Tag: Waterloo

by Jan Gosmann at The Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience, WAT

Why are people so worried about Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Is the development of super intelligence inevitable? And if it is, is there any way to make it friendly? Jan goes over the arguments for and against worrying about AI.

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by Sean Aubin at The Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience, WAT

Writing is hard. You either get too many high-level (how to make a good character) or low-level (don’t use the passive tense) tips, with no way to tie them together systematically.

Sean has been writing fiction (for fun) and non-fiction (because academia) for a while and in this talk, he presented a systematic way to review your writing.

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Based off this Blog Post

by Rudi Chen at The Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience, WAT

How to balance work and travel. Also, how working and travelling changes your perspective on the places you visit.

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by Ryan Neufeld at The Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience, WAT

Ryan corrects the pop culture definition of entropy and shows us the benefits (nanostructures!) of a more appropriate definition.

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by Anum Syeda at The Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience, WAT

Everyone dies eventually. Coming to terms with the loss of someone who you were close to isn’t easy. Neither is seeing a friend go through that loss. How can you help your friend out? Anum shares some solid advice she’s gathered from her experiences as a grief counsellor.

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by Mariah Martin-Shein at The Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience, WAT

How an electroencephalogram can read the electromagnetic waves that are created when your neurons fire. How you can use that information to understand if a person is alert and read what areas of the brain they’re using.

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by Jan Gosmann at Velocity, WAT

The three basic knots you need to not die. The Fixed Loop (self-explanatory), the Clove Hitch (tying rope to object) and the Double Fisherman’s Bend (tying a rope to another rope) for extension purposes.

Presentation with pictures

by Sean Aubin at the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience, WAT

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is a therapeutic technique to help sufferers of anxiety or depression deal with the unhelpful “thought spirals” they enter into.

This was basically the presentation version of this blog post.