How to Jumpstart an Interstellar CivilizationErika Ilves
Paper presented at the 100 Year Starship Symposium in Houston, September 2013.
Abstract
Voyager 1 has barely left the solar system. Twelve people have walked on the Moon. Twenty-four got to lunar orbit, 530 to Earth orbit. Our Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity may be roving on Mars but we are far from being a solar civilization. Worse, seven billion of us on Earth are struggling to coalesce into a single planetary civilization. So is thinking seriously about how to become an interstellar civilization preposterously premature?
We make a case that jumpstarting an interstellar civilization could not be timelier: it is one of our best insurance policies against existential risk and a fast track out of the current sub-planetary civilization quagmire. We then proceed to look at what it would take to initiate an interstellar jump sequence in practice. We offer a qualitative assessment of cultural, technological, and governance transitions we would need to orchestrate, and explore how the interstellar community itself would need to evolve to accelerate these transitions.
Our proposals include launching an Interstellar Art Academy to inject a steady stream of interstellar edutainment into global culture; participating in the world’s global public policy and entrepreneurial fora to put interstellar and space development goals on the global agenda; facilitating a roadmapping process among major terrestrial industries to move space commercialization into space industrialization; designing an online game to simulate governance models to underpin interstellar expansion and, finally, turning the interstellar community of thousands into an epic volunteer organization of one million.
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Title: Variation on preferential-attachment
Abstract
In this talk, I will describe how preferential attachment arises from the first principle using game theory. Next, I will extend the model of preferential attachment into a general model, which allows for the incorporation of Homophily ties in the network. This talk is based on joint works with Prof. Chen Avin, Avi Cohen, Yinon Nahum, Prof. Pierre Fraigniaud, and Prof. David Peleg.
How to Jumpstart an Interstellar CivilizationErika Ilves
Paper presented at the 100 Year Starship Symposium in Houston, September 2013.
Abstract
Voyager 1 has barely left the solar system. Twelve people have walked on the Moon. Twenty-four got to lunar orbit, 530 to Earth orbit. Our Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity may be roving on Mars but we are far from being a solar civilization. Worse, seven billion of us on Earth are struggling to coalesce into a single planetary civilization. So is thinking seriously about how to become an interstellar civilization preposterously premature?
We make a case that jumpstarting an interstellar civilization could not be timelier: it is one of our best insurance policies against existential risk and a fast track out of the current sub-planetary civilization quagmire. We then proceed to look at what it would take to initiate an interstellar jump sequence in practice. We offer a qualitative assessment of cultural, technological, and governance transitions we would need to orchestrate, and explore how the interstellar community itself would need to evolve to accelerate these transitions.
Our proposals include launching an Interstellar Art Academy to inject a steady stream of interstellar edutainment into global culture; participating in the world’s global public policy and entrepreneurial fora to put interstellar and space development goals on the global agenda; facilitating a roadmapping process among major terrestrial industries to move space commercialization into space industrialization; designing an online game to simulate governance models to underpin interstellar expansion and, finally, turning the interstellar community of thousands into an epic volunteer organization of one million.
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Title: Variation on preferential-attachment
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In the paper Preferential Attachment as a Unique Equilibrium, We show how to use the symmetry of game theory in social networks.
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June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
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A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
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This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
2. Elections from wiki
Def: An electionsis a formal decision-making
process by which a population chooses an
individual to hold public office.
3. Voting
Def: Voting is a method for a group, such as
a meeting or an electorate, to make a
decision or express an opinion- often
following discussions, debates,
or electionscampaigns. Democracies elect
holders of high office by voting.
5. How can we predict elections?
1. Polling
2. Prediction market
3. Online tools: Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc…
6. What's wrong with polling?
By CLIFF ZUKINJUNE 20, 2015
•2014 midterm elections strong majorities
of the Republican
•Israel’s badly underestimated
prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
•In the UK a close elections was predicted
only to see the Conservatives win easily.
Congress: Kevin McCarthy
PM Benjamin Netanyahu
Senate: Mitch McConnell
PM David Cameron
7. Problems of validating algorithms in social networks
1. Privacy -> Anonymity
2. Avoiding open conflict
3. People’s opinions are fluid
8. How to overcome these problems?
1. Build a machine to prove it!
◦ Galileo Galilee
◦ The Large Hadron Collider
◦ Electroencephalography
2. Use the collective memory
◦ Sigmund Freud
10. From a play to a graph, Act 4, scene 2
ANTONY: These many, then, shall die; their names are prick'd.
OCTAVIUS: Your brother too must die; consent you, Lepidus?
LEPIDUS: I do consent--
OCTAVIUS: Prick him down, Antony.
LEPIDUS: Upon condition Publius shall not live, Who is your sister's
son, Mark Antony.
ANTONY: He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him. But, Lepidus,
go you to Caesar's house; Fetch the will hither, and we shall determine
How to cut off some charge in legacies.
ANTONY
OCTAVIUS
LEPIDUS
OCTAVIUS
LEPIDUS
ANTONY
LEPIDUS
OCTAVIUS
ANTONY
OCTAVIUS
ANTONY
OCTAVIUS
ANTONY
OCTAVIUS
11. From a play to a graph, Act 4, scene 2
ANTONY
OCTAVIUS
LEPIDUS
OCTAVIUS
LEPIDUS
ANTONY
LEPIDUS
OCTAVIUS
ANTONY
OCTAVIUS
ANTONY
OCTAVIUS
ANTONY
OCTAVIUS
12. Julius Caesar (play)
Conspirators against Caesar:
1. Marcus Brutus (Brutus)
2. Cassius
3. Casca
4. Decius Brutus
5. Cinna
6. Metellus Cimber
7. Trebonius
8. Caius Ligarius
1. Volumnius
2. Titinius
3. Young Cato
4. Messala
5. Varrus
6. Clitus
7. Claudio
8. Dardanius
9. Strato
10. Lucilius
11. Labeo
12. Flavius
13. Statilius
14. Pindarus
Loyal to Triumvirs after Caesar's death:
1. Octavius Caesar
2. Mark Antony
3. Lepidus
4. Messenger
5. First Soldier
6. Second Soldier
Loyal to Brutus and Cassius:
13. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Act 1
“Beware the ides of March…”
“Let me have men about me that are fat;
[…] Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry
look; He thinks too much: such men are
dangerous.”
14. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare Act 2
“Cowards die many times before their
deaths; The valiant never taste of death but
once. Of all the wonders that I yet have
heard, It seems to me most strange that men
should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary
end, Will come when it will come.”
15. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare Act 3
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."
“Et tu, Brute?”
[Then fall, Caesar!]
17. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare Act 5
“This was the noblest Roman of them all”
18. “Big Brother is Watching You”
"Tell me who your friends are, and I
will tell you who you are"
Or
"Tell me who your friends vote for, and I will
tell you to who you’ll vote for"
The social network
of Brutus
The social network
of Casca
19. “Big Brother is Watching You”
"Tell me who your friends are, and I
will tell you who you are"
Or
"Tell me who your friends vote for, and I
will tell you to who you’ll vote for"
The social network
of Octavius
The social network
of Antony
24. Random walks
Random step:
◦ Move to an adjacent node chosen at random (and
uniformly)
Random walk:
◦ Take an infinite sequence of random steps
Why random
walks are
good?
25. Many Applications
1. Google PageRank
2. Graph exploration
3. Exhibits locality, simplicity, low-overhead, robustness
26. The voting algorithm
1. Collapse the ANCHORS R to a single node and
Collapsed the ANCHORS B to a single node.
2. Make both Node R and B Absorbing.
3. Compute the hitting probability to hit R.
27. How do we find the anchors?
1. In the case of Julius Caesar by
William Shakespeare we look on
the four act.
2. In the general case and more
complicated
28. How do we compute the hitting time?
1. Node v which belongs to the red anchors set,
◦ 𝑅 𝑣 = 1
2. Node v which belongs to the Blue anchors set,
◦ 𝑅 𝑣 = 0
3. The equation of the unknown states
◦ 𝑅 𝑣 =
1
|𝑁 𝑛}
𝑢∈𝑁 𝑛
𝑅 𝑢
29. The results of the voting algorithm in Julisus Caesar
The Complete Play
30. The results of the voting algorithm in Julisus Caesar
The 5 act
31. Compare to community Modularity
{{Antony, Messenger, Lucilius, First Soldier, Second Soldier},
{Brutus, Young Cato, Clitus, Dardanius, Volumnius},
{Cassius, Messala, Tintinius, Pindarus},
{Octavius, Strato}}
Octavius, Antony, Messenger, Lucilius,
First Soldier, Second Soldier
Brutus, Cassius, Messala, Tintinius, Pindarus,
Young Cato, Clitus, Dardanius, Volumnius
, Strato
32. Compare to community Centrality
{{Octavius, Antony, Messenger, Brutus, Cassius, Lucilius,
Messala, Tintinius, Pindarus, Young Cato, Volumnius,
Strato},
{First Soldier, Second Soldier},
{Clitus, Dardanius}}
Octavius, Antony, Messenger, Lucilius,
First Soldier, Second Soldier
Brutus, Cassius, Messala, Tintinius, Pindarus,
Young Cato, Clitus, Dardanius, Volumnius
, Strato
33. Compare to community CliquePercolation
{{Octavius, Antony, Brutus, Cassius, Lucilius, Messala,
Tintinius, Pindarus, First Soldier, Strato},
{Brutus, Clitus, Dardanius, Volumnius},
{Messenger}, {Young Cato}, {Second Soldier}}
Octavius, Antony, Messenger, Lucilius,
First Soldier, Second Soldier
Brutus, Cassius, Messala, Tintinius, Pindarus,
Young Cato, Clitus, Dardanius, Volumnius
, Strato
34. Compare to community Hierarchical
{{Antony, Messenger, Lucilius, First Soldier, Second Soldier},
{Octavius, Brutus, Young Cato, Strato},
{Cassius, Messala, Tintinius, Pindarus},
{Clitus, Dardanius, Volumnius}}
Octavius, Antony, Messenger, Lucilius,
First Soldier, Second Soldier
Brutus, Cassius, Messala, Tintinius, Pindarus,
Young Cato, Clitus, Dardanius, Volumnius
, Strato
35. Compare to community Spectral
{{Antony, Messenger, Lucilius, First Soldier, Second Soldier},
{Octavius, Brutus, Young Cato, Strato},
{Cassius, Messala, Tintinius, Pindarus},
{Clitus, Dardanius, Volumnius}}
Octavius, Antony, Messenger, Lucilius,
First Soldier, Second Soldier
Brutus, Cassius, Messala, Tintinius, Pindarus,
Young Cato, Clitus, Dardanius, Volumnius
, Strato
36. Compare to community VertexMoving
{{Antony, Messenger, Lucilius, First Soldier, Second Soldier},
{Brutus, Young Cato, Clitus, Dardanius, Volumnius},
{Cassius, Messala, Tintinius, Pindarus},
{Octavius, Strato}}
Octavius, Antony, Messenger, Lucilius,
First Soldier, Second Soldier
Brutus, Cassius, Messala, Tintinius, Pindarus,
Young Cato, Clitus, Dardanius, Volumnius
, Strato
37. Compare to community partition
{{Messenger, Brutus, Young Cato, First Soldier, Second Soldier, Clitus,
Dardanius, Volumnius},
{Octavius, Antony, Cassius, Lucilius, Messala, Tintinius,
Pindarus,Strato}}
Octavius, Antony, Messenger, Lucilius,
First Soldier, Second Soldier, Strato
Brutus, Cassius, Messala, Tintinius, Pindarus,
Young Cato, Clitus, Dardanius, Volumnius
39. The results of the voting algorithm in the
Karate
{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,11,12,13,14,17,18,20,22}
{9,10,15,16,19,21,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34}
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,11,12,13,14,17,18,20,22
9,10,15,16,19,21,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34