Jean Baudrillard was a French social theorist best known for analyzing mediation and technology's influence on communication. In his seminal work "Simulacra and Simulation," Baudrillard examines how representations have evolved from distinguishing reality in pre-modern times to preceding it in postmodernity. He argues that society has replaced reality with symbols and signs such that human experience is of a simulation rather than reality itself. For example, some 9/11 victims described the trauma as like a film, showing how simulations can become more real than actual events.
MY FACEBOOK PROFILE : COPY, RESEMBLANCE, OR SIMULACRUM?David Kreps
This paper offers a theoretical reading of the phenomenon and experience of the social networking
site, Facebook, through an exploration of how loyally a Facebook profile can represent the essence of
an individual, and whether such Platonic notions of essence and loyalty of copy are disturbed by the
nature of a social networking site profile, in ways described by Deleuze’s notions of the reversal of
Platonism. In bringing a post-structuralist critique to a hugely successful and popular information
system, the paper attempts to open up the black box of the ‘user’ and explore how notions of the Self
might be reflected through engagement with IS.
This is a presentation i've done based on postmodern theory and the media. It includes elements which are postmodern and examples of different genres. I've also analysed some film trailers and a timeline.
MY FACEBOOK PROFILE : COPY, RESEMBLANCE, OR SIMULACRUM?David Kreps
This paper offers a theoretical reading of the phenomenon and experience of the social networking
site, Facebook, through an exploration of how loyally a Facebook profile can represent the essence of
an individual, and whether such Platonic notions of essence and loyalty of copy are disturbed by the
nature of a social networking site profile, in ways described by Deleuze’s notions of the reversal of
Platonism. In bringing a post-structuralist critique to a hugely successful and popular information
system, the paper attempts to open up the black box of the ‘user’ and explore how notions of the Self
might be reflected through engagement with IS.
This is a presentation i've done based on postmodern theory and the media. It includes elements which are postmodern and examples of different genres. I've also analysed some film trailers and a timeline.
As with structuralism and post-structuralism, there is a great deal of debate about how exactly modernism and postmodernism differ. The two concepts are of different vintage, 'Modernism' being a long-standing category which is of crucial importance in the understanding of twentieth-century culture, whereas the term 'postmodernism', as is well known, has only become current since the 1980s. 'Modernism' is the name given to the movement which dominated the arts and culture of the first half of the twentieth century.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
2. Jean Baudrillard July 27, 1929 – March 6, 2007 Born in Reims , north-eastern France, Baudrillard was a social theorist and critic who is best known for his analyses of the modes of mediation and of technological communication. He was the first in his family to attend university when he moved to Paris to attend Sorbonne University were he studied German. He taught sociology at university and then started writing books which gained a wide audience in the 1980s and 1990s. His best known work is a series of essays called Simulacra and Simulation.
3. Simulacra and Simulation In this series of essays, Baudrillard examines the power of representations in the pre-modern, modern and post-modern worlds and discusses the interaction between reality, symbols and society. It is most known for its discussion of images, signs, and how they relate to the present day. Baudrillard claims that modern society has replaced all reality and meaning with symbols and signs, and that the human experience is of a simulation of reality rather than reality itself. According to Baudrillard, in the pre-modern world, audiences were rarely confronted with representations of the real because technology was simply not available therefore, there could be no confusion between virtual and actual. In the modern world, industrialisation and mass production allowed an endless series of representations, but it was still more likely people could distinguish between the simulation and the real. In the post-modern world, audiences are saturated in representations, that these now precede perceptions of the actually. For example, many victims of the 9/11 described their trauma of the collapse ‘like a film’, a comment which show one considers a simulation of the real (a film)as the reference point for something actual.
4. Interpretation Simulacra and Simulation Simulacra – An image or representation, an unreal or vague semblance. Simulation - The act or process of simulating, an imitation; a sham, assumption of a false appearance, imitation or representation, as of a potential situation or in experimental testing. In the book, Baudrillard explains the trend of cultural materialism in our current society that has created subcultures and materialistic trends such as fashion, that have no actuality behind them. They are purposeless and have engulfed in many different ways our society and everyone in it. This materialism has led to apathy for the real issues in the world, and reality itself has faded from sight. As mentioned before, victims of the 9/11 were comparing the event to a film rather than real life events. This book explains how through simulation, simulacra's become real, leading to a culture built on nothingness and how real information is distorted.