Pattern recognition is the study of how machines can observe their environment, learn to distinguish patterns of interest, and make decisions about pattern categories. It involves a two-phase process of training/learning, where a machine learns rules from labeled data, and detecting/classifying new patterns. Key aspects of pattern recognition include feature extraction, where new representations are found in terms of important features, and classification, where learned models are used to assign patterns to categories. Pattern recognition has applications in areas like safety, social media, document recognition, speech recognition, and bioinformatics.
Enhancing science-based development in Africa: Where does Ethiopia stand?ILRI
Presented by Professor Gebisa Ejeta (Purdue University and World Food Laureate) at the 'Dialogue on Ethiopia’s Agricultural Development', 12 November, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The document describes a proposed customizable backpack line called "Beyond Fashion" that aims to promote self-esteem and individuality in young women. The backpacks allow for customization of both exterior materials and interior features. They are also designed to be reversible. Profits from the backpacks will support organizations like the National Association for Self Esteem and Women's Group International that empower women and promote women's rights. The proposed solution involves an interactive website where individuals can get advice from experts, connect with others, and customize their own unique backpack that expresses their personal style, needs, and identity.
Slides from my presentation at the Amsterdam Data Science seminar on City Analytics.
http://amsterdamdatascience.nl/event/amsterdam-data-science-seminar-city-analytics/
More information about the social glass project: www.social-glass.org
What's Next: Talk to ITT Tallaght Final Year Computing GraduatesAman Kohli
I was asked to present to the final year computing students in ITT Talaght, a technical college in Dublin, Ireland. The subject matter covers 'What a professional needs', or words of experience.
We needed to cover the need for continuous development, education and professional qualifications as well as some of the skills needed to work within the big bad world.
This document summarizes an upcoming study on the seismic performance of embedded steel column base connections. Five realistic steel column specimens will be embedded in concrete and tested on a reaction floor under various combinations of axial and cyclic lateral loads. Data on lateral force-displacement behavior, stress distributions, and failure modes will be collected. The goal is to develop a fundamental understanding of force transfer mechanisms and establish design guidelines for strength, stiffness, and ductility based on the experimental results.
Pattern recognition is the study of how machines can observe their environment, learn to distinguish patterns of interest, and make decisions about pattern categories. It involves a two-phase process of training/learning, where a machine learns rules from labeled data, and detecting/classifying new patterns. Key aspects of pattern recognition include feature extraction, where new representations are found in terms of important features, and classification, where learned models are used to assign patterns to categories. Pattern recognition has applications in areas like safety, social media, document recognition, speech recognition, and bioinformatics.
Enhancing science-based development in Africa: Where does Ethiopia stand?ILRI
Presented by Professor Gebisa Ejeta (Purdue University and World Food Laureate) at the 'Dialogue on Ethiopia’s Agricultural Development', 12 November, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The document describes a proposed customizable backpack line called "Beyond Fashion" that aims to promote self-esteem and individuality in young women. The backpacks allow for customization of both exterior materials and interior features. They are also designed to be reversible. Profits from the backpacks will support organizations like the National Association for Self Esteem and Women's Group International that empower women and promote women's rights. The proposed solution involves an interactive website where individuals can get advice from experts, connect with others, and customize their own unique backpack that expresses their personal style, needs, and identity.
Slides from my presentation at the Amsterdam Data Science seminar on City Analytics.
http://amsterdamdatascience.nl/event/amsterdam-data-science-seminar-city-analytics/
More information about the social glass project: www.social-glass.org
What's Next: Talk to ITT Tallaght Final Year Computing GraduatesAman Kohli
I was asked to present to the final year computing students in ITT Talaght, a technical college in Dublin, Ireland. The subject matter covers 'What a professional needs', or words of experience.
We needed to cover the need for continuous development, education and professional qualifications as well as some of the skills needed to work within the big bad world.
This document summarizes an upcoming study on the seismic performance of embedded steel column base connections. Five realistic steel column specimens will be embedded in concrete and tested on a reaction floor under various combinations of axial and cyclic lateral loads. Data on lateral force-displacement behavior, stress distributions, and failure modes will be collected. The goal is to develop a fundamental understanding of force transfer mechanisms and establish design guidelines for strength, stiffness, and ductility based on the experimental results.
This document discusses how cloud techniques can be used to reduce friction in software development. It identifies common problems in development such as estimation, quality, and communication. Problems in deployment include packaging, configuration, and testing. Runtime issues include monitoring, availability, and deploying patches. The cloud aims to simplify development and deployment through automation, flexible quality of service levels, and usage monitoring. Benefits of the cloud include push-based deployment, standardized configuration, multi-tenancy, and simplified runtime support. The document advocates exposing software components through RESTful APIs to control their lifecycle and integrate with cloud services.
There is a need to develop a regional order. Rather than developing new mechanism, it would be more efficient to develop existing mechanism to develop an East Asia regional order. The membership issue of the forum might prove important for the effectiveness of the forum to establish a regional order. The ARF with its broad membership might prove to be the most suitable mechanism to establish an East Asia Community to ensure peace and security not only in ASEAN, but the broader Asia and Pacific region.
The research team from TU Delft and DAT.Mobility worked on intelligently fusing data about pedestrian flows from different types of sensors (wifi, gps, counting cameras) to estimate crowd densities, travel speeds and flows at different routes of SAIL. Besides that, open social media platforms were crawled and analysed to get insight in demographics of the crowd and crowd sentiments at different hotspots of SAIL during the event. The collected data and state estimates can be used for more advanced and efficient crowd management support in the future. At SAIL 2015 we really focused on testing new sensor technologies, crowd data algorithms and analytics and assess whether they can be made useful and are reliable. This should give us insight in how we can improve crowd management of large events in cities in the future and provide visitors and citizens a more pleasurable experience.
The document discusses choosing a name and logo for a magazine. The author came up with different title ideas and put their top three favorites in a survey for classmates and friends to vote on. The name "Lazarus" received the most votes and was chosen for the magazine's title. Logo options were also put to a vote, with the first design winning by a large margin. This logo was also the author's personal favorite and will be used for the magazine.
Duck or rabbit- A simple psychometric testBabu Appat
D or R? is a simple psychological test to know how creative a person is. It can be self administered using this slide show. It also helps you to assess how skill are you to analyse the visual stimuli and arrive at decisions with quality. As you know the aptness of the decisions you arrive at on various occasion in your existence decides the nature of your life performance. Duck or Rabbit for the purpose of hiding a clue for the proper conduction of the test is mad D or R?
Diversity and inclusion in the workplace—The future for CGIARILRI
This document discusses diversity and inclusion in the CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research). It argues that diversity and inclusion are important for three reasons: research has shown companies with diverse workforces have higher financial returns; CGIAR is increasingly operating like a business and can benefit from diverse perspectives; and achieving global impacts requires understanding different partners and cultures. The document examines current diversity trends in CGIAR in terms of gender and nationality. It acknowledges there is limited data and calls for more measurement to help manage diversity. It suggests solutions for CGIAR's future like affirmative action, improving recruitment, retention, and training, and developing an "diversity ecosystem" with holistic change management. The key message is CGIAR's success requires recognizing,
This document discusses how cloud techniques can be used to reduce friction in software development. It identifies common problems in development such as estimation, quality, and communication. Problems in deployment include packaging, configuration, and testing. Runtime issues include monitoring, availability, and deploying patches. The cloud aims to simplify development and deployment through automation, flexible quality of service levels, and usage monitoring. Benefits of the cloud include push-based deployment, standardized configuration, multi-tenancy, and simplified runtime support. The document advocates exposing software components through RESTful APIs to control their lifecycle and integrate with cloud services.
There is a need to develop a regional order. Rather than developing new mechanism, it would be more efficient to develop existing mechanism to develop an East Asia regional order. The membership issue of the forum might prove important for the effectiveness of the forum to establish a regional order. The ARF with its broad membership might prove to be the most suitable mechanism to establish an East Asia Community to ensure peace and security not only in ASEAN, but the broader Asia and Pacific region.
The research team from TU Delft and DAT.Mobility worked on intelligently fusing data about pedestrian flows from different types of sensors (wifi, gps, counting cameras) to estimate crowd densities, travel speeds and flows at different routes of SAIL. Besides that, open social media platforms were crawled and analysed to get insight in demographics of the crowd and crowd sentiments at different hotspots of SAIL during the event. The collected data and state estimates can be used for more advanced and efficient crowd management support in the future. At SAIL 2015 we really focused on testing new sensor technologies, crowd data algorithms and analytics and assess whether they can be made useful and are reliable. This should give us insight in how we can improve crowd management of large events in cities in the future and provide visitors and citizens a more pleasurable experience.
The document discusses choosing a name and logo for a magazine. The author came up with different title ideas and put their top three favorites in a survey for classmates and friends to vote on. The name "Lazarus" received the most votes and was chosen for the magazine's title. Logo options were also put to a vote, with the first design winning by a large margin. This logo was also the author's personal favorite and will be used for the magazine.
Duck or rabbit- A simple psychometric testBabu Appat
D or R? is a simple psychological test to know how creative a person is. It can be self administered using this slide show. It also helps you to assess how skill are you to analyse the visual stimuli and arrive at decisions with quality. As you know the aptness of the decisions you arrive at on various occasion in your existence decides the nature of your life performance. Duck or Rabbit for the purpose of hiding a clue for the proper conduction of the test is mad D or R?
Diversity and inclusion in the workplace—The future for CGIARILRI
This document discusses diversity and inclusion in the CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research). It argues that diversity and inclusion are important for three reasons: research has shown companies with diverse workforces have higher financial returns; CGIAR is increasingly operating like a business and can benefit from diverse perspectives; and achieving global impacts requires understanding different partners and cultures. The document examines current diversity trends in CGIAR in terms of gender and nationality. It acknowledges there is limited data and calls for more measurement to help manage diversity. It suggests solutions for CGIAR's future like affirmative action, improving recruitment, retention, and training, and developing an "diversity ecosystem" with holistic change management. The key message is CGIAR's success requires recognizing,