Today our end of module assignment opened. We have 3 weeks to analyse data from the London Atmospheric Emissions Inventory using 3 different machine learning models and write up a report that explains our choice, show the implementation and outlines the results we get.

I was excited until I discovered that all dataset links we're supposed to download from land me on a 404. Sigh.

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Discovered by accident that my discussion posts for my current module at the #LivUni were not graded because the system seem to think that I had made no attempt.

I though that my task was done after submitting to the forum (esp. since I got a turnitin ID when I did) but it looks like a separate submission may have been necessary? WTF?

ARGL. Hopefully my lecturer can help. I'd hate to stumble over stupid sh*t like this...

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This week we were asked to debate whether current developments will lead to intelligence superior to humans.

It is interesting to see how often my fellow students make the argument "humans train AIs, therefore AIs are limited by human intelligence".

If that would be true, how do we explain that we're even able to create systems that are as good as todays AIs? Each one of them supersedes human abilities by far already...

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Oh "great". I get to learn more about *sigh* blockchain...

In my opinion Linus Neumann summarised it very well in this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8W-Ga1rK6I

I will try hard to keep an open mind though as it clearly IS a trend that needs some attention.

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The induction module itself was very slow for my taste and quiet. My group consists of 100% men and none of them interacted on the module's forum beyond the mandatory welcome message they were asked to post as part of the first week's assignment.

However, the student support team was super engaged, I got called 3 times in these two weeks and every time was a very friendly conversation.

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What did change since my last degree at #UoL is the student system. Back then it was some custom environment provided by Laureate, now it is based on Microsoft's O365. That means the overall user experience is solid and most students will have no problems with it.

The integration (or lack thereof) of the open forums and the student blog system is quite frustrating though. It's almost as if they don't care if it is really used for networking.

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The induction module ended and I'm waiting for the next module to start next Tuesday. "Global Trends in Computer Science" - I fondly remember the module of the same name 7 years ago, I might dig up my old notes from then to see how much did change...
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