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🎬Scenes from #eoscwinterschool2024 and interventions from EOSC Future! 👏 More insights to come on emerging trading zones between researchers and #RSIs across domains using #EOSC...in Europe and beyond!

Second year on the go, in a joint effort (EDYTEM, IPGP) to understand the evolution of Greece’s #alpinelandscapes under past and present #climatechange.

For those attending the Insights Association's Annual Conference in Atlanta, please be sure to make time to chat with OpinionRoute's Rich Ratcliff. Especially if you want to learn more about optimizing your survey data quality or survey operations. #mrx #surveyoperations #dataquality #marketresearch

From 6-8 September, the 50th edition of the The European House-Ambrosetti Forum, titled "Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy," took place in Cernobbio (Como, Lombardy), featuring the participation of Stefano Pontecorvo, Chairman of Leonardo, and Lorenzo Mariani, Co-General Manager of Leonardo.   During the event, the strategic study "Peace through security: the strategic role of digital technologies", conducted by #TEHA Group in collaboration with #Leonardo, was presented. This study aims to explore the role of digital technologies in ensuring international competitiveness and a leading geopolitical position for Europe.   As highlighted by Roberto Cingolani, CEO of Leonardo, in the preface of the document, "Leonardo’s support for this study is intended to be a concrete and purposeful contribution to foster the evolution of the European strategic vision in the face of ongoing global changes, with the goal of being able to contribute to a safer future for all citizens of Italy, Europe and around the world."   Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dbAxr7hH

📣| HAPPENING NOW Stellar experts Marco Aliberti, Giulia Pavesi and Kai-Uwe Schrogl discuss how space assets are crucial for the EU's autonomous external actions and what challenges loom on the horizon, in a panel moderated by Gustavo G. Müller 👇 engage-eu.eu/e14

Our first event participation was a huge success, but it also revealed some interesting dynamics... We were honored to participate in the Hello Space festival, where students and seniors from across the country gathered. This event provided us with a valuable opportunity to raise awareness about the growing potential of recent AI innovations. During the event, we learned just how much students were using AI to help them with their schoolwork. Nearly all of our interactions revealed that students are currently or have previously used ChatGPT. We expected that many would have used it, but not at this scale. It's evident that AI already plays a significant role in the next generation's academic approach. We recognize that the primary LLM utilized by students, currently ChatGPT 3.5, is susceptible to inaccuracies. This presents a considerable risk, given that many students regard it as a reliable source of information. The handouts we distributed to students contained concise, practical prompting techniques, including role and context specification, and Chain of Thought reasoning. While these methods can indeed reduce inaccuracies, they do not completely eliminate them. This experience underscores a global imperative to educate students on the responsible use of AI tools and the importance of critical thinking in the digital age.

🌱 Curious about the Forest NavigatorEU project? 🌱 🌳 Yesterday, IIASA researcher Dr. André (Mahdi) Nakhavali shared insights from the team's work at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2024 conference.   🌲 ForestNavigator explores how European forests can help fight #ClimateChange and support sustainable economies. By analyzing different policies and their impact, it guides decision makers on the best ways to manage forests and use forest resources wisely.   🌳 Learn more ➡ https://lnkd.in/dzebGVNf

𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲-𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗼 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗧𝗼 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗼 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗔 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗲 Space-Comm Expo Scotland is just four weeks away with the inaugural event attracting global leaders and industry experts from across government, defence, business and academia to SEC Glasgow 11-12 Sep. Over 3,000 attendees are expected with 70 exhibitors and 60 speakers for the biggest space industry event ever held in Scotland, exploring new frontiers for a new space age driven by government and commercial collaboration. The World Economic Forum predicts the global space economy will be worth $1.8 trillion by 2035 up from $630 billion in 2023. The Expo will showcase one of the UK’s most dynamic growth sectors with Scotland at the forefront of ambitions to be Europe’s leading space nation. Scotland is home to over 180 space companies, world leading research and academic institutions, multiple spaceports, builds more satellites than any other country in Europe and has vertical launch ambitions before the end of 2024.

Because learning never stops

Over the past few weeks I have been learning PyTorch. As part of that, I have followed tutorials where I build simple classification models or use transfer learning. After attending this talk what really stood out was just how much more complexity and ambiguity exists in a real world application as opposed to in a tutorial / toy example. Granted, the point of the tutorial is to equip one with an understanding of the tool so it naturally limits the complexity. Specifically, two areas of the ML pipeline stood out to me: 1) Data requires much much more preprocessing and strutinizing as opposed to having a ready made dataset that you can convert into a PyTorch dataset and data loader. 2) GPU costs really start adding up unlike when you’re training a model on colab. All in all an educative session, even if I didn’t follow everything. Looking forward to another session by Cohere For AI where a Google DeepMind researcher will be talking about neural network interpretability!