Hello!
Today I would like to present an article on education 4.0. We have been dealing with the 4th generation industry for nearly 10 years, Which is so automated and computerized that there is a lack of suitably qualified staff to handle it. School 4.0 is to be the answer to deficiencies in the 4th generation industry.
Please read the article below and watch two videos from the YT website about education 4.0, and then give short answers to the following questions:
1. What is education 4.0?
2. Why is it so important in the 4th generation education to prepare the young people for living and functioning in the world of industrial technology 4.0?
3. Have you ever met school 4.0? If so, please share your opinion.
Article:
Technology trends, Education 4.0 and beyond
YT movies:
1. What is 4.0?
2. Education 4.0 – transforming the future of education (through advanced technology)
Online English Conversation Course for PhD Students
Monday, 4 May 2020
Wednesday, 15 April 2020
Week 3 [14-19.04.2020] - Is it ready?
Hello!
I've stumbled upon this short article, an opinion piece: "How to Tell When a Digital Technology Is Not Ready for You" ( https://www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(20)30001-5 )
The author presents his insights into judging the readiness of given digital technology for specific usage.
1. Do you think the long time between inception and given technology being widely used/hyped is specific to digital, or can be extended to all kinds of technologies? If it's specific, why do You think is that so?
2. For each example of evaluated technology, author presents short historic context, and asks couple of important questions. Those questions seems highly specific, but can You see any patterns? Is it possible to somehow learn how to ask such questions, or all is needed is just 40 years of experience?
3. In final section, author points to specialized organizations offering advice, Royal Society being one of examples. Do You know any of Polish organizations whose advice You value?
I've stumbled upon this short article, an opinion piece: "How to Tell When a Digital Technology Is Not Ready for You" ( https://www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(20)30001-5 )
The author presents his insights into judging the readiness of given digital technology for specific usage.
1. Do you think the long time between inception and given technology being widely used/hyped is specific to digital, or can be extended to all kinds of technologies? If it's specific, why do You think is that so?
2. For each example of evaluated technology, author presents short historic context, and asks couple of important questions. Those questions seems highly specific, but can You see any patterns? Is it possible to somehow learn how to ask such questions, or all is needed is just 40 years of experience?
3. In final section, author points to specialized organizations offering advice, Royal Society being one of examples. Do You know any of Polish organizations whose advice You value?
Week 3 [14-19.04.2020]
I've got a discussion topic for you that ignores the ones that are currently in the top...
The article describes a new approach to creating rules to describe the universe. I hope you'll find it interesting!
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/stephen-wolfram-hypergraph-project-fundamental-theory-physics
1) Are you convinced by the idea that the whole universe is one big network connected by the relations of the laws of physics?
2) Do you think it is possible to create new rules that describe the universe during the simulation?
3) What else can a Wolfram hypergraph be used for?
4) Wolfram wants to find a rule to describe the universe that combines several different theories (superstring theory, loop quantum gravity, causal sets). Do you think it's possible at all?
I've got a discussion topic for you that ignores the ones that are currently in the top...
The article describes a new approach to creating rules to describe the universe. I hope you'll find it interesting!
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/stephen-wolfram-hypergraph-project-fundamental-theory-physics
1) Are you convinced by the idea that the whole universe is one big network connected by the relations of the laws of physics?
2) Do you think it is possible to create new rules that describe the universe during the simulation?
3) What else can a Wolfram hypergraph be used for?
4) Wolfram wants to find a rule to describe the universe that combines several different theories (superstring theory, loop quantum gravity, causal sets). Do you think it's possible at all?
Tuesday, 14 April 2020
Week 3 [14-19.04.2020] Depressive ...
Dear Friends;
The disease I'm talking about below has affected many of our friends. In my opinion, this's one of the major problems of the 21st century. I don't know if children affect parents that way, but the article interested me. It may also interest you. I hope.
Read "Depressive symptoms in parents are associated with reduced empathy toward their young children" https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0230636 , think and answer a few questions ...
1) Do you think that depression outside COVID-19 is a 21st century disease?
2) Do you know people who have suffered depression?
3) Some of our friends have imaginary depression, have you met such?
4) How do you think how many undiagnosed cases of depression walk on the ground?
5) Do children really depress their parents so much ;-)?
Best regards
The disease I'm talking about below has affected many of our friends. In my opinion, this's one of the major problems of the 21st century. I don't know if children affect parents that way, but the article interested me. It may also interest you. I hope.
Read "Depressive symptoms in parents are associated with reduced empathy toward their young children" https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0230636 , think and answer a few questions ...
1) Do you think that depression outside COVID-19 is a 21st century disease?
2) Do you know people who have suffered depression?
3) Some of our friends have imaginary depression, have you met such?
4) How do you think how many undiagnosed cases of depression walk on the ground?
5) Do children really depress their parents so much ;-)?
Best regards
Monday, 30 March 2020
Week 2 [30.03-05.04.20] How AI help to fight a pandemic
Hello everybody,
currently topic 1 is coronavirus, so the article proposed by me today will be about coronavirus. More specifically, it's about how AI helps fight a pandemic. Read the article and share your opinion. Below are the article and help questions.
currently topic 1 is coronavirus, so the article proposed by me today will be about coronavirus. More specifically, it's about how AI helps fight a pandemic. Read the article and share your opinion. Below are the article and help questions.
https://fortune.com/2020/03/16/ai-coronavirus-health-technology-pandemic-prediction
Help questions:
- How does AI help in the fight against disease?
- How does AI deal with changing data in real time?
- Is AI able to predict flu incidence fairly effectively?
Sunday, 29 March 2020
Week 2 [30.03-05.04.20] Folding@home
With the current situation in the world, probably many of you have already heard about the Folding@home project. I hadn't heard of it before, so I decided to take a closer look at it.
The idea of creating a huge computing resource from a large number of loosely coupled machines is not new. This has long been done, for example, with volunteer computing, where people execute applications on their personal computers on behalf of others. Volunteer-computing systems usually require you to install certain software, which then runs when your computer has no higher-priority tasks to do. That application then uses your spare computing cycles to fetch and process data from some central server and upload the results back to the same server when it’s done.
This strategy works well for many scientific problems, for which a central controller can farm out pieces of the desired computation to workers that operate independently and in parallel. If one fails to return a result within some reasonable period, no problem: The same task is simply handed out to some other volunteer worker.
Folding@Home is one of several real ways to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. It doesn't require a lot of commitment and gives visible results. So far, Folding@Home has had about 30 thousand users, which translated into about 100 petaflops of computing power. After the promotion of NVIDIA and PC Master Race, the number of volunteers increased to 400 thousand. And the total computing power to a record 470 petaflops. This is more than twice the capacity of the Summit supercomputer, which is also used for coronavirus research. Its peak power is about 200 petaflops and 148.6 petaflops according to the LINPACK benchmark. The difference is that the power of Folding@Home consists of 400 thousand independent devices.
What is protein folding and how is it related to disease?
Proteins are necklaces of amino acids, long chain molecules. They are the basis of how biology gets things done. As enzymes, they are the driving force behind all of the biochemical reactions that make biology work. As structural elements, they are the main constituent of our bones, muscles, hair, skin and blood vessels. As antibodies, they recognize invading elements and allow the immune system to get rid of the unwanted invaders. For these reasons, scientists have sequenced the human genome – the blueprint for all of the proteins in biology – but how can we understand what these proteins do and how they work?However, only knowing this sequence tells us little about what the protein does and how it does it. In order to carry out their function (e.g. as enzymes or antibodies), they must take on a particular shape, also known as a “fold.” Thus, proteins are truly amazing machines: before they do their work, they assemble themselves! This self-assembly is called “folding.”
What happens if proteins don’t fold correctly?
Diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s disease, cystic fibrosis, BSE (Mad Cow disease), an inherited form of emphysema, and even many cancers are believed to result from protein misfolding. When proteins misfold, they can clump together (“aggregate”). These clumps can often gather in the brain, where they are believed to cause the symptoms of Mad Cow or Alzheimer’s disease. Nowadays most of the computing resources are redirected to coronavirus-related calculations to understand how its proteins work and how to fight them.
Questions:
1. Have you heard of the Folding@home project, and shared your computing power?
2. Do you know other projects of this type that are currently working or have been used in the past? What are they for?
3. What do you think, what problems of the modern world can we try to solve in a similar way?
Links:
https://foldingathome.org/
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0901/0901.0866.pdf
https://www.cnet.com/news/your-laptop-can-help-fight-covid-19-with-foldingathome-project/
The idea of creating a huge computing resource from a large number of loosely coupled machines is not new. This has long been done, for example, with volunteer computing, where people execute applications on their personal computers on behalf of others. Volunteer-computing systems usually require you to install certain software, which then runs when your computer has no higher-priority tasks to do. That application then uses your spare computing cycles to fetch and process data from some central server and upload the results back to the same server when it’s done.
This strategy works well for many scientific problems, for which a central controller can farm out pieces of the desired computation to workers that operate independently and in parallel. If one fails to return a result within some reasonable period, no problem: The same task is simply handed out to some other volunteer worker.
Folding@Home is one of several real ways to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. It doesn't require a lot of commitment and gives visible results. So far, Folding@Home has had about 30 thousand users, which translated into about 100 petaflops of computing power. After the promotion of NVIDIA and PC Master Race, the number of volunteers increased to 400 thousand. And the total computing power to a record 470 petaflops. This is more than twice the capacity of the Summit supercomputer, which is also used for coronavirus research. Its peak power is about 200 petaflops and 148.6 petaflops according to the LINPACK benchmark. The difference is that the power of Folding@Home consists of 400 thousand independent devices.
What is protein folding and how is it related to disease?
Proteins are necklaces of amino acids, long chain molecules. They are the basis of how biology gets things done. As enzymes, they are the driving force behind all of the biochemical reactions that make biology work. As structural elements, they are the main constituent of our bones, muscles, hair, skin and blood vessels. As antibodies, they recognize invading elements and allow the immune system to get rid of the unwanted invaders. For these reasons, scientists have sequenced the human genome – the blueprint for all of the proteins in biology – but how can we understand what these proteins do and how they work?However, only knowing this sequence tells us little about what the protein does and how it does it. In order to carry out their function (e.g. as enzymes or antibodies), they must take on a particular shape, also known as a “fold.” Thus, proteins are truly amazing machines: before they do their work, they assemble themselves! This self-assembly is called “folding.”
What happens if proteins don’t fold correctly?
Diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s disease, cystic fibrosis, BSE (Mad Cow disease), an inherited form of emphysema, and even many cancers are believed to result from protein misfolding. When proteins misfold, they can clump together (“aggregate”). These clumps can often gather in the brain, where they are believed to cause the symptoms of Mad Cow or Alzheimer’s disease. Nowadays most of the computing resources are redirected to coronavirus-related calculations to understand how its proteins work and how to fight them.
Questions:
1. Have you heard of the Folding@home project, and shared your computing power?
2. Do you know other projects of this type that are currently working or have been used in the past? What are they for?
3. What do you think, what problems of the modern world can we try to solve in a similar way?
Links:
https://foldingathome.org/
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0901/0901.0866.pdf
https://www.cnet.com/news/your-laptop-can-help-fight-covid-19-with-foldingathome-project/
Week 2 [30.03-5.04.2020] Music for a Brighter World
It's known that music affects our well-being. Relax or de-stress. Most of us can't work without radio or just our favorite music. I found an article in which it was investigated how music affects the perception of light and dark. Music for a Brighter World: Brightness Judgment Bias by Musical Emotion ( https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0148959 ) Please read this article and then answer a few questions:
1. What kind of music do you like to listen to? Why this one?
2. Do you change the type of music depending on the task or well-being?
3. Can it really be said that music changes the perception of colors, reality and the world?
For me music is very important and accompanies all day. I can't function personally without music. I usually listen to symphonic metal, especially NighWish. I also like Jazz especially classical (Louis Armstrong e.g.). But what I listen to strongly depends on the task and well-being.
1. What kind of music do you like to listen to? Why this one?
2. Do you change the type of music depending on the task or well-being?
3. Can it really be said that music changes the perception of colors, reality and the world?
For me music is very important and accompanies all day. I can't function personally without music. I usually listen to symphonic metal, especially NighWish. I also like Jazz especially classical (Louis Armstrong e.g.). But what I listen to strongly depends on the task and well-being.
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