@yaxu is there any guidelines somewhere to put in place such environmental friendly policy for conference? And how to measure environmental of conferences?
Conference CFP: Rethinking the Inevitability of AI: The Environmental and Social Impacts of Computing in Historical Context
April 22, 2024: 300-500 word paper proposals due
July 18, 2024: Date of online conference
Submit your fabulous work!
https://uva.theopenscholar.com/rethinking-the-inevitability-of-ai/
@amoroso look quite similar to Smalltalk environment where you modify your object in the memory, not as files.
L'incroyable Niklaus Wirth vient de mourir, son travail méritait bien qu'on revienne sur sa vision de la simplicité et de l'optimisation : https://www.standblog.org/blog/post/2024/01/05/Deces-de-Niklaus-Wirth cc @sroccaserra
A Cormas model for driftwood collection presented at MISS ABMS by François Vendel and Sorebou Hilaire Sanni Worogo
The same agent-based model implemented in three different platforms: Cormas, Gamma, and NetLogo
New release of Cormas v0.7 🥳
Most important changes:
- Improved the implementation of the space view, fixed important bugs
- Fixed the translation, added new languages (Ukrainian, Polish, Norvegian)
- Added Language item to the menu
- Fixed some important UI bugs
- Reduced dependency on ProjectFramefork
- Increased test coverage from 26% to 36%
For more details, see the Changelog:
https://github.com/cormas/cormas/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v07-18-august-2023
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Editorial by Nature [1] on the #OpenLetter to combat global #inequality to the #UN secretary general and #WorldBank president (https://equalshope.org/index.php/2023/07/17/setting-serious-goals-to-combat-inequality )
From the open letter:
"We are living through a time of extraordinarily high economic inequality. Extreme #poverty and extreme wealth have risen sharply and simultaneously for the first time in 25 years. Between 2019 and 2020, global inequality grew more rapidly than at any time since #WW2."
From Open Source Initiative @osi : LLAMA2 license is NOT Open Source.
Surprised? 😐
https://blog.opensource.org/metas-llama-2-license-is-not-open-source/
Our Institute in Macau is the first among United Nations University Institutes to move to the new UNU website: https://unu.edu/macau
Soon more update information on our research activities.
Cormas v0.6 is out 🥳
Most important changes:
- We now use traits (TCMLocated, TCMCommunicating) instead of the hierarchy of agents (CMLocatedCommunicatingAgent)
- All deme models were moved into separate repositories
For more details, see the Changelog:
https://github.com/cormas/cormas/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v06-25-july-2023
We (@emilymbender, @mmitchell_ai and I) are organizing a virtual Stochastic Parrots Day on March 17. We thought it was time for a retrospective, & plan to discuss the current landscape, how we got here & where we need to go instead. Sign up below to join us.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stochastic-parrots-day-tickets-524219965027
Don't forget to join our career information session next Monday to learn more about our new research positions. Join our multi-disciplinary research team at @UNUMACAU to work on how collective intelligence can leverage a sustainable future
#computationalsocialscience #SDG #responsibleAI #sustainability #complexsystems
https://cs.unu.edu/events/archive/event/unu-macau-research-career-information-sessions-2.html
The Institute has recently developed its Strategic Plan (2021-2025), where systems thinking, and participatory approaches are the two major pillars of the research portfolio https://go.unu.edu/DZBVR
🇺🇳🇲🇴🇫🇷 Computer Science PhD, Head of Research at United Nations University #SDG #sustainability #complexsystems #responsibleAI #opensource
Still on Twitter for the moment: https://twitter.com/SergeStinckwich