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Title: Decision Heuristics: Myths, Misconceptions, and Practical Uses in Robotics and AI Abstract: When we have to make a decision, should we trust our instinct or should we deliberate carefully before we act? What should we do when we design AI systems to make decisions automatically? Is there really no way to think both […]
Changing the visual design mid-way in a video project is quite unusual, but pivoting to a softer animation style with stick figures proved successful for both the client and us.
We are very much looking forward to welcoming colleagues to Edinburgh for the one-day symposium on Classical Literature in the Renaissance on Tuesday 9 June. The day’s events will begin at 10:00 am in the Meadows Lecture Theatre in the Old Medical School (Doorway 4), Teviot Place, Edinburgh. The first session will feature a talk […]
Recently, I’ve been working on the mobility of queens in medieval Europe. As I think through the issues, I decided a quantitative angle might be valuable. To that end, I’ve made a list of 104 marriages through which a woman become a queen of a “different country”, 900-1150, with help from the Bluesky community.* Obviously […]
Supervisors: Dr Mark Naylor, Prof Hugh Sinclair, Dr Stella Pytharouli, Calum Cuthill Summary You will improve and test our prototype arduino based low-cost seismic logger which is designed for meduim-term deployments, with telemetry, in harsh environments such as debris flow sites. Project background Seismology can be used to monitor the initiation and evolution of various […]
February 2021 brought the coldest weather (and best ski season) for 10 years to the highlands of Scotland. Much of this was due to Storm Darcy (the Beast from the East II) a low pressure weather system of cold air pushed from Russia and Eastern Europe. The geo narrative i explore in Thawsonification is how […]
