Onwards, 2023.
The job-market, and what you need to know in order to thrive there
(''Transformers & Job ads''), read on here.
For more about ''Digitalization & AI'', read on here.
For ''AI & Learning'' read on here here.
Trip impressions from Porto & Braga, Portugal here & here.
Where I participated in the conference ''Philosophy of Mind''
- 4th International Conference on Philosophy of Mind
(4E's approach to the Mind/Brain.
Embodied, Embedded, Enacted, and Extended).
At Praça da Faculdade de Filosofia.
Catholic University of Portugal.
Braga, Portugal.
For Spring 2023 pictures, see here.
For Summer 2023 (pictures), see here
& if you want to chat about it all, go here.
Indeed, remember that it is still possible to write
to other people about it all. See here.
For a few impressions from
the ''Music & Cognitive NeuroScience, Summer School, Aarhus 2023'',
see here.
For impressions from ''Robot Days'', with ''Spot'' (Boston Dynamics),
see here.
For ''Spots'' visit to Eaaa, see here.
For impressions from ''Shakespeare's Globe Theatre'', London,
see here: All the world's a stage.
For more about London,
see here: London, and here: Freuds House, Hampstead.
''A transformer based semantic analysis
of (non-English) Danish jobads''.
Morten Mathiasen, Jacob Nielsen & Simon Laub.
CsEdu 2023.
15th International Conference on Computer Supported Education.
21-23 April, 2023.
Prague, Czech Republic.
Our paper ''A transformer based semantic analysis of (non-English) Danish jobads''
was accepted for the CsEdu 2023 conference in Prague, April 2023.
A study of automated monitorization
of labor market demands
...
Where we identify and measure two categories
of competence demands,
''technical competences'' and ''personal competences'',
as well as competences described
by Bloom's taxonomy.
...
Our approach finds all competence demands in 300 Danish job ads.
Where each ad is
labelled,
both by humans and by natural language processing transformers.
A transformer based semantic analysis (e)
(of, non-English, Danish jobads).
Mathiasen, M.; Nielsen, J. and Laub, S. (2023).
A Transformer Based Semantic Analysis of (non-English) Danish Jobads.
In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference
on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1,
ISBN 978-989-758-641-5, ISSN 2184-5026, pages 359-366.
DOI: 10.5220/0012008400003470
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
Digitalization & AI.
In the course ''Digitalization'' (Dig2), for engineering students
(160 was assigned to the course), Via University College (Aarhus/Horsens),
I held a presentation about ''Digitalization & AI'',
March 30th, 2023.
Slides from the presentation is attached here:
Digitalization & AI. (e).
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
AI, ChatBots & Student Counsellors.
At the annual meeting of
''Danish Student Counsellors
at Business Academies'',
I held a presentation about ''AI & ChatBots'',
May 23rd, 2023.
Slides from the presentation is attached here:
AI & ChatBots (e).
A month later I gave a similar presentation
at a Eaaa forum:
AI & ChatBots (vers.2.0) (e).
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
Porto, Portugal. March 2023.
Visit to Porto, Portugal.
Youtube Video: Demo Porto
(March 4th, 2023).
Livraria Lello
(The Most Beautiful Bookstore in the World. March 4th, 2023).
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
Braga, Portugal. March 2023.
Visit to Braga, Portugal.
And the conference ''Philosophy of Mind''
- 4th International Conference on Philosophy of Mind.
4E's approach to the Mind/Brain
(Embodied, Embedded, Enacted, and Extended).
Praça da Faculdade de Filosofia.
Catholic University of Portugal
(Universidade Católica – Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Sociais)
Braga, Portugal.
Around the world with an Old Suitcase.
Many interesting talks at the conference. Still, will only mention a few here:
Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis) talked about ''Do we know how the brain really works''?
With many interestings points.
Including a remark that the explanatory system is not ''just'' the brain, but a system that includes the brain.
Peter Gärdenfors (University of Lund) talked about ''Actions, causes and forces''
with interesting
comments about what chimps really understand about gavity (based on work by Povinelli).
Clearly, not as much as humans, according to one experiment about extracting food items from a tube, with holes.
Benjamin Rancourt (North Carolina State University) talked about ''The virtue of ignorance''.
Here, ''the problem of removing doubt through reasoning''.
And (one of) the problem(s) with deliberation.
- It is not possible to rationally remove all doubts
(In order to create a solid a basis to reason from).
Indeed, it is only cognitive limitations
that can provide the kind of ''full beliefs'',
that give us a ''solid'' basis to reason from.
A very precise talk!
Dirk Geeraerts (University of Leuven) talked about ''Minding Meaning''.
Certainly, looking at language, meaning is not always obvious:
E.g. ''Bring your finest clothes to the wedding, and a hat''.
What could that mean?
Indeed, how can we validate, if the method of validation itself is somewhat shaky?
Well, we do it together (find meaning), in a form of ''participatory sense making''.
Where meaning almost becomes a byproduct of social relations?
Karl Friston (University College London) talked about ''Me and my Markov blanket''.
Where the ''Markov blanket'' is (roughly)
the state (sensors) that gives all the
relevant information for us (in the Univese).
And, where we try to minimize our prediction errors (About what is going on outside us),
in order to survive.
Notice though, that we can also ''make/create our own sensations'', which can help minimize
prediction error.
(And) Read more about the ''Free Energy Principle'' here.
All interestings stuff indeed.
A great trip indeed!
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
Spring 2023. Vedbæk, Denmark.
Spring 2023.
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
A new Turing test.
Human or bot? New Turing test AI game challenges you to take your best guess:
More about Turing, here,
and
more about his work
at Bletchley Park here.
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
Music & Cognitive Neuroscience.
Summer School, Aarhus 2023.
Music & Cognitive Neuroscience.
Summer School, Aarhus University.
July - August, 2023.
Mat. canteen.
EEG measurements from Thomas.
Skejby canteen.
MIB center, Aarhus (Music in the Brain, Aarhus).
Library canteen, AU.
Aros.
Well, hidden in the back (nb. 5 from left), but I was there... :)
Indeed.
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
Summer in Denmark, 2023.
Nordjylland, Denmark.
Summer in Denmark. July, 2023.
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
Robot Days. Spot visits Dokk1.
''Robot Days'', August 25-26th, 2023.
Dokk1, Aarhus.
Spot (Boston Dynamics) was presented (here, in Dokk1)
by AAU's (Robot Technology Dept) ambassador team.
Dokk1, Aarhus. August 25th, 2023.
Robot Index Page, here.
Indeed. Onwards. August 18th, 2023.
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
Spot visits Eaaa.
Spot visits Eaaa.
Aarhus.
September 26th, 2023.
Simon, Torill, Asbjørn, Magnus & Signe.
And Spot 1 & 2.
Spot says goodbye.
Spot goes home.
Spot wanted to try out an Aarhus bus, as well as the Aarhus lightrail.
But, well, some other time.
And, of course, there was a post
about Spots visit on the Eaaa intranet:
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
London, September 2023.
London, September 2023.
London Liverpool Street.
Shoreditch district, East End, London.
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
Freuds House. Hampstead, London.
Visited Freuds house.
London. September 2023.
See more about Freud here:
Why Freud Still Matters, When He Was Wrong About Almost Everything [1].
And here...
Robert Stickgold, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard, suggested that Freud, who aggressively defended his theories in spite of a lack of evidence, would have been at home in the Trump administration. More boos and groans [2].
But some do think that psychoanalysis still has something to tell us:
Psychoanalysis, Solms argued, can bring the psyche back into brain and mind science and remind us ''what it is like to be a person'' [2].
Sigmund Freud's famous
Psychoanalytic Couch.
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
All the world's a stage, September 2023.
A visit to Shakespeares Globe Theatre, London.
(We saw Shakespeare's) Macbeth.
On his return from war, three strange men
offer Macbeth the prospect of ultimate control.
Desperate for a new future, he and his wife
set out to make it a reality with devastating costs.
Quotes:
Stars, hide your fires. Let not light see my black and deep desires.
Act I, scene 4.
Macbeth.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
to the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
that struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
and then is heard no more. It is a tale
told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing.
Act 5 Scene 5.
Macbeth.
What's done cannot be undone.
Act 5, Scene 1.
Lady Macbeth.
There's daggers in men's smiles.
Act 2 Scene 3.
Macbeth.
When our actions do not,
our fears do make us traitors.
Act 4 Scene 2.
Macbeth.
If you can look into the seeds of time,
and say which grain will grow and which will not.
Act 1 Scene 3.
Macbeth.
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
London, September 2023 (Continued).
London, September 2023.
The Gherkin.
Commercial skyscraper,
the City of London.
Bunhill Fields, burial ground, Islington, City, central London.
Bunhill Fields contains the graves of many notable people.
Including Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, and
William Blake, poet and more.
Guildhall, London.
On 13 November 1553, the site of the trial of Lady Jane Grey.
Queen for 9 days in 1553. Beheaded 12 February 1554.
During the reign of Mary I (Bloody Mary).
Clytemnestra, shortly after she has killed her husband Agamemnon
in revenge for his sacrifice of their youngest daughter Iphigenia.
St Paul's Cathedral was designed by Christopher Wren.
It was declared completed around 1710
(The model was on display in Guildhall Art Gallery, London).
London's first Roman amphitheatre was built in AD 70.
Wiki: Roman Amphitheatre, London,
City of London: London Roman Amphitheatre.
Hidden beneath Guildhall Yard, London's Roman Amphitheatre.
Shepherd and Sheep.
Paternoster Square. Near St Paul's Cathedral.
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
An old email from Douglas Hofstadter.
Don't say that it doesn't matter, whether you reply to an email or not...
Or whether you are friendly in an email or not...
Just found an old email from Douglas Hofstadter,
that I have, apparently, kept for almost 30 years by now...
I remember that I was happy, and a little surprised,
to receive the email all these years ago.
And happy to see the email again, here the other day.
Emails (still) do matter...
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
Back To Work, August 2023.
And then, back to work...
August 23rd, 2023.
August 23rd, 2023. Start of the semester.
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
