Recently I found an online reader copy of a title called Summer Solstice Wish by Kate Allen Fox and Elisa Paganelli. They have a prequel or companion Winter Solstice Wish which I remember reading, but was not WOWed by it, but felt that it was enjoyable to read. However, I tried to read Summer, and could not finish it. Perhaps I was in the wrong mood for it. Perhaps I was not the reader for it. Perhaps I was thinking of Halloween and summer was […]| Cannonball Read 17
By Andrei Savu. Once you understand the basic concepts underpinning systems, what other concepts are key to understanding system dynamics? While systems thinking teaches you to see and shape system structure, system dynamics focuses on understanding nonlinear behavior over time. An additional four key concepts are added to five core concepts in systems thinking described ... Read more| Integration and Implementation Insights
By Andrei Savu. What concepts are key to understanding systems? A system is a set of interdependent elements whose coordinated interactions give rise to an outcome none of the pieces can deliver alone. The key word is relationship: change the relationships and the behavior of the whole shifts, even if every component remains identical. Five ... Read more| Integration and Implementation Insights
Join our next-gen, project-based tertiary learning programs now, as that's where the VLSI jobs are. Don't miss out on the opportunity to be part of the future of semiconductor design and development. The post Accelerating the Future of Semiconductor Talent with VSD & IESA appeared first on VLSI System Design.| VLSI System Design
By Richard Berry. What are the differing characteristics of data? Why are they important for systems to function effectively? What is requisite variety of data? There are nine characteristics of data variety which agitate systems. These are volume, velocity, variety, veracity, validity, vulnerability, viscosity, vectors and virtualisation. Together, the ‘9Vs’ constitute a data requisite variety ... Read more| Integration and Implementation Insights
By Nina Maria Frölich and Annika Weiser. Which contextual factors affect the design, processes, methods and outcomes of transdisciplinary research projects? How can they best be considered by teams…| Integration and Implementation Insights
By Florian Keil, Melina Stein and Flurina Schneider. Is artificial intelligence, a technology aggressively advertised as the ultimate cure-all, fundamentally incompatible with transdisciplinarity and its decades-old insight that the “wicked” problems of the real world do not lend themselves to one-dimensional solutions? Should transdisciplinary research outright reject a technology that is already undermining efforts to ... Read more| Integration and Implementation Insights
By Lianghao Dai. A Chinese version of this post is available What are fake interdisciplinary collaborations and how do they arise? Fake interdisciplinary collaborations are a form of performative s…| Integration and Implementation Insights
It’s the first week of orientation. It’s a cohort of 30 new faculty in the Junior School. Some are brand new to the PYP. Others have vast PYP experience. And I – as the brand new …| Making Good Humans
Some times it happens that we just want to define an interface, and some of those times we think that we should not use inheritance for some performance-related reasons. Most of these times we are very wrong, and we should just inherit from a base class with (possibly pure) virtual functions. However in this post […]| ReachableCode
There are two things that are more likely to cause injury than anything else in Jiu Jitsu and you’re actually in control of both them. The first one is very simple it’s falling weight. Falling weight happens during takedowns, passing, pulling guard, or simply tripping over another group. Anytime that you’re falling on your partner […] The post How To Stay Safe When Training Submissions appeared first on Escapology BJJ.| Escapology BJJ
Watch BJJ matches can be an incredibly valuable tool in developing your BJJ. In competition, you get to see what works (and what doesn’t) under the realist of situations. But how do you go about analysing a BJJ match and learning from BJJ competition footage? In this video, BJJ Black Belt, Tom Barlow shares the […] The post How To Analyse BJJ Competition Footage appeared first on Escapology BJJ.| Escapology BJJ
An organizational structure defines how activities such as task allocation, coordination, and supervision are directed toward achieving an organization’s goals.| Business Model Analyst
What is the difference between a concept and a type trait? Note that you can create a type trait using a requires-expression: You can also constrain a template with a type trait using a requires-cl…| Andrzej's C++ blog
The spectre of “the elements” currently haunts the environmental humanities: this quasi-intuitive idea seems well on its way to replace Raymond Williams’ lamented word “Nature”.[1] Indeed, if “Natu…| Critical Posthumanism Network
“Diego Rivera, Water, Origin of Life, 1951” © Joaquín Martínez 2012 Flickr under CC BY 2.0 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.[1] At the time it was wr…| Critical Posthumanism Network
In his essay ‘Butterfly Crossings’, anthropologist Anand Pandian observes how the monarch butterfly, Danaus Plexippus, gradually became a symbol in the protests in North America for the rights of u…| Critical Posthumanism Network
Human overpopulation is often depicted in the media in one of two ways: as either a catastrophic disaster or an overly-exaggerated concern. Yet the data understood by scientists and researchers is clear. So what is the actual state of our overshoot, and, despite our growing numbers, are we already seeing the signs that the sixthContinue reading "Human impact, extinctions, and the biodiversity crisis"| Global Ecology @ Flinders
Australia is home to about one in 12 of the world’s species of animals, birds, plants and insects – between 600,000 and 700,000 species. More than 80% of Australian plants and mammals and just under 50% of our birds are found nowhere else. But habitat destruction, climate change, and invasive species are wreaking havoc on Earth’sContinue reading "New ecosystems, unprecedented climates: more Australian species than ever are struggling to survive"| Global Ecology @ Flinders
Transhumanism is a philosophy which advocates for the radical enhancement of human capacities using science and technology, that is, self-directed human evolution. There are many varieties of trans…| Critical Posthumanism Network
This entry considers memory in the context of critical posthumanism, which might be perceived as the philosophical antidote to the more familiar transhumanist tendency that extends the humanist legacy by privileging the (white, masculine, heterosexual, Western) human subject as a universal category to be augmented, enhanced or transformed by means of various technologies. In this […]| Critical Posthumanism Network
Above image captures a moment from an event at NIAS, IISc Bangalore, where high school students, finalists of a chip design program, amazed everyone by explaining digital chip design and Physical Design with a level of sophistication beyond expectations.| VLSI System Design
A line is simultaneously a colour, a texture, and a tone: it is the abutting edge of positive and negative, the breaking up and adjoining of two planes, the touching point of autonomous bodies. To …| Critical Posthumanism Network
Hackathon: A Gateway to the Future The Next-Gen Innovative Tech Hackathon at the ELCIA Tech Summit 2024 is not just an event; it's a movement towards a sustainable and technologically advanced future. With the theme "Sustainable is Attainable," this hackathon invites young minds to harness the power of deep tech, sustainability, and technology for good. The event is set to take place at the prestigious IIIT-Bengaluru from June 6th to July 25th, 2024, promising a platform for innovation and br...| VLSI System Design
It can neither be overstated nor stated too often that the covert sleight of hand upon which humanist and vitalist ideologies depend is the very same dissimulation that makes possible unfettered in…| Critical Posthumanism Network
In “The Body: An Abstract and Actual Rhetorical Concept”, Karma Chavez critically examines how rhetoric historically privileges certain abstract bodies, i.e. white, cisgender, able-bodied, heterose…| Critical Posthumanism Network
Living in a world of multiple crises makes human and nonhuman vulnerability salient, defining and remedying the consequent vulnerability integral to many social and political agendas. My concept of…| Critical Posthumanism Network
Rhetoric and Posthumanism Mehdi Mohammadi “Posthumanism first appears as antithetical, nearly impossible, for rhetoric”,[1] as the former ventures beyond anthropocentric narratives, yet the latter,…| Critical Posthumanism Network
A few months ago, a user asked on Reddit “How suitable are concepts for use as a replacement for CRTP interfaces?”. The main conclusion of the discussion was that concepts were designed to constrain,| Joel Filho
Welcome to a milestone in the world of VLSI and semiconductors - the VSDOpen2023. This year’s conference is not just another event; it's a defining moment that promises to reshape the contours of the industry.| VLSI System Design
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A central puzzle in evolutionary biology is that of spontaneous altruism. When two creatures interact, why might one sacrifice something of value in order to help the other? Why, if I’m rich, might I want to help the poor? In one view of the problem, there’s no good reason for it. By giving, I become poorer. Why would I want that? Naturally, there’s another view — one which takes advantage of the ergodicity concept — which says it’s not so much about zero-sum giving and receiving ...| Ergodicity Economics
The business of insurance, by various measures, is the largest industry on earth. Somewhat surprisingly, mainstream economics struggles to explain its existence. This post is about how ergodicity economics approaches the subject, which leads to a glimpse into complexity theory and the emergence of social structures of all sorts. It follows a recent editorial in Annals of Actuarial Science.| Ergodicity Economics
Get an intuitive understanding of what exactly vector embeddings are, how they're generated, and how they're used in semantic search.| weaviate.io
Learn about the hybrid search feature that enables you to combine dense and sparse vectors to deliver the best of both search methods!| weaviate.io
Learn more about the differences between vector libraries and vector databases!| weaviate.io
Learn about why you need distance metrics in vector search and the metrics implemented in Weaviate (Cosine, Dot Product, L2-Squared, Manhattan, and Hamming).| weaviate.io
