspects, primarily

in the sheer number of phenomena recorded (more than 3000, out of which 844 are extremely well established)

in the fact that the focus person lived close together with the prime researcher, Zoë, Countess Wassilko, sharing even their room for a period in excess of one year

and in the methodical approaches implemented in the course of its investigation:

the attempt to communicate with the unconscious of the focus person by various means, none the least in order to provoke phenomena

the attempt to transform the character of the phenomena systematically from spontaneous ones to séance phenomena

a psychoanalysis of the focus person (this case appears to be the first one where psychoanalysis has been applied on an RSPK focus person)

confrontation of the focus person with other mediums or psychics

cinematographic documentation of part of the phenomena.

In other aspects, however, the Zugun case fits well into the general character of RSPK cases, e.g. in respect of the age of the focus person at the onset of the poltergeist phenomena, the bandwidth of categories of phenomena observed, etc.

With regard to the sociology of science (i.e. of Psychical Research), the impact of this case may be seen as dialectic as the above: on one hand – one is tempted to say: ‘as usual’ – an eventual exposure of the focus person with an ensuing endless discussion between the two camps, and on the other hand the unique fact that this case ultimately was to become the cradle of the later Austrian Society for Psychical Research (now Austrian Society for Parapsychology and Border Areas of Science).

The events in short: the case commenced mid-February, 1925 in the Bukowina (Romania), three months before Eleonore Zugun’s 12th birthday, and it lasted for some two years. (In comparison to the material of some RSPK databases, the focus person may be called rather young when the phenomena started, and the duration of the phenomena which terminated shortly after her first menstruation, may be called rather long.)

The poltergeist phenomena started with inexplicable movements of various objects, throwing of rocks as well as locomotion of household items. These were attributed by the superstitious peasant populace to the devil, in Romanian "Dracu", based on an alleged remark made by Eleonore Zugun’s grandmother early in this case who might have induced a devil complex in the girl by that malediction.

When the case came to the knowledge of the regional media, the then eminent German Psychic Researcher, Fritz Grunewald was dispatched to the scene where he was able to establish the occurrence of "genuine paranormal phenomena". As Grunewald happened to die but short time later, the Countess Wassilko whose family used to live for centuries in the Bukowina (the easternmost province of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy before WW I) firstly visited the girl in her native environment and subsequently took her to Vienna into her own household some time afterwards (end-January, 1926). After a period of some eight months there, she took her for another five months on an extended tour through several European countries, thus enabling many Psychic Researchers as well as interested lay-persons (several hundred people altogether) to witness the Zugun phenomena which had at that time actually changed from the locomotion of small objects, mainly interpreted as apports, to dermographic phenomena (scratches and bites all over her face and her arms). Thus, the Zugun case shows several distinct phases. The case ended practically with the girl's first menstruation, after which there was a quick decline in the number of phenomena. Following that – the "case" being no more a case, only a biography – the girl spent a few more months in Vienna, finishing her training as a hairdresser before eventually returning home in 1928, where she started working, later became married (with no children), widowed, etc., living a "normal" life.

My own research in the Zugun case – the support of which by a grant provided by the "Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene" (Institute for Border Areas of Psychology and Psychic Hygiene), Freiburg i. Br., Germany, is gratefully acknowledged – concentrated on the two phases, the period in Vienna (= Phase I) and the tour (= Phase II), with emphasis on the former, and focussed on addressing i.a. the following problems:

establishing the total number of phenomena (Phase I: 1754, Phase II: 1306, totalling 3060, as opposed to Countess Wassilko’s estimate of 5000 approx)

evaluation of the original reports in order to identify indicators for possible fraud (or otherwise pointing towards the "genuineness" of the phenomena):

the original researchers, i.e. Countess Wassilko and her colleagues, had already pointed out that Eleonore Zugun sometimes, if not controlled properly, would resort to trickery, i.e. they viewed upon this case as a "mixed" one

the analysis of the documentary film did not reveal any indicators for fraud

in particular, the film shows Eleonore wearing no ring on her finger, hence the allegation by Dessoir of her fraudulently producing the scratches by pointed fingernails or the sharp-edged setting of her ring, as still perpetuated in Kurtz’ "Skeptic’s Handbook", must strongly be refuted

scrutiny of Rosenbusch’ alleged exposure, the analysis of which showed that it is not tenable; based on his skeptical belief system, Rosenbusch mistook harmless touches evoking reflex dermal phenomena for fraudulent scratches, etc.

(translation and) evaluation of Eleonore Zugun’s psychoanalysis:

This analysis, however, has been carried out somehow amateurish and I have reasons to presume that a few of the underlying complexes (i.e. an alleged rape and an incestuous episode) attributed to Eleonore by the Countess might have been connect to her own unconscious (countertransference). This supposed countertransference is likely to have been instrumental for the transformation of the Zugun phenomena from apports or locomotion of objects to dermographic phenomena

though being very likely, it could, due to the lack of sources, still not positively be established whether the Zugun case was brought to the attention of Sigmund Freud himself

investigation of the frequency distribution of the phenomena, the question being whether the distribution of maxima and minima showed an internal periodicity or any correlation with external variables (or is entirely random):

Countess Wassilko, after observing the phenomena for two months, hypothesised that the frequency distribution showing one distinct maximum per month was an anticipation of the female cycle

Schrenck-Notzing, who, by the way, supported the Countess’ research by a substantial grant, hypothesised that the maxima of phenomena appeared to coincide with the full moon

Neither of these contemporary and somewhat premature hypotheses, formulated after too short a period of observation, could be supported. The distribution of phenomena during the entire time of more than one year does not show any periodicity that comes even close to an equivalent of the menstrual cycle nor could any correlation be found when probing modern hypotheses (correlation with maxima/minima of the geomagnetic field [Persinger] the values of which were supplied by the World Data Center C1 for Geomagnetism, Copenhagen, Denmark; or LST [Spottiswoode]). The correlation coefficient for the geomagnetic hypothesis is

r = 0.085 and 0.021 respectively

(for the two phases ea.), whereas for the hypothetical dependency upon the phases of the moon the respective values are

r = 0.028 and r = 0.015.

Hence, it has been established that these external variables had no influence on the frequency of the Zugun phenomena whatsoever. The circadian distribution is significantly different btn Phase I and Phase II, due to the different circumstances of everyday life, obviously dependent upon the Countess’ daily rhythms, i.e. a social variable. Moreover, it could be demonstrated that there is an apparently strong albeit hard-to-quantify correlation with purely psychological variables, such as suggestions, or skin contact, etc. that had impact on the phenomena, on both their frequency and their character, e.g. reflex reactions on being touched.

After all, this extraordinary case offers the feasibility to discuss all the above on two (or even more) levels, i.e. the case as such, and the case as a prime methodological example for applying quantitative methods on a hitherto apparent qualitative case, thus combining proof-oriented and process-oriented aspects. This approach to historic cases is different from mere reception studies. It demonstrates that the existing abundance of historic cases in parapsychology is a most valuable "treasure" that needs to be re-evaluated periodically – a permanent process –, and that the gap between idiographic and nomothetic approaches can indeed be bridged.

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Innovation Trends That Will Dominate 2017: Big Data, IoT, AWS and AI

Innovation has astoundingly changed the way we live today, there is no foreswearing to it. Contrasted and our predecessors, we remain far from them in utilizing distinctive innovations for our everyday works. Such huge numbers of advances are produced in the recent years that have reformed our lives, and it's difficult to list each of them. In spite of the fact that innovation changes quick with time, we can watch the patterns in which it changes. A year ago, 2016 had purchased such huge numbers of crisp imaginative thoughts and manifestations towards mechanization and joining and so on., and this year 2017 is required to proceed with the comparative sort of pattern. In this article, we will talk about a portion of the outstanding patterns during the current year, which will influence us to look into the great beyond. Gartner's 2016 Hype Cycle for rising advancements have distinguished distinctive advances that will slant this year. The cycle delineates the reality how innovation developments are reclassifying the relations between the client and advertiser. This year, Gartner has distinguished Blockchains, Connected Homes, Cognitive Expert Advisors, Machine Learning, Software-characterized Security and so forth as the overall innovation patterns, which have the capability of reshaping the plans of action and offering undertakings the distinct course to developing markets and environments. #1. Blockchain Prominently known as 'Appropriated Ledger Technology' for both money related and non-budgetary exchanges, is one of the perplexing ideas that technologists could just comprehend without limitations. Different progressions in blockchain have helped many individuals and more organizations in 2016, to encounter its potential in keeping money and back industry. This year, it is foreseen that blockchain innovation would go past simply managing an account segment, helping the new companies and built up organizations to address the market needs with various application offerings. #2. Web of Things and Smart Home Tech With the coming of IoT, we are as of now looking at the universe of between associated things, right? Our fantasies of living in keen homes are met to a specific degree in 2016. All in all, what is preventing us from satisfying our fantasies of living in savvy associated homes? All things considered, the truth of the matter is that the market is brimming with bounteous individual apparatuses and applications, however just a little measure of arrangements incorporate them into a solitary, comprehensive client encounter. It is foreseen that 2017 will see this pattern to experience a major advance towards satisfying our fantasies. #3. Computerized reasoning and Machine Learning In the current circumstances, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning have surprised the whole world with its astonishing creations and imaginative advancements. By watching the on-going progressions in this field, it will be not any more a creative ability to encounter the world where robots and machine will overwhelm the general public. A year ago, we have seen the ascent of ML calculations on all significant web based business entries and its related portable applications, which is additionally anticipated that would spread crosswise over on all person to person communication stages, dating sites, and wedding sites in 2017. #4. Programming characterized Security In 2016, we have watched a noteworthy development for expanded server security. Numerous associations have begun perceiving the noteworthiness of cybersecurity to empower their turn of rising as advanced organizations. The development of cloud-based foundation is causing an extraordinary interest for overseeing unstructured information, and in addition, the absence of specialized mastery and risk to information security, are the key elements impeding the generous development of programming characterized security advertise this year. #5. Robotization Robotization will be the backbone all through 2017, the coming years will be transformative for IT industry, empowering the computerization of human performed undertakings. At the point when Machine Learning is joined with robotization, the advertisers are probably going to witness wide business openings with improved market comes about. #6. Expanded Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) AR and VR change the way clients associate with each other and programming frameworks. The year 2016 has encountered way softening strides up AR and VR innovation. With the dispatch of Oculus Rift, the market had gotten a mind-boggling reaction from the clients, clearing a path to a plenty of VR-based applications and diversions. Further, when Pokémon Go was discharged, it has totally re-characterized the meaning of gaming background. It was a standout amongst the most productive and downloaded the portable use of 2016. The reaction AR and VR innovation has gotten a year ago was outlandish, and it gauges that the world is prepared to embrace this pattern to the following levels in 2017. #7. On-Demand Services From the most recent couple of years, the worldwide market has been encountering an incredible reaction for on-request benefits. On account of the new businesses like Uber, Twiggy and so on that began the armada of offering on-request taxicab administrations and nourishment conveyance benefits on only a couple of snaps. This pattern has set off the advancement of different versatile applications, offering various on-request benefits on the fingertips. Despite the fact that these administrations were restricted to unmistakable districts, it is estimate that it will reach to greatest areas in 2017. #8. Insightful Apps Insightful applications incorporate advances utilizing individual computerized associates (PDAs) that have the gauge of changing the work environment into more intuitive, with powerful correspondence. Utilizing AI innovation, specialist organizations will focus on the self-ruling business forms that will use the huge information devices minus all potential limitations, towards improved client encounter levels. #9. Refined Big Data (Visual, Empathetic, Qualitative) From the most recent few years, Big Data has been the considerable point and have made an expansive buzz in the worldwide market. The aim is that mass measures of gathered information - which we approach - can help us in each seemingly insignificant detail i.e. from arranging propelled medicinal medications to sending remarkable business advancement techniques. Enormous information's greatest quality is its quantitative and numerical establishment, which is additionally a noteworthy shortcoming. By encountering the achievement Donald Trump had in USA races, there emerges a central issue stamp on the Big Data examination and its training in basic leadership. It is foreseen that huge information in 2017 will experience real headways, which will help the advertisers to adapt and look for sympathetic, subjective bits of information for anticipating it in a more pictured way. What do you think about these rising patterns? 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Announcing our 3rd speaker for TEDxKCCEMSR-

*Rohit Ghosh*

Rohit Ghosh is a founding member of Qure.ai, an AI for medical imaging startup based out of India. Qure.ai shot to fame for being the only AI company in India with world-class research publications. Rohit’s most recent co-authored research was published in The Lancet - world’s oldest and most prestigious general medical journal. In fact, in The Lancet’s last 100+ years of existence this is their first ever publication on AI-in-imaging. This is first ever Indian research work to get published in any of the top science journals globally.

Rohit is a graduate from IIT Bombay. He has worked as consultant data science consultant to multiple global EdTech startups in developing their data science course curriculum. He’s also a Faculty for Machine Learning at multiple data science startups, and of late been a Visiting Faculty at MPSTME, NMIMS University. Rohit had also been invited in the past to conduct multiple data science workshops in Manchester & London for business executives. He has also been advising another IIT Bombay based group for developing reinforcement learning AI for stock market trading.

In his work as AI Scientist, he has closely worked with Yale School of Medicine on applications of AI in predicting survival for cardiac failure patients which was later published in Journal of American Heart Association. He has also presented his research at the European Society of Radiology Conference, 2018 at Vienna, Austria. His other co-authored research was presented at annual conferences (2017, 2018) by world’s biggest radiology conference organised by Radiological Society of North America at Chicago, USA. His research work was also accepted for presentation at annual conference organised by African Society of Radiology at Cairo, Egypt.

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Post-pandemic education: young ethicists

Salzburg, Austria: “Sphaera,” Stephan Balkenhol (2007)

When COVID fever first hit Europe and we were anticipating what would happen next, my students in Vienna naturally wanted to talk about it.  Many of us had recently hit the ski slopes and feared we could be carrying the disease even as we pondered its impact.

I expected questions, anxieties about the disease, about what would happen with school, exams, sports.  What I didn’t expect was that the moment the topic was breached in my sixth form students naturally navigated toward an unbidden discussion of ethics.  They wanted to talk about the impact of the virus and the closures on different types of people, wanted to discuss their disappointment with world leaders.  Rather than investigating their feelings about simple cause and effect or ways the pandemic could impact themselves, they spoke like chess players:

If we close things down and the economy collapses, then so will health care, and how many more will die? 

There were warning signs; governments could have used these to lead with foresight and shut down earlier.  Wouldn’t this have been better for the economy, too? Maybe they can learn from this to deal with climate change.

What can we do now to prepare for our learning at home?  How can we best use our time?  Can we maybe swap that next unit we were going to do for one that’s more independent?   

There are a lot of articles out there that current school closures are changing schools forever because of the use of technology.  Schools have been changing because of technology for a couple of decades, and students are learning skills to help them enhance collaboration or creative and critical thought, but this pandemic is merely making technology visible to the public.  It’s also making disparity between schools or households more visible.  I posit that the real change in education will be the teaching of ethics, something that is not reliant on income or resources. This approach to learning is more important for our workers and leaders in the future than how much time is spent working from home or in the office. 

The greater good.  The impact on humanity.  The reasons we make difficult choices.  These elements of ethical considerations are all the news today as we navigate uncertainty and choices for governments moving forward.  Rather than shield our students from the difficult conversations, we should throw them into it.  They are thinking about these things anyway, and many have strong opinions.  By allowing forums for conversations where multiple perspectives can be considered, logical fallacies identified, and research vetted and presented, students can learn about ethics as well as the importance of the Truth.

Schools with the International Baccalaureate have a class dedicated to such questions called Theory of Knowledge, which is also meant to be interdisciplinary.  Some other schools have courses on ethics, or include this in religious studies or critical thinking classes.  The French study philosophy, both in theory and applied.  When I taught Theory of Knowledge, I would use contemporary case studies for debates from different perspectives that included different subject areas as well as ways of thinking about the world.  As a teacher in Hong Kong during the Umbrella Movement, we held debate as businessmen, market stall workers, bus drivers, triad members, immigrants, police officers, artists, local politicians, and world leaders.  Students were able to see the issue was not so black and white, and try to find a solution to best serve the community.  

We would then apply ethical lenses, such as universalism or consequentialism, to determine what we thought the best solution should be.  This practiced was mirrored in a recent article from The New York Times: “Restarting America Means People Will Die Soon.  So when do We do it? : Five thinkers weigh moral choices in a crisis.”, where economics, science, statistical data, and more were used to consider how we should move forward in this pandemic.  This was not unlike the conversation my classroom of seventeen year olds first wanted to have. 

Learning about and applying ethics can happen in any classroom.  With a structured understanding of such ways of thinking, students can consider perspectives and work toward a greater humanity.  And isn’t this what we really want our students to learn when they graduate high school? 

We need to help students learn these structures and then give them unstructured time and space to apply them.  This pandemic has also taught us that sometimes less is more when it comes to content, that we should prioritize and condense.  John Hattie’s research of students who missed school after the Christchurch earthquake demonstrates that this extra time could help students actually learn better. Without commutes and scheduled activities or tutors, students have had opportunities to play: to philosophize and form opinions, to create in response to tragedy, to pursue lines of inquiry.  We hear a lot more about the benefits of head space in the world of work these days, such as from Arianna Huffington on the Your Brain at Work podcast.

Let us start thinking about how we aim to move forward.  The English teacher is often trying to help students learn by studying tragedy.  This pandemic is no different, only that the story is real.  Despite, and perhaps because of, its terrible toll on lives through sickness, death, unemployment, anxiety, domestic abuse, and more, we must take the gifts that it leaves in its wake before they are swallowed up by a mindless return to status quo.

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What can you do with an electrical engineering degree?

What might you find on an electrical engineering degree? An essential guide to what you will learn on an electrical engineering course, what you should study to get your place on a degree, and what jobs you can get once you graduate.

What is electrical engineering?

Electrical engineering is the design, building, and maintenance of electrical control systems, machinery, and equipment. Some electrical engineering concerns are also found in mechanical and civil engineering.

The term electrical engineering often includes electronics engineering. While electrical engineers mainly focus on large-scale production and distribution of electrical power, electronics engineers are concerned with smaller electronic circuits and often also work with computers and other modern technologies. However, any undergraduate course will include elements of both electrical and electronics engineering.

Electrical engineers work in transport networks, lighting, heating, ventilation, lift systems, power generation and distribution, renewable energy, manufacturing, and construction. You will elaborate project plans, estimate project timescales and costs, manage the work of technicians and craftspeople, test installations, analyze data and ensure that health and safety regulations are met.

What might you find on an electrical engineering degree?

A lot of electrical engineering undergraduate degrees will include elements of electronics engineering too. Overall, you will develop analytical, technical and engineering design skills.

First-year courses usually overlap across all engineering degrees usually including mathematics, communications engineering and signals, engineering principles, systems and communications and laboratory and presentation skills. There will also be modules specific to electrical engineerings such as circuits and fields, computer engineering, real-time systems, analog electronics, embedded systems projects, and engineering programming.

During the second year, you are likely to study data analysis, probabilistic and numerical techniques, signal processing and control engineering, telecommunications, analog system engineering, digital system design and implementation, power supply electronics, software engineering design, electrical engineering design, industrial management and robotic systems among others.

Typical final year modules may include system modeling and control, electromagnetism, power engineering, electrical machines, energy conversion for motor and generator drives, field waves and antennas, electronic design, digital design, web-based computing, digital video communications system and analog microelectronics.

But courses will vary based on the institution and country you’re applying to.

What should I study to do an electrical engineering degree?

Mathematics is essential to do electrical engineering at university. Many universities will also ask candidates to have done further or advanced mathematics. In addition, universities will want you to have done physics or chemistry or a technology subject.

You can also stand out if you express your interest in the subject by having participated and obtained good results in mathematics and physics challenges. Extra-curricular engineering courses or activities may also help you in the application process.

But university requirements vary so do check the institutions you’re applying for.

Beyond sciences, taking a humanities subject or social science will teach you communication skills which are crucial in most jobs.

What do people go on to do?

Typical employers for electrical engineers are consultancies, the Civil Service or government, telecommunication, engineering, computing, construction, energy, manufacturing, transport and utility companies, and the armed forces. As computer and mobile technology are developing, they become the main areas where more electrical engineers are wanted. But you can also choose to work on a freelance basis.

As an electrical engineer, your workplace will vary from laboratories to offices and building sites depending on the project and the stage of the project you’re focusing on.

As they advance in their careers, electrical engineers take on management responsibilities. They sometimes have to take on extra working hours especially by the end period of their projects. Being an electrical engineer may involve both domestic and international travel.

Famous people who studied electrical engineering

The Serbian-American Nikola Tesla is one of the most famous physicists, inventors, electrical and mechanical engineers. He was an outstanding student of the Austrian Polytechnic in Graz, Austria, where he passed almost twice as many exams as he had to.

American Lynn Conway’s Mead and Conway revolution in VLSI design, a career at IBM and the invention of generalized dynamic instruction handling make her one of the most important electrical engineers today. She studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science in the US.

Austrian Claire F. Gmachl, professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University is known for her studies in quantum cascade lasers. She studied physics at the University of Innsbruck and did a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the Technical University of Vienna.

Hungarian-born American Rudolf E. Kalman was an electrical engineer, mathematician and inventor known for the development of the Kalman filter, a mathematical algorithm widely used in signal processing, control systems, guidance, navigation and control.

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https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/subjects/what-can-you-do-electrical-engineering-degree#survey-answer

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Our Expectations from INTERSPEECH 2019

In less than a month, from Sep. 15–19, 2019, Graz, Austria will become home for INTERSPEECH, the world‘s most prominent conference on spoken language processing. The conference unites the science and technology under one roof and becomes a platform for over 2000 participants who will share their insights, listen to eminent speakers, and attend tutorials, challenges, exhibitions and satellite events.

What are our expectations of it as participants and presenters?

Keynotes

Tanja Schultz, the spokesperson of the University Bremen area “Minds, Media, Machines”, will talk on biosignal processing for human-machine interaction. As human interaction involves a wide range of biosignals from speech, gestures, motion, and brain activities, it is crucial to correctly interpret all of them to ensure truly effective human-machine interaction. We are waiting for Tanja Schultz to describe her work on Silent Speech Interfaces that rely on articulatory muscle movement to recognize and synthesize silently produced speech, Brain Computer Interfaces that use brain activity to recognize speech and convert electrocortical signals into audible speech. Let’s move the the new era of brain-to-text and brain-to-speech technology!

Manfred Kaltenbacher of Vienna University of Technology will discuss physiology and physics of voice production. This talk has a more medical slant, as it looks at voice production from the point of view of physiology and physics. At the same time, it will discuss current computer simulations for pre-surgical predictions of voice quality, and development of examination and training of voice professionals — an interesting step from usual technology-oriented talks.

Mirella Lapata, Professor of natural language processing in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, will talk about learning natural language interfaces with neural models. Back to technology and AI, the talk will address the structured prediction problem of mapping natural language onto machine-interpretable representations. We definitely think that it will be useful for any NLP specialist to know more about a neural network-based general modeling framework — the most promising approach of recent years.

Tutorials

There are eight of them and we love them all! The tutorials tackle diverse topics, but they all discuss the most interesting recent developments and breakthroughs.

Two tutorials concern Generative adversarial networks, showing once again the power of this approach. The tutorial we are going to is offered by National Taiwan University and Academia Sinica. It is dedicated to speech signal processing, including speech enhancement, voice conversion, speech synthesis and, more specifically, sentence generation. Moreover, we can expect real-life GAN algorithms for text style transformation, machine translation and abstractive summarization without paired data.

The second tutorial by Carnegie Mellon University and Bar-Ilan University shows how GANs can be used for speech and speaker recognition and other systems. The tutorial will discuss whether it is possible to fool systems with carefully crafted inputs and how to identify and avoid attacks of such crafted “adversarial” inputs. Finally, we will discuss recent work on introducing “backdoors” into systems through poisoned training examples, such that the system can be triggered into false behaviors when provided specific types of inputs, but not otherwise.

We are also waiting for the tutorial on another popular technique in speech processing, the end-to-end approach. We are expecting from the tutorial by Mitsubishi, Nagoya University, NTT and Johns Hopkins University some interesting insights into advanced methods for neural end-to-end speech processing, namely, unification, integration, and implementation. The tutorial will explore a new open source toolkit ESPnet (end-to-end speech processing toolkit) used on the unified framework and integrated systems.

Nagoya University specialists will offer a tutorial on statistical voice conversion with direct waveform modelling. The tutorial will give an overview of this approach and introduce freely-available software, “sprocket” as a statistical VC toolkit and “PytorchWaveNetVocoder” as a neural vocoder toolkit. It looks like a good chance to try your hand on voice conversion.

Google AI is preparing a tutorial on another hot topic, neural machine translation. However, the tutorial looks more like an overview of the history, mainstream techniques and recent advancements.

Expanding the keynote speech, specialists from Université Grenoble Alpes and Maastricht University will present biosignal-based speech processing, including silent speech to brain-computer interfaces with real data and code.

Uber AI will present their approach to modelling and deploying dialog systems with open-source tools from scratch.

Finally, Paderborn University and NTT will present their insights into microphone array signal processing and deep learning for speech enhancement with hybrid techniques uniting signal processing and neural networks.

Special events and challenges

Special sessions and challenges constitute a separate part of the conference and focus on relevant ‘special’ topics, ranging from computational paralinguistics, distant speech recognition and zero resource speech processing to processing of child’s speech, emotional speech and code switching. All papers are already submitted, but it will be very interesting to see the finals and discuss the winners’ approaches.

Besides from challenges, there will be much more special events and satellite conferences to meet the needs of all specialists working in the field of speech processing: from a workshop for young female researchers to a special event for high school teachers. Participant will be able to join the first ever INTERSPEECH Hackathon, or choose between nine specialized conferences and satellite workshops.

SLaTE

A special event that is the most important for us is the workshop held by the Special Interest Group (SIG) of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) as a part of Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE) events. The event brings together practitioners and researchers working on the use of speech and natural language processing for education. This year’s workshop will not only have an extensive general session with 19 papers, but also it will feature a special session about the Spoken CALL Shared Task (version 3) with 4 papers, and 4 demo papers.

Our poster

Our biggest expectation is, of course, our participation! The article written by our stellar specialists Ievgen Karaulov and Dmytro Tkanov entitled “Attention model for articulatory features detection” was approved for a poster session. Our approach is a variation of end-to-end speech processing. The article proves that using binary phonological features in the Listen, Attend and Spell (LAS) architecture can show good results for phones recognition even on a small training set like TIMIT. More specifically, the attention model is used to train manners and places of articulation detectors end-to-end and to explore joint phones recognition and articulatory features detection in multitask learning settings.

Our SLaTE paper

Yes, we present not just one paper! Since our solution showed the best result in the text subset of CALL v3 shared task, we wrote a paper exploring our approach and now we are going to present it at SLaTE. The paper called “Embedding-based system for the text part of CALL v3 shared task” by four our team members (Volodymyr Sokhatskyi, Olga Zvyeryeva, Ievgen Karaulov, and Dmytro Tkanov) focuses on NNLM and BERT text embeddings and their use in a scoring system to measure grammatical and semantic correctness of students’ phrases. Our approach does not rely on the reference grammar file for scoring proving the possibility to achieve highest results without a predefined set of correct answers.

Even now we already anticipate this INTERSPEECH to be a gala event that will give us more knowledge, ideas and inspiration — and a great adventure for our teammates.

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What Makes Czech Republic A Software Talent Hotspot

f you are reading this article on your laptop, there’s a high probability that your system is being protected by Avast – an anti-malware application. Avast was founded in Czech Republic, which went on to become a global cybersecurity giant and is used globally by more than 435 million users. Did you know? Czech Republic is amongst the top 10 best-protected countries against cyber-attacks in the world.

Czech Republic, despite being a small country, has cast a huge shadow on the world with its technical prowess in the field of cybersecurity. This meteoric growth of cybersecurity technology in the country is only one of the shining examples of what makes Czech Republic an innovation, software talent, and technology hub.

Eastern Europe and Czech Republic

Zinnov analysis highlights that four Eastern Europeancountries have become massive software talent hotspots, namely Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, and Hungary. These four Eastern European destinations are on every companies’ radar today because of the availability of STEM talent in abundance, and of course, cost arbitrage. Companies based out of the US and Western European countries are also more driven towards Eastern European countries due to convenient time zones and ease of communication.

 CZECH & CYBERSECURITY

Czech Republic was the first country in the European Union to draft a legal framework that protected Critical Information Infrastructure (CII).

It was also the first country to prepare and sign the Memorandum of Understanding on Cyber Defence in NATO.

Czech Republic also boasts of winning the prestigious international live-fire cyber defence exercise, ‘Locked Shields 2017.’*

What makes Czech Republic stand out

Apart from its cybersecurity excellence, Czech Republic boasts of a thriving automotive industry. In fact, it has a 122-year-long history with the automotive industry. It is one of the country’s largest industries, employing more than 150,000 professionals. 55 of the global top 100 tier-1 auto suppliers have at least one production facility in Czech Republic**. The country is steadily becoming an ideal location to set up automotive centers of excellence and R&D centers.

Likewise, the Banking and Financial Services vertical has created ~17% of the total jobs in Czech Republic, while Software & IT vertical has created about 8.5% of the total jobs. Opportunities in the Software-as-a-Service, Cybersecurity, and Networking verticals are also set to witness high growth in the coming years as a function of digital profusion. R&D centers in the Electrical/Electronics vertical are continuously increasing their headcount due to the accelerated adoption of digitalization. Besides Prague, more companies are focusing on Czech’s other cities such as Ostrava, Olomouc, and Brno.

Factors driving the Czech tech ahead

Known as the heart of Europe, Czech Republic, with its rich software talent pool of English-speaking tech professionals, is complemented by Prague’s proximity to the rich market areas of Berlin, Warsaw, Vienna, and Krakow, making it a favored location for global center setup. In addition, the following factors contribute to Czech Republic becoming a hotspot for setting up an offshore center or a Global Capability Center –

a) Ease of Doing Business

According to the latest World Bank Ease of Doing Business rankings, Czech Republic is ranked 35 among 190 economies. The tax benefits are also lucrative for companies looking to set up their R&D centers in Czech Republic.

The Corporate tax rate in Czech Republic stands at a moderate 19%. Czech Republic provides a special tax allowance of up to 100% of specific R&D expenses (or costs). These R&D costs are claimed twice – first as a normal tax-deductible cost and second as a special tax allowance. Furthermore, companies can claim an additional deduction of 10% as an allowance from the difference by which the current year qualifying costs exceed those of the prior period. Investment incentives are available to both Czech and foreign investors in areas like technology centers, business support services centers, shared services centers, software development centers, call centers, and data centers.

Investments incentives are provided in the following forms:

Income     tax relief for a newly created entity for up to 10 years;

Cash     subsidy for the creation of new jobs, training, and retraining employees;

Financial     support in the case of strategic investments in manufacturing or in     technology centers.***

b) Universities

Education in Czech Republic, like the other Eastern European countries, is focused on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). The Czech Republic boasts of having more than 80 universities, with Charles University, Czech Technical University, and the Brno University of Technology being its top three universities. The enrolment rate in higher education in Czech stands at ~64%, with Science and Engineering & Technology being the two most favored courses. The total number of graduates across all courses in Czech Republic sums up to more 400K. However, the universities in Czech Republic have limited supply of software talent, cumulatively providing ~6,000 software graduates per year.

c) Start-up ecosystem and Innovation

One of the major reasons why Czech Republic is evolving into a head-turning technology hub is its progressive attitude towards foreign investments and openness to innovation. This has helped Czech house a start-up ecosystem with close to 900 technology start-ups. The top technology start-ups in the country have a high focus on building Cyber Security solutions, Developer Platform, ML, AI, and Big Data platforms. Apiary.io, GoodData, Kiwi.com, ROI Hunter, Gamee, SocialBakers, and many such well-known start-ups have their roots in Czech Republic.

Accelerators such as StartupYard have also helped Czech Republic attract foreign software talent and bolster its international image in the technology space. The DELTA Programme, a major initiative by Czech Government, has been driving technological innovations and collaboration with foreign technological and innovation agencies. A large number of technology giants are also engaged in these initiatives with an aim to tap into Czech’s thriving start-up ecosystem.

Installed talent pool analysis

Between 1996 and 2017, Czech Republic saw a significant economic growth with their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita growing by 62%. This growth was a function of heightened exports, foreign investments, and EU funds. Czech Republic has a total working population of 5.3 million people, with more 5000 installed fresh STEM talent pool and 3000+ start-up talent pool. There’s a total of 45K+ installed engineering and technology talent pool that is split across 5 job roles as shown in the visual below.

Also, given below is a vertical-wise split of engineering talent in Czech Republic, which indicates that Czech Republic has the maximum talent in Computer Software/IT and Automotive verticals, making it an ideal location for technology and automotive companies to set up their global centers.

Czech Mate to Disruption

The dense software talent pool of Czech Republic stands testament to the fact that there’s more to Czech than breathtaking baroque, Gothic architecture, Castles, and Chateaux. As the technology talent hunt becomes more intense across the globe, companies are desperate to find the right talent that can help them tap into the new-age technologies and keep their edge in the ongoing digital talent war.

Czech Republic is one of the most fertile technological ecosystems in the Eastern European region. However, the government still has to make additional regulatory changes and ease business regulations to attract more foreign investors and multinationals to the country. Underneath Czech’s traditional beauty and landscape lies a thriving start-up ecosystem and a technological potential that could leave a lasting impact on the world.

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I Found my Heart(s) in San Francisco

Three days before Halloween 1988, after spending some time in Colorado Springs with Mom and Dad (finally going up the Pike’s Peak Cog Railway) I got on a plane at the then even tinier airport and moved to San Francisco.  Jack picked me up and we began trying to fit me into his studio apartment - it probably was actually classified as a one bedroom, but my current studio is bigger than his place was.  He built a makeshift dresser/armoire out of cardboard boxes and latched the lid pieces together with brads and twine to make doors.  Somewhere, I have our calendar from that time before we moved into 155 Farnum Street in 1989.  Every weekend we were on the go, sightseeing, exploring, dancing, shopping, sometimes eating out.  I worked for a temp agency, finally landing at Saatchi and Saatchi Advertising as an admin assistant in the HR department.  Interesting being in the advertising business as a relative on-looker; it was glamorous compared to banking, and the people in our department were fun to be around.  

I joined the symphony chorus long enough to be re-connected with David Gordon who was a visiting soloist at the only concert I ever sang with them.  Destiny much? I didn’t like the chorus director so I quit, because...

...Jack proposed on a cliff-top in Mendocino overlooking the ocean, and we began the 14 month engagement period planning the wedding of our dreams.  The symphony chorus and wedding planning didn’t go together.

In 1989 Jack bought a house for us, and two months before the Loma Prieta earthquake we moved into it.  It was probably the only house he could have afforded in San Francisco, in a neighborhood that we could see was good for kids.  We got married in Colorado Springs on June 16, 1990 - a beautiful day.  

We honeymooned on Kauai.  We planned a trip to Europe over Christmas of 1991 and visited Salzburg, Prague, and Vienna.  Jack had great ideas, and wanted life to mimic the perfection of movies.  This period came darn close.  We had a great time - there were certainly struggles, and inevitable conflicts, and I chalked them up to adjustment and growth.  On a recommendation from a colleague at Saatchi, I called up Dick Grant and auditioned for the Pacific Mozart Ensemble, and was accepted into the alto section.  They had too many sopranos so I sang alto for about 13 years.

In early 1993 I was pregnant with Trevor, and began the next big phase of life as a parent.  Mom and Dad came out to help and I can still remember the horror of watching Mom go down the stairs when she left after two weeks and I was alone in the house with the baby.  I started getting more brave with Trevor, joined a mom’s group which became a Waldorf-inspired playgroup which went on for years, took little road trips with him down to Santa Cruz to see the butterflies, and near daily trips to Douglass Park, the zoo, the academy of science, the children’s museum; we went everywhere.  Every new phase of development while on the horizon looked impossible to me - when he was in-arms I couldn’t imagine crawling, thought having a toddler would totally do me in, cried when I realized he needed to go to school instead of being homeschooled, thought I would never feel whole again after he went away to college.  I learned pretty quickly that each new phase brings new gifts that are surprising, challenging, joyous, and full of life.  We took him with us to France on the PME tour in 1996.  He rode around in the sling or ran around on the harness/leash (ugh...but he really needed that....kid was constantly on the move and there were super large crowds...)

There were many visits back and forth to Colorado - Mom and Dad came out a couple of times a year, and I always went back for a summer visit and for Christmas.

I had started working for the California State Bar in the early mornings doing data entry when Dick, the conductor of the choir, asked why I looked so tired.  He described a project he was working on, to get his father-in-law’s art catalogued (his father-in-law was Richard Diebenkorn...) and he’d pay me to data entry at home instead of slogging downtown at 5am.  I worked for Dick and his family for 10 years, not only on the Diebenkorn catalogue, which now sits in volumes on my shelf, but also to help with converting many museums across the country to the collections management system we used.  I scrubbed data and trained registrars and curators how to build records and design reports for their vast collections.  This work took me to Chicago, NYC, DC, LA, Minneapolis and St. Louis.  It was great fun, and nourishing brain food.  I am forever grateful to the Grants and Diebenkorns for such an amazing career which I chose to cut short for reasons that were at the time clear to me.  Who knows if our decisions are the right ones - you try to make them the right ones instead of living with regret.

I promised in an earlier post I would reveal a story about Tom, who as a baby was super boring and crabby.  (not really)  Along the way, both brothers had duped me in a couple of clever April Fools’ jokes, so I decided it was time for payback.  In the early ‘90′s Tom had joined the Columbia Record Club MULTIPLE (like 6 or 8) times in order to cash in over and over on the 20 records for 99 cents deal they would run.  I caught wind of this, and decided on a plan.  My friend Heather, who had gotten me the job at the Bar Association, knew enough legal jargon and was a pretty good actor, called and informed him that he was in violation of residency codes for his neighborhood and that he was going to be fined an exorbitant amount times the number of people over 2 in his household.  We followed it up with a mockup of something coming from the Colorado government, because Bob had access to that, and roped in someone Bob knew to deliver a fake summons to Tom’s office.  Of course, on the bottom there was the April Fools’ message, but I think Tom was sweating for a few minutes.  I still have not been repaid for this...I’m sure when it happens it will be spectacular!  

In the fall of ‘98 I was convinced by a friend to check out the local Waldorf school as a kindergarten option for Trevor.  I was familiar with Waldorf, already wanted to be a teacher, and had pursued my own path in trying to bring a kindergarten experience to our homeschool group.  I met the teachers at the open house, immediately recognized them as the ones who should be handling his kindergarten, came into contact with the man who would be his grade school teacher, realized those two were meant to be together, and then began the long process of convincing Jack we needed to enroll him.  Once Jack saw the place and got to know the people, the convincing was done, and we were all on board.  Little did I know, when I was at that open house, I was expecting Alyssa, which is the story of the 40′s.  So, more tomorrow.  Or maybe later today, because I am behind.

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US issues exceptions as sanctions on Iran loom | Iran News

The US authorities has introduced that it’ll grant momentary waivers to eight “jurisdictions”, permitting them to purchase Iranian oil past November 5, when the second spherical of sanctions on the Islamic Republic takes impact.

Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, stated on Friday the exceptions would permit the unnamed nations to import Iran’s oil at “tremendously diminished ranges”, with the last word purpose of “zero” buy from Tehran. 

“These concessions are important to make sure that we improve our most stress marketing campaign and speed up in the direction of zero,” Pompeo stated in a convention name with reporters.

The second spherical of sanctions set to kick in on Monday follows a 90-day interval since Washington reimposed the first wave of measures towards Iran within the wake of President Donald Trump’s controversial choice in Could to unilaterally withdraw the US from a landmark 2015 multinational nuclear deal.

Washington’s upcoming transfer is anticipated to have a higher influence, as it would goal Tehran’s most important supply of export income: oil and gasoline.

In his feedback to the media, Pompeo stated that Iranian crude oil exports have already been diminished by a couple of million barrels.   

Iran analysts, nevertheless, stated the announcement on waivers factors to US President Donald Trump’s incapability to rally the worldwide neighborhood and attain a consensus towards Tehran.

UN courtroom orders US to elevate some Iran sanctions

“The Trump administration is waking as much as the truth that its Iran coverage has strained ties with a variety of nations,” Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, founding father of the Iranian economic system web site Bourse Bazaar, informed Al Jazeera. 

“Displaying flexibility on oil imports could also be a method for the US to hunt extra cooperation on sanctions in different areas.”

In Tehran, the choice on waivers is seen as “a victory”, because it was in a position to maintain its vitality exports “after months of US threats that oil gross sales could be pushed right down to zero”.

Pompeo didn’t establish the nations to be granted the waivers. However in line with quite a few stories, these embody India, South Korea and Turkey.

India and South Korea are the second and third largest consumers of Iranian oil.

Turkish Power Minister Fatih Donmez additionally confirmed that his nation could be granted a waiver, in line with Reuters information company. In 2017, Turkey imported 16.7 % of its gasoline consumption from Iran.

The fact is that @realDonaldTrump has didn’t zero on #oil exports from #Iran on November 4th. A scheme he has been promoting for months; though Iran’s oil exports have decreased./2 #OOTT @jzarif

— Reza Zandi (@R_Zandi) November 2, 2018

At a discussion board this week within the Qatari capital of Doha on Iran sanctions, Recep Yorulmaz, a political science professor at Ankara’s Yildirim Beyazit College, stated that with or and not using a waiver, Turkey will proceed to behave on its nationwide curiosity by protecting its vitality wants from neighbouring Iran. About 30 % of Turkey’s crude oil imports is from Iran, stated Yorulmaz.

In the meantime, China, the largest purchaser of Iranian oil, continues to be reportedly negotiating with the US over the difficulty. Between July 2018 to September 2018, China purchased greater than 600,000 barrels of oil per day from Iran, in line with Stratfor, a non-public intelligence evaluation agency. In 2017, China purchased $11.9bn price of crude oil from Iran, down virtually 30 % from 2016.

In a step seen as a concession to Trump, Beijing has determined to cease the Financial institution of Kunlun from dealing with funds from Iran, in line with a Reuters report. Almost all of China’s oil funds to Iran undergo the financial institution.      

Transactions by international monetary establishments with Iranian banks can even be sanctioned [File: EPA]

Iran’s vitality sector accounts for as much as 80 % of the nation’s revenue from exports, in line with the US Power Data Administration, so a disruption may carry severe ache to its monetary backside line and its folks.

Other than the vitality trade, others outfits and actions being sanctioned embody: 

Iran’s port operators and transport trade, which can also be linked to the transport of oil and gasoline

Petroleum-related merchandise and transactions from Iran

Transactions by international monetary establishments with Iran’s central financial institution and different banking establishments

Insurance coverage and reinsurance establishments, which insure tankers that transport oil and gasoline 

US-owned or managed firms with enterprise actions with Iranian authorities and people

People, whose named have been beforehand faraway from the sanctions listing, may be included

Iran-related SWIFT transactions may be flagged 

‘Hitting the core of Iran’s economic system’

Trump has repeatedly promised “the best stage” of financial hardship towards Iran, threatening retribution towards nations and firms that may proceed to do enterprise with it.

Iran president: ‘US should cease bullying the world’

He has stated the sanctions will proceed till Tehran complies with Washington’s listing of steep calls for, together with, amongst others, its retreat from army involvement within the Center East. 

Iran has rejected the US situations, and there aren’t any indications that the Iranian management has expressed curiosity in negotiating with Trump. 

On Friday, Pompeo stated that the sanctions “hit on the core areas of Iran’s economic system”, including that they’re “essential to spur adjustments we see on the a part of the regime”. 

Pompeo additionally stated the sanctions will depart Iran with “zero oil income” to spend on shopping for arms and funding “destabilising actions”.

He stated the Iranian economic system is “already feeling the consequences” of the sanctions, pointing to the drop of the worth of Iran’s foreign money, the “disarray” in President Hassan Rouhani’s cupboard and protests which have taken place in current months.

Primarily based on the figures from the Group of the Petroleum Exporting Nations (OPEC), Iran’s petroleum exports hit $52.728bn in 2017. Its crude oil exports stood at 2,125,000 barrels per day throughout the identical 12 months, whereas its pure gasoline exports reached 12.9 billion cubic metres.

These numbers, nevertheless, have already dropped within the present 12 months. 

In India, for instance, crude oil imports from Iran dropped from 690,000 barrels per day in Could to round 400,000 barrels per day in August, Vandana Hari, a Singapore-based international oil market analyst, stated.

“So successfully, India has greater than halved its offtake from Iran,” Hari informed Al Jazeera.

“I’d think about it will need to preserve it at the very least that stage, and maybe negotiate for extra.”

Many refiners in India have additionally curtailed purchases due to insurance coverage points tied to the sanctions.

Forward of the November 5 sanctions, Iran is attempting to shore up its alliances with its neighbours [Anadolu]

‘Winter’s coming’

As Trump’s coverage collides with financial and geopolitical realities on the bottom, Luciano Zaccara, a international coverage skilled at Qatar College, stated the sanctions “won’t be as efficient”.

“There’s much less consensus right now within the worldwide neighborhood, so the sanctions shall be much less highly effective than the earlier one,” Zaccara stated in the course of the Doha discussion board on Iran, pointing to Europe’s choice to defy Trump by staying with the nuclear deal.

Beneath the deal settlement signed in Austria’s capital, Vienna on July 14, 2015 by Iran, China, France, Germany, Russia, UK, the US and the European Union, Tehran minimize down its uranium stockpile and scaled again its enrichment programme far under the extent required to construct a nuclear weapon. It additionally agreed in perpetuity to inform United Nations inspectors if and when it builds a brand new nuclear facility.

In alternate, UN-approved sanctions have been lifted in January 2016, and Tehran was allowed to renew buying and selling oil and gasoline on the worldwide market. A complete of $100bn in frozen Iranian property was additionally launched.

Commenting on the second spherical of sanctions, Reza Khaasteh, a Tehran-based journalist of Iran Entrance Web page, stated that Trump can not abruptly minimize Iranian oil from the world market, as this may trigger a pointy worth improve.

He stated that for nations with excessive demand for oil and gasoline, “their nationwide pursuits are extra necessary to them than realising Trump’s needs”.

“The US itself is afraid of the influence of sanctions on the oil worth, so it will not be as strict because the Trump administration promised, particularly forward of the midterm elections,” Khaasteh informed Al Jazeera.

“Trump properly is aware of that ‘winter’s coming’ and he cannot simply play with vitality costs.”

With further reporting by Zeenat Saberin in India

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Careers Related to Optometry Dispensing Optician (DO) Dispensing opticians generally work in private optical practices. They advise on, fit and supply spectacles …

An ophthalmologist diagnoses and treats refractive, medical, and surgical problems related to eye diseases and disorders. … Optometry is a vision care specialty that is concerned with the health of the eyes, the visual system, and related structures. … Opticians typically learn job skills through formal on-the-job programs.

A career path that leads towards financial success and a life of stability can be attained by becoming a professional optometrist. This is a … The main job function of an optometrist is to provide specialized vision care. … That four-year degree should be in a field that is related to optometry, such as biology or physiology.

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