There should be a law (or incentive system) for all engineers to have to work in human-care (midwife, nurse, elderly-care, kindergartener etc.) for a minimum of 1 year during their education/career. Convinced it would have a tremendous positive impact on the discipline & society.
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John Todd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Todd_(Canadian_biologist)
Living machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_machineThe Final Lecture: Dr. John H Todd on Planetary Healing & Ecological Design:
John Todd - The Ecological Design Revolution | Bioneers:
Ecomachine with Dr. John Todd:
Dr. John Todd - Founder, John Todd Ecological Design on Eco-Machines:
#Regenerative #Design #ClimateChange #Infrastructure #Biology
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"Are Green Cities Healthier Cities? - The answer depends on whether the health benefits of green spaces are accessible to all": http://www.rocagallery.com/are-green-cities-healthier-cities "Addressing the adverse effects of green gentrification" #Regenerative #Infrastructure
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"Tree canopy cover can dramatically reduce urban temperatures":
https://in.news.yahoo.com/canopy-cover-dramatically-reduce-urban-temperatures-study-143126789.html #Regenerative #Infrastructure -
A Wonderfully Gregarious Iraqi Man Who Has Traveled to 70 Countries With Passport That Only Allows 30. #Politics
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"banish the blank page" was one of my driving visions for years while working on generative/ creative ML systems. In recent times, I've changed my mind: the blank page is a wonderful thing - limitless freedom for human imagination, which I don't want machines to occupy.
The GAN art formula: via Helena Sarin -
The Betrayal by Technology - A Portrait of Jacques Ellul
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Last year, Alibaba's graphic design tool helped 200,000 enterprises to design 6 million banners for singles day: It produced 8000 different banners per second:
https://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/alibaba-luban-ai-based-graphic-design-tool_594294 #Generative #Augmentation #Automation #Design
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All the meditative aspects of photography have moved to post-processing. In such a world, training with an analog camera is not a bad idea. (via vakibs)
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Today's hyped "decentralised organisations/movements" share many characteristics with good old "offshore companies": They are both highly nontransparent & hence great for corruption & deception. The challenge is how to enable large scale transparent collaboration (opensource etc)
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Why digitalculture is not structurally different from petroculture. The capitalocene new boss, same as the old boss: https://grist.org/article/report-going-100-renewable-power-means-a-lot-of-dirty-mining/ - #Regenerative #Technology #ClimateChange
Barring major changes in consumption habits, a world powered by renewable energy is a world of dramatically intensified mining - cobalt, copper, lithium, rare earths - and, as a result, ecosystem destruction & human rights violations.
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Lists of accepted papers and accepted posters at GECCO2019:
https://gecco-2019.sigevo.org/index.html/Accepted+Papers
https://gecco-2019.sigevo.org/index.html/Accepted+PostersThe evolutionary computation community is on fire! #ML #Evolution #ALife
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Amazon Has Gone From Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor, Say Open Source Developers: https://onezero.medium.com/open-source-betrayed-industry-leaders-accuse-amazon-of-playing-a-rigged-game-with-aws-67177bc748b7 #OpenSource #Politics
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"Sustainability, Human Well-being and the Future of Education" - book by @sitrafund: https://www.sitra.fi/en/publications/sustainability-human-well-future-education/ full open-access e-book: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-78580-6.pdf
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"Functional Generative Design of Mechanisms with Recurrent Neural Networks and Novelty Search": https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.10103 #ML #Generative
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While it is fantastic that "open-access/source" is becoming a standard in academia globally, what is urgently needed is "Open Comprehension": The majority of outputs from universities etc. are unnecessarily over-complexified & incomprehensible for 99% of people - often by design.
Suspect the cult of experts & expertise, and the fetishisation of knowledge are primary culprits. Science from the people for the people - life long education embed in daily life - is *far* more exiting than the ivy league system which produces bloated brains and shrunken hearts
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Projective Views on Urban Metabolism - talk by Jason W. Moore: https://jasonwmoore.com/
