An Alternative Rationalisation of Creative AI by De-Familiarising Creativity: Towards an Intelligibility of Its Own Terms

AI algorithms today generate creative decisions, such as on note, word or paint placement, out of processing a dataset it receives and, most significantly, in ways not entirely understandable to humans. Where we can thus say AI is being ‘creative’, how, then, may we understand so critical a touchstone of humanness when its creativity seemingly manifests with opacity and unintelligibility? This chapter draws from rationalisations of media to propose a framework of de-familiarisation for the paradoxical task of rationalising technology on its own terms, rather than in comparisons against human abilities. This framework will be analogised out of theorisations of the marionette by Herbert von Kleist (1810) and of the camera via Russian filmmaker Dziga Vertov’s (1923) writings on cinema. It will then be applied to re-think creative AI via the case study of AlphaGo, which made history in 2015 by becoming the first computer programme to beat a human professional player at the game Go. This alternative approach to understanding algorithms thus suggests a different dimension to understanding AI – not one made on human terms, but as a paradoxically impossible approach of the algorithmic being humanly intelligible on its own terms.

Estimation of Velocity of a Frictionless Motion of a Truck on an Infinitely Long Straight Rail

This paper is concerned with estimation of velocity of a frictionless motion of a truck on an infinitely long straight rail. For simplicity assume that the Truck is controlled only by the throttle producing an accelerative force per unit mass. A discrete dynamic model of first order difference equation is to describe the system. Kalman filtering technique is applied to the discrete dynamic model to estimate the velocity of the Truck at any particular time. A computer programme is developed to simulate the system

Stormwater Harvested from Permeable Pavements as a Means to Save Potable Water in Buildings

The main objective of this work is to analyse the potential for potable water savings in university buildings by using stormwater collected from permeable pavements. Six buildings located on the campus of the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) were selected to obtain monthly water consumption patterns and parking lot areas. The same six buildings were then evaluated considering their location in eight different cities in Brazil, with different rainfall patterns. Simulations using the computer programme Netuno were run to obtain the potential for potable water savings in each building and city combined. The structural design of permeable pavements was also assessed using two methods available in the literature, that is, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and Brazilian Portland Cement Association (ABCP). The hydrological-hydraulic design of the permeable pavement was also carried out. The designed thicknesses were compared with the thicknesses obtained using the computer programme Permeable Design Pro. The potential for potable water savings between 18.4% and 84.8% was obtained, depending on the city, building and non-potable water demand considered. For the structural design, the thicknesses obtained by using both methods were similar; however, it was observed that the AASHTO method better represents the pavement model. Regarding the hydrological-hydraulic design, the differences obtained show that the simplification performed for the pavement drainage was in favour of safety. In conclusion, the use of permeable pavements in stormwater harvesting systems is promising, aligning the drainage aid, structural capacity and potential for saving potable water.

System Analysis and Control of the Influence of a Mixed Type of Chemical Bond in Substances and Materials on their Structure and Properties

Nowadays, a lot of information on structure and properties of a wide variety of substances and materials has been accumulated. Yet, there is a lack of systemic universal approaches to assessing their structure and properties, including developing the effective approaches for monitoring and analysing various materials. It is of special interest in this respect to assess the effects of the chemical bond type on structure and properties of substances and materials. However, searching for necessary data on the effects of chemical bonds on structure of substances and materials is a rather laborious process. The authors, relying on the intermediate nature of chemical bonds of compounds of elements in any metallic and non-metallic material, as well as the system of chemical bonds and compounds developed by them in the form of a “Chemical Triangle”, produced an algorithm for creating a computer programme. It implies systematising of the database on the effect of chemical bond type on its length and energy, structure and various physicochemical and mechanical properties of homo-and heteronuclear compounds and materials. Development of such a specialised computer programme greatly simplifies this process, providing more efficient analysis and control of materials.

Cesty české dialektologie

The Department of Dialectology of the Institute of the Czech Language in Brno systematically examines traditional territorial dialects. Between 1992 and 2011 six volumes of the Czech Linguistic Atlas were published. Since 2011, Czech dialectologists have been working on the Dictionary of Czech Dialects . The dictionary is being created in a special computer programme. It captures the dialect lexicon in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia over the past ca. 150 years. An electronic version of theDictionary has been available since 2016. The Department of Dialectology is a team member of The Slavic Linguistic Atlas project. The 9 th volume “Reflexes *tort, *tolt, *tert, *telt, *ort, *olt” was published by Czech dialectologists in 2019.

Plane surface lapping technological processor

To date lapping as a finishing process of part surfaces lacks an underlying digital knowledge base. This is due to the complex interlinking of the numerous parameters that influence the results of machining. Starting from here the paper argues improved process planning and machining process optimization by presenting a new modelling algorithm of lapping and a software tool designed as a support for lapping machine operators. The proposed computer programme enables automated planning of machining and can be deployed for studies related to the influence of various work parameters on the quality criteria targeted by machining.

DISTRIBUTION OF ETHEREUM BLOCKCHAIN ADDRESSES

In the contemporary world, Ethereum is a very reliable financial saving among cryptocurrencies. It is also well known as a blockchain platform for creating and launching its own cryptocurrency. The applications run on Ethereum executed by a platform-specific cryptographic token, ether. During 2014, Ethereum had launched a pre-sale for ether, which had received an overwhelming response. Ether is used broadly for two purposes: it is traded as a digital currency exchange like other cryptocurrencies, and it is used inside Ethereum to run applications and even to monetize work. It should be noticed that the smart contract has brought a significant share of the success to Ethereum. The smart contract is a computer programme that independently performs assigned tasks between network participants without the participation of a third trusted party. Smart contracts and their intranet transactions have facilitated the rapid expansion of the Ethereum network. Smart contracts are widely represented on the market, either as electronic transaction payments or as applications for the implementation of logistics supplies, gambling, and other sectors. These transactions are irreversible and fully tracked online. Whereas the electronic records are available in a public distributed ledger and include data about user addresses, whereas the real names are hidden. The article explains the usage of decentralized accounts and their electronic transactions in the Ethereum network. The results are presented through different application sectors. Additionally, a new method for extracting blockchain records through node cluster via IPFS path is implemented in the research.

François Jacob: Bricolage and the Possible

As well as his ground-breaking work in the field of molecular biology with Jacques Monod, François Jacob was a gifted and influential writer on science. His extraordinary capacity to make imaginative connections and to coin compelling metaphors informed both his work as a scientist and his writing on science. This article looks at the development of Jacob's distinctive constructivist conceptualization of science over the course of his career. Although Jacob was initially attracted to the metaphor of genetic material as a computer programme, he ultimately moved away from the mechanistic model of reproduction and evolution favoured by Monod. In a short paper published in the journal Science in 1977, he used the metaphor of bricolage as a way of conveying that biology evolution is a process of ‘tinkering’ with pre-existing materials rather than an elegant process of design. This conceptualization of the evolutionary process of building the new from the old has been highly influential in thinking on biology. In a more general sense, the concept of bricolage has a central role in Jacob's work, bringing together his thinking on evolution and science in general. The centrality of bricolage for Jacob positions him philosophically in many ways in the opposing camp to the Cartesian tradition, which was at the core of Monod's vision of science in the world.

Knowledge about COVID-19 among university students before the implementation of the enhanced community quarantine in Philippines

<span>The purpose of this study was to determine the knowledge of the students about Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) before the Philippines government implements the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon. A descriptive research design was conducted among the students of Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology, San Isidro Campus. The sample size was computed by using the Epi-Info version 2000 Computer Programme. Questionnaire was used to collect data that was composed of the profile, questions regarding their knowledge about COVID-19 and their source of knowledge. Permission to conduct and informed consent was obtained before the respondent answer the questionnaire. Data were analyzed using various statistical tools. Majority of the respondents had an average and good knowledge while sex was the only variable that differs significantly in their knowledge about COVID-19. Social media and seminars in the school were among their primary source of knowledge. It is concluded that students‟ knowledge about COVID-19 was sufficient. However, the absence of vaccines against COVID-19, prevention and control of the disease was the only way to fight it which requires organizing health education campaigns in different communities to disseminate more information on how everybody can effectively deal with this pandemic.</span>

Pengaruh Brand Personality, Trust In The Brand, Attachment To The Brand Terhadap Commitment To The Brand

The aim of this study are : first, to explore the effect of brand personality towards commitment to the brand. Second, to explore the effect of trust in the brand towards commitment to the brand. Third, to explore the effect of attachment to the brand towards commitment to the brand. The method of data collection is convenience sampling. The samples of this research are colleted from 113 respondent. The technique of data analysis used in this study was multiple regression analysis via the SPSS computer programme version 26. The results are : first, brand personality hasn’t a positive impact towards commitment to the brand. Second, trust in the brand hasn’t a positive impact towards commitment to the brand. Third, attachment to the brand has a positive and the main impact towards commitment to the brand.