Serge Stinckwich @SergeStinckwich@qoto.org

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/

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

#cormas #pharo #missabms23 #abm

Mouhamadou Falilou Ball from UMMISCO, Senegal is presenting his Cormas model for fighting dengue fever by controlling the population of mosquitoes

#cormas #pharo #missabms23 #abm #ummisco #senegal

The same agent-based model implemented in three different platforms: Cormas, Gamma, and NetLogo

#cormas #missabms23 #pharo #abm

Marquinha Martins from São Tomé and Príncipe is presenting her Cormas model of circular economy at MISS ABMS summer school in Montpellier

#cormas #pharo #abm

Agent-based Modelling in Pharo using Cormas by @oleks42 at #esug2023

Support people in their agency @oleks42 at #esug2023

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

#pharo #cormas #abm #programming

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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/

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