Fostering an Accessibility Culture, by @dadederk (@smashingmag):
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/fostering-accessibility-culture/
Shape Up:
Want to pin https://archive.fo/fK0nW to this thread, as the author has quite specific views:
“It’s challenging to call Shape Up agile. In my opinion, it violates its principles by introducing unnecessary constraints to the decision-making process.”
“I feel that the Shape Up architects have never understood the principles of the agile working environment.”
(I’m a skeptic, but I’m also interested in hearing about success stories.)
Why I Value Firebreak Sprints for Managing Technical Debt, by @trevorlasn.bsky.social:
#Zoomposium with Dr. #Patrick #Krauß: Building instructions for #artificial #consciousness
Transferring the various stages of #Damasio's #theory of consciousness 1:1 into concrete #schematics for #deeplearning. To this end, strategies such as #feedforward connections, #recurrent #connections in the form of #reinforcement learning and #unsupervised #learning are used to simulate the #biological #processes of the #neuronal #networks.
More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/10/24/bauanleitung-kuenstliches-bewusstsein/
Reading Material With Lunch, Etc – Getting Back To My Roots
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https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429270284 | Thornes, J. B., Brunsden, D. (1977). Geomorphology and time. London: Methuen
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I saw this book on another post - and so went and found a copy at a 2nd hand book shop…
Looking forward to lunches at work with a cup of tea and maybe a couple of rainy Sundays at home…
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#geomorphology #text #book #landforms #learning #refamiliarisation #readingforpleasure #framework #model #processes #geology #water #hydrology #weather #climate #erosion #time #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #temporal #qualitative #quantitative #change #stochastic #evolution
#Zoomposium with Dr. #Patrick #Krauß: Building instructions for #artificial #consciousness
Transferring the various stages of #Damasio's #theory of consciousness 1:1 into concrete #schematics for #deeplearning. To this end, strategies such as #feedforward connections, #recurrent #connections in the form of #reinforcement learning and #unsupervised #learning are used to simulate the #biological #processes of the #neuronal #networks.
More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/10/24/bauanleitung-kuenstliches-bewusstsein/
#Zoomposium with Dr. #Patrick #Krauß: Building instructions for #artificial #consciousness
Transferring the various stages of Damasio's theory of consciousness 1:1 into concrete #schematics for #deep #learning. To this end, strategies such as #feed-forward connections, #recurrent #connections in the form of #reinforcement learning and #unsupervised learning are used to simulate the #biological #processes of the #neuronal #networks.
More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/10/24/bauanleitung-kuenstliches-bewusstsein/
Quality Humor - Documents in a business are living and need to be updated as changes occur or if more efficient methods are found. #documents #processes #humor #quality #business #methods #change
From the archives:
“Web Design as a Process” in Charts: Maintenance, Decay, Tech Debt, and Big Bang Launching:
When We Need Systems, Processes, and Conventions:
Oh the bore.
#News 
from #AI #research 
: “How #ChatGPT 
can benefit from human #brains 
- or how we teach #machines 
to #think 
”
My colleague #Axel #Stöcker and I have already been able to conduct some very exciting interviews on this very topic in our #Zoomposium series “#Artificial #intelligence and its consequences” and “#Cognitive #neuroscience and #epistemology”.
One “highlight”, for example, was the very exciting interview “Zoomposium with Dr. #Patrick #Krauss: ‘Bauanleitung Künstliches Bewusstsein’“, in which we asked him about the possibilities of ‘how the #theories of #consciousness - especially those of #Antonio #Damasio - could be used to develop artificial systems based on ’#felt” #information. This foundation could be used to #machine #learning and #deep #learning so that #AI #systems learn to respond to #emotions and #changes in their #environment in a similar way to #biological #organisms.
In this context #Patrick #Krauss was also currently at the „#Embodied and #Situated #Language #Processing (#ESLP2024) conference from 03 to 05 October 2024, which was organized by members of the „#Brain #Language #Lab“ of the #FreienUniversitätBerlin. There he had the opportunity to present the latest research results together with his team from #FAU.
One of #Patrick #Krauss talks was about a study „Analyzing Narrative Processing in Large Language Models”, which he had conducted in collaboration with his colleague #Achim #Schilling. The results of this study are partly based on an article “Leaky-Integrate-and-Fire Neuron-Like Long-Short-Term-Memory Units as Model System in Computational Biology”, for which he and his team were awarded the #BestPaperAward at the „International Jount Conference on Neural Networks #IJCNN2023”, the world's largest interdisciplinary conference on #artificial and #biological #neural #networks.
These current results from AI research of #Patrick #Krauss are therefore a real „jointventure” between #AI and #neuroscience, as the data and methods can contribute directly to the improvement of #large #language #models (#LLM), such as #ChatGPT, and in return the #cognitive #neurosciences can also learn something about the use and formation of #language in the #brain from this #implementation and #simulation of #cognitive #processes on #machines.
If you would like to learn more about #Patrick #Krauss ' very interesting #research #results, you can find out more here:
https://www.ai.fau.digital/speakers/dr-patrick-kraus/
or at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/10/24/bauanleitung-kuenstliches-bewusstsein/
#News from #AI #research : “How #ChatGPT can benefit from human #brains - or how we teach #machines to #think ”
These current results from AI research of #Patrick #Krauss are therefore a real „jointventure” between #AI and #neuroscience, as the data and methods can contribute directly to the improvement of #large #language #models (#LLM), such as #ChatGPT, and in return the #cognitive #neurosciences can also learn something about the use and formation of #language in the #brain from this #implementation and #simulation of #cognitive #processes on #machines.
If you would like to learn more about #Patrick #Krauss ' very interesting #research #results, you can find out more here:
https://www.ai.fau.digital/speakers/dr-patrick-kraus/
or at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/10/24/bauanleitung-kuenstliches-bewusstsein/
Linking Inca Terraces With Landslide Occurrence In The Ticsani Valley, Peru
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https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences14110315 <-- shared paper
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[takes me back to my engineering geology days in the Southern Hemisphere, including my thesis – with a healthy dose of spatial analysis and modeling – and all with a specific use; what is not to like?]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #landslides #massmovement #Inca #Andes #irrigation #terraces #Peru #SouthAmerica #confusionmatrix #logisticregression #geohazards #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #terracing #water #hydrology #surfaceflow #geomechanical #geotechnical #Ticsani #algorithm #processes #geostatistics #river #slope #agriculture #farming #soils #geology #risk #hazard #publicsafety #fem #model #modeling #rainfall #precipitation #permeability #groundwater #subsurfaceflow #instability #fluvial #erosion
![imagery / map / schematic cross-section - (A) A 3D view of the San Cristobal landslide. (B) A 1:50,000 geological map of the landslide area, modified from [33]. Ki-mat = Matalaque Fm. P-Pi = Puno Fm. Q-pl = colluvial deposits, debris avalanche. Qp-vl-pi = pyroclastic deposits. Red line marks the topographic cross-section shown in A. (C) Cross-section of the San Cristobal landslide with estimated base groundwater conditions (blue) and materials boundaries (green) to be used for modeling and interpreted potential failure surfaces (dashed red).](https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/113/529/353/200/651/116/original/4c7094bbcfb5f7b1.jpg "imagery / map / schematic cross-section - (A) A 3D view of the San Cristobal landslide. (B) A 1:50,000 geological map of the landslide area, modified from [33]. Ki-mat = Matalaque Fm. P-Pi = Puno Fm. Q-pl = colluvial deposits, debris avalanche. Qp-vl-pi = pyroclastic deposits. Red line marks the topographic cross-section shown in A. (C) Cross-section of the San Cristobal landslide with estimated base groundwater conditions (blue) and materials boundaries (green) to be used for modeling and interpreted potential failure surfaces (dashed red).")
@data @datadon
"Obtaining the data is a hard human problem. That is, 'people don’t want to give it to you'."
You can "use your allies on the bottom (front-line workers) and the top (executives) to squeeze out your opponents in the middle (managers, often in IT or data science departments").
Sarah Constantin: https://sarahconstantin.substack.com/p/the-great-data-integration-schlep
#Konfus says if you want to maximise #waste, build modest #processes and ignore the impact on everyone involved. Make their work in the process more difficult with all available means and obstacles instead of making it easier. Always ignore all hints to #improve and simplify the process and #processquality. Constantly add new obstacles that contribute to deterioration.
On the Gift of OKR for Company Culture:
“OKR,” short for aspiration, candor, and accountability.
Kihbernetic #System with 
fundamental #Processes: a recursive #Autopoietic self-production for growth and learning, and a linear #Allopoietic production of "other things", such as behavior and waste, distributed in
Control #Levels, of #Regulation, immersed in, and dealing with things in the system's environment, #Control for managing the workload of different regulators, and #Guidance to provide long-term goals and preserve the identity of the system, all using
#Variables: sensory #Input of data and other resources, motor #Output of behavior, #Information as the difference that will make a difference in the subsequent (updated) #Knowledge state, all interconnecting
#Functions: the #Control-ed #Reaction to external stimuli, the #Perception of sensory states, the #Prediction of the expected outcome of past behavior, and the repeated #Integration of new information into an updated knowledge state.
In this post, I’ll argue for the Need for #Facilitation in the sense that — if #designers want to influence the #decisions that shape #strategy — they must become skilled #facilitators that respond, encourage, guide, and #coach as they guide individuals and groups to make #decisions that are critical in the #business world through effective #processes.
https://www.designative.info/2021/04/04/strategy-and-the-need-of-facilitation/
Greg Cocks 
