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A recurring theme in metaheuristics research is to consider the balance between Exploration and Exploitation. An often forgotten area of research is the effect of Selection on Search/Exploration. A method of selection that rejects all exploratory search solutions can cause any metaheuristic to stall, and elitist fitness-based selection in continuous domains often behaves in this fashion. A building body of research suggests that alternate methods of selection are required, and that these methods of selection should be specifically matched to the employed methods of exploration.
We invite all interested researchers to join our workshop to expand upon related research topics such as
- Benchmark problems for exploration
- Methods for exploration (and their verification)
- Observation of optima hopping behaviours in metaheuristics
- Comparison of selection in combinatorial and continuous domains
- Measurements of stall and/or selection errors
- Non-fitness based methods of selection (for exploration)
- A review of selection
Workshop participation is open to all conference attendees. If you would like to present relevant research during a plenary session of the workshop, please contact the organizers:
Stephen Chen, Associate Professor, School of Information Technology, York University, Canada
Marjan Mernik, Professor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Slovenia
We look forward to seeing you in Yokohama!
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to inform you that the Department of Petroleum Engineering and Exploration at North Fluminense State University Darcy Ribeiro, Campus Prof. Carlos Alberto Dias, in Macaé, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, is hosting the prestigious 16th International Conference on Integral Methods in Science and Engineering. This conference is of significant importance in our field and will be held from August 5 to August 9, 2024.
We extend a warm invitation for you to participate actively in this esteemed gathering. Your valuable insights, research findings, and innovative ideas will significantly enrich the discussions and outcomes of the conference. We eagerly await the submission of your presentation abstract.
For registration and further details, please visit the conference website: https://www.even3.com.br/16th-international-conference-on-integral-methods-in-science-and-engineering-447097/
We are looking forward to your valuable contribution to the success of our conference.
Best Regards,
Adolfo P. Pires (UENF) puime@lenep.uenf.br, Local Organizing Committee Chairman
Alvaro M. M. Peres (UENF) alvaroperes@lenep.uenf.br, Local Organizing Committee Member
Bardo E. J. Bodmann (UFRGS) bardo.bodmann@ufrgs.br, Local Organizing Committee Member
Bruno José Vicente (UENF) brunojose@uenf.br, Local Organizing Committee Member
Viatcheslav I. Priimenko (UENF) slava@lenep.uenf.br, Local Organizing Committee Member
We invite discussions, suggestions, and collaborations on the following: Mathematics is the mother of all the sciences, engineering and technology, and a normed division algebra of all dimensions is the holy grail of mathematics. Singh along with Prof. SD Joshi (IIT Delhi) and Prof. Anubha Gupta (IIIT Delhi) developed normed division algebra of all dimensions which is available in preprint at: https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.18553.65120/3
A summary of "On the hypercomplex numbers and normed division algebra of all dimensions: A unified multiplication":
Key Points:
- Expanding Number Systems: The paper proposes a way to create hypercomplex numbers (numbers with more than two dimensions) that extend the traditional complex numbers.
- Overcoming Dimension Limitations: It challenges the previous belief that only four real division algebras exist (with dimensions 1, 2, 4, and 8).
- Unified Multiplication: It introduces a new multiplication method, called "scaling and rotative multiplication," that enables the formation of normed division algebras in any finite dimension.
- Key Properties:These hypercomplex number systems are non-distributive, meaning that the usual distributive property of multiplication over addition doesn't hold. They are compatible with existing multiplication for dimensions 1 and 2, meaning they smoothly extend complex numbers.
Potential Implications:
- Broader Mathematical Applications: This work could lead to new developments in various mathematical fields, such as abstract algebra, geometry, and analysis.
- New Frontiers in Physics and Engineering: Hypercomplex numbers have a history of applications in physics and engineering, so this expansion could open up new possibilities in those areas.
Next Steps:
- Further Exploration: Further research is needed to explore the properties and potential applications of these generalized hypercomplex numbers and their associated algebras.
- Rigorous Evaluation: The mathematical community will need to carefully evaluate the proposed multiplication method and its implications.
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Collaborations between mathematicians, physicists, and engineers could help uncover new applications for these generalized number systems.
This is an ongoing developing project across national borders to explore what is common and what differs in difference social, academic and linguistic systems so please raise questions for us.
What if it were scientifically confirmed that there are other life forms in the Universe on distant exoplanets, including other intelligent life forms?
What if it were scientifically confirmed that in the Universe there are thousands of exoplanets similar to our planet Earth other exoplanets many millions of light years away where other life forms exist, including other intelligent life forms would this change your understanding of the essence of humanity and the role, importance of man in the Universe, the desirability of his existence, the possible desirability of the process of evolution of life, etc.?
Just as centuries ago, the change from a geocentric to a heliocentric system of planetary and solar bodies in the system now known as the solar system was fundamental to the understanding of the role of man in the Universe, etc.? Yes in the future, when it is scientifically confirmed that in the Universe there are thousands of other exoplanets similar to our planet Earth, many millions of light years distant, on which there are other forms of life, including intelligent life forms this will also probably prove to be a breakthrough in the understanding of the essence of humanity and the role, importance of man in the Universe, the purposefulness of his existence, the possible purposefulness of the process of evolution of life, etc.
In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:
If it were scientifically confirmed that in the Universe there are thousands of exoplanets similar to our planet Earth, other exoplanets many millions of light years distant, on which there are other life forms, including other intelligent life forms, would this change your understanding of the essence of humanity and the role, importance of man in the Universe, the desirability of his existence, the possible desirability of the process of evolution of life, etc.?
What if it were scientifically confirmed that there are other life forms in the Universe on distant exoplanets, including other intelligent life forms?
And what is your opinion on this subject?
What is your opinion on this issue?
Please answer,
I invite everyone to join the discussion,
Thank you very much,
Best wishes,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
A Qualitative Exploration of the Experiences of Working Parents is a research project aimed at gaining a deeper understanding of the challenges and experiences of working parents with the increasing demands of both work and family especially wives in Somaliland. many parents find themselves struggling to balance their responsibilities and maintain a healthy work-life balance.
The purpose of this research is to explore the experiences of working parents, their challenges, coping practices, and the impact of employment on parenting and vice versa and identify ways in which policy makers and practitioners can better support working parents.
I am a Ph. D. Research Scholar, and I require collaboration for research activity in the field of Neolithic-Megalithic Cultures of Kashmir valley. The collaborative research includes scientific exploration, Site catchment analysis, ethnoarchaeology, documentation, and trial trenches in the valley of Kashmir. I can manage the logging, traveling, and food for the collaborators. But, I need the equipment for scientific exploration, documentation, and mapping.
Interested research scholars can email at aadil.hist15@gmail.com for more details.
With the James Webb Telescope, will we learn the answer to age-old questions about the existence of extraterrestrial life forms, other life forms, intelligent other living beings, other civilisations operating on exoplanets billions of light years away, located in other planetary systems, in other constellations, other stellar constellations, located in other galaxies, galactic nebulae, etc.?
For centuries, man has been searching for an answer to the question of whether life originated and developed only on planet Earth, or whether it originated beyond Earth and came to Earth, e.g. whether life originated and developed only on planet Earth, whether it originated beyond Earth and came to Earth, e.g. in the form of simple microorganisms in the rocks of meteorites falling to Earth, whether it also developed in many other places in the Universe, whether life also developed, used to function and/or still functions, whether other forms of life developed, whether other intelligent life forms developed, whether these other intelligent life forms have created other civilisations on other exoplanets many millions of light years distant, located in other planetary systems, in other constellations, other star constellations, located in other galaxies, galactic nebulae, etc.? ? For several decades now, as man has been building ever more perfect space telescopes and listening for sounds from distant corners of the Universe, the possibilities of answering these questions have been gradually increasing. On the one hand, cosmologists, astronomers, researchers into astrophysics, the biosphere of the cosmos, etc., are trying to estimate the number of exoplanets which are at a similar distance from their suns as the planet Earth, have a sufficiently abundant amount of various elements and chemical compounds, and have the potential for the emergence of at least simple forms of life. On the other hand, it has still not been possible to hear a sound from space that would be evidence of the existence of another civilisation. It has still not been possible to photograph exoplanets millions of light years away in such a way, with sufficiently close-ups in the photographs, that traces of other life forms can be seen. But technological advances in the possibilities of space exploration and research are continuing relentlessly. Recently, the most advanced space telescope to date, called the James Webb telescope, was placed in Earth's orbit. The James Webb Telescope is currently the most perfect device ever created by man to photograph distant cosmic objects, distant galaxies, constellations, planetary systems and also exoplanets, millions and billions of light years away. This telescope is superior to the previously used Hubble Telescope for infrared observations. The James Webb Space Telescope was built between 2007 and 2021 a space telescope for observing and taking pictures of distant space objects mainly in the infrared. In a sense (observing the Cosmos only in the infrared range), the James Webb Space Telescope is intended to be the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. Overseen and largely funded by NASA, the project was developed in collaboration with ESA and the CSA. With the James Webb Telescope, it is possible to photograph and study exoplanets located in other planetary systems, in other constellations and to photograph distant galaxies up to 13 billion light years away from Earth. As a result, the James Webb Telescope is already being described as a kind of cosmic time machine, as it takes pictures of galaxies billions of light years away, the photographed image of which shows these galaxies as they looked those billions of years ago. The James Webb Space Telescope was placed into Earth's orbit at the end of 2021, and to date has photographed many cosmic objects that were previously virtually invisible to humans in any way. The date for the launch of this telescope has been postponed several times since 2007, because due to the global financial crisis of 2008 and other economic issues, there was not enough money to complete the project in the previous years before 2021. The cost of building the James Webb Space Telescope was estimated to be around USD 10 billion. In view of the above, the James Webb Space Telescope is the most powerful telescope ever built by man to be placed in Earth's orbit and the most perfect device for taking photographs of space objects billions of light years away. Perhaps, thanks to the James Webb telescope, man will finally get an answer to the above questions.
In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:
With the James Webb Telescope, will we learn the answer to the age-old questions regarding the existence of extraterrestrial life forms, other life forms, intelligent other living beings, other civilizations operating on exoplanets billions of light years away, located in other planetary systems, in other constellations, other stellar constellations, located in other galaxies, galactic nebulae, etc.?
What do you think?
What is your opinion on this subject?
Please respond,
I invite you all to discuss,
Thank you very much,
Best regards,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
Or, by what formal means can we comprehend and communicate the nature of Nature?
From Mathematics: Nature and physics are “independent of mathematics”
From Physics: “We need the criteria of something that actually works, not just math rigor.”
“I appear to be caught between two successful disciplines, mathematics and science - rigor and usable results.”
[For full versions of the quotes in justice to the individuals review “What Is a Linear Representation of an Essentially Quadratic Phenomenon?” in Q&A on ResearchGate. Applied Mathematics is not specifically mentioned in the posts there.]
There exist phenomena in nature, for example kinetic energy of a mass in motion, which may be represented by the product of the mass times its present velocity times the linear average of its velocity between zero and its present value (K.E. = m*v*v/2 to clarify.) Now, ignoring the abstractions of mathematics and the accurate-enough theories of physics, what are the axes of any space in which kinetic energy may be plotted, noting that in that space energy is represented by a volume, area times length, and the area may be linearized with v as the square root of the area? Note that two axes of v and v/2 are needed to plot the area. What’s up? What are area and length in nature that are plotted in such a space? Is it significant in the natural process that v*v is an area in the plot? Is energy an essentially quadratic phenomenon of nature, or even essentially cubic? Are these matters so answered already they may be dismissed, or may some of us explore them for the insight that may bloom (flowers “blow” in some poems)?
These are questions of Natural Philosophy in the mind of a person that are not answered by the rigid explanations of the current state of ignorance that feels so knowing in each era. Aristotle’s view was great in his time, like ours is to us now. (The accepted solution is for an academic to fix the person who errs with an inoculation of facts “it is known that,” a familiar experience. In Charles Ives musical work, “The Unanswered Question,” the trumpet remained curious after the explanations.)
Looking to the 4thmillennium in the Gregorian calendar, will this inquiry have been resolved as natural processes are then comprehended? Given scales and data a number may be assigned to a measured kinetic energy that is accompanied by units to associate it with nature. The issue seems moot, but in fact, . . .
The Schrodinger Eqn. is a linear representation used in calculation that must be squared to be real, that is, the real result is a squared value, calling it quadratic will serve. The square root of two is formal, but the Schrodinger Equation produces a real value in the end after multiplication by its complex conjugate, “squaring.” The physicist is correct that in Physics it doesn’t matter “what the imaginary solution was” during calculation since only the result matters and other representations exist. Is that okay with you? I wonder, since another formal linear representation of an essentially quadratic phenomenon, the square root of two, cannot be written down as a completed decimal value, and during processing the imaginary Schrodinger expression requires representation as an area via a + bi, or (a, b), or . . ., which expressions are not real.
[Remember – ResearchGate encourages discovery, as if current knowledge could not only be incremented, but also that a new arena for thought could be discovered. “It is known that” must not be the whole answer, and exploration is in the charter.]
So, by what formal means can we comprehend and communicate the nature of Nature?
Happy Trails, Len
I was looking for a mass budget on a subsystem level of Orion spacecraft, i.e. a listing of its mass and the contributions of the different subsystems, especially life support and structure. Does anyone know if something like this has been published?
The reference guide of NASA does not have one.
Hello, I am trying to use mdpocket (from fpocket 3.0) to analyze pockets in a MD trajectory. I am in the Pocket Exploration stage. I have a .nc trajectory file, and am trying to run fpocket on it. However, in the output, the trajectory is not aligned with my structures, even though they are centered. I think this might be because I am indicating the initial MD structure as the pdb topology file, a required parameter. I thought the point of using fpocket 3.0 was that we no longer needed pdb files, only trajectory files. What should the input pdb topology for the -f flag file be?
Currently, drugs are being used to inhibit gastric cancer, and pathways are being explored in terms of mechanism. There are many articles on the mechanism of gastric cancer, but I do not know how to choose them.Ask for advice,thank you very much.
(A)What is Exploitation and Exploration in Optimization Algorithms? (B) Describe the local and global search for the PSO, GA, ABC and ACO algorithms and compare them.
Can anyone recommend articles on the topic: Recent Advances on Natural Gas Hydrate Exploration
Dear All,
Recently, I have looked into the Web in search for some works on Search And Rescue or guarding strategies. I have found some works related to UAV exploration in urban environment or SAR disaster site exploration. But, it was not what I really meant.
I wonder if there is any up-to-date literature (analytical, mathematical, physical, simulations maybe?) devoted to search and rescue or guarding, e.g., on the sea. I recall the stories from the time of WWII when allied vessels, after loosing contact with the submarine, started to move in circles with increasing radius. Also, there were special books prepared by mathematicians describing sequences of random turns to avoid being hit by a torpedo.
Do you know if there were any advances in the topic since then? Where the strategies using by modern SAR service are taken from?
Regards,
Michal
From the announcements of politicians, it appears that in a few years manned expeditions to the Moon will resume. On the Earth's moon, bases will be established for the preparation of a man's expedition to Mars, which may already be carried out in a dozen or so years. Manned expeditions to Mars in the perspective of a dozen or so years have already announced the US and China.
So there is a rivalry in the field of who will first make a manned trip to Mars. Will it be a similar competition as in the 1970s between the US and the USSR in the area of the then competing programs of the planned and implemented manned expedition to the Moon.
Or maybe a manned expedition to Mars will not be a competition between the biggest economic and technological powers of the world? Perhaps these planned further cosmic manned expeditions will be international expeditions, will be implemented as part of international cooperation and co-operation, and the crew of cosmonauts will be a crew composed of representatives of various countries?
What is your opinion on this matter? Should a manned space expedition to Mars be conducted as part of the international competition between competing countries or rather as part of international cooperation and cooperation?
Do you agree with me on the above matter?
In the context of the above issues, I am asking you the following question:
Is the planned space manned expedition to Mars a result of the rivalry between economic powers or their cooperation?
Please reply
I invite you to the discussion
Thank you very much
Best wishes
Do you think that man will ever leave our solar system?
Please, answer, comments.
I invite you to the discussion.
Best wishes
I have three different exploration categorical groups and need to check the difference between each category. For this, I have used the Kruskal wallies -H test which uses to test the difference between each group.
The categories were measured by several indicators and I need to test whether there is any difference between the scores generated by each indicator. ( but not within the categories).
E.g Exploration categories- A, B, C
measurement of the category "A" - Indicator 1(measured by Likert scale), Indicator 2 (measured by Likert scale), Indicator 3(measured by Likert scale).
Q1.Differences between each category were measured by the Kruskal wallies -H test. Is this correct?
Q2-What should I use to measure the difference between indicators- as these are related, can I use Friedman's mean rank?
Q3-what does Kolmogorov–Smirnov test generate? can I use it to test any of the above?
I know there's WellCAD, but I was wondering what alternatives there are.
Various metaheuristic optimization algorithms with different inspiration sources have been proposed in recent past decades. Unlike mathematical methods, metaheuristics do not require any gradient information and are not dependent on the starting point. Furthermore, they are suitable for complex, nonlinear, and non-convex search spaces, especially when near-global optimum solutions are sought after using limited computational effort. However, some of these metaheuristics are trapped in a local optimum and are not able to escape out, for example. For this purpose, numerous researchers focus on adding efficient mechanisms for enhancing the performance of the standard version of the metaheuristics. Some of them are addressed in the following references:
I will be grateful If anyone can help me to find other efficient mechanisms.
Thanks in advance.
Large amounts of research focus on the balance between Exploration and Exploitation. However, this omits the power of Selection which can turn any metaheuristic into a hill climber by rejecting all exploratory search solutions.
To engage the broader research community in this important discussion, we are organizing a Workshop on Selection to be held at CEC2021 in Krakow, Poland. Please consider participating in our event or on our project page.
List the critical solved and unsolved global/constrained/complex optimization problems, combinatorial and engineering problems?
Metaheuristic algorithms can be classified in many ways
Several Metaheuristic algorithms are proposed to solve different optimization problems, but the solved is resolved and the unsolved is still unsolved.
List the unsolved problem or the critical solved problem that need an optimal solution to help the researcher to solve the unsolved problems.
Thanks for you contributions
I would like to receive help, as I am trying to make an analysis of the ethanol PES, but the calculations are always giving error.
I use the conda-forge version of xtb (* xtb version 6.3.2 (954f15c) compiled by 'conda @ 5a45a0871d67' on 2020-07-02).
The output and input will be attached.
Thank you very much in advance!
AI Safety Issues can be categorized into five main classes including "Safe Exploration", "Scalable oversight", Avoiding “reward hacking” and “wire heading”, "Avoiding negative side effects" and "Robustness to distributional shift" (Amodei et al. (2016). Concrete Problems in AI Safety).
Can we categorize safety assurance of Evolutionary Optimisation Algorithms (e.g. Genetic Algorithm) as Safe Exploration?
Is there any approach for quantitative safety evaluation of such algorithms?
Thanks for your time and consideration.
I explored different packages (such as mgcv, MCMCglmm, glmmADMB, etc) but they all have limitations. Either they don't allow for zero-inflated, zero-altered distributions or they don't allow for temporal auto-correlation through functions as corAR() or corARMA().
Exploration for hidden treasures of oil, gas, water, minerals, man-made structure etc can be done.
I am working on autonomous visual navigation using deep reinforcement learning (DRL) for UGVs. I used valued based algorithm (Dueling-DDQN) to trained my robot in the simulation. I also applied parametric noise for better exploration. I got good results and submitted it in a good journal but got rejection. One of the reviewers asked me this question. "Why deep Q-learning + parametric noise? Is there any reason why A3C or other alternatives would not work in autonomous navigation? Why is entropy not a valid choice for exploration?"
A3C comes under policy-based algorithms which is not my area or hasn't discussed in the paper. We can achieve autonomous navigation using this method, i know, but why he raised this question? I googled about entropy for exploration and found many papers but all of them used the policy-based method with it. no one used it with a value-based method. How i can compare it with parametric noise? How i can answer this question, "Why is entropy not a valid choice for exploration?"
Anyone in this field, please answer my question. I read many articles but not found the answer.
I have a Sequoia Parrot camera. I am trying to explore how I can find the water stress of a vineyard. Is there a paper or a known procedure to do that?
Hello,
I'm working for my thesis, it would be great if some of you could share the insights and results of agile methods to make your organization ambidextrous, please.
Thanks and Best regards
Hussain
I am a Phd Student, would like to explore malware detection system. It would be great if anyone can share Malgenome project dataset as site is not active anymore.
How should an exploration project be evaluated as successful or unsuccessful? What are the main criteria? Exploration of an unknown deposit based on recent protocols or standards (such as JORC or UMREK) is enough to be successful?
In a Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement (PEFQS) article on the "History of Colonization in Modern Palestine" from 1900, the following was listed as one of the projects.
"1664 (circa.), Colbert, Minister of Louis XIV, founds a farm at Beit-Dejan, on the Plains of Sharon, near Jaffa. An grove of fine old olive trees is still pointed out as having been planted by him."
I'm looking for further information, sources, and documentation to understand this grove's location and chronology.
Shallow Gas exploration can combine conventional exploration (at deeper depths) to exploit small secondary or biogenic pools of hydrocarbon at very low depths in the subsurface. if marketed well, can add to the revenue earnings of industry players.
Exploration of various psychic abilities seemed had reached a dead end with the deterministic Newtonian physics. Now, with quantum physics gaining much progression, should psychic abilities be given more consideration to explore more and gain deeper understanding about them?
I want to know if there are recent approaches for hydrocarbon exploration using gravity data. Also, is there any recent modifications on the gravity stripping technique in hydrocarbon exploration?
Exploration of Salar brines (containing high concentrations of dissolved salts like Lithium, Potassium, Magnesium, etc) found below the surface of dried lake-beds (Playas) is generally carried out through surface geological mapping, geophysical surveys and brine sampling through drilling.
Whether characteristic biota - both living & fossils - can be an added exploration tool?
Hello there.
I think that most of us would agree that exercise has been earmarked as one of the main lifestyle components that could be introduced in therapeutic interventions, as it is usually easy to implement by facilitators and be followed by patient populations.
Nevertheless, the physiological effects of exercise in cardiovascular diseases are usually neglected, with the main focus being given to its therapeutic effects.
To address this, we have started a new research topic in "Frontiers in Physiology", which is currently open for submission.
We would be keen to see submissions focusing on the physiological effects of exercise in different forms of cardiovascular disease - whether these are positive, indifferent or negative (which maybe the case in certain conditions or stages).
More information can be found here:
We wish to studies on the " Exploration techniques for Ground water studies in Alluvial plan of Vidhabha Region" pl suggest the advance technique to adopt for exact modelling and estimation except RS and GIS
- Purpose of the post:
I'm struggling to understand the significance of the fat-tailed distribution especially in career choice. 80000hours career guide argues that the more accurate distribution for career choice is the long-tailed one.
I'm trying to understand how the implication would differ between a normal bell-curve and a long-tailed distribution. My request: are the implications I wrote in "Part 2: Significance of the fat-tail distribution" accurate? Please focus on points 1 and 2.
Other Names: heavy-tailed distribution, long-tailed distribution, , pareto distribution
- Part 1: Description of Fat-Tail Distribution phenomenon in World Problems and Career Success in 80000hours career guide:
The guide is available for free download at https://80000hours.org/book/
"the most effective actions achieve far more than average. These big differences in expected impact mean that it’s really important to focus on the best areas. Of course, making these comparisons is really hard, but if we don’t, we could easily end up working on something with comparatively little impact. This is why many of our readers have changed which problem they work on. "p.60
"Each change took serious effort, but if changing area can enable you to have many times as much impact, and be more successful, then it’s worth it." (p.61)
"the top 10% of the most prolific elite can be credited with around 50% of all contributions, whereas the bottom 50% of the least productive workers can claim only 15% of the total work" (p. 89)
Simonton, Dean K. ʺAge and outstanding achievement: What do we know after a century of research?ʺ Psychological bulletin 104.2 (1988): 251 as cited in p.89 of 80000hours guide
"Areas like research and advocacy are particularly extreme, but a major study still found that the best people in almost any field have significantly more output than the typical person." Hunter, J. E., Schmidt, F. L., Judiesch, M. K., (1990) “Individual Differences
in Output Variability as a Function of Job Complexity”, Journal of Applied as cited in P.90 of 80000hours guide
"Moreover, success in almost any field gives you influence that can be turned into positive impact by using your position to advocate for important problems (p.91).
This all also means you should probably avoid taking a “high impact” option that you don’t enjoy, and lacks the other ingredients of job satisfaction, like engaging work". (p.91)
"Finally, because the most successful people in a field achieve far more than the typical person, choose something where you have the potential to excel. Don’t do something you won’t enjoy in order to have more impact. " (p.95)
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Figure Assumed (NOT actual) Bell-Curve for problems (p.59)
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Figure: Actual fat-tail distribution for problems (p.60)
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Figure: Actual Fat-Tail distribution of Careers (p.90)
- Part 2: Significance of the fat-tail distribution especially for individuals (All points are comparing fat-tail to bell-curve) :
1. It seems to me that in both distributions we have a motivation to aim for the top (obviously the top would be better) but the nature of motivation changes.
The nature of the carrot and stick changes from "aim to be among the best" because
(bell-curve carrot): if you do great things will happen to you.
(bell curve stick): if you don't, you will remain in the average and mean range
To" aim to be among the best" because
(fat-tail carrot): if you do, VERY VERY VERY great things will happen to you.
(fat-tail stick):If you don't, you will remain in the average (BELOW mean)
2. The more variance there is in a statistical sample, the wiser it is to aim to move to the exploration direction in the exploration-exploitation (deliberation-action) spectrum (the relationship between variance and value of new information). In terms of career, the variance is great so the exploration investment should be great as well.
3. Median does not equal average. The average could be misleading and the median could be misleading
4. If all other factors are moderate or weak but you have a good reason to think you can reach the top, go for it because average can be misleading, your rank is as important as your field).
5. Choosing a job at random is not advised because the median is lower than we think.
6. Even though below mean is much more likely in this distribution, probability of being a hyper-performer is higher , which makes the hyper-performer goal a more realistic goal hence, it's easier to become motivated by it.
7. Looking at the outliers becomes more important because they become more influential.
8. Pareto principle (80/20) can encourage generalist over specialization because the effort you put in one field result in a better impact if distributed over many fields but at the same time it can encourage specialization over generalism because the pareto distribution makes you want to aim for the very top because its impact is disproportionate.
9. Does the long-tailed distribution favor an "all-star" "super-star" or "SWAT" team approach of fewer more qualified people (quality over quantity)?
10. Prioritization becomes more important?
11. We often behave as if the bell-curve distribution is true while it's not. So the significance lies in adjusting our behaviour?
12. Why does personal fit become more important under the long-tailed distribution? Because the long-tailed distribution has a higher variance. If success in a specific field had zero variance, then individual differences wouldn't matter much so the person-environment fit would not be v. important because as persons change nothing changes as a result. However, the reality is that there is great variance so individual differences matter a lot (how would you "react" to a field NOT JUST how good is a career).
Good Day,
I am interested in the following article
" An Ecological Exploration of the Internet of Toys in Early Childhood Everyday Life"
How can I get access to the whole article?
Thank you.
I need your kind advice, suggestions, and assistance. share literature, please. many thanks in advance
The mineral processing industry is increasingly facing problems with processing of secondary resources like low grade ores and other industrial wastes for a green zero waste technology and sustainable economy.
Studied data are from the outcrops or cuttings from drilled well ? If you studied samples from the exploration-development wells, did you obtain any interesting results that we can apply in our petroleum researches ?
Bulent Coşkun-Petroleum Geologist
I developed an instrument for measuring emotion perception based on the abilitybased model of emotional intelligence, with 3 types of items(scales): auditive , semantic and visual. I now need to select the items which fit best in to the model. Exploration and selection of the data with "typical itemanalysis" ( item difficulty and item discrimination) and followed factor analysis does not lead to best internal consistency (cronbach´s alpha) and factor structure. Is it possible to do factoranalysis first, select the items which best fit into desired factorstructure, by looking at the factor loadings? This is a very subjective approach, so are there any guidelines?
I want to start a philosophical discussion and ethical debate on the reasoning behind why humanity should and must become a multi-planet species.
- What do you think is the most profound and captivating reason(s) that you have to justify SpaceX and Elon Musk's goal of making humanity a multi-planetary species?
Elon said during the 68th Annual ISC on September 29th 2017:
"I think fundamentally the future is vastly more exciting and interesting if we're a spacefaring civilization and a multi-planet species than if we are not. You want to be inspired by things. You want to wake up in the morning and think the future is going to be great."
I agree with him here, but I think there is something more profound and captivating that must be addressed with regards to becoming a species that lives on more than just one planetary body. Other questions we may want to consider to help us reach this answer include:
- What are the ethical considerations we must address before colonizing other worlds?
- Do humans really deserve another planet to potentially ruin, or even sustainably terraform, if we cannot even figure out how to sustainably balance our own home world?
- One might ask why doesn't Elon use his genius to create new technologies that will advance the human race by solving some of the Earth's worst problems?
- Has he simply given up on this planet and does he therefore want a clean slate to build up from?
- Does Elon think that technological advancements resulting from the drive to become a spacefaring civilization (i.e. propellant production via. CO2 sequestration powered by 100% solar energy systems) will eventually rebound to help the Earth?
- Must we start colonizing Mars now (i.e. beginning in the year 2022) like Elon's timeline suggests? Potentially, if we wait too long, technologies to reverse climate change on Earth may not have advanced enough without the excitement of being spacefaring...
Lets see what everyone thinks about this, and let's keep it civilized in here. Try and get real profound!
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Perhaps Human base space exploration is going to enter into next generation. A good time to get commercial benefit from available & approachable "Wealth" in Space. NASA, SPACEX, European Space Agency and other organizations are trying to explore the potential benefits in space. In this regard, there are few questions;
1) What commodities can be consider as "wealth" in space ?
2) What natural phenomenon in space can come under "space wealth" ?
3) How human can get benefit from space wealth ?
4) What are different trades other than space-tourism, communication & weather-satellites can be possible ?
5) Any other aspects plz ?
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However, I have been investigating the State of the Art in this technology for some time and I do not find any recent projects. I have generally found information about plants built in the 60s, 70s and 80s. I would like to know if anyone can tell me if the research about this technology continue, and if somebody is building plants of this type anywhere in the world. Thank you
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I'm searching for literature that deals with the comparison of orthologs between diverse species (primitive-like vs modern organisms - e.g. immune proteins in hagfish compared to mammal counterparts). Particular interest in structures/functions/pathways that exhibit profound variety between orthologs.
Perhaps a vague request but this information is required for a conversation of evolution and how it can be explored at the level of the nucleotide. Thanks
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I have some difficulties to find this:
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Thanks in advance for any information you may be able to provide!
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