Podcasts about contemporary challenges

In this thought-provoking first episode of the 'Islam and Contemporary Challenges' series, Syed Arman Kazmi sits down with Dr Arash Naraghi, a Professor of Philosophy and Global Religion at Moravian University, to explore the nuanced relationship between science, mysticism, and Islamic reform. Dr Naraghi reflects on his transformative journey from pharmacology to philosophy, shedding light on his challenges with the Islamisation of science and his enduring fascination with Islamic mysticism, particularly the works of Rumi and Attar. The conversation delves deep into the societal impact of political Islam in post-Islamic Republic Iran, the solace offered by mysticism as a spiritual alternative, and the urgent need for reform in Islamic thought. Discover valuable insights into the complexities of reconciling faith with modern values, addressing the existential "love crisis," and finding meaning in today's fast-paced and fragmented world.

What if you could unlock your good mood superpowers and break free from the chains of generational trauma? Join us as we sit down with Matt O'Neill from Good Mood Revolution, who shares his inspiring journey from personal unhappiness to becoming a happiness coach. Matt dives into the fascinating dynamics of generational pain and how it shapes our views on happiness today. Despite the challenges we face, Matt offers fresh perspectives on how the world is possibly in a better state than ever before, reminding us to sprinkle humor and joy into our everyday lives to lighten the load.Get ready to explore the transformative power of conscious happiness and the myths of negative moods that often hold us back. Matt walks us through the process of identifying and challenging these deceptive narratives, enabling us to choose more positive beliefs and break free from inherited emotional cycles. We also uncover the magic of intention and manifestation, with personal stories illustrating how envisioning and affirming goals can turn dreams into reality. From creating vision boards to taking decisive action, this episode is a powerful testament to how our thoughts can indeed shape our reality, attracting the people and opportunities needed to lead a happier, more fulfilling life.(00:09) Generational Trauma and Happiness Coaching(07:55) The Power of Conscious Happiness(21:01) The Power of Intention and ManifestationGenerational Trauma and Happiness CoachingMatt O'Neill shares his journey to becoming a happiness coach, discussing generational trauma and the importance of finding joy and humor in everyday life.The Power of Conscious HappinessRecognize and challenge negative moods, break free from inherited beliefs, and choose positive beliefs for a happier life.The Power of Intention and ManifestationConscious creation and intention shape our future through visualizing success, reprogramming beliefs, and taking action.Buy the Playful Humans Book on Amazon!Playful Humans was an Amazon best-seller in the happiness category... Get your copy now!Support the showSupport the Playful Humans mission to help adults rediscover the power of play: Get the best-selling book on Amazon!

The events of one the most famous Everest stories took place a century ago, when George Mallory and Sandy Irvine disappeared during the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition.  A hundred years later, a group of writers is shedding light on the many different people and worlds that have, throughout history, had an important connection to the mountain. In sixteen different essays: Other Everests: One Mountain, Many Worlds tells stories from new perspectives—of people and things that have long been overlooked.  Editors Jonathan Westaway and Peter Hansen joined the Alpinist Podcast to discuss why they embarked on this project. And Sarah Pickman, who wrote one of the pieces in the Other Everests collection, discussed what we can learn from what gear and equipment was brought along on expeditions.  Support for this episode of the Alpinist Podcast comes from Patagonia. Following our conversation with the Other Everests contributors, you can listen to Patagonia Ambassador Colin Haley chat with host Abbey Collins about his passion for innovation and product development, and in particular his role in developing the new M10 Storm pants.  Alpinist Magazine: Website | Instagram | Facebook Book: Other Everests: One Mountain, Many Worlds Host: Abbey Collins Producer + Engineer: Mike Horn

In this podcast episode, we explore critical topics that significantly impact maternal and neonatal outcomes, with insights shared by Camella Main, a Consultant Midwife with over 12 years of experience. Camella has extensive experience in both hospital and pre-hospital settings, managing high-risk pregnancies and deliveries. She serves as the Lead Midwife for the London Ambulance Service and a Consultant Midwife for East Midlands Ambulance services, emphasising evidence-based practices and improving outcomes. Key discussion points include the latest guidelines and best practices for neonatal care, especially in rural and remote settings. Emerging trends and strategies to optimise neonatal care are also covered. Camella addresses various challenges in providing pre-hospital care to pregnant women and newborns, highlighting the importance of proper thermal care for newborns immediately after delivery. Recommended techniques and equipment for neonatal thermal care are discussed. Further, the podcast delves into recognising key signs and symptoms indicating active labour and imminent birth, effective maternal positions for delivery, and critical steps to care for both mother and newborn immediately after delivery. Camella also discusses the importance of escalating care to critical care teams, considerations for the safe transportation of pregnant women and newborns, and collaboration between pre-hospital services and hospitals to optimise care. Emerging trends and research areas in pre-hospital maternal and neonatal care that show promise for improving outcomes are also explored.

Established in 1875, American Forests is a non-profit that was an enormously influential pioneer in addressing the over-exploitation and destruction of our nation's forestlands.  Listen as Benita Hussain, chief program officer for tree equity, describes how the organization has pivoted to assisting communities across the country bolster urban forests and fight climate change in economically challenged neighborhoods.

Today's podcast is the final in our three- part series on contemporary challenges facing faith-based organizations with guests Rob Allen and Mark DuPont. In this last episode, we talk about unique challenges that faith-based organizations face when responding to threats, including the challenge of resource limitations, tools that are available for faith organizations, the balance between security and openness, cultural and religious sensitivities, and more.

This is the second episode in our three-part series on contemporary challenges facing faith-based organizations with guests Rob Allen and Mark DuPont. Today, we discuss current issues and trends in threats to faith-based institutions, including how organizations can protect themselves in an increasingly digital world, how organizations are adapting their community engagement, and how faith-based organizations can work together to enhance safety and security. The third and final episode in this series will air on Tuesday, July 2nd.

Today's episode is the first in a three-part series on the threats facing faith-based organizations with guests and subject matter experts Rob Allen and Mark DuPont. In this episode, we discuss the unique vulnerabilities of faith-based organizations, the most common threats facing face-based institutions, motivations behind attacks on faith organizations, and more. The second episode in this series will air on Tuesday, June 25th.

Marissa chats with Alexene Farol Follmuth about her latest contemporary coming-of-age YA romance, TWELFTH KNIGHT. Also discussed: some of the differences between self and traditional publishing and how the two can come together in a career, crafting the ‘unlikeable female character', using Shakespeare for source material, structuring a romance differently than what's expected, the challenge of writing technology and social media that could become quickly dated, and so much more!The Happy Writer at Bookshop.orgPurchasing your books through our webstore at Bookshop.org supports independent bookstores. Amplify MarketersOur mission is to help your message rise above the noise so it can be heard loud & clear.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Order The Happy Writer: Get More Ideas, Write More Words, and Find More Joy from First Draft to Publication and Beyond https://bookshop.org/a/11756/9781250362377 Find out more and follow The Happy Writer on social media: https://www.marissameyer.com/podcast/

How close did the United States came to tearing itself apart during the American Revolution? And what can we learn from the turbulent birth of the United States? To illuminate this critical chapter in American history and its contemporary implications, Tavis is joined by Eli Merritt, political historian at Vanderbilt University and author of the new text "Disunion Among Ourselves: The Perilous Politics of the American Revolution" (June 2023). In the book, Merritt takes us on a journey through this tumultuous period, revealing how the Founding Fathers grappled with the very real specter of disunion and civil war. Against all odds, they managed to unite for the cause of liberty and self-preservation, forging historic compromises (such as the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the Mississippi-Fisheries Compromise of 1779, and the ratification of the Articles of Confederation in 1781.) In a time marked by political hyperpolarization, Merritt joins Tavis for a conversation on how the lessons from this critical period in American history can resonate with our contemporary challenges.

Can philosophical insights genuinely contribute to understanding today's pressing challenges, or are they simply an unproductive distraction from the immediate hardships people face? In his book Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge: Writings of Lewis R. Gordon (July 13, 2023), leading public intellectual Dr. Lewis Gordon encourages readers to consider these questions through the scope of his own work. He joins Tavis for a conversation that explores themes such as phenomenology, anti-Blackness, activist thought, and the influence of visionaries like Frantz Fanon and Jimi Hendrix – and why philosophical introspection of these topics and people matter and resonate in our present time.

This lecture was given at the Catholic University of America on May 16, 2023 as part of the Thomistic Institute symposium titled "Toward a Fundamental Theology of the Priesthood." For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Bishop William Byrne has served as the bishop of the Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts since 2020. He studied at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, completing his licentiate in sacred theology from Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas(Angelicum) and was ordained on June 25, 1994 by Cardinal James A. Hickey.

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Lecture summary: After 1945, the United Nations – and international organizations (IOs) more generally – were widely embraced as the ideal, democratic means to resolve international conflicts and promote global welfare. Sharing this almost feverish enthusiasm, a Western-controlled International Court of Justice adopted a deferential attitude toward IOs. The law it developed exuded confidence in the impartiality of IOs, premised on an unquestioning assumption that their subjection to legal discipline and judicial review would be unnecessary and even counterproductive. I propose that the time has come to concede that the utopian premises upon which the international law relating to IOs is based are flawed and outline a new course for the international law on IOs, one that addresses the inherent flaws of collective decision-making and can assist IOs to achieve their stated goals. Professor Eyal Benvenisti is Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law, Columbia Law School (2022). He is the Whewell Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge, CC Ng Fellow in Law at Jesus College, and the Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a member of the Global Visiting Faculty of New York University School of Law. He is Member of the Institut de droit international and of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities. A Co-Editor of the British Yearbook of International Law, he served on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of International Law (2009-18). He was Project Director of the “GlobalTrust – Sovereigns as Trustees of Humanity” research project, funded by an ERC Advanced Grant (2013-18). He previously was a Visiting Professor at the law schools at Harvard, Columbia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Toronto and Yale. He gave special courses at The Hague Academy of International Law (2013) and the Xiamen Academy of International Law (2017). Benvenisti will deliver the General Course in International Law at The Hague Academy of International Law in 2024.

Expert statisticians Janet Wittes and Eric Leifer join the podcast to discuss hazard ratios, the phenomenon of "hazard ratio drift", and other contemporary challenges in HF clinical trial design.

In this must listen episode, I chat with Dr. Michael Carr-Gregg, psychologist, author and parenting and adolescent specialist, about the impact on adolescent mental health post pandemic and how we can best support teens to not only survive, but thrive. Listen in to hear - - why teen mental health needs to be prioritised now more than ever - the one conversation you should have on high rotation with your teens to remain connected - the importance of "mental health first aid" If you're in need of insightful tips and resources on how to best support your teens from one of Australia's most well-respected psychologists, this episode is for you.

Like an addiction (to power) that we just can't break ourselves from, institutional Christianity has a habit of calling back into the dangers of getting entangled with nationalism, tribalism, and warfare.  So far in this series, pastors Erica, Sarah, and Steve have explored the warnings of both the biblical witness and the last two millennia of Christian history where things can go terribly wrong when Christianity is equated with a particular nation, ethnic group, or government.  But now the bigger challenge is to have the courage and honesty to look at the contemporary scene of our culture in the 21st century to see where this is a live problem, and how we can respond to it.  So in this week's episode, we'll explore some contemporary "red flags" that are worth being aware of, and talk about how to be vigilant both to the overt kinds of nationalism that explicitly hijack the language of Christianity, and those that are more subtly draping themselves in Christian-sounding garb.  Another challenging, but important conversation here on Crazy Faith Talk!

In this lecture, Professor of Social and Economic History and Director of the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies at the University of Exeter, Professor Maria Fusaro, joined us to discuss world oceans and contemporary challenges through a historical lens. This lecture took place on 21 April 2022 as part of our event series 'Our oceans: A deep dive': https://www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/our-oceans-a-deep-dive/.

‘Stand for Christ.  Stand for the truth.  And let the chips fall where they may.'Senior Pastor of Atlanta's Church of the Apostles, Dr Michael Youssef, has a prophetic call to share with evangelical pastors today. It is to not give up trust in the scriptures in the face of contemporary challenges on sexuality.Dr Youssef tells the story of leading his church to depart the US Episcopal Church when the denomination moved against biblical teaching on sexuality, and the way God has blessed them since. In light of all this, Dr Youssef quotes 1 Samuel saying, ‘Those who honour me I will honour.' Speaking in terms of the Sydney Anglican Church, Dr Youssef says, ‘I know this diocese, I love this diocese, and I know that God will continue to bless this Diocese even more… when you take a stand.'Dr Youseff says, ‘Everyone I know who honoured the Lord and took a stand, God blessed that.'Advertisment:At Village Church Annandale in the inner west of Sydney we are looking for a full time assistant minister to join our team to work in the area of maturity and ministry.Details are at http://villagechurch.sydney/assistant Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thepastorsheart)

In this episode, Br. Mobeen Vaid and I discuss the Islamic perspectives on gender-reassignment surgeries as well as the ripple effects of the modern day transgender movement.What are the major Islamic fatawa regarding sex-reassignment surgeries within Sunni and Shi'a Islam? On what grounds were such fatwas issued to begin with? Do communities like the Hijras in Pakistan and Bangladesh as well as the Warias in Indonesia represent legitimate "third gender" communities? What are the ripple effects of the modern trans movement on family units, schools and academia, Muslim scholarship, as well as our mosques and  places of worship? These and other questions are explored in this episode.References used and resources mentioned in this episode:- “And the Male Is Not like the Female”: Sunni Islam and Gender Nonconformity (Part 2) by Mobeen Vaid and Waheed Jensen- When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment by Ryan Anderson- Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier- The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism by Michael Bailey- 4thWaveNow website

Michael and Allan discuss the questions: What does the Bible say about the immigrant? What is the Christian response toward immigration today? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/allan-r-bevere/message

Religious Incorrect Podcast | 10.3.21On this "1st Sunday" edition of RIP, Pastor Todd & Pastor Jeff welcome Elder Chuck Baldwin, Northeast Regional Director of the Village Network to discuss family health, contemporary challenges to youth and adults, and resources available to them. Be sure to Like, Share, Tag, and Follow us on YouTube, FB, IG, and Twitter!#RIP #RealRawUncutHosts: Pastor Todd and Pastor JeffProduced by: Michael J.Production: Big Mike, Mr. LarryDesign by: Larry JohnsonMusic: J. AustinFOLLOW:WEBSITE: http://www.ReligiouslyIncorrectPodcast.comFACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/ReligiouslyIncorrectPodcastTWITTER: https://www.twitter.com/OfficialRIPCINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/ReligiouslyIncorrectPodcast

In this episode of Climate Discourse, Kate speaks to David Driesen about his personal path from music to law, Donald Trump inspiring his new book on judicial enabling of presidential power, the intersection of economics and law and the contemporary challenges of climate policy.  

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In which we use Brian Moore's 1985 novel Black Robe to discuss the use and creation of images by Jesuits missionaries in New France. This also acts as a kind of prelude to a very special episode in two weeks! --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com, Twitter (@CanLitHistory) & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) and our apparel (http://tee.pub/lic/Ges5M2WpsBw) --- Sources & Further Reading: Banchoff, Thomas, and José Casanova, editors. The Jesuits and Globalization: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Challenges. Georgetown University Press, 2016. Churchill, Ward. “And they did it in like dogs in the dirt: An American Indian Analysis of Black Robe,” Indian are Us? Culture and Genocide in Native North America, Monroe: Common Courage Press, 1994, pp. 115-37. Gagnon, François-Marc. “Conversion through the Printed Image,” History of the Book in Canada, Volume One: Beginnings to 1840, 2004, pp. 18-22. Hicks, Patrick. “The Language of the Tribes in Brian Moore's ‘Black Robe.'” Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, vol. 93, no. 372, 2004, pp. 415–426. Iroquois History and Legends Podcast. https://open.spotify.com/show/0jGRXOijYiSKEhrTujeBpw?si=8Dr-8Hk4RMu2zQ72PwGwdw Leeming, David Adams, and Margaret Adams Leeming. "Algonquin Creation." Oxford Reference, Oxford University Press, 2009. Leeming, David Adams, and Margaret Adams Leeming. "Iroquoian Creation." Oxford Reference, Oxford University Press, 2009. Moore, Brian. Black Robe, McClelland & Stewart - NCL, 1985. Moore, Brian, and Patrick Hicks. “An Interview with Brian Moore.” Irish University Review, vol. 30, no. 2, 2000, pp. 315–320. Moore, Brian. Wreath for a Redhead, Harlequin, 1951. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53348464-wreath-for-a-redhead Richter, Daniel. Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America, Cambridge: Harvard, 2001. Trigger, Bruce G. “The Jesuits and the Fur Trade.” Ethnohistory, vol. 12, no. 1, 1965, pp. 30–53. O'Donoghue, Jo. “Historical Themes, Missionary Endeavour and Spiritual Colonialism in Brian Moore's Black Robe.” Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, vol. 82, no. 326, 1993, pp. 131–139.

Show Notes(2:05) Louis went over his childhood as a self-taught programmer and his early days in school as a freelance developer.(4:22) Louis described his overall undergraduate experience getting a Bachelor’s degree in IT Systems Engineering from Hasso Plattner Institute, a highly-ranked computer science university in Germany.(6:10) Louis dissected his Bachelor thesis at HPI called “Differentiable Convolutional Neural Network Architectures for Time Series Classification,” — which addresses the problem of automatically designing architectures for time series classification efficiently, using a regularization technique for ConvNet that enables joint training of network weights and architecture through back-propagation.(7:40) Louis provided a brief overview of his publication “Transfer Learning for Speech Recognition on a Budget,” — which explores Automatic Speech Recognition training by model adaptation under constrained GPU memory, throughput, and training data.(10:31) Louis described his one-year Master of Research degree in Computational Statistics and Machine Learning at the University College London supervised by David Barber.(12:13) Louis unpacked his paper “Modular Networks: Learning to Decompose Neural Computation,” published at NeurIPS 2018 — which proposes a training algorithm that flexibly chooses neural modules based on the processed data.(15:13) Louis briefly reviewed his technical report, “Scaling Neural Networks Through Sparsity,” which discusses near-term and long-term solutions to handle sparsity between neural layers.(18:30) Louis mentioned his report, “Characteristics of Machine Learning Research with Impact,” which explores questions such as how to measure research impact and what questions the machine learning community should focus on to maximize impact.(21:16) Louis explained his report, “Contemporary Challenges in Artificial Intelligence,” which covers lifelong learning, scalability, generalization, self-referential algorithms, and benchmarks.(23:16) Louis talked about his motivation to start a blog and discussed his two-part blog series on intelligence theories (part 1 on universal AI and part 2 on active inference).(27:46) Louis described his decision to pursue a Ph.D. at the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA in Lugano, Switzerland, where he has been working on Meta Reinforcement Learning agents with Jürgen Schmidhuber.(30:06) Louis created a very extensive map of reinforcement learning in 2019 that outlines the goal, methods, and challenges associated with the RL domain.(33:50) Louis unpacked his blog post reflecting on his experience at NeurIPS 2018 and providing updates on the AGI roadmap regarding topics such as scalability, continual learning, meta-learning, and benchmarks.(37:04) Louis dissected his ICLR 2020 paper “Improving Generalization in Meta Reinforcement Learning using Learned Objectives,” which introduces a novel algorithm called MetaGenRL, inspired by biological evolution.(44:03) Louis elaborated on his publication “Meta-Learning Backpropagation And Improving It,” which introduces the Variable Shared Meta-Learning framework that unifies existing meta-learning approaches and demonstrates that simple weight-sharing and sparsity in a network are sufficient to express powerful learning algorithms.(51:14) Louis expands on his idea to bootstrap AI that entails how the task, the general meta learner, and the unsupervised objective should interact (proposed at the end of his invited talk at NeurIPS 2020).(54:14) Louis shared his advice for individuals who want to make a dent in AI research.(56:05) Louis shared his three most useful productivity tips.(58:36) Closing segment.Louis’s Contact InfoWebsiteTwitterLinkedInGoogle ScholarGitHubMentioned ContentPapers and ReportsDifferentiable Convolutional Neural Network Architectures for Time Series Classification (2017)Transfer Learning for Speech Recognition on a Budget (2017)Modular Networks: Learning to Decompose Neural Computation (2018)Contemporary Challenges in Artificial Intelligence (2018)Characteristics of Machine Learning Research with Impact (2018)Scaling Neural Networks Through Sparsity (2018)Improving Generalization in Meta Reinforcement Learning using Learned Objectives (2019)Meta-Learning Backpropagation And Improving It (2020)Blog PostsTheories of Intelligence — Part 1 and Part 2 (July 2018)Modular Networks: Learning to Decompose Neural Computation (May 2018)How to Make Your ML Research More Impactful (Dec 2018)A Map of Reinforcement Learning (Jan 2019)NeurIPS 2018, Updates on the AI Roadmap (Jan 2019)MetaGenRL: Improving Generalization in Meta Reinforcement Learning (Oct 2019)General Meta-Learning and Variable Sharing (Nov 2020)PeopleJeff Clune (for his push on meta-learning research)Kenneth Stanley (for his deep thoughts on open-ended learning)Jürgen Schmidhuber (for being a visionary scientist)Book“Grit” (by Angela Duckworth)

Show Notes(2:05) Louis went over his childhood as a self-taught programmer and his early days in school as a freelance developer.(4:22) Louis described his overall undergraduate experience getting a Bachelor’s degree in IT Systems Engineering from Hasso Plattner Institute, a highly-ranked computer science university in Germany.(6:10) Louis dissected his Bachelor thesis at HPI called “Differentiable Convolutional Neural Network Architectures for Time Series Classification,” — which addresses the problem of automatically designing architectures for time series classification efficiently, using a regularization technique for ConvNet that enables joint training of network weights and architecture through back-propagation.(7:40) Louis provided a brief overview of his publication “Transfer Learning for Speech Recognition on a Budget,” — which explores Automatic Speech Recognition training by model adaptation under constrained GPU memory, throughput, and training data.(10:31) Louis described his one-year Master of Research degree in Computational Statistics and Machine Learning at the University College London supervised by David Barber.(12:13) Louis unpacked his paper “Modular Networks: Learning to Decompose Neural Computation,” published at NeurIPS 2018 — which proposes a training algorithm that flexibly chooses neural modules based on the processed data.(15:13) Louis briefly reviewed his technical report, “Scaling Neural Networks Through Sparsity,” which discusses near-term and long-term solutions to handle sparsity between neural layers.(18:30) Louis mentioned his report, “Characteristics of Machine Learning Research with Impact,” which explores questions such as how to measure research impact and what questions the machine learning community should focus on to maximize impact.(21:16) Louis explained his report, “Contemporary Challenges in Artificial Intelligence,” which covers lifelong learning, scalability, generalization, self-referential algorithms, and benchmarks.(23:16) Louis talked about his motivation to start a blog and discussed his two-part blog series on intelligence theories (part 1 on universal AI and part 2 on active inference).(27:46) Louis described his decision to pursue a Ph.D. at the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA in Lugano, Switzerland, where he has been working on Meta Reinforcement Learning agents with Jürgen Schmidhuber.(30:06) Louis created a very extensive map of reinforcement learning in 2019 that outlines the goal, methods, and challenges associated with the RL domain.(33:50) Louis unpacked his blog post reflecting on his experience at NeurIPS 2018 and providing updates on the AGI roadmap regarding topics such as scalability, continual learning, meta-learning, and benchmarks.(37:04) Louis dissected his ICLR 2020 paper “Improving Generalization in Meta Reinforcement Learning using Learned Objectives,” which introduces a novel algorithm called MetaGenRL, inspired by biological evolution.(44:03) Louis elaborated on his publication “Meta-Learning Backpropagation And Improving It,” which introduces the Variable Shared Meta-Learning framework that unifies existing meta-learning approaches and demonstrates that simple weight-sharing and sparsity in a network are sufficient to express powerful learning algorithms.(51:14) Louis expands on his idea to bootstrap AI that entails how the task, the general meta learner, and the unsupervised objective should interact (proposed at the end of his invited talk at NeurIPS 2020).(54:14) Louis shared his advice for individuals who want to make a dent in AI research.(56:05) Louis shared his three most useful productivity tips.(58:36) Closing segment.Louis’s Contact InfoWebsiteTwitterLinkedInGoogle ScholarGitHubMentioned ContentPapers and ReportsDifferentiable Convolutional Neural Network Architectures for Time Series Classification (2017)Transfer Learning for Speech Recognition on a Budget (2017)Modular Networks: Learning to Decompose Neural Computation (2018)Contemporary Challenges in Artificial Intelligence (2018)Characteristics of Machine Learning Research with Impact (2018)Scaling Neural Networks Through Sparsity (2018)Improving Generalization in Meta Reinforcement Learning using Learned Objectives (2019)Meta-Learning Backpropagation And Improving It (2020)Blog PostsTheories of Intelligence — Part 1 and Part 2 (July 2018)Modular Networks: Learning to Decompose Neural Computation (May 2018)How to Make Your ML Research More Impactful (Dec 2018)A Map of Reinforcement Learning (Jan 2019)NeurIPS 2018, Updates on the AI Roadmap (Jan 2019)MetaGenRL: Improving Generalization in Meta Reinforcement Learning (Oct 2019)General Meta-Learning and Variable Sharing (Nov 2020)PeopleJeff Clune (for his push on meta-learning research)Kenneth Stanley (for his deep thoughts on open-ended learning)Jürgen Schmidhuber (for being a visionary scientist)Book“Grit” (by Angela Duckworth)

Bible and Business' Bill English talks about how churches can help foster entrepreneurs who seek a greater Kingdom impact in the marketplace.  Theologian Craig Blomberg, author of "Can We Still Believe in God?" talks about 10 key modern objections to Christianity and offers answers to them.

Bible and Business' Bill English talks about how churches can help foster entrepreneurs who seek a greater Kingdom impact in the marketplace.  Theologian Craig Blomberg, author of "Can We Still Believe in God?" talks about 10 key modern objections to Christianity and offers answers to them.

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In association of Academic Forum of Sikh Students (Chandigarh), Sabhyachak Sath of Guru Nanak Engineering College, Ludhiana organised a seminar on topic "Saihje Rachio Khalsa". The seminar was held at College Auditorium at GNE College, Ludhiana on 23rd of October, 2019. This News/Article Guru Nanak Ji’s Teachings And Contemporary Challenges: Giani Harpal Singh (Fatehgarh Sahib) appeared first on Sikh Siyasat News.

The lifecycle of early motherhood is characterized by challenges including infertility, baby loss, post-partum depression, and gaps in healthcare. On this episode of Defining Moments, Dr. Maggie Quinlan and Bethany Johnson historically frame these challenges often intensified by social media. Quinlan and Johnson are award-winning teachers and researchers at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte who have recently published a book by Rutgers University and authored dozens of journal articles. You can read their co-authored article in Health Communication at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2019.1587694 Their book published by Rutgers University is available at a 30% discounted rate with the code 02AAAA17 at: https://bit.ly/2Mmdec0 You can learn more about their ongoing efforts on their website: https://johnsonquinlanresearch.com/

Masood Ahmed, President of the Center for Global Development, gave a keynote address at the 2019 Australasian Aid Conference on 20 February. He discussed growing debt in low-income countries, and asked whether we are heading for another debt crisis. He also spoke about whether this is different from the debt crisis 20 years ago, what is driving debt growing in low-income countries, what can be done to reduce the risk of a crisis, and what policy could limit the possibility of a prolonged crisis. The 2019 Australasian Aid Conference was held at Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU, on 19-20 February, and was organised by the Development Policy Centre in partnership with The Asia Foundation.

Contemporary challenges to Sanskrit writing by Dr Shatavadhani Ganesh BLF2015 Shreyanka S Ranade

Fr. Philip reflects on the Eucharistic context of the pastoral response to contemporary challenges in marriage, family, and sexuality.

October 2, 2013 Christianity has played a major, formative role in the development of England, Scotland, and Wales since its arrival in the British Isles in the first century. Today, however, it faces new challenges, as do all Britain's religious groups. The Christian Heritage Centre documents the history of Christianity in Britain through an extensive, one-of-a-kind collection of Christian artifacts, relics, and documents for public education and academic study. Its founders see Christianity’s influence in the United Kingdom as a powerful force for good because of the religion's defense of liberty and free conscience, its promise of salvation, and its praise of virtue as a way of life for all people. They also point to the formative impact of British Christianity on the United States and the American concept of religious freedom.

The panel discusses the image of God live from the 2016 Reformed Forum Theology Conference. The event was held at Hope Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Grayslake, Illinois beginning on October 7, 2016. In this conversation, we address historical views of the image of God, the historicity of Adam, woman's relationship to man, and the implications of the image of God doctrine for racial equality.

Lecture delivered by Professor Tariq Ramadan (Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies, Middle East Centre) on 4th March 2016 at the Middle East Centre.

The 2016 St. Thomas Aquinas Forum, hosted by the Office of Catechetics at Aquinas College, focused on the theme of "Virtue in Our Current Culture: Living the Nobility of Strength and Goodness." The speakers included talks by Father Jacques Philippe, Dr. Kevin Vost, Dr. Aaron Urbanczyk, Sister Mary Madeline Todd, O.P., Deacon Brad Watkins, Father Cassian Derbes, O.P., and musical entertainment by Kara Klein. “Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.”

Contemporary Challenges to the Bible: Manuscripts and Variants part 2 - Jesse Lerch - Sun May 3, 2015 by Junction Church

Contemporary Challenges to the Bible: Manuscripts and Variants - Jesse Lerch - Sun Apr 26, 2015 by Junction Church

Jeffrey Greenman Theology Conference 2009: Life in the Spirit Album Art from: "Praying in Gethsemane" by Dr. He Qi, www.heqigallery.com

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 23 July 2014.

Lecture by Professor Antoinette Tidjani Alou, "The Secret Faces of Women from the Nigerien Sahel: Agency, Influence and Contemporary Challenges"

• Contemporary Challenges to the New Testament Gospels “Eyewitness Accounts and Mythology” by Dr. Adam Francisco

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• Contemporary Challenges to the New Testament Gospels: Eyewitness Accounts and Mythology

A public lecture at the University of Notre Dame by Reinhard Marx, the Archbishop of Munich and Freising, on April 7, 2010.

A public lecture at the University of Notre Dame by Reinhard Marx, the Archbishop of Munich and Freising, on April 7, 2010.