This Saturday at The Science Circle

 

 Saturday March 9

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    At 10 AM PST   

    Ethics And Artificial Intelligence

    Presenter: Professor Giuseppe Longo

    https://www.sciencecircle.org/event/ai-ethics/

 

    The Science Circle (72,129,30)

      

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This Saturday at The Science Circle

 

 Saturday February 3

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    At 10 AM PST   

    Ethics And Artificial Intelligence

    Organizer: Professor Giusuppe Longo

    https://www.sciencecircle.org/event/ethics-ai/

 

    The Science Circle (72,129,30)

      

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    NOTE: Non-members required to register once

    IM Jes Cobalt or Nymf Hathaway

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Announcement: This Saturday at The Science Circle - "Artificial Intelligence? The Truth Behind a Fascinating Buzzword"

 

"Artificial Intelligence? The Truth Behind a Fascinating Buzzword"

Saturday October 23,

10 AM to 11 AM

Nowadays it is almost impossible to read newspapers or watch media without encountering the words “Artificial Intelligence or AI”. These words evoke in most people either scaring remembrances of sci-fi movies or anticipations of a bright future where human beings will be freed of any duty and will devote their time to leisure or personal growth. In the real world, AI has very little to do with what we normally perceive as intelligence. It is just a combination of powerful statistical methods, fast algorithms and great volumes of data. This combination is however very powerful and potentially the most powerful an also the most disruptive technology ever  invented.

Presentation by Giuseppe Longo

Auditorium

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Announcement: This Saturday at The Science Circle - "Kuhn: A Primer in Scientific Paradigm Shifts"

 

"Kuhn: A Primer in Scientific Paradigm Shifts"

Saturday November 28,

10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Thomas S. Khun is the author of "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: A brilliant, original analysis of the nature, causes, and consequences of revolutions in basic scientific concepts."

Guests

1. Stephen L. Gasior

2. Giuseppe Longo

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Announcement: This Saturday at The Science Circle - "Physics And Arts"

"Physics And Arts"

Saturday March 14

10 AM to 11 AM SL time

By Professor Giuseppe Longo

The talk will try to demonstrate, with many examples, that science and arts are much more entangled than what is commonly understood. Not only because arts make use of the most recent technological developments to create new forms of expressions, but also at a much deeper level. Both Sciences and Arts are in fact different ways to systematise and organize the perception of the world  and therefore reflect what in a given epoch can be called the “cultural paradigm”. Every time deep changes take place in this paradigm, equally deep changes take place in both Arts and Sciences. In some cases arts anticipates science and in others science anticipate Arts.
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Announcement: This Week At The Science Circle: "Big Data: Road to the Future or Just Weapons of Math Destruction?"

"Big Data: Road to the Future or Just Weapons of Math Destruction?"
Saturday June 23
10 AM - 11 AM PDT
By Professor Giuseppe Longo

Big Data are like the God Janus: on the one end they offer great advantages, make our lives easier by offering us unlimited possibility to better organize our work and our everyday life; they allow us to achieve a better understanding of the world around us and can be used to monitor and control the environment, in practice they are changing our world and our lives in ways which would have been unthinkable only a few years ago. 

On the other end, however, if ill used -either by negligence or on purpose- they can become “Weapons of Math Destruction” leading to wrong decisions which can badly affect the weakest and poorest part of our society. The Data Anlytics phenomenon is only the most recent case of misuse of big data.

More information about Giuseppe's presentation at https://www.sciencecircle.org/event/big-data-weapons-of-math-destruction/

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The Science Circle: "The Cold Case of SN 1054"

by Giuseppe Longo
February 4th
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST

One of the most thrilling events on the sky would be Supernova (SN) event. Here, we investigate possible causes for missing historical records of SN1054 in Europe. We reconstruct the European sky at the time of the event and found that the new “star” (SN1054) and planet Venus are on opposite sides of the sky.

Namely, we find that Venus was in the east and SN1054 was in the west, with the Sun sitting directly between the two equally bright objects, as documented in East-Asian records. In spite of the relevance of the phenomenon no record of it is found anywhere in the European chronicles.

We present a likely explanation of such silence. An explanation which is connected with the schism between the Catholic and the orthodox churches and with the excommunication of Astrology and astrologers.

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Announcement: This Week at the Science Circle

Saturday, June 10th at 10 AM PDT

“Planets and perception”
By Professor Giuseppe Longo, Italy

The talk focuses on some aspects of the history of astronomy which deal with the complex interaction between simple optical systems, human vision and atmospheric effects.

The talk will cover many interesting anecdotes: from the man on the Moon and the color of our satellite,to the color of Sirius, to the phases of Venus and the channels on Mars.

Behind each of these phenomena there are both interesting physics and an even more interesting social background.

More information about Giuseppe's presentation at https://sciencecircle.org/upcoming-saturday/

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Sunday, June 11th at 10 AM PDT

“New Genes from Old”
By Dr. Mary Anne Clarke, USA (SL Max Chatnoir)

Where do new genes come from?  The origins of genes probably  lie with events in RNA world, but since DNA became the primary genomic material, new genes seem to be derived from old genes — both transferring them from species to species and modifying gene copies within and between species.  We’ll look some examples of gene origins:  the production of simple alleles, the modification of gene copies, and the acquisition of genes from other species, and the construction of new genes from old DNA sequences.

More information about Mary Anne's presentation at https://sciencecircle.org/upcoming-sunday/ 

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Announcement: The Science Circle Presents “Measuring the Universe With Digital Surveys”

When: Saturday, February 18th
Time: 10 AM PST
In Voice and Text chat

By Giuseppe Longo

A large part of what we know about the cosmos comes from what the astronomers call “surveys”, i.e the imaging of large portion of the sky conducted in a systematic fashion and when possible in multiple colors. Survey astronomy requires dedicated telescopes finely tuned to cover a large field of view and large detectors capable to capture several square degrees of the sky at once.

In the past these surveys consisted mainly in huge archives of photographic plates which had to be visually inspected and analysed. Nowadays, large field digital detectors allow to acquire and store the information in digital form and this has caused a true revolution in field. The huge volume of data produced by an average survey is so large to make impossible for a single researcher or group of researchers to exploit all the scientific applications of the data and therefore data become immediately or almost immediately public thus allowing a large, worldwide community to access first quality data. The talk will try to outline these and other aspects of survey astronomy.

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Announcement: The Science Circle - “Measuring the Universe With Machine Learning Methods”

By Giuseppe Longo – Giulon Ragu

10 AM SL Time

 

Modern digital sky surveys produce terabytes of high quality data which can be used to achieve a panchromatic view of the Universe of unprecedented depth and complexity.

Hundreds of millions of galaxies are observed and the parameters describing their morphological and spectral properties are stored in large databases which are often accessible to the astronomical community at large.

One of the key issues to pursue the scientific goals of these surveys is to estimate with accuracy the distance (or the redshift) of these galaxies: a fact which cannot be done using traditional spectroscopic techniques but requires advanced methods capable to estimate the redshifts using photometric data alone.

A difficult task which can be achieved only exploiting the possibilities offered by the modern computer infrastructures and methods derived from the machine learning methodology.

The talk will outline the main problem of evaluating galaxy distances and will focus on the most modern methods used to derive the so called “photometric redshifts”.

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