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LessWrong has been receiving an increasing number of posts and contents that look like they might be LLM-written or partially-LLM-written, so we're adopting a policy. This could be changed based on feedback. Humans Using AI as Writing or Research Assistants Prompting a language model to write an essay and copy-pasting the result will not typically meet LessWrong's standards. Please do not submit unedited or lightly-edited LLM content. You can use AI as a writing or research assistant when writing content for LessWrong, but you must have added significant value beyond what the AI produced, the result must meet a high quality standard, and you must vouch for everything in the result. A rough guideline is that if you are using AI for writing assistance, you should spend a minimum of 1 minute per 50 words (enough to read the content several times and perform significant edits), you should not [...] ---Outline:(00:22) Humans Using AI as Writing or Research Assistants(01:13) You Can Put AI Writing in Collapsible Sections(02:13) Quoting AI Output In Order to Talk About AI(02:47) Posts by AI Agents--- First published: March 24th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KXujJjnmP85u8eM6B/policy-for-llm-writing-on-lesswrong --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

Canada Immigration CEC Express Entry selection since 2015 for NOC 41201 Post-secondary teaching and research assistants for New Brunswick Good day ladies and gentlemen, this is IRC news, and I am Joy Stephen, an authorized Canadian Immigration practitioner bringing out this data analysis on the number of applicants approved for Canadian Permanent Residence for multiple years Under the Express Entry CEC selection based on your NOC code. I am coming to you from the Polinsys studios in Cambridge, Ontario The number of individuals selected under the old 4 digit NOC code 4012 or the new Specific 5 digit NOC code 41201 Post-secondary teaching and research assistants through the Federal Express Entry CEC for Canadian Residents in the express entry program is listed on your screen as a chart. These Permanent Residents were destined for the province of New Brunswick. The figures for each year from 2015 to 2023 are shown as a chart on your screen. Years without any selection for this category destinated for New Brunswick are shown as a blank. | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | - | 20 | 60 | 80 | 80 | 110 | 140 | 55 | 85 If you have an interest in gaining assistance with Work Permits based on your country of Citizenship, or should you require guidance post-selection, we extend a warm invitation to connect with us via https://myar.me/c. We strongly recommend attending our complimentary Zoom resource meetings conducted every Thursday. We kindly request you to carefully review the available resources. Subsequently, should any queries arise, our team of Canadian Authorized Representatives is readily available to address your concerns during the weekly AR's Q&A session held on Fridays. You can find the details for both these meetings at https://myar.me/zoom. Our dedicated team is committed to providing you with professional assistance in navigating the immigration process. Additionally, IRCNews offers valuable insights on selecting a qualified representative to advocate on your behalf with the Canadian Federal or Provincial governments, accessible at

Canada Immigration CEC Express Entry selection since 2015 for NOC 41201 Post-secondary teaching and research assistants for Alberta Good day ladies and gentlemen, this is IRC news, and I am Joy Stephen, an authorized Canadian Immigration practitioner bringing out this data analysis on the number of applicants approved for Canadian Permanent Residence for multiple years Under the Express Entry CEC selection based on your NOC code. I am coming to you from the Polinsys studios in Cambridge, Ontario The number of individuals selected under the old 4 digit NOC code 4012 or the new Specific 5 digit NOC code 41201 Post-secondary teaching and research assistants through the Federal Express Entry CEC for Canadian Residents in the express entry program is listed on your screen as a chart. These Permanent Residents were destined for the province of Alberta. The figures for each year from 2015 to 2023 are shown as a chart on your screen. Years without any selection for this category destinated for Alberta are shown as a blank. 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | - | 5 | 25 | 30 | 35 | 35 | 60 | 15 | 30 If you have an interest in gaining assistance with Work Permits based on your country of Citizenship, or should you require guidance post-selection, we extend a warm invitation to connect with us via https://myar.me/c. We strongly recommend attending our complimentary Zoom resource meetings conducted every Thursday. We kindly request you to carefully review the available resources. Subsequently, should any queries arise, our team of Canadian Authorized Representatives is readily available to address your concerns during the weekly AR's Q&A session held on Fridays. You can find the details for both these meetings at https://myar.me/zoom. Our dedicated team is committed to providing you with professional assistance in navigating the immigration process. Additionally, IRCNews offers valuable insights on selecting a qualified representative to advocate on your behalf with the Canadian Federal or Provincial governments, accessible at

Canada Immigration CEC Express Entry selection since 2015 for NOC 41201 Post-secondary teaching and research assistants for Alberta Good day ladies and gentlemen, this is IRC news, and I am Joy Stephen, an authorized Canadian Immigration practitioner bringing out this data analysis on the number of applicants approved for Canadian Permanent Residence for multiple years Under the Express Entry CEC selection based on your NOC code. I am coming to you from the Polinsys studios in Cambridge, Ontario The number of individuals selected under the old 4 digit NOC code 4012 or the new Specific 5 digit NOC code 41201 Post-secondary teaching and research assistants through the Federal Express Entry CEC for Canadian Residents in the express entry program is listed on your screen as a chart. These Permanent Residents were destined for the province of Alberta. The figures for each year from 2015 to 2023 are shown as a chart on your screen. Years without any selection for this category destinated for Alberta are shown as a blank. | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | - | 5 | 25 | 30 | 35 | 35 | 60 | 15 | 30 If you have an interest in gaining assistance with Work Permits based on your country of Citizenship, or should you require guidance post-selection, we extend a warm invitation to connect with us via https://myar.me/c. We strongly recommend attending our complimentary Zoom resource meetings conducted every Thursday. We kindly request you to carefully review the available resources. Subsequently, should any queries arise, our team of Canadian Authorized Representatives is readily available to address your concerns during the weekly AR's Q&A session held on Fridays. You can find the details for both these meetings at https://myar.me/zoom. Our dedicated team is committed to providing you with professional assistance in navigating the immigration process. Additionally, IRCNews offers valuable insights on selecting a qualified representative to advocate on your behalf with the Canadian Federal or Provincial governments, accessible at

Canada Immigration CEC Express Entry selection since 2015 for NOC 41201 Post-secondary teaching and research assistants for All of Canada Good day ladies and gentlemen, this is IRC news, and I am Joy Stephen, an authorized Canadian Immigration practitioner bringing out this data analysis on the number of applicants approved for Canadian Permanent Residence for multiple years Under the Express Entry CEC selection based on your NOC code. I am coming to you from the Polinsys studios in Cambridge, Ontario The number of individuals selected under the old 4 digit NOC code 4012 or the new Specific 5 digit NOC code 41201 Post-secondary teaching and research assistants through the Federal Express Entry CEC for Canadian Residents in the express entry program is listed on your screen as a chart. These Permanent Residents were destined for the province of All of Canada. The figures for each year from 2015 to 2023 are shown as a chart on your screen. Years without any selection for this category destinated for All of Canada are shown as a blank. | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023  5 | 40 | 170 | 160 | 170 | 200 | 275 | 95 | 155  If you have an interest in gaining assistance with Work Permits based on your country of Citizenship, or should you require guidance post-selection, we extend a warm invitation to connect with us via https://myar.me/c. We strongly recommend attending our complimentary Zoom resource meetings conducted every Thursday. We kindly request you to carefully review the available resources. Subsequently, should any queries arise, our team of Canadian Authorized Representatives is readily available to address your concerns during the weekly AR's Q&A session held on Fridays. You can find the details for both these meetings at https://myar.me/zoom. Our dedicated team is committed to providing you with professional assistance in navigating the immigration process. Additionally, IRCNews offers valuable insights on selecting a qualified representative to advocate on your behalf with the Canadian Federal or Provincial governments, accessible at

What can Dr. Deming's famous Red Bead Experiment teach us about quality? What happens when you only focus on the bad, and ignore the good? In this episode Bill Bellows and Andrew Stotz discuss acceptability vs desirability in the context of the Red Beads and a few of the 14 Points for Management. 0:00:02.1 Andrew Stotz: My name is Andrew Stotz and I'll be your host as we continue our journey into the teachings of Dr. W. Edwards Deming. Today I'm continuing my discussions with Bill Bellows who has spent 31 years helping people apply Dr. Deming's ideas to become aware of how their thinking is holding them back from their biggest opportunities. This is episode 5 of the Misunderstanding Quality series and the title is "The Red Bead Experiment." Bill take it away.   0:00:30.4 Bill: Thank you, Andrew, and welcome back. Welcome back to our listeners. One thing I want to say is, one is I listen to every podcast two or three times, listening for, is there a need for clarification, reminding myself, thinking, oh, I should have said this. Or sometimes I say, oh, make sure you make this point, and I do or I don't. And. so one is, nothing comes up from the last one that I thought I missed or mispronounced, but what I do want to clarify is, I'm viewing the target audience as quality professionals in your respective organization or people that want to become a quality professional that are learning, that are trying to apply these ideas in their organization, are fascinated with it. Could be quality professionals who are consultants looking for new awareness of the Deming perspective. So, that's...   0:01:35.8 Bill: And so, some of what I have in mind is, and the examples is, things you can try at home. In fact one thing I encourage... What I encourage my students to do, undergraduate and graduate students, even the clients I consult with, companies I consult with, is develop the ability to explain these ideas, any of them, to people outside of work. So, that could be a spouse, a brother, a sister, a mother, father, son, daughter. And, why outside of work? 'Cause I view that as a safe audience. You say, hey, I just listened to this podcast. Somebody at work may not be as safe. And why are we having this conversation? So, I would say, it could be a college classmate, but one is, try explaining these things to people outside of work and then when whoever that is looks at you and says, I have no idea what you're talking about, or this makes sense, then as you develop that confidence then you're refining your explanations. And that puts you in a better position to apply, to explain it at work.   0:02:54.9 Bill: And why is that important? I'd say there's a lot you can do on your own. I mentioned that a month or so ago, my wife and I were in New England, and I met my doctoral dissertation advisor, who's 86 years old and lives in the middle of nowhere. And one of the things is the wisdom he gave us way back when it was so profound. One of the things he said, we were poor starving college students making seven bucks an hour, working 20 hours during the semester as Research Assistants or 40 hours during the summer. And what a life. Living in... This is poor starving college students. And he would say to us... We'd get together now and then, there'd be a keg on campus and we'd be... Which it wasn't all that often, but anyway, he'd say to us, "These are the best years of your life." [laughter] And we'd look at him like... Now again, I mean, we were... I wouldn't say we were poor starving college students, but I mean, we made ends meet. Now our classmates had gone, undergraduate, gone off to work and they were making real money, and we just stayed in the slum housing and doing... Just living cheap.   0:04:20.3 Bill: Then he says, "These are the best years of your life." We're looking at him like what are you saying? And what he said was, you're working on your research projects either undergrad, masters or PhDs. He said, "You will never have the time you have now to focus on one thing and not be distracted." Now a few of the classmates were married. Most were not married, but he just said this is... I mean, what a dream situation. You're in the laboratory every day. That's all of your focus. Your tuition is covered, blah, blah, blah. But it was just like, yeah, okay. So, when our daughter was in graduate school I shared that with her and she laughed at me. I said, "Allison, these are the best years of your life."   0:05:14.4 AS: If only we listened.   0:05:15.5 Bill: Right. So, that's... And well, I wanted to bring up... But the other thing I want to bring up aside from that story is, he'd say to us, when you go to work, he said trust me. He said "there will be more than enough time to get your job done. You'll have a lot of... You will have time to..." And he said, 'cause he used to brag about he'd be given a task and he can get it done in a fraction of the time that was allocated. And why I mention that is that every job has latitude. And so, to our listeners I would say, think about how to use the latitude you have to practice, to do a small scale Plan-Do-Study-Act thing. Now I really think that's what it's going to come down to is, either experiment at home or whatever, but just practice. And then as Andrew always reminds us at the end of each podcast, you can reach out to me on LinkedIn. And that's led to a number of people I'm meeting with once or twice a month.   0:06:31.8 Bill: And they are exactly who I hope to meet, is young quality professionals wanting to know more, to know more, to know more, and they're either in the States or they're living in Europe. All right. So, before we get into the Red Bead Experiment I wanna go back and talk more about acceptability, desirability which will be a focus of the Red Bead Experiment as well. But in the first series we did, there were 23 episodes before we got into the Misunderstanding Quality, and somewhere in there we discussed, you may recall the paradigms of variation. And the paradigms are labeled letters A, B, C, D and E. And we will look at them in this series. So, for those who don't know what I just said, don't worry we'll cover you. And for those who heard it before, okay, we're going to review it. And I mentioned that because paradigm A, the only one I want to talk about tonight, is paradigm A, is does it meet requirements? That's what acceptability is. Is it good? 'Cause we have this binary world in quality. Part of paradigm A is a binary world. It is good or it's bad. We talked about last time is, if it's bad can we salvage it? Which means we can rework it.   0:07:52.3 Bill: Now some of the rework means it could be we can rework it and use it. And in the aerospace industry what happens is, maybe we can't put it in a flight engine. When I was at Rocketdyne maybe it doesn't end up in a Space Shuttle Main Engine, but maybe it ends up in a test engine and a test stand, so it doesn't fly, but we're still going to use it, or it's scrapped. We have to throw it away. But paradigm A is acceptability. Another thing I want to mention is, I was commenting on LinkedIn the last couple of days over process capability metrics. And there's Cp which stands for capability of the process. And, then there's Cpk which is a little bit different. And I don't want to get into those equations tonight, maybe in a future episode. But what I want to say is, if you're looking at a metric such as yield, people say the yield is 100%. What does that mean? It means everything is good. What if the yield is 50%? That means we have to... 50% is good, 50% is bad.   0:09:06.2 Bill: So, yield is an acceptability metric. Why do I say that? Because the measure is percent good. What is a good versus bad? Also say that indices that involve the requirements. And we've talked in the past about a lower requirement and an upper requirement, the idea because we expect variation we give a min and a max. And so, if the equation for the metric you're using includes the tolerance limits, then that's a clue that that's an acceptability-based metric. Now, I don't care whatever else is in the equation, but if those two numbers are in the equation, then the inference is, what you're talking about is a measure, some type of measure of acceptability.   0:10:00.5 AS: Right.   0:10:02.6 Bill: But even if people talk about... If the metric includes the middle of the requirements, well, as soon as you say middle of the requirements, as soon as you say requirements we're back to acceptability. So, these are things to pay attention to is what we're talking about acceptability and desirability, 'cause what we talked about last time was I was trying to give everyday examples of both. And so, acceptability is when people talk about... In fact I listened to about an hour long podcast today on quality management. And one of the comments was, if you follow the steps correctly you get the right result. Well, that's acceptability. Right? If things are right as opposed to wrong. So, again, when you're in this world of good, bad, right versus wrong, that's acceptability.   0:10:58.7 Bill: Again, the reminder is this is not to say acceptability is bad, but it's not desirability. Which one is it? And then what we talked about in the last podcast number four was choose. Do we wanna to focus on acceptability or do we wanna focus on desirability? Where desirability is saying, of all the things that are acceptable, I want this one. I want that orange. I want that parking spot. I wanna date that person of all the ones that meet requirements in my search... You know, in the dating app. And so, that's acceptability. What got me excited by Deming's work in the early '90s was, I was spending a whole lot of time at Rocketdyne focusing on things that were broken. I'm trying to apply Dr. Taguchi's ideas to go, to take something that used to be good but then slipped into bad, and now we're focusing on the bad stuff to make it good. And now the good news is it kept me busy.   0:12:06.5 Bill: I was having a lot of fun. These are high visibility things and the solutions. We got the solutions working with some really wonderful people. But that led me to start asking questions. And I was once at an all-day meeting in Seattle at Boeing. Rocketdyne had been sold to Boeing Commercial Airplane Company. I got invited to a meeting up there. And it was a monthly all-day production meeting. I don't know 50, 60 people in the room. And they asked me to come up. So, I went up. And what time does the meeting start? You know 8 o'clock, 9 o'clock, whatever. And I said you know put me on a few hours into the meeting. Well, why then? Well, I want to listen to the first couple of hours of the meeting. Because in listening, now we're going back to what we talked about with Edgar Schein. And I've developed the ability... You know, I can hear are we focusing on acceptability, desirability, I can hear things you know with a Deming lens. People think of a lens as seeing, well, there's a Deming ear set as well.   0:13:10.7 Bill: And so, I listened for the first two hours and exactly what I expected. So, when I get up to speak at last I said before I got to the slides, I said, "How much time do you spend every day discussing parts that are good, that arrive on time?" And a couple of people in the front row made a circle with their fingers, zero. And I said, so why is that the case? And one of them says, if it's not broken don't fix it. And wherever I go that's what people say. I went to a big Boeing customer doing... Because they were a customer we sold them rocket engines of some size. And I was briefing that slide, had 110 people in the room for a lunchtime presentation. Before I could read the slide, the room erupted in laughter. And so, I share that because if we're spending all this time focusing on the bad but not the good, what is that? That's acceptability. That's what happens, is the economics of acceptability says, only focus on the bad to make it good. But we don't focus on the good because... And that's what we're gonna look at towards the end of tonight is, why don't we focus on the good? And so, next, I had a co-worker at Rocketdyne got a job in Chicago at a toy factory. They bottled soap bubbles. And as a kid's toy with a little wand inside and blowing bubbles and all that.   0:14:56.0 Bill: And she dramatically turned the place around, did some amazing, amazing work. She went from being the senior manufacturing engineer to the, I think plant manager. So, she called me up as she'd been promoted to plant manager. And the question was now that I'm plant manager what should I focus on? So, I said... I had known her for four or five years at that time. I had been mentoring her and the mentoring continued in that capacity. So, I said well, what do you think you should focus on? And the comment was, I think I should focus on all the things that are broken. Well, that's acceptability once again. And I said, so you're focusing on being 100% reactive. And she said, well, yeah. And I said, what you're doing then by focusing on acceptability, you're saying the things that are good I ship, the things that are bad I got to work on. But without understanding that there's actually variation in good... I mean, go back to the Boeing folks when the guy says to me if it's not broken don't fix it. My response to that was, if you use that thinking to drive your car when would you put gas in it? When it runs out. If you use that thinking relative to your plumbing system, your water system at home when would you call the plumber? When it breaks.   0:16:25.5 Bill: When would you go see the doctor? When... So, the downside of not working on things that are good and not paying attention to things that are good is that they may bite you. So, part of the value proposition of acknowledging from a desirability perspective that there's variation in good. If you pay attention to the variation in good there's two upsides. One is, you can prevent bad from happening if that's all you want to do. And two, the focus of a future episode is by focusing on things that are good and paying attention to desirability in the way that Yoshida, Professor Yoshida was talking about. That offers opportunities to do things that you can't do with an acceptability focus, which is improve how things work together as a system. And the idea being when you move from acceptability which is a part focus to desirability, which is a system focus, you can improve the system. Okay, more to follow on that. All right. So, I got some questions for you Andrew, are you ready?   0:17:37.4 AS: Uh-oh. Uh-oh.   0:17:39.8 Bill: So, Dr. Deming had how many points for management?   0:17:42.9 AS: Fourteen.   0:17:46.3 Bill: All right. Okay.   0:17:48.3 AS: I'm being set up here. I just feel it. You start with the easy ones.   0:17:52.8 Bill: All right. And...   0:17:54.3 AS: Listeners, viewers help me out.   0:17:56.9 Bill: All right. And which point, Andrew, was cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality? What number was that?   0:18:09.6 AS: I'm gonna say four or five, or six. I can't remember.   0:18:14.2 Bill: Three. Three.   0:18:14.6 AS: Really? Three. Okay. That was close.   0:18:16.1 Bill: I would not have known. That was number three.   0:18:19.1 AS: Yeah.   0:18:20.1 Bill: And it's followed by Dr. Deming saying, "Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality to the product." So, the first question is what point was it? And again, I had to look it up. I know it's one of the 14. Second question, Andrew, is, if Dr. Deming is saying cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality, would you think of that as an acceptability focus or a desirability focus?   0:18:55.1 AS: I don't know if I can answer that. I mean, I can only think about what he was saying, which was design quality in from the beginning and get everybody involved in quality, not just having an inspector at the end, but I'm not sure.   0:19:11.4 Bill: Yeah. No. And even as I asked the other question, I'm thinking... Well, this is great because if in the audience you think of quality from an acceptability perspective, right?   0:19:24.2 AS: Mm-hmm.   0:19:24.9 Bill: So, if you're working for Boeing, which is all about acceptability or most companies, and you hear step three, then you're thinking, cease dependence on the inspection to achieve..., you're thinking acceptability. If that's what you're used to, if you're used to quality being doesn't meet requirements...   0:19:42.9 AS: Okay.   0:19:43.2 Bill: Then what you're hearing is Deming talking about acceptability. But if you've been exposed to Yoshida's work and Dr. Taguchi's work and you're understanding that within requirements there's variation of things that are good, so it's kind of a trick question. The idea is it depends. Alright.   0:20:02.4 AS: Yep.   0:20:05.5 Bill: I got two other of 14 points to ask you about. Alright. Which of the 14 points is in the practice of awarding business on the basis of price tag alone? Instead, minimize total cost. So,  first which point is that?   0:20:26.9 AS: I think it was also... I would say then four.   0:20:32.1 Bill: Yes.   [laughter]   0:20:33.6 AS: Yeah.   0:20:34.1 Bill: Yeah.   [laughter]   0:20:34.5 AS: You'd think I know. I wrote a book about it.   [laughter]   0:20:39.3 Bill: Alright. So, that's point four and...   0:20:42.1 AS: Okay. So, I got... I don't wanna be rated and ranked, but I got one right at least. Okay. Let's keep going.   0:20:49.1 Bill: Okay. And, so, is that acceptability or desirability? Let's say this. Is awarding business on price tag acceptability or desirability?   0:21:02.1 AS: Probably acceptability.   0:21:04.6 Bill: Yeah. 'Cause then you're saying...   0:21:06.5 AS: Can you hit this number? It's okay.   0:21:11.2 Bill: Yeah. Or you contact your insurance company and you say, I'm looking for a heart surgeon, and you say, and I found one, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And they call you up and say, yes, that person is a heart surgeon, but we prefer you use this one. [chuckle] What's the chance they're thinking about a cheaper option? Right? Alright? So, you're looking at from desirability perspective...   0:21:38.5 AS: This guy's really cheap on kidneys.   0:21:40.7 Bill: Right? And so you're thinking you've done a bunch of references. You've asked your friends. And why are you asking? Because all the doctors out there that meet requirements, you're blindly saying, I'll take any one. That's acceptability. And you're saying, I want this one. That's desirability. But the insurance company says, no. We consider them all to be the same in our policy. That's acceptability. Alright. Okay. And here's the last point we're gonna look at tonight. Which of the 14 points is "improve constantly and forever the system of production and service to improve quality and productivity and thus constantly decrease cost"?   0:22:23.5 AS: Isn't that number one? Constancy of... That's...   0:22:28.0 Bill: That's constancy of purpose. That's number one.   0:22:28.8 AS: Okay. Constancy of purpose. So, improve... Don't know. No. No.   0:22:39.4 Bill: That's number 5.   0:22:40.5 AS: Okay. Five.   0:22:44.5 Bill: And I was looking at, so I know those are three and one, and I thought, oh, that's three, four, and five. Alright. So, what I wanna do there is, we're gonna look at that a little bit later. So, I don't wanna ask you about acceptability, desirability, but I just wanna lay that on on the table. Alright. So, now we're gonna look at what Dr. Deming referred to as his chain reaction. The Deming Chain Reaction. Alright. So, what do you remember about the Deming chain reaction? It wasn't a motorcycle chain or a bicycle chain, right? What did Dr. Deming call his chain reaction?   0:23:31.3 AS: I can't... I mean, I'm thinking of the flowchart.   0:23:34.9 Bill: Yeah. We'll get to that. We'll get to that. The chain reaction...   0:23:36.5 AS: But that I can't remember.   0:23:39.6 Bill: And this is likely Out of the Crisis. The Deming chain reaction is, "if you improve quality, you will reduce scrap and rework, thereby reduce costs." And then he goes on to, by reducing costs, you can increase sales and expand the market. That's the chain reaction.   0:24:01.9 AS: Yeah.   0:24:02.2 Bill: So, when I ask students, again, in my either graduate, undergraduate classes is, talk about the Deming Chain Reaction, then I say, is the Deming Chain Reaction... Within the Deming Chain Reaction, Deming says, if you improve quality, reduce scrap and rework, lower cost, is that explanation of quality, acceptability, or desirability?   0:24:31.9 AS: I don't know. I'm fearful to answer nowadays because I'm not getting these right.   0:24:37.4 Bill: No. You are. You're on a roll. [chuckle] Again, the Deming Chain Reaction, if we improve quality, we reduce scrap and rework, thereby lower the cost thereby sell more and expand the market.   0:24:52.2 AS: I would say that's desirability.   0:24:56.1 Bill: Okay. One more time. If we improve quality, we reduce scrap and rework.   0:25:03.2 AS: Yep.   0:25:04.3 Bill: So, the clue is scrap. Is scrap something we talk about with acceptability or desirability?   0:25:12.1 AS: That's acceptability.   0:25:14.1 Bill: And rework.   0:25:18.2 AS: Well, we're trying to make it acceptable.   0:25:20.1 Bill: Exactly. And the reason I point that out is, I'm not sure... And I think we talked last time about things we agree with Deming or disagree with Deming. I'm not a big fan of the Deming Chain Reaction because I think... Again, if I'm in the audience and I'm working for a company that defines quality and in terms of acceptability, and he says to me, if you improve quality, reduce scrap and rework, that's what I'm used to. And my concern is, in other ways he's explaining quality in terms of constantly improving. Well, how can you constantly improve quality once you get to 100% yield? So. if all the product is good, which is acceptability, if there's no scrap and no rework, can you improve quality? Not if you're focusing on acceptability. And so, what I'm saying there is, that if Dr. Deming is in one hand defining the chain reaction and using the term quality in reference to scrap and rework, then he's projecting quality as acceptability. But if he's talking about improving constantly and forever, and then we get into, can you improve the quality forever? That's what he's saying.   0:26:49.1 Bill: What if you get to 100% yield, which is the maximum value of acceptability? Well, only if you shift to desirability can you improve forever quality, if you think it's worthwhile to do. So, that's why I wanted to go back and look at those things. One is revisit acceptability, desirability, and point out what I think are some opportunities for confusion in trying to explain Deming's work. Alright. Now we'll talk about the Red Bead experiment, which is, the very first time... I remember reading about it in the earliest books I read. I think, who is it that wrote the first books on Deming management, Deming management? She's a...   0:27:42.8 AS: Killian?   0:27:44.3 Bill: No, no, no. Cecilia Killian was Deming's admin.   0:27:48.9 AS: Mary?   0:27:50.5 Bill: Yeah. Mary Walton.   0:27:51.6 AS: Mary Walton.   0:27:52.5 Bill: Mary Walton. I remember reading a Mary Walton's book, that's when I first got exposed to this Red Bead experiment. So, The Deming Institute has a dedicated webpage, so, if you go to deming.org, or just do a Google search for deming.org Red Bead experiment, it's one of the most popular pages. I think that might be the second most popular, most visited page past the 14 Points. In there you can find short videos. There are longer videos, but there's enough on there to follow along with what I want to explain. So, Dr. Deming and the Red Bead experiment would take from the audience, and it could be four willing workers, six willing workers. He'd be the manager of the White Bead Company, and he would explain to them, he would share with them. He had a bowl, and in the bowl were 5,000 beads, maybe an eighth of an inch in diameter, small plastic beads, and there'd be 5,000 in the bowl, 4,000 white, 1,000 red.   0:29:00.6 Bill: And then there was a paddle, and the paddle could be roughly two inches by four inches, and the paddle had a little handle, and it had holes in it. So, the instructions he would provide to the willing workers, the production workers, is to take this paddle at a given angle, slide it in flat into the bowl, even the back of the beads. The beads are in one container, they get poured into another container.   0:29:27.7 AS: In a pan.   0:29:28.1 Bill: It's a mixing process, and then he pours them back in. So, just pour them from one to the other, and he would be very persnickety on pour at 45 degrees, tip from the corner. You pour back and forth, put the paddle in, and you'd end up with 50 of the beads would fill the paddle, and then you'd go to the inspector number one. And the inspector number one would count how many red beads, which is not what the customer wants. What the customer wants is white beads, but the raw material includes both. So, you go to inspector one, and they may count five beads. You go to inspector number two, and they quietly see five. The numbers get written down. Ideally, they're the same. And then you go to the, I think, the master inspector, and they say, five beads, and then "dismissed." And then write the five on a flip chart, and then the next person comes and does it, and the next person comes and does it. So, all six come up and draw beads, and then we count the number of red ones. The number of red ones go into this big table. Next thing you know we've done this over four different days. I've done this. This could take an hour. And even when you watch the videos, there's a fast forwarding.   0:31:00.1 Bill: I've done the Red Bead experiment, I think, just once, and I did it with a former student, which worked out really well, 'cause there was a lot of dead time, and the audience was watching, and so I was able to get conversation going with her. So, for those wanting to do this, boy, you've got to be pretty good on your feet to keep the audience entertained. To get to the point where you've got a table on the whiteboard, or on the flip chart, and on the table are the six willing workers on the left-hand side, and then day by day the red beads... Looking at the number of red beads. So, what are the red beads? Well, the red beads are not what the customer wants. What the customer wants are white beads, but in the production process, because the raw material includes red, well, then the red ends up in the output. So, I ask people, so, if the white beads are what the customer wants, what are the red beads? And typically, people say those are the defective, defects, scrap.   0:32:03.2 Bill: And, so now you get into this model is based on acceptability. The beads are either good, white, or bad, red. And so I would ask the students in class, in a work setting, what might the red beads be? I, in fact, asked our daughter. She said, is just moving from being a junior high school English teacher to a senior high school English teacher. Her undergraduate degree is from Cal State Long Beach.   0:32:34.3 AS: There you go.   0:32:34.3 Bill: So, her first day of school was today. She's also the varsity swim coach, which is way, way cool. Mom and dad are proud of her. So, I remember asking her a few years ago. So, I said, Allison, what are the red beads in the classroom? She said, well, the stapler doesn't work. The door doesn't close. The projector screen doesn't come down. The computer doesn't work. These are red beads in the classroom. So, I said, okay, Allison. What are the white beads?   0:33:01.1 Bill: Geez. So, we get so used to talking about the red beads are the defects or things that... Well, the white beads, by comparison, are the things that are good. So, I said, Allison, if the computer works, that's a white bead. If the door closes, that's a white bead. If you can close the window, that's a white bead. If you can pull down the screen, that's a white bead. So, the red beads are the things around us that are defects, broken, and the white beads are the others. And so, I wanna throw that out to do some stage setting. And ideally, this is a review for our listeners, and if not, you've gotta go watch as many videos as you can in The Deming Institute website. There's a lot of great content there. Watching Dr. Deming do this is pretty cool.   0:33:49.0 AS: He's a funny guy.   0:33:51.6 Bill: And I was very fortunate to be in Dr. Deming's very last four-day seminar. I did not participate in The Red Bead Experiment. I let somebody else do that, but it was classic. Well, the next thing I wanna get into is, and I would say to audiences many times, so we know... Well, a couple things. It's so easy to look at that data on a spreadsheet and say, Jill's the best performer. She has the minimum number of red beads. So, on the one hand, we can look day by day, and it could be Jill's number started off low. And we gave her an award, and then it went high, and then we started blaming her. So, there's variation in the number of beads, worker to worker and day to day. So, a given worker, their scores go up and down. So, that's called variation.   0:34:43.4 Bill: And so one of the aspects of the System of Profound Knowledge, which we haven't talked about too much, but ideally our listeners know Dr. Deming was really big about the value proposition of understanding variation. So, what Dr. Deming would talk about in his four-day seminars, and ideally anybody presenting this, is you take the data, you draw the usual conclusions. We're looking at data from an acceptability perspective. We look at the spreadsheet, and then voila, we turn it into a run chart and look at that data over time, calculate control limits, and then find that all the data is within the control limits and draw the conclusion that the process is in control. And then you move from in a non-Deming environment, looking at this data point versus this data point and drawing these conclusions that the white... The number of red beads is due to the workers.   0:35:33.7 Bill: So, the punch lines you'll find at Deming Institute webpage is that the workers are trying as best they can, that the red beads are caused not by the workers taken separately, but by the system, which includes the workers. A lot of great learning there. And a very significant piece is, in a Deming environment, where Deming's coming from is, again, this is before we go further in this in future sessions is, he's proposing that the majority of what goes on in the system relative to the performance of anything you measure is coming from the system. And if that is really, really understood, then you're hard pressed to blame people in sales for lousy sales or dips in sales or you look at grades of students in a classroom. So, for people looking at Dr. Deming's ideas, perhaps for the first time, realize that what he's talking about is coming from The Red Bead Experiment is a great eye opener for this is that, let's stop blaming the workers for the production issues and step back and look at our procurement system.   0:36:39.6 Bill: Do we have a procurement system where we're buying on price tag? If you buy on price tag, you end up with buying a lot of red beads. So, one aspect I wanna leave our listeners with today is, as you're studying this, realize there's a psychology aspect to The Red Bead Experiment. Not only the idea that there's variation up and down, but what are the implications of realizing that we can't be blaming the workers for the behavior of the system. The system includes the workers, but it also includes things that are well beyond their control. Well, where I wanna go next with this and then we'll next time get in and go further is, in appreciation of point five, "improve constantly forever the system," what I would ask audience is, so we know the red beads are caused by the system. We know the number of white beads goes up and down. But if we were to improve the system by not buying red beads or pre-sorting them out and get fewer and fewer red beads in there, then we get to the point that all the beads are white, perhaps. We have continuous improvement.   0:37:47.2 Bill: We end up with a 100% yield. Well, then we get into, again, and I've kind of set the stage in prior comments, what I would ask people is, what Dr. Deming's talking about trying to achieve zero red beads everywhere in the organization? Is that what we're striving for with the Deming philosophy, is to go around the organization, I want every single process to produce no red beads to make it to a 100% white beads? And if that's what Dr. Deming is talking about, then what does point five mean about continuously improving? Now we get into what I mentioned earlier is, you can improve the speed of operation to produce more white beads, so, we can do them faster, we can do them cheaper, but can we improve the quality of the white beads under that model? And the answer is no, because acceptability stops at a 100%. So, what we'll look at next time is, if you look at the beads and look closely, you'll see they have different diameters, different weights. They're not exactly the same color white. So, what is that Andrew? That's called variation.   0:39:00.9 Bill: And now it brings us back to desirability. So, what I encourage people to do, most of the times I see people presenting The Red Bead Experiment, they present it from an acceptability perspective. That's the starting point. But what I encourage our listeners to do is go through all that, and this becomes a great opportunity to move your audiences from acceptability focus to desirability by talking about the inherent variation in those beads. Again, we'll talk about the value proposition economically in future sessions, as well as the other paradigms of variation before we get there. So, that's what I wanna cover.   0:39:43.2 AS: Wow. Bill, on behalf of everyone at The Deming Institute, I wanna thank you again for this discussion. And for listeners, remember to go to deming.org to continue your journey. If you wanna keep in touch with Bill, just find him on LinkedIn, and this is your host, Andrew Stotz, and I'll leave you with one of my favorite quotes from Dr. Deming. It never gets old. "People are entitled to joy in work."

Canada Immigration CEC Express Entry selection since 2015 for NOC 41201 Post-secondary teaching and research assistants for Manitoba  Good day ladies and gentlemen, this is IRC news, and I am Joy Stephen, an authorized Canadian Immigration practitioner bringing out this data analysis on the number of applicants approved for Canadian Permanent Residence for multiple years Under the Express Entry CEC selection based on your NOC code. I am coming to you from the Polinsys studios in Cambridge, Ontario  The number of individuals selected under the old 4 digit NOC code 4012 or the new Specific 5 digit NOC code 41201 Post-secondary teaching and research assistants through the Federal Express Entry CEC for Canadian Residents in the express entry program is listed on your screen as a chart. These Permanent Residents were destined for the province of Manitoba. The figures for each year from 2015 to 2023 are shown as a chart on your screen. Years without any selection for this category destinated for Manitoba are shown as a blank. | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023  |    -      |    -      |    10  |   5      |     -     |     -      |     10  |    5     |     5 If you have an interest in gaining assistance with Work Permits based on your country of Citizenship, or should you require guidance post-selection, we extend a warm invitation to connect with us via https://myar.me/c. We strongly recommend attending our complimentary Zoom resource meetings conducted every Thursday. We kindly request you to carefully review the available resources. Subsequently, should any queries arise, our team of Canadian Authorized Representatives is readily available to address your concerns during the weekly AR's Q&A session held on Fridays. You can find the details for both these meetings at https://myar.me/zoom. Our dedicated team is committed to providing you with professional assistance in navigating the immigration process. Additionally, IRCNews offers valuable insights on selecting a qualified representative to advocate on your behalf with the Canadian Federal or Provincial governments, accessible at

Canada Immigration CEC Express Entry selection since 2015 for NOC 41201 Post-secondary teaching and research assistants for Ontario Good day ladies and gentlemen, this is IRC news, and I am Joy Stephen, an authorized Canadian Immigration practitioner bringing out this data analysis on the number of applicants approved for Canadian Permanent Residence for multiple years Under the Express Entry CEC selection based on your NOC code. I am coming to you from the Polinsys studios in Cambridge, Ontario The number of individuals selected under the old 4 digit NOC code 4012 or the new Specific 5 digit NOC code 41201 Post-secondary teaching and research assistants through the Federal Express Entry CEC for Canadian Residents in the express entry program is listed on your screen as a chart. These Permanent Residents were destined for the province of Ontario. The figures for each year from 2015 to 2023 are shown as a chart on your screen. Years without any selection for this category destinated for Ontario are shown as a blank. | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |         - |        - |       5   |       5 |         - |         5 |      10 |         - | -  If you have an interest in gaining assistance with Work Permits based on your country of Citizenship, or should you require guidance post-selection, we extend a warm invitation to connect with us via https://myar.me/c. We strongly recommend attending our complimentary Zoom resource meetings conducted every Thursday. We kindly request you to carefully review the available resources. Subsequently, should any queries arise, our team of Canadian Authorized Representatives is readily available to address your concerns during the weekly AR's Q&A session held on Fridays. You can find the details for both these meetings at https://myar.me/zoom. Our dedicated team is committed to providing you with professional assistance in navigating the immigration process. Additionally, IRCNews offers valuable insights on selecting a qualified representative to advocate on your behalf with the Canadian Federal or Provincial governments, accessible at

Canada Immigration Federal Express Entry FSW for Foreign Nationals selection since 2015 for NOC 41201 Post-secondary teaching and research assistants   Good day ladies and gentlemen, this is IRC news, and I am Joy Stephen, an authorized Canadian Immigration practitioner bringing out this data analysis on the number of applicants approved for Canadian Permanent Residence for multiple years Under the Federal Skilled Worker Immigration program based on your NOC code. I am coming to you from the Polinsys studios in Cambridge, Ontario The number of individuals selected under the old 4 digit NOC code 4012 or the new 5-digit NOC 41201 Post-secondary teaching and research assistants through the Federal Express Entry FSW for Foreign Nationals is listed on your screen as a chart.  Years without any selection for this category are shown as a blank. | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |    90  |    85   |   425 |  480 |   500 |    395 |    120 |      70 | 225  If you have an interest in gaining assistance with Work Permits based on your country of Citizenship, or should you require guidance post-selection, we extend a warm invitation to connect with us via https://myar.me/c. We strongly recommend attending our complimentary Zoom resource meetings conducted every Thursday. We kindly request you to carefully review the available resources. Subsequently, should any queries arise, our team of Canadian Authorized Representatives is readily available to address your concerns during the weekly AR's Q&A session held on Fridays. You can find the details for both these meetings at https://myar.me/zoom. Our dedicated team is committed to providing you with professional assistance in navigating the immigration process. Additionally, IRCNews offers valuable insights on selecting a qualified representative to advocate on your behalf with the Canadian Federal or Provincial governments, accessible at https://ircnews.ca/consultant

 Good day ladies and gentlemen, this is IRC news, and I am Joy Stephen, an authorized Canadian Immigration practitioner bringing out this data analysis on the number of applicants approved for Canadian Permanent Residence for multiple years Under the Express Entry CEC selection based on your NOC code. I am coming to you from the Polinsys studios in Cambridge, Ontario  The number of individuals selected under the old 4 digit NOC code 4012 Post-secondary teaching and research assistants or the new 41201 Post-secondary teaching and research assistants by Canada through the Federal Express Entry CEC for Canadian Residents in the express entry program is listed on your screen as a chart. These Permanent Residents were destined for the province of Prince Edward Island. The figures for each year from 2015 to 2023 are shown as a chart on your screen. Years without any selection for this category are shown as a blank. | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |      -      |      -      |      10   |      -     |      5      |      5     |      5     |      -      |      - If you have an interest in gaining assistance with Work Permits based on your country of Citizenship, or should you require guidance post-selection, we extend a warm invitation to connect with us via https://myar.me/c. We strongly recommend attending our complimentary Zoom resource meetings conducted every Thursday. We kindly request you to carefully review the available resources. Subsequently, should any queries arise, our team of Canadian Authorized Representatives is readily available to address your concerns during the weekly AR's Q&A session held on Fridays. You can find the details for both these meetings at https://myar.me/zoom. Our dedicated team is committed to providing you with professional assistance in navigating the immigration process. Additionally, IRCNews offers valuable insights on selecting a qualified representative to advocate on your behalf with the Canadian Federal or Provincial governments, accessible at https://ircnews.ca/consultant

The Military Graduate Research Program (MGRP) is a key component of GTRI's Intelligent Sustainable Technology Division (ISTD). The Military Graduate Research Program (MGRP) provides opportunities for U.S. military personnel to conduct part-time research at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) while obtaining a STEM graduate degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Military personnel perform state-of-the-art research as a Military Graduate Research Assistant (MGRA) working alongside full-time GTRI Research Faculty. Currently, ISTD has two military graduate research assistants (MGRAs) who are part of MGRP. In this episode, we hear from Lieutenant Kelly Bowers of the United States Navy and Second Lieutenant Margaret Warner of the United States Air Force. They will discuss how they selected their branch of service, how they came to be MGRAs at GTRI, and some of their conducted research at ISTD.

Join us as we sit down with three high school seniors who are Research Assistants at the Stanford Deliberative Democracy Lab. They share their insights on the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence and its effect on youth today. In this episode, our guests discuss how AI is currently shaping their lives and education, their concerns and hopes for the future of AI, and their ideas for policies and tools to help young people navigate these changes.Siya Verma of Quarry Lane School, focused on global public policy, technology policy, and economics.Sophie Yang from Lynbrook High School, passionate about economics, public policy, and law.Dev Krishnamoorthy from Saratoga High School, interested in computer science and political science.Listen as Siya, Sophie, and Dev discuss how their work and academic interests inform their understanding of AI's role in shaping future policy and education frameworks!

Every firm currently struggles with making sure all of the knowledge in their organization is written down, up to date, and searchable. In the future, chatbots could serve as a kind of automated research assistants for firm knowledge. They'd be responsible for answering questions by sourcing information from the right person, document and they could also be used to proactively record tacit knowledge into living documents by periodically interviewing key people about their progress on company initiatives.   In this podcast interview, we discussed the role of AI powered chatbots as digital research assistants and more. Moderator: @Alejandro Vallellanes - Former Senior Manager, Research and Information Alerts, Baker McKenzie Speakers: @Stephanie Goutos - Practice Innovation Attorney, Gunderson Dettmer, L.L.P. @Avi Saiger - Practice Innovation Attorney, Gunderson Dettmer, L.L.P. @John Scrudato - Legal Engineering and Data Strategy Manager, Gunderson Dettmer, L.L.P. Recorded on 02-05-2024.

Approved Canada PR visa NOC 41201 Post-secondary teaching and research assistants in NewFoundland for 6 years Good day ladies and gentlemen, this is IRC news, and I am Joy Stephen, an authorized Canadian Immigration practitioner bringing out this data analysis on the number of applicants approved for Canadian Permanent Residence for NOC 41201, Title or group: Post-secondary teaching and research assistants for the past 6 years from 2017 to 2022 for the province of Newfoundland. Today is the 04/08/2023, and I am coming to you from the Polinsys studios in Cambridge, Ontario. The Atlantic Province of Newfoundland accepted 2 in 2017, 2 in 2018, 10 in 2019, 4 in 2020, 7 in 2021 & 9 in 2022. We are discussing Canadian Permanent residence figures for NOC code 41201, Title or group: Post-secondary teaching and research assistants for the province of Newfoundland. The total for the 6 years until 2022 was 34.  If you have experience in NOC 41201 and hold the Job Title or group Post-secondary teaching and research assistants, and you are interested in learning about the process of participating in the Canadian Federal or Provincial Immigration program for this specific NOC code, or if you require assistance after being selected, we encourage you to reach out to us at https://myar.me/contact-us/. Our team will be pleased to assist you in navigating the immigration process professionally. Welcome to this weekly video update on PNP news brought to you by IRC News. We understand the importance of staying informed about Canadian job opportunities, data analysis, and immigration news, and that's why we're here to provide you with the latest information. To further your understanding of becoming a Canadian Permanent Resident, we invite you to watch our free online YouTube videos at https://polinsys.com/p. Our Canadian Authorized Representative also conducts a free Q&A session every Friday to answer any questions you may have. For more information and Zoom meeting credentials, please visit https://myar.me. It's important to note that the Canadian Government regulates who can charge fees for immigration services, so we recommend following the link https://polinsys.co/rep for more information. If you're looking for a free evaluation of your Canada PR application, please visit https://myar.me/evaluationXX. To stay updated with our latest news, follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. We appreciate your support and hope you've found this video informative. If you liked this news, please like the video and to receive notifications about more Canadian job positions, please subscribe to our channel.

Approved Canada PR visa NOC 41201 Post-secondary teaching and research assistants in PEI for 6 years Good day ladies and gentlemen, this is IRC news, and I am Joy Stephen, an authorized Canadian Immigration practitioner bringing out this data analysis on the number of applicants approved for Canadian Permanent Residence for NOC 41201, Title or group: Post-secondary teaching and research assistants for 6 years from 2017 to 2022 for the province of PEI. Today is the 04/08/2023, and I am coming to you from the Polinsys studios in Cambridge, Ontario. The Atlantic Province of PEI accepted 4 in 2017, 1 in 2018, 0 in 2019, 0 in 2020, 0 in 2021 & 3 in 2022. We are discussing Canadian Permanent residence figures for NOC code 41201, Title or group: Post-secondary teaching and research assistants for the province of PEI. The total for the 6 years until 2022 was 8.  If you have experience in NOC 41201 and hold the Job Title or group Post-secondary teaching and research assistants, and you are interested in learning about the process of participating in the Canadian Federal or Provincial Immigration program for this specific NOC code, or if you require assistance after being selected, we encourage you to reach out to us at https://myar.me/contact-us/. Our team will be pleased to assist you in navigating the immigration process professionally.  Welcome to this weekly video update on PNP news brought to you by IRC News. We understand the importance of staying informed about Canadian job opportunities, data analysis, and immigration news, and that's why we're here to provide you with the latest information. To further your understanding of becoming a Canadian Permanent Resident, we invite you to watch our free online YouTube videos at https://polinsys.com/p. Our Canadian Authorized Representative also conducts a free Q&A session every Friday to answer any questions you may have. For more information and Zoom meeting credentials, please visit https://myar.me. It's important to note that the Canadian Government regulates who can charge fees for immigration services, so we recommend following the link https://polinsys.co/rep for more information. If you're looking for a free evaluation of your Canada PR application, please visit https://myar.me/evaluationXX. To stay updated with our latest news, follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. We appreciate your support and hope you've found this video informative. If you liked this news, please like the video and to receive notifications about more Canadian job positions, please subscribe to our channel.

Approved Canada PR visa NOC 41201 Post-secondary teaching and research assistants in Atlantic Provinces for 6 years Good day ladies and gentlemen, this is IRC news, and I am Joy Stephen, an authorized Canadian Immigration practitioner bringing out this data analysis on the number of applicants approved for Canadian Permanent Residence for NOC 41201, Title or group: Post-secondary teaching and research assistants for 2017 to 2022 for all Atlantic Provinces. Today is the 04/08/2023, and I am coming to you from the Polinsys studios in Cambridge, Ontario. The Province of New Brunswick accepted a total of 31 Permanent Residents in Old NOC 41201, Title or group: Post-secondary teaching and research assistants, for the 6 years until 2022 The Province of Nova Scotia accepted a total of 87 Permanent Residents in Old NOC 41201, Title or group: Post-secondary teaching and research assistants, for the 6 years until 2022 The Province of PEI accepted a total of 8 Permanent Residents in Old NOC 41201, Title or group: Post-secondary teaching and research assistants, for the 6 years until 2022 The Province of Newfoundland accepted a total of 34 Permanent Residents in Old NOC 41201, Title or group: Post-secondary teaching and research assistants, for the 6 years until 2022 If you have experience in NOC 41201 and hold the Job Title or group Post-secondary teaching and research assistants, and you are interested in learning about the process of participating in the Canadian Federal or Provincial Immigration program for this specific NOC code, or if you require assistance after being selected, we encourage you to reach out to us at https://myar.me/contact-us/. Our team will be pleased to assist you in navigating the immigration process professionally. Welcome to this weekly video update on PNP news brought to you by IRC News. We understand the importance of staying informed about Canadian job opportunities, data analysis, and immigration news, and that's why we're here to provide you with the latest information. To further your understanding of becoming a Canadian Permanent Resident, we invite you to watch our free online YouTube videos at https://polinsys.com/p. Our Canadian Authorized Representative also conducts a free Q&A session every Friday to answer any questions you may have. For more information and Zoom meeting credentials, please visit https://myar.me. It's important to note that the Canadian Government regulates who can charge fees for immigration services, so we recommend following the link https://polinsys.co/rep for more information. If you're looking for a free evaluation of your Canada PR application, please visit https://myar.me/evaluationXX. To stay updated with our latest news, follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. We appreciate your support and hope you've found this video informative. If you liked this news, please like the video and to receive notifications about more Canadian job positions, please subscribe to our channel.

Approved Canada PR visa NOC 41201 Post-secondary teaching and research assistants in New Brunswick for 6 years Good day ladies and gentlemen, this is IRC news, and I am Joy Stephen, an authorized Canadian Immigration practitioner bringing out this data analysis on the number of applicants approved for Canadian Permanent Residence for NOC 41201, Title or group: Post-secondary teaching and research assistants for 6 years from 2017 to 2022 for the province of New Brunswick. Today is the 04/08/2023, and I am coming to you from the Polinsys studios in Cambridge, Ontario. The Atlantic Province of New Brunswick accepted 3 in 2017, 8 in 2018, 4 in 2019, 6 in 2020, 6 in 2021 & 4 in 2022. We are discussing Canadian Permanent residence figures for NOC code 41201, Title or group: Post-secondary teaching and research assistants for the province of New Brunswick. The total for the 6 years until 2022 was 31. If you have experience in NOC 41201 and hold the Job Title or group Post-secondary teaching and research assistants, and you are interested in learning about the process of participating in the Canadian Federal or Provincial Immigration program for this specific NOC code, or if you require assistance after being selected, we encourage you to reach out to us at https://myar.me/contact-us/. Our team will be pleased to assist you in navigating the immigration process professionally. Welcome to this weekly video update on PNP news brought to you by IRC News. We understand the importance of staying informed about Canadian job opportunities, data analysis, and immigration news, and that's why we're here to provide you with the latest information. To further your understanding of becoming a Canadian Permanent Resident, we invite you to watch our free online YouTube videos at https://polinsys.com/p. Our Canadian Authorized Representative also conducts a free Q&A session every Friday to answer any questions you may have. For more information and Zoom meeting credentials, please visit https://myar.me. It's important to note that the Canadian Government regulates who can charge fees for immigration services, so we recommend following the link https://polinsys.co/rep for more information. If you're looking for a free evaluation of your Canada PR application, please visit https://myar.me/evaluationXX. To stay updated with our latest news, follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. We appreciate your support and hope you've found this video informative. If you liked this news, please like the video and to receive notifications about more Canadian job positions, please subscribe to our channel.

Approved Canada PR visa NOC 41201 Post-secondary teaching and research assistants in Nova Scotia for 6 years Good day ladies and gentlemen, this is IRC news, and I am Joy Stephen, an authorized Canadian Immigration practitioner bringing out this data analysis on the number of applicants approved for Canadian Permanent Residence for NOC 41201, Title or group: Post-secondary teaching and research assistants for 6 years from 2017 to 2022 for the province of Nova Scotia. Today is the 04/08/2023, and I am coming to you from the Polinsys studios in Cambridge, Ontario. The Atlantic Province of Nova Scotia accepted 11 in 2017, 11 in 2018, 17 in 2019, 12 in 2020, 17 in 2021 & 19 in 2022. We are discussing Canadian Permanent residence figures for NOC code 41201 for the province of Nova Scotia, Title or group: Post-secondary teaching and research assistants. The total for the 6 years until 2022 was 87. If you have experience in NOC 41201 and hold the Job Title or group Post-secondary teaching and research assistants, and you are interested in learning about the process of participating in the Canadian Federal or Provincial Immigration program for this specific NOC code, or if you require assistance after being selected, we encourage you to reach out to us at https://myar.me/contact-us/. Our team will be pleased to assist you in navigating the immigration process professionally.  Welcome to this weekly video update on PNP news brought to you by IRC News. We understand the importance of staying informed about Canadian job opportunities, data analysis, and immigration news, and that's why we're here to provide you with the latest information. To further your understanding of becoming a Canadian Permanent Resident, we invite you to watch our free online YouTube videos at https://polinsys.com/p. Our Canadian Authorized Representative also conducts a free Q&A session every Friday to answer any questions you may have. For more information and Zoom meeting credentials, please visit https://myar.me. It's important to note that the Canadian Government regulates who can charge fees for immigration services, so we recommend following the link https://polinsys.co/rep for more information. If you're looking for a free evaluation of your Canada PR application, please visit https://myar.me/evaluationXX. To stay updated with our latest news, follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. We appreciate your support and hope you've found this video informative. If you liked this news, please like the video and to receive notifications about more Canadian job positions, please subscribe to our channel.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Open Call for Research Assistants in Developmental Interpretability, published by Jesse Hoogland on August 30, 2023 on LessWrong. We are excited to announce multiple positions for Research Assistants to join our six-month research project assessing the viability of Developmental Interpretability (DevInterp). This is a chance to gain expertise in interpretability, develop your skills as a researcher, build out a network of collaborators and mentors, publish in major conferences, and open a path towards future opportunities, including potential permanent roles, recommendations, and successive collaborations. Background Developmental interpretability is a research agenda aiming to build tools for detecting, locating, and understanding phase transitions in learning dynamics of neural networks. It draws on techniques from singular learning theory, mechanistic interpretability, statistical physics, and developmental biology. Position Details General info: Title: Research Assistant / Research Engineer. Location: Remote, with hubs in Melbourne and London. Duration: Until March 2024 (at minimum). Compensation: base salary is USD$35k per year, to be paid out as an independent contractor at an hourly rate. Timeline: Application Deadline: September 15th, 2023 Ideal Start Date: October 2023 How to Apply: Complete the application form by the deadline. Further information on the application process will be provided in the form. Who We Are The developmental interpretability research team consists of experts across a number of areas of mathematics, physics, statistics and AI safety. The principal researchers: Daniel Murfet, mathematician and SLT expert, University of Melbourne. Susan Wei, statistician and SLT expert, University of Melbourne. Jesse Hoogland, MSc. Physics, SERI MATS scholar, RA in Krueger lab We have a range of projects currently underway, led by one of these principal researchers and involving a number of other PhD and MSc students from the University of Melbourne and collaborators from around the world. In an organizational capacity you would also interact with Alexander Oldenziel and Stan van Wingerden. You can find us and the broader DevInterp research community on our Discord. Beyond the Developmental Interpretability research agenda, you can read our first preprint on scalable SLT invariants and check out the lectures from the SLT & Alignment summit. Overview of Projects Here's the selection of the projects underway, some of which you would be expected to contribute to. These tend to be on the more experimental side: Developing scalable estimates for SLT invariants: Invariants like the (local) learning coefficient and (local) singular fluctuation can signal the presence of "hidden" phase transitions. Improving these techniques can help us better identify these transitions. DevInterp of vision models: To what extent do the kinds of circuits studied in the original circuits thread emerge through phase transitions? DevInterp of program synthesis: In examples where we know there is rich compositional structure, can we see it in the singularities? Practically, this means studying settings like modular arithmetic (grokking), multitask sparse parity, and more complex variants. DevInterp of in-context learning & induction heads: Is the development of induction heads a proper phase transition in the language of SLT? More ambitiously, can we apply singular learning theory to study in-context learning and make sense of "in-context phase transitions." DevInterp of language models: Can we detect phase transitions in simple language models (like TinyStories). Can we, from these transitions, discover circuit structure? Can we extend these techniques to larger models (e.g., in the Pythia suite). DevInterp of reinforcement learning models: To what extent are phase transitions inv...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Open Call for Research Assistants in Developmental Interpretability, published by Jesse Hoogland on August 30, 2023 on LessWrong. We are excited to announce multiple positions for Research Assistants to join our six-month research project assessing the viability of Developmental Interpretability (DevInterp). This is a chance to gain expertise in interpretability, develop your skills as a researcher, build out a network of collaborators and mentors, publish in major conferences, and open a path towards future opportunities, including potential permanent roles, recommendations, and successive collaborations. Background Developmental interpretability is a research agenda aiming to build tools for detecting, locating, and understanding phase transitions in learning dynamics of neural networks. It draws on techniques from singular learning theory, mechanistic interpretability, statistical physics, and developmental biology. Position Details General info: Title: Research Assistant / Research Engineer. Location: Remote, with hubs in Melbourne and London. Duration: Until March 2024 (at minimum). Compensation: base salary is USD$35k per year, to be paid out as an independent contractor at an hourly rate. Timeline: Application Deadline: September 15th, 2023 Ideal Start Date: October 2023 How to Apply: Complete the application form by the deadline. Further information on the application process will be provided in the form. Who We Are The developmental interpretability research team consists of experts across a number of areas of mathematics, physics, statistics and AI safety. The principal researchers: Daniel Murfet, mathematician and SLT expert, University of Melbourne. Susan Wei, statistician and SLT expert, University of Melbourne. Jesse Hoogland, MSc. Physics, SERI MATS scholar, RA in Krueger lab We have a range of projects currently underway, led by one of these principal researchers and involving a number of other PhD and MSc students from the University of Melbourne and collaborators from around the world. In an organizational capacity you would also interact with Alexander Oldenziel and Stan van Wingerden. You can find us and the broader DevInterp research community on our Discord. Beyond the Developmental Interpretability research agenda, you can read our first preprint on scalable SLT invariants and check out the lectures from the SLT & Alignment summit. Overview of Projects Here's the selection of the projects underway, some of which you would be expected to contribute to. These tend to be on the more experimental side: Developing scalable estimates for SLT invariants: Invariants like the (local) learning coefficient and (local) singular fluctuation can signal the presence of "hidden" phase transitions. Improving these techniques can help us better identify these transitions. DevInterp of vision models: To what extent do the kinds of circuits studied in the original circuits thread emerge through phase transitions? DevInterp of program synthesis: In examples where we know there is rich compositional structure, can we see it in the singularities? Practically, this means studying settings like modular arithmetic (grokking), multitask sparse parity, and more complex variants. DevInterp of in-context learning & induction heads: Is the development of induction heads a proper phase transition in the language of SLT? More ambitiously, can we apply singular learning theory to study in-context learning and make sense of "in-context phase transitions." DevInterp of language models: Can we detect phase transitions in simple language models (like TinyStories). Can we, from these transitions, discover circuit structure? Can we extend these techniques to larger models (e.g., in the Pythia suite). DevInterp of reinforcement learning models: To what extent are phase transitions inv...

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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Thoughts on the OpenAI alignment plan: will AI research assistants be net-positive for AI existential risk?, published by Jeffrey Ladish on March 10, 2023 on LessWrong. Note: I really appreciate the work that the OpenAI alignment team put into their alignment plan writeup and related posts, especially Jan Leike, the leader of that team. I believe open discussions about alignment approaches make it more likely that the whole community will be able to find flaws in their own plans and unappreciated insights, resulting in better alignment plans over time. Summary: OpenAI's alignment plan acknowledges several key challenges of aligning powerful AGI systems, and proposes several good ideas. However, the plan fails to sufficiently address: The dual-use nature of AI research assistants and the high risk that such assistants will improve capabilities more than alignment research in ways that net-increase AI existential risk. The likely challenges involved in both generating and evaluating AI alignment research using AI research assistants. It seems plausible that generating key insights about the alignment problem will not be possible before the development of dangerously powerful AGI systems. The nature and difficulty of the alignment problem. There are substantial reasons why AI systems that pass all tests in development may not stay safe once able to act in the world. There are substantial risks from goal misgeneralization, including deceptive misalignment, made worse by potential rapid increases in capabilities that are hard to predict. Any good alignment plan should address these problems, especially since many of them may not be visible until an AI system already has dangerous capabilities. The dual-use nature of AI research assistants and whether these systems will differentially improve capabilities and net-increase existential risk There has been disagreement in the past about whether “alignment” and “capabilities” research are a dichotomy. Jan Leike has claimed that they are not always dichotomous, and this is important because lots of capabilities insights will be useful for alignment, so the picture is not as worrisome as a dichotomous picture might make it seem.I agree with Jan that these alignment and capabilities research are not dichotomous, but in a way I think actually makes the problem worse, not better. Yes, it's probable that some AI capabilities could help solve the alignment problem. However, the general problem is that unaligned AGI systems are far easier to build - they're a far more natural thing to emerge from a powerful deep learning system than an aligned AGI system. So even though there may be deep learning capabilities that can help solve the alignment problem, most of these capabilities are still easier applied to making any AGI system, most of which are likely to be unaligned even when we're trying really hard. Let's look at AI research assistants in particular. I say “AI research assistant” rather than “alignment research assistant” because I expect that it's highly unlikely that we will find a way to build an assistant that is useful for alignment research but not useful for AI research in general. Let's say OpenAI is able to train an AI research assistant that can help the alignment team tackle some difficult problems in interpretability. That's great! However, a question is, can that model also help speed up AGI development at the rest of the company? If so, by how much? And will it be used to do so? Given that building an aligned AGI is likely much harder than building an unaligned AGI system, it would be quite surprising if an AI research assistant was better at helping with AGI safety research differentially over AGI development research more broadly. Of course it's possible that a research tool that sped up capabilities research more ...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Thoughts on the OpenAI alignment plan: will AI research assistants be net-positive for AI existential risk?, published by Jeffrey Ladish on March 10, 2023 on LessWrong. Note: I really appreciate the work that the OpenAI alignment team put into their alignment plan writeup and related posts, especially Jan Leike, the leader of that team. I believe open discussions about alignment approaches make it more likely that the whole community will be able to find flaws in their own plans and unappreciated insights, resulting in better alignment plans over time. Summary: OpenAI's alignment plan acknowledges several key challenges of aligning powerful AGI systems, and proposes several good ideas. However, the plan fails to sufficiently address: The dual-use nature of AI research assistants and the high risk that such assistants will improve capabilities more than alignment research in ways that net-increase AI existential risk. The likely challenges involved in both generating and evaluating AI alignment research using AI research assistants. It seems plausible that generating key insights about the alignment problem will not be possible before the development of dangerously powerful AGI systems. The nature and difficulty of the alignment problem. There are substantial reasons why AI systems that pass all tests in development may not stay safe once able to act in the world. There are substantial risks from goal misgeneralization, including deceptive misalignment, made worse by potential rapid increases in capabilities that are hard to predict. Any good alignment plan should address these problems, especially since many of them may not be visible until an AI system already has dangerous capabilities. The dual-use nature of AI research assistants and whether these systems will differentially improve capabilities and net-increase existential risk There has been disagreement in the past about whether “alignment” and “capabilities” research are a dichotomy. Jan Leike has claimed that they are not always dichotomous, and this is important because lots of capabilities insights will be useful for alignment, so the picture is not as worrisome as a dichotomous picture might make it seem.I agree with Jan that these alignment and capabilities research are not dichotomous, but in a way I think actually makes the problem worse, not better. Yes, it's probable that some AI capabilities could help solve the alignment problem. However, the general problem is that unaligned AGI systems are far easier to build - they're a far more natural thing to emerge from a powerful deep learning system than an aligned AGI system. So even though there may be deep learning capabilities that can help solve the alignment problem, most of these capabilities are still easier applied to making any AGI system, most of which are likely to be unaligned even when we're trying really hard. Let's look at AI research assistants in particular. I say “AI research assistant” rather than “alignment research assistant” because I expect that it's highly unlikely that we will find a way to build an assistant that is useful for alignment research but not useful for AI research in general. Let's say OpenAI is able to train an AI research assistant that can help the alignment team tackle some difficult problems in interpretability. That's great! However, a question is, can that model also help speed up AGI development at the rest of the company? If so, by how much? And will it be used to do so? Given that building an aligned AGI is likely much harder than building an unaligned AGI system, it would be quite surprising if an AI research assistant was better at helping with AGI safety research differentially over AGI development research more broadly. Of course it's possible that a research tool that sped up capabilities research more ...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Let's advertise EA infrastructure projects, Feb 2023, published by Arepo on February 2, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. A few months ago I posted an advertisement for various EA infrastructure projects on the grounds that there are now many such free or discounted services, and there's very little ongoing way to bring them to the attention of newcomers or remind people who've been around longer and may have forgotten about them. The trouble is, that post had the same issues all attempts to broadcast ideas in this space do: it sat on the front page for a few hours and then fell away - with the organisation I edited later getting almost no exposure. So this post is essentially a repost of it, albeit with the suggestions that were edited in later from the start. Ideally I would hope a post like this could be pinned to the top of the forum, but in lieu of that, I'm wondering about posting something like this every N months. My reservations are a) the hassle and b) it being too spammy (or, conversely, that it ends up being a cheap way of karma farming - to counteract this I've left a comment below for counterbalancing downvotes if you upvote this post). Please let me know your thoughts in the comments: assuming nothing better is implemented, should I continue to do this? If so, for what value of N/under what conditions? Meanwhile, without further ado, here are the projects that you should check out: Coworking/socialising EA Gather Town - An always-on virtual meeting place for coworking, connecting, and having both casual and impactful conversations EA Anywhere - An online EA community for everyone EA coworking Discord - A Discord server dedicated to online coworking Free or subsidised accommodation CEEALAR/formerly the EA hotel - Provides free or subsidised serviced accommodation and board, and a moderate stipend for other living expenses. NonLinear's EA house database - An experiment by Nonlinear to try to connect EAs with extra space with EAs who could do good work if they didn't have to pay rent (or could pay less rent). Professional services Good Governance Project - helps EA organizations create strong boards by finding qualified and diverse professionals Altruistic Agency - provides discounted tech support and development to organisations Tech support from Soof Golan Legal advice from Tyrone Barugh - a practice under consideration with the primary aim of providing legal support to EA orgs and individual EAs, with that practice probably being based in the UK. SEADS - Data Science services to EA organizations User-Friendly - an EA-aligned marketing agency Anti Entropy - offers services related operations for EA organizations Arb - Our consulting work spans forecasting, machine learning, and epidemiology. We do original research, evidence reviews, and large-scale data pipelines. Pineapple Operations - Maintains a public database of people who are seeking operations or Personal Assistant/Executive Assistant work (part- or full-time) within the next 6 months in the Effective Altruism ecosystem Coaching AI Safety Support - free health coaching to people working on AI safety 80,0000 Hours career coaching - Speak with us for free about using your career to help solve one of the world's most pressing problems Yonatan Cale - Coaching for software devs Training for Good - Our goal is to help you clarify your aims, reduce self-imposed friction, and improve your leadership. FAANG style mock interviews Financial and other material support Nonlinear productivity fund - A low-barrier fund paying for productivity enhancing tools for top longtermists. Supported services and products include Coaching, Therapy, Sleep coaching, Medication management , Personal Assistants, Research Assistants, Virtual Assistants, Tutors (e.g. ML, CS, language), Asana, FocusMate, Zapier, etc., Produ...

In this episode, the Science Journal team participated in the WISE Summit 2021, a biannual education forum that brings together innovators and scholars from all around the world to promote debate, and critical thinking and initiate purposeful action. We spoke to Qatar University Young Scientist Center's research assistants and Qatar University engineering graduates Ruba Ali and Shahad AlKhair about the workshops they host for students and their educational and pedagogical practices for educating the youth about science.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Elicit: Language Models as Research Assistants, published by Andreas Stuhlmüller on April 9, 2022 on The AI Alignment Forum. Ought is an applied machine learning lab. We're building Elicit, the AI research assistant. Our mission is to automate and scale open-ended reasoning. To get there, we train language models by supervising reasoning processes, not outcomes. This is better for reasoning capabilities in the short run and better for alignment in the long run. In this post, we review the progress we've made over the last year and lay out our plan for Elicit. We'd love to get feedback on how to make Elicit more useful for LW and to get thoughts on our plans more generally. To make this easier, we've erred on the side of giving detail even where we know it will change. Progress in 2021: We built Elicit to support researchers because high-quality research is a bottleneck to important progress and because researchers care about good reasoning processes. We identified some building blocks of research (e.g. search, summarization, classification), operationalized them as language model tasks, and connected them in the Elicit literature review workflow. On the infrastructure side, we built a streaming task execution engine for running compositions of language model tasks This engine is supporting the literature review workflow in production. About 1,500 people use Elicit every month. Roadmap for 2022+: We expand literature review to digest the full text of papers, extract evidence, judge methodological robustness, and help researchers do deeper evaluations by decomposing questions like “What are the assumptions behind this experimental result?” After literature review, we add other research workflows, e.g. evaluating project directions, decomposing research questions, and augmented reading. To support these workflows, we refine the primitive tasks through verifier models and human feedback, and expand our infrastructure for running complex task pipelines, quickly adding new tasks, and efficiently gathering human data. Over time, Elicit becomes a general-purpose reasoning assistant, transforming any task involving evidence, arguments, plans and decisions. How we think about success Our mission is to automate and scale open-ended reasoning. If we can improve the world's ability to reason, we'll unlock positive impact across many domains including AI governance & alignment, psychological well-being, economic development, and climate change. As AI advances, the raw cognitive capabilities of the world will increase. The goal of our work is to channel this growth toward good reasoning. We want AI to be more helpful for qualitative research, long-term forecasting, planning, and decision-making than for persuasion, keeping people engaged, and military robotics. Good reasoning is as much about process as it is about outcomes. In fact, outcomes are unavailable if we're reasoning about the long term. So we're generally not training machine learning models end-to-end using outcome data, but building Elicit compositionally and inspired by human processes. In the short term, supervising process is necessary for AI to help with tasks where it's difficult to evaluate the work from results alone. In the long term, process-based systems can avoid alignment risks introduced by end-to-end training. Success for us looks like this: Elicit radically increases the amount of good reasoning in the world. For experts, Elicit pushes the frontier forward. For non-experts, Elicit makes good reasoning more affordable. People who don't have the tools, expertise, time, or mental energy to make well-reasoned decisions on their own can do so with Elicit. Elicit is a scalable ML system based on human-understandable task decompositions, with supervision of process, not outcomes. This expands our collective und...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Rethink Priorities is hiring fellows, research assistants, and researchers in several cause areas, published by abrahamrowe on March 21, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. We are also hiring operations staff — find out more here. We are having two webinars on these roles AI Governance & Strategy and Longtermism on April 5th, 2022. Find out more here. Animal Welfare and Global Health & Development on April 5th, 2022. Find out more here. Summary TLDR: Rethink Priorities is hiring for lots of research positions. Apply here. You can apply for as many of these roles (and our operations roles) as you'd like to! Rethink Priorities is expanding our research teams in several of the cause areas we work in. Specifically, we are hiring: Fellows — early-career researchers interested in temporarily exploring EA research Research Assistants — early-career researchers interested in aiding ongoing research projects and researchers Researchers — researchers at any career level interested in conducting and leading research projects (We say “early-career” to mean that people with little experience with research and/or with the relevant topic area could still be excellent fits for these roles. But these roles are of course also open to applicants with more experience!) We're hiring fellows, research assistants, and/or researchers for several teams right now: AI Governance and Strategy General Longtermism (other than AI) Animal Welfare Global Health and Development To assist our Executive and Operations teams Research roles at RP are a great way to explore a specific topic alongside others with varied backgrounds and interests across the EA landscape. Right now, we are especially focused on cultivating early-career researchers to help with talent bottlenecks in the EA research space, so we have an especially large number of open positions for three- to five-month Research Fellows and permanent Research Assistants. However, we expect to have other permanent research positions open in the near future. Research Assistants are a new permanent position at RP. Research Assistants will conduct a variety of tasks to support particular teams and researchers on their agendas. Depending on the team, they may also have opportunities to explore their own research interests. What these roles will look like differs between teams, so we encourage you to check out the relevant job descriptions for more details! Topics that our teams are focused on right now include: AI Governance and Strategy: What AI development & deployment scenarios will occur, and what actions grantmakers, policymakers, and others should take to reduce extreme risks in those scenarios General Longtermism: Facilitating faster and better creation of “longtermist megaprojects”, and improving clarity about which “intermediate goals” longtermists should pursue Global Health and Development: Climate change and identifying global health interventions that are cost competitive with GiveWell's top charities Animal Welfare: The cost effectiveness of farmed animal welfare interventions, invertebrate sentience, and potential wild animal welfare interventions Why RP? You get to work on interesting topics, and directly inform how millions of dollars are donated or used in the EA community. You can use up to 10% of your time for professional development, learning, or projects you want to pursue outside your assigned tasks. We are entirely remote, and can hire people in most countries. We are a highly flexible employer — most of our positions are open to candidates at any amount of hours above 20 per week, and staff set their own schedules. We offer competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits, including parental leave and sabbaticals for employees with a few years of tenure. Our work culture is also great: We have an incredibly low turnover ra...

In this episode of Cybercrime Radio, host Steve Morgan sits down with the four authors of the recently published report, “Catching Transparent Phish: Analyzing and Detecting MTM Phishing Toolkits" – Brian Kondracki and Babak Amin Azad, Research Assistants, Nick Nickifforakis, Associate Professor at Stony Brook University, and Oleksii Starov, Manager of Research at Palo Alto Networks, who earned his PhD from Stony Brook University – to discuss how cybercriminals can bypass two-factor authentication, why phishing toolkits are so dangerous, and more. To read the full report, visit https://catching-transparent-phish.github.io/catching_transparent_phish.pdf • To learn more about Stony Brook University, visit https://stonybrook.edu, and to learn more about Palo Alto Networks, visit https://paloaltonetworks.com • For more on cybersecurity, visit us at https://cybersecurityventures.com/

Sick and tired of low pay (scared of working conditions) and having sick days cut in a pandemic, the Research Assistants at the Prestigious McLean Hospital, formed the hospital's first union. Klara Ingersoll & guest host Klara Kaufman are joined by union organizers, Leah Cohen, Neda Morakabati, Peter Durning, and Karen Hildebrand who share their victorious fight.  (@McLeanUnion on Twitter)

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Episode Notes Daniel Turner, Deputy Dean of the School of Business and Creative Industries at the University of the West of Scotland, joins host Annetta Latham to discuss the world of event bidding.** --------------------------------------------------------** Artful Conversations 2020 Dr. Daniel Turner Interview Welcome to Artful Conversations - a podcast about arts and cultural management. Hosts Annetta Latham and Katrina Ingram, interview leaders who help shape the world of arts and culture. We share their stories, their insights and observations. This podcast season has been brought to you with the support of MacEwan University and The Rozsa Foundation. ANNETTA: Welcome to Artful Conversations, I'm your host, Annetta Latham. We have Daniel Turner here with us today. Daniel is the deputy dean of the School of Business and the Creative Industries at the University of West of Scotland, UWS.  His research interests focus upon social cultural exploration of events and sports and the use of such activities to generate income, social and cultural impacts. Daniel was going to be joined today by his co-author, David McGillivray, who is also a professor of events and digital cultures at the University of West of Scotland, but unfortunately, David has been called away. Daniel and David are the co-authors of Event Bidding: Politics, Persuasion and Resistance.  Daniel, it's great to have you join us today. Thank you for being part of Artful Conversations. Can you tell us about your scholarly career pathway?  DANIEL: Yeah, of course, actually the day that we're recording this, is my sixth work anniversary for UWS. I've been in academia full time since 2007, spent a few years working on my Ph.D. At the moment, as you say, I'm in the role of deputy dean of the School of Business and Creative Industries, but my academic background has always been in areas to do with sport and events, and my doctorate, which I completed at Glasgow Caledonian University over a very long period of time, looked at the growth of essentially adventure recreation publicly funded skate parks in Scotland using a figurational sociology approach with the work of Norbert Elias in there.  So I've always had a real interest in the interplay between public policy and my undergraduate degree was in leisure management, so I guess what used to be called the leisure industry - sports events, tourism. So having come through with my PhD very much in the sport terrain, I started teaching at Glasgow Caledonian 13 years ago full time, and there my role took me across sports and events and increasingly my interest in public policy and the interaction between these areas, of events and in my case, sporting events, playing in developing cities, developing nations, growing their economies, what contributions you are making, always really trying to have a bit of criticality about claims that are advanced, when those types of things happened.  So three years in that role led me up to Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, which is where you and I met for the first time, where I had the role of program leader for what was at that time, the new event management program up in Aberdeen. So working with colleagues to build that program from its first intake of students over a period of four years. And that's really where I started to become increasingly more and more focused on the role of events. Obviously, at the time you and I got to know one another, you were involved with the youth festival in Aberdeen. And a lot of my role there was about getting students to engage with these events and thinking again critically about how they might contribute to the visitor economy in a country which is, a city sorry, that was really starting to think of those questions, I guess in some ways for the first time. That was where event bidding started to come on to my horizon a little bit as well. At the time I was there Aberdeen was bidding for the UK City of Culture, it was quite interesting to look at some of the information around that and how we were trying to do that. And then six years ago, the opportunity to move back into the west of Scotland, which is home for me, came up. So I came back to the west of Scotland and started at UWS, again primarily there as a senior lecturer in event management teaching some of the same areas with some of the same issues. But in the last couple of years, I've kind of moved into the management and leadership side of working in a university, which isn't quite as much fun for doing research, but it's still an exceptionally challenging role. And a lot of my research interests are now starting to spin out into issues related to higher education, student engagement, I spent time overseas recently looking at how universities in Sri Lanka deal with academic engagement, but still maintaining this interest in essentially events and sport. So whilst at UWS event bidding has been my main area of focus, but also actually, interestingly, come back to some of the things that interested me originally with my colleagues, Sandro Carnicelli, who's one of our senior lecturers here, and parallel to working on the event bidding stream, Sandro and I developed some work around lifestyle sports and public policy. So almost going full circle back in the early 2000s. So that has been the last 13 years, I guess.  ANNETTA: Coming back to what you mentioned before, you and I met when we were both living in Aberdeen and at the time Aberdeen was bidding for the City of Culture and which is a UK massive kind of regeneration policy and hope. So, when you mentioned before, kind of out of that became a little bit of interest around event bidding. What was it that really sparked your interest? Because I know, we both lived through that experience and we were both part of those initial early meetings where they were thinking about the bid and how to do it. You know, I went in one direction and you kind of have now taken that concept, and you've written a book, really. You know, for our listeners, what would you describe as what is event bidding, like what are you talking about when you're talking about that?  DANIEL: OK, so there is essentially a series of events, whether sporting or cultural, which would be best be described as peripatetic, so they move from city to city, country to country, the most notable examples being the Olympics, World Cup, for example. And it was actually the FIFA World Cup that I think first certainly caught my interest in this, David, who can't be with us today, he and I worked together for a really long time, and we'd stayed in touch. And I had moved to Aberdeen and he was in Glasgow. And it was round about the time that Qatar was bidding to host the 2022 World Cup. And actually in preparing for today. I was going back through my notes and there were some emails that I just after I got into Aberdeen in 2010 saying this is interesting, someone should look at this. And we were kind of swapping a few messages back and forth about what that might look like, what that might be.  A  big part of that conversation, and subsequently became the event bidding book five years later. Yeah, but being in Aberdeen was really interesting to me because the City of Culture award was literally on your doorstep. Aberdeen is the third biggest city in Scotland, but it's a city of 100,000 people. So it's still a very compact city, it's a small place, everyone knows everyone. And so there was an opportunity to really see firsthand what was happening. And so Event Bidding essentially then relates to the process by which cities or countries or combinations of countries increasingly follow the case to an awarding body who typically are the owners of the event, that they should be allowed to host that event. And it's a process which is in some cases very lengthy, can be a number of years. It can be exceptionally costly and in some cases hundreds of thousands for small events, and tens of millions for large scale events. And I think we felt it was a process that often happens out with the public eye. Yeah, often it's only when the host is announced that people really started to understand it. So that's really what I mean by that process, is everything that happens before the moment someone stands up on stage and says ‘and the host is’ so we were interested in, I guess, the gestation of the event rather than the delivery of the event itself.  ANNETTA: So what do you think are some of the key factors that kind of play into when a city bids for an event, you know, like where do you think the spark comes from that someone goes: Why don't we try and run the Olympics?  DANIEL: I think there can be lots of things. And I think one of the things you say is there are factors that come into play. Some of it should and some of it shouldn't, but they come into play. I think you have to accept that for certain people, for certain organizations, these events are massive money makers, they are massive opportunities for certain people in certain types of business. So you often have very prominent figures within the local region thinking, well, if we could bring this in it will create investment in construction, will produce investment in tourism, or produce investment in hospitality or produce investment in all these different areas. So you often have that as a heavy area and a lot of places all over the world very much linked to a city or a country’s ‘sense of place’, and trying to position themselves within the world on a global scale, something like the Olympics, if you think about some of the countries that have hosted the Olympics in recent years, China or Brazil, for example.  That's very much been about making a statement about being a world player. So there's a bit of statesmanship involved, but a lot of smaller events and particularly smaller cities and smaller national events like the City of Culture, often local authorities, local politicians will see it as an opportunity to drive regeneration. I think if you look in the UK, I appreciate some of these place names might not mean much to some of the people who might listen to this, but if you think of places like Hull, you think of places like Paisley, we’ve actually we've just gone through the process a couple of years ago of Paisley bidding for the UK City of Culture as well. These are places which should perhaps have seen a period of industrial decline and they're trying essentially a cultural regeneration approach to development.  I think politicians like bidding contests because it's a fabulous image to be the politician who brought the event to the country, in fact, our prime minister was not involved in winning the bid and has made an awful lot of hay of being the mayor of London at the point when that came to town . So I think aspect things, I think in some countries and in some populations, there's also a sense within the population of this is the thing we do. You know, it's almost of course, we bid for events, of course we get involved in events.  So there's a lot of disparate reasons, some of which are very well intentioned, some of which perhaps are slightly more self-serving, some of which are financial, some of which are political, some of which are, I guess, tangible, and some of which are intangible.  ANNETTA: Yeah, I think your point there around the tangible and intangible is really interesting because, you know, in the research that I've been doing, looking at the cities that don't actually win the bid that go through the whole process, it's also about what they do after they've announced, you know, and the host is and their name is not the host, they don't win. There’s this whole thing around the journey they go on that you've been talking about. And in some elements, some of what happens is a little bit around this topic of soft power, you know, and finding our name and our identity in that. And, you know, soft power as opposed to military power. So from your perspective, how would you say that concept of kind of soft power sits into the narrative of event bidding?  DANIEL: I think your point here about places which the one is really interesting because of course, some places will be bidding as part of a long term strategy of doing the types of events they might hold one event because ultimately they want to hold a different event. And it's about demonstrating capacity and capability and building their brand awareness essentially in a safe pair of hands. Glasgow, which is my home city, essentially has been very good at that over the last couple of decades. I think the notion of soft power is interesting because really what you see is events bring legitimacy. They bring a seat at the table. So if you look, for example, for China, really hosting the Olympics was the culmination of their emergence as a global superpower. It was almost that last moment of saying, well, here we are. We are not only actually economically, politically strong. We are able to host the biggest and the largest. I think if you look at places like Qatar, very small but very rich country, they have really used events as a means of securing access to possibly a much bigger place on the global stage than they might otherwise have. So whether that's in trade negotiations, whether that's in discussions with other countries. But now we know where Qatar is, we know who Qatar are. And I think this is really interesting literature, for example, Australia holding the Asian Cup a few years ago about how that was used as a means for Australia to leverage investment from China, as well. So it's very much that hidden level of power than the opposite of the hard military power, soft power is a more cultural influence, it is a more political influence. That suddenly you can't be ignored anymore.  You are as a seat at the table and I think one of the discussions ahead of the Olympics, I think, in Brazil, it was essentially a coming out party for Brazil and again, as a time where Brazil was bidding to host the Olympics. It was one of the fastest growing economies in the world. It was the fifth largest economy in the world at that point. There is an interesting thing there, which is the point that we're bidding not so much at the point they were delivering 10 years later and how much that can change.  Yeah, I think that that soft power can be underplayed. And actually, even again, if I think when Scotland famously held the Commonwealth Games in 2014 and it was no coincidence that the same year as we had the Commonwealth Games, we had a couple of very large national events in Scotland. The likes of Homecoming, there was an independence referendum shortly afterwards, which clearly was about Scotland standing on its feet as an independent nation, saying we can host these large scale events. So some of that can be soft power broadcast outwards to the world, some of it can be soft power broadcast inwards to the population to say this is who we are, this is what we do. And if you go really far back, the stories of South Africa hosting the rugby world cup after Apartheid that there are lots of stories of both inward and outward facing soft-power ANNETTA: Yeah, it's interesting, isn't it? Because it's certainly a narrative that is kind of rising to the top right now. And you can see, especially around cultural policy, some narrative around soft power that is certainly getting more traction than it would have got even 10 years ago. So, you know, in relation to the event bidding, because you've been involved in that sector now and looking at event bidding for a long time, would you say, apart from Covid, over the last several years, do you think there's been a shift in the purpose of why cities bidding or is it still the same, but they're just using modern, trendy language?  DANIEL: I think there's been a shift in how we talk of bidding. And I think partially that's because, you know, event management as a field is still a relatively new field of academic study. But if I think working with David, David is the fabulous professor in this area, and has a very strong track record of producing interesting pieces of research. But David did a piece of work with my colleague Gayle MacPherson and Malcolm Foley around policy back in saying that it had been about 2010 maybe 2012, which was really one of the first times that people were being really critical of the narrative around events.  In that last maybe 10, 15 years, we've started to pay more attention to the role that events play in cultural regeneration or urban regeneration, whatever we want to call that. And so because of that, they are becoming more critical in how we discuss it. I think 20, 30 years ago you could say we're going to host event X and it's going to make us millions. And there's been a host of authors and academics in the last 20 years have said, but will you?, really?  And then they start to ask questions about when you say we, who do you mean? And then there have been questions about, well, is money the only thing we're interested in, or are we interested in social advancement, are we interested in environmental sustainability? Are we interested in any of these different issues?  I think that because there's now a greater understanding of some of the claims that have been advanced in the past, there’s a greater skepticism towards it, a greater interrogation, towards it, the language we've used to talk about, of bidding is had to change the requirements on cities and countries are trying to bid are more detailed and nuanced than they’ve ever been.  I think you also have the fact that I think the big thing for me has been there's been a professionalization of bidding now. Yeah, there are literally people who travel the world to leak and it's an exceptionally lucrative job. And as they've professionalized, so too we have much clearer criteria about what you're betting on and why you're betting what you're required to do to achieve the successful hosting of the event. So I think all of those things mean that we talk about it differently, we think about it differently, an event organizer sort of does have to talk a different language.  ANNETTA: Yeah, they certainly do. One of the things that I found interesting in exploring the City of Culture narrative is the changing of cultural policies that cities are doing to match the bid process, and I think that's really interesting and it kind of comes you know, I want to circle back to your book because your book is around the event bidding process and the politics of that and the persuasion and resistance, and you published it in 2017. And thank you for the book on behalf of myself and other academics. I've certainly used it in my event management class, and it was fantastic. It was really, really good. So for you and David, you kind of mentioned earlier on that, you know, you'd started a little bit of an email narrative around what's going on. So how did you actually decide together that you were going to write a book on the email narrative?  DANIEL: I think it was a lot of different things, David and I have known each other for a very long time, he’s not here, so I’ll embarrass him, David was my lecturer when I was an undergraduate student, he is much, much older than I am. And then subsequently my supervisor and we worked together for a number of years and we both had an interest in this area, and I think as most academics, I think in this I guess in this industry, this part of the industry, I think actually is most academic,. when they get together what we can talk about it is the subject tend to be passionate about thing, and that's why you teach it, and that's why you research it.  So we really had been just as friends talking about or who's bidding and what are we seeing and why are the bidding? And at the time, I don't think the full scale of some of the concerns of Qatar’s World Cup bid, had really come out in the public domain. And so by that point, you're starting to see something suspicious here at the start. But actually, the campaign that they were running, the narrative they were writing around the event were really interesting, the way in which they were trying to gain traction and gain. We understood that. So we talked about that a lot as one conversation then during my time, another being with the city of culture, bid that was happening there. I, started to scope out some information around what happened in the city and interviewed some people and pulled together a conference paper around which I had taken a few different places and presented my initial thoughts around how bidding worked,  David, at the same time coming off the back of what he had done. event policy was growing his interest in, I guess, the criticality of should advance what should be pushing these things. Who do they serve and how is consent manufactured around events? And by coincidence, we ended up both working together again.  David had gone to the University of West of Scotland I think in 2010.  And when I came back into the west of Scotland, we got together and said, well, is it time to do something with this. We've been talking about it for a really long time, we think there's something there. We sketched out what's now become the structure of the book, particularly I think the first maybe the chapters of the book around why do people get to the event and some of the more critical questions that should be asked. And that turned into a proposal for Routledge. Who came back and said that they felt it was something that was useful, something that was potentially quite timely at that point. So that would have been if we'd written that proposal around 2014, 2015. And so just coming off the back of the London Olympic Games, the back of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. There were some quite big processes taking place at that of time. And so Routledge came back and said, yeah, we think there's something in this as well.  I think they possibly saw David’s track record of publication. Yeah, has been very interesting. And that kind of led to let’s try to put the book into the world. And then two years of writing and reading and writing and reading eventually got it out there, in 2017/ 2018, it was fabulous to see it come together. It did have quite a long gestation period.  ANNETTA: And what's co writing with an old friend like?  DANIEL:  It's a lot of fun, to be honest with you. The first thing I think that we should highlight is that we did most of the writing at David’s kitchen table. So the best part really was David's wife, Clare who is a lovely lady, bringing us bowls of soup and sandwiches. So I was in heaven for a large part of the process and probably that's why it took so long to be published. He’s really good, I think David is a fantastic academic. He's got a critical mind.  I mean this in my book, it's my first book writing experience. So learning a huge amount. David, if he were here, I'm sure you would say wonderful things that we probably highlight that I need to learn when to use a comma. But it was a really positive experience. The only problem, though, is, again, come back up when you have two colleagues who have a passion about a subject. I seem to recall we may have spent the first two hours arguing about, so are we talking about sporting mega events or mega sporting events? And yeah, that's becoming an issue for the rest of the day,  Well, I’m right no i’m right, but the exceptional learning experience for me, I hope if he were here, it was as enjoyable for him. We have written together since.  ANNETTA: So there you go, you're obviously on the right track. So what's the response to the book been like?  DANIEL: It’s been good with a couple of very nice reviews in academic literature, which is always good, we've had some really quite nice feedback queries to use with students that we found to be interesting. They found it to be an accessible book on a challenging topic, which I think is, whenever I write anything, I think I'm writing so it can be used. You've said very kind things today. So in that sense, it's been very positive. It seems to have made its way onto a few good reading lists, which is nice.  I think we've had some nice comments from colleagues in the industry who have been interested in the area as well, who've said nice things about it. So it's been positive and very rewarding in that sense.  ANNETTA: Yeah, I think one of the things for me that added incredible value to my class was the event bidding process gets students to focus on what happens prior to an event, even getting money, even those things, whereas often in event management, and I've been teaching that, you know, kind in the event management arena for eight or so years is that and been working in the field for a very long time, is that people usually look at the event and then do the post the event narrative. Like, you see this a lot out there that's written by some fantastic academics around the effect of the event on the community or economy or all of those things post event. But what's fantastic about this book, from my perspective as a teacher, is getting the students to focus on that stuff that, like you said earlier, can start seven, five, seven, eight, nine years before an event even occurs. And it's a great way to get emerging arts managers and emerging events managers to think with much more depth around this topic. If you're going to say, oh, well, let's host a city of culture, actually there's years and years of process here before you even get to put someone on the stage and make a beautiful speech.  DANIEL: One of the things that really interested me, about 2007, I think it would have been, David and I ended up in Liverpool, Liverpool was just gearing up to be European City of Culture in 2008. And I can't remember what the conference was or what the event was. It was in Liverpool. But there was a keynote presentation from a guy called Bob Scott, who basically is a peripatetic bid director. He moved at that time, was moving from place to place, and he would lead the bid. And I remember distinctly was one of the things that was on my mind. And I think we quote Bob Scott almost.  I think in the first couple of pages he talked to the fact that his job ends the minute someone says, yes, you can host, he leaves and then someone else comes in and actually does the delivery. And as a result of that, he was kind of an invisible figure, I didn't really know that these guys existed. And that for David and I was fascinating for a lot different reasons. I mean, the first is, the cost to the public purse of bidding for these events. I mean, there were figures being thrown around in the region, probably in Aberdeen in the high six figures. I think if you go back almost 20 years, England spent somewhere in the region of twenty to twenty six million pounds for the World Cup.  For the last Olympic bid round, the one which ended up with the dual coronation of Los Angeles and Paris. If you added up budgets for every city that bid for either of those games, at some point it surpassed a billion dollars for the first time. What's really interesting about that is most of that money is probably coming out of the public purse. All of it spent with no guarantee of success and very, very little of it spent with the public knowing that's where the money's going and that's what's happening. But also, if you are successful and winning the right to host the games in the bid stage, particularly, again, for those big events, you are committing yourself legally and financially to some massive, massive investments and in some cases potential financial loss, in some cases to building venues and facilities that are going to last a lifetime, you hope. Again, very little attention being paid to. And how did that case get me something? I mean, if you look at the Vancouver Olympics, for example, by 2010, some of the implications I had for host communities, I think if you look at some of the potential implications, there's really interesting stuff coming out of America where they've had peripatetic events and some of the impact that had on things like civil liberties in those cities. And none of this really ever surfaces until someone opens the envelope and says and the host is, so that for us was really interesting to look at that hidden aspect and all the things that meant, and I think you made a point earlier about how places then become focused. Martin Muller is incredibly interesting in this area where he talks about essentially everything becomes focused in on the event, sometimes to the detriment of things that might otherwise be happening. So I think that's something that can set the agenda for a city or for a country for 10, 15 years with little oversight and little critique.  ANNETTA:  I want to pick up on something you mentioned a little bit earlier about the information not getting out there, because I think that also leads into what role the media plays in all of this process. You know, from your perspective in the research that you and David have done, where would you say the media sits in this bidding process - is it positive is it negative? Do they focus at the end or the beginning? What have you guys found in that narrative?  DANIEL: Well, I think I mean, yes and no to everything almost simultaneously, and the media should have a role, as it should in any aspect of public life, of holding power to account, of critiquing, of challenging, of looking for accountability. And I think some of the more recent what David and I have done with John Lauerrmann has looked at the role, particularly new media plays in that. I think if you look at some places in the past and we talk about it in the book, the fact that it's a deliberate attempt often on the part of bid committees to bring the media into the tent. Perhaps too often or in some cases at the very least, the media can end up assuming the role of cheerleader for the bid.  But that makes sense. There's a you know, a diet of nice, easy, friendly, publishable stories. You can lock yourself up in a patriotic fervour and support it. And often I think bid committees actively search for that because there's an analogy about better having people inside the tent than out which comes to mind. So I think the media has a role to play and being critical and holding the committee to account and asking questions about who is spending money and where are they spending money, but often I think historically they've been sucked into being cheerleaders for it rather than having that criticality. But that's where I think more recently we've been talking about the role of new media and new media and such as the media and whatever you want to call it. Yeah, challenging and holding to account. And there have been some really good examples and subsequently elsewhere. What would be, I guess, if we're talking in new media or traditional media, have they come in and said, well, actually, is that claim valid? Is that claim accurate? So the media has a massive, all encompassing role to play, it's just whether or not it always plays it effectively.  ANNETTA:  So in the field of further research, you know, we've just talked about what you have been looking into.  In a recent project that you and David wrote together, you made a case for more participatory involved and collaborative research methods, as a way of better understanding this really, what is, a dynamic and a complex dynamic that is taking place in the event bidding process. So for you, what would that look like? What would that kind of research look like in the field moving forward?  DANIEL: Well, I think that that more recent piece of research that you're referring to is a piece of work that David and I did with John Lauermann. John is an academic based in New York, and one of the fabulous things about academic life is we've never been in the same room as John. We really like John's work, which had looked a lot at some of the protest movements, particularly in Boston a few years ago. And we reached out to John and said, look, we like you a lot. Hopefully you like our work as well. Do you think we can collaborate on something so this paper came forward around the idea of new media activism? One of the things we've seen in the last, again, 10, 15 years and as a former colleague of ours, a former student of David’s, Jennifer Jones, actually, you know, Jen, did her PhD around citizen media around the Vancouver Olympics and protest media. And that's something that's really emerged in the last 10, 15 years with social media has been ordinary citizens forming protest movements and campaigning against in some cases historically, that's often came after the announcement of the host and in the build up to the delivery of the event. What we had spotted was in the most recent piece for me that was increasing the protest movement on the big stage and that was where John's work was useful in Boston. And so we can try to sit down as a trio and identify, well, what role is new media playing in the fact. And I think we got to the end of the world because we were able to see that the new media was playing a very strong role and shining a light on things. But actually where it was at its most effective is we have some of that new media protest aligned with traditional models of political activism.  And almost this physical domain that we are a participatory democracy of going along to protest physically, going into committee meetings and asking difficult questions. And I think really what we were talking about was if those types of movements want to be effective, they have to recognize that there's an alignment between the digital world and the physical world. But also where they have been particularly effective was where new media enabled old media. Some might say enabled, some might say forced or are held to account to, to assume the more critical stance. So literally feeding them the stories and pointing them in the direction of, this is a question you should be asking. This is an area that's interesting. And so that's really what we mean by participating, trying to join the dots and see if we really are going to have an effective critique and a holding to account of the types of bid systems. If you want to use that language, then it has to be an alignment of new media and old media, digital protected physical protest. And I think that's really what we saw as a participatory involvement with this.  ANNETTA: Fantastic. So with that rich content of future research, what are your plans for the next five years?  DANIEL: Yeah, that's an interesting question. We've obviously just within the event bidding thing, we just finished two or three things. So the book itself and then a couple of things with John separately.  In this area, I don't want to speak for David, as he's not here. But I know David is increasingly, through our centre that we have at UWS, interested in a range of different issues around mega events. So he's the supervising students with interest areas, and is looking at some of the uses of public space by private events, which are really interesting. And I'm really interested in something you mentioned at the start, which is the field that.  I'm fascinated by having lived in two cities which have been unsuccessful in bids in the last 10 years, I don't know if that means I’m a jinx, and perhaps not be invited to cities that are bidding. But I'm really interested in what happens after a bid fails. Aberdeen has bid twice now and never got close to it again. And if they have. But again, what have they learned from the last time? If you're unsuccessful in bidding from one event, what happens when you go for a different event? I think that's an area that's really interesting. I think there's a lot of things that are really interesting around starting to interrogate rights holders of events, something we've not really told yet, but I'm fascinated by the power that, again, particularly in sporting the big event, right? Holders like FIFA and the IOC, the power they have with very little accountability. These are organizations that have economies essentially bigger than many countries, and they're able to enact massive influence on how countries behave, insisting on changes to legislation and insisting on changes to practice. I'd like to really look at some of those issues as well and start to interrogate that, whether or not my own personal career path lets me do that as much as I don't know. But I think that would be an area that would be really interesting to consider. What happens after the circus has left town?  ANNETTA: So it sounds like a sabbatical year and a book. Another book in the pipeline. Hey, Daniel, I really want to thank you for your time with us today. Is there any pearl of wisdom that you would pass on in relation to your, the knowledge of, you know, that you got that you both learned and really investigating the bidding process?  DANIEL: Oh, that's a big question. Definitely write with a co-author who provides you with regular sustenance, that's a big one. I think it's about the thing that I found really fascinating and personally fulfilling a promise and hopefully if people engage with the work they find useful is look for the thing that's not being looked up. You know, a thing went with these types of events these days with,  What's the question that's not being asked. What's the area that was not shining a light on?  Because I think for me that was the thing that was the thing that made it interesting to do. Was to say, well, hang on a second. Whenever someone tells you you can't look at something, you want to go behind the scenes and find out what's actually happening. I think that would be the thing. What's the question I want you to ask? Yeah. And why do you want you to ask that question? And then that's the interesting stuff for me.  ANNETTA: Daniel, thank you so much for joining us tonight for conversations today. Please pass on our disappointment, but also understanding of why David couldn't be with us and we would have loved to have heard from him. But we'll do that another time. But it's been great chatting with you. And thank you for your time.    DANIEL: I think it's been really enjoyable, hopefully I’ll speak to you again soon.  ANALYSIS ANNETTA: Katrina, Daniel is always an incredibly interesting person to spend time with and interview, and I thoroughly enjoy spending time with Dan and this was an amazing interview. I think one of the things that is really exciting about what Daniel talks about is that he knows the topic, he’s in there all the time, you know, the whole conversation around bidding and why we bid and how we bid and what's the purpose of bidding. And if we lose a bid, what does that mean? Iit just fascinates me and, you know, all the strategy around bidding. And one of the things that always amazes me when Dan and I talk is when he talks about these people who actually their job is developing bids for these great big, huge events. I’d never thought of that as a job. And it always amazes me. KATRINA: That was a total eye-opener for me as well, because I always think about what happens after you get the bid, not necessarily all the work that goes into getting the bid. And so I was really intrigued to hear about that. And I was intrigued by Daniel himself.  As someone who went to business school, when I think of people who run business schools, I think of this typical structured type person. Just to hear about Daniel's background, though, in arts and sports, the sort of non-traditional business background. I just love that. I love the contrast of that. It was just really, really refreshing.  ANNETTA: Yeah. And really exciting. And I think one of the things that I really like about that, is the way that arts and festivals and major event management is acknowledged as business, as big business.  And, you know, and we all complement each other. We're not, we're not standalone and we all work together really well. And I really, really liked it. And one of the things that I think has really helped sharpen my thinking around management is the way Daniel talks about bidding is sometimes strategic. It's not you don't necessarily need to win the bid. Sometimes it's about applying and getting some marketing off the bid that is important. So that strategy around bidding for something I think is fascinating.  KATRINA: Yeah, I totally agree. And I recall during the interview Annetta you raised this point about soft power and how hosting these events can really kind of legitimize a country or give it a sense of itself. And Daniel talked about the story of Scotland and the 2014 Commonwealth Games and how the independence referendum followed. And it really just kind of defined a people and that really, you know, that political kind of soft power really resonated with me. I thought that was a really interesting way to think about this issue that goes beyond the economics.  This show was created by Executive Producer and Host Annetta Latham; Co-host Katrina Ingram. Technical Producer Paul Johnston. Research Assistants involved were Caitlian McKinnon and MacEwan bachelor of music students.  Theme Music by Emily Darfur and cover art by Constanza Pacher. Special thanks to the Rose Foundation for their support and to our guests. Artful Conversations is a production of MacEwan University [and Assistant Professor Annetta Latham], all rights reserved. Latham, A. (Executive Producer and Host). Regan-Ingram, K (Host). (2020, October 20) [Season 2: Episode 1]. Daniel Turner. Podcast retrieved from:

In this episode, we sit down with Ken Alford to discuss how he's kept the storytelling element within his online classes and what you can do to help students see you as a person."Share your story, and let them know that you know life happens to everybody. We're all in this human drama together, and I think the more we can connect with each other, the better it is. I think anything we can do to keep each other as people and not just textbook reciters and question writers, is helpful."Featured products with Ken Alford:What is the Best Teaching Advice I Ever Received?Creative Course Design: Yes You Can!Energize Your Lectures to Help Students Meaningfully Engage with Your SubjectHow Can I Be an Effective Mentor?How Can I Effectively Supervise Teaching and Research Assistants?How Can I Effectively Mentor Students?What are 10 Tips to Collaborate with Colleagues?Teaching Underprepared Students 

This episode of Diving Deep comes from the Front Range Film Festival, where Kerry talked with Kieth Wakefield about his film, G-Ride, and what it stands for. If you'd like to contribute to Diving Deep, we're looking for Script Writers and Research Assistants to better support our new format. Learn more at Project Jobs. Project-Nerd’s Diving Deep does just that; Dives deep. With the many other podcasts being about entertainment, Diving Deep wants to learn more about a serious cause, mental health, a specific topic, or even just a specific guest. Join us every other week as we dive deep in learning about a new guest. Only on the Project-Nerd Podcast Network.

Over the last several decades the proportion of classes taught by tenure track faculty have decreased while student support services are increasingly  being outsourced to third parties. In this episode, Tom DiPaola and Daniel T. Scott join us to discuss the impact of these shifts on students. Tom and Daniel are  (with Adrianna Kezar) co-authors of The Gig Academy, Research Assistants at the Pullias Center for Higher Education and Fellows at the Urban Education Policy PhD program at the USC Rossier School of Education. A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.

Co-hosts Tobi Hines and Matt Ryan are back with an episode that will help Cornell students get off on the right foot this fall semester! Learn about the many fun orientation activities being held at Mann Library during move-in weekend (August 23 and 24). Listen to our Research Assistants, Matt Kibbee and Ryan Tolnay, explain why reaching out for help early and often can help save you time, effort, and needless frustration. And find out from our Head of Instruction Initiatives, Ashley Shea, about an exciting new course she's teaching this fall: ALS 1200 Information Chaos: Navigating Today's Information Landscape. Learn more: https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/FA19/class/ALS/1200

This episode is the only episode made in the Hebrew language. If You want English content you can choose any one of the other episodes in this podcast Dr. Anat Chesner-Haviv - A Geneticist and a Nutritionist, working as Research Assistants at a Genetics laboratory in Bar Ilan University. In the first episode, Dr. Anat Chesner will tell us about the lottery of life and the research that exists today that will keep you young for a longer period of time. Hebrew version.

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley witnesses Millwall's play-off hopes come crashing to a halt with a 3-0 home defeat to Fulham at a packed Den, in deepest, darkest, Bermondsey. He also lends support to his two Research Assistants, both of whom were attempting to complete the hottest London Marathon on record, and witnesses men collapsing, Millwall's Most Famous Cab Driver wilting in the heat, the Wolverhampton Bobsled Team, 13 Wonder Women, 7 Supermen, men in drag, women dressed like men, and 37 Darth Vader's all claiming to be his father!

What’s cooler than turtles breaking a bite-o-meter? High school urban ecology research assistants, that’s what! We had so much great conversation with Tobias Landberg from Episode 13 that we’re posting some more of it as a bonus episode. Tony and Tobias … Continue reading →

The Golden Lamb Inn is the state of Ohio's oldest hotel. The hotel has been the gathering place for residents of Lebanon for over 200 years. Through the years, it has changed ownership and names and hosted a variety of presidents and famous people. But the one constant has been the symbol for which it is named: the Golden Lamb. The deep history of this inn includes a connection to war, stage coaches and much more, which has led to rumors of hauntings at the establishment. For some guests, more than just their signature's remain at the inn. Their spirits seem to have remained. Join us as we explore the history and hauntings of the Golden Lamb Inn. The Moment in Oddity is by Bob Sherfield and features Ruston Triangular Lodge and This Day in History is by April Rogers-Krick and features the beheading of Anne Boylen. Our location was suggested by listener Stefanie Martin and Research Assistants were Annette Student and Sharon Spungen. Check out the website:  http://historygoesbump.com Show notes can be found here: http://historygoesbump.blogspot.com/2016/05/hgb-episode-125-golden-lamb-inn.html Become an Executive Producer: http://patreon.com/historygoesbump  

The barrier island of Folly Beach, South Carolina appears picturesque with its images of waves lapping against the sand. Locals refer to it as the "Edge of America." Below the surface of painted sunsets and beautiful beaches lies a dark history of mysterious and tragic losses. Folly Beach really has it all from shipwrecks to the Civil War to pirates. Blackbeard himself took cover at Folly Beach. A native tribe also died out here. Is it this colorful history that has led to rumors of hauntings? Join us as we explore the history and hauntings of Folly Beach. Moment in Oddity features the Dr. Suess House as suggested by listener Ren Davenport and This Day in History features the Shot Heard Round the World. Location was suggested by listener Dee and Research Assistants were Sharon Spungen and April Rogers-Krick. Check out the website: http://historygoesbump.com Show notes can be found here: http://historygoesbump.blogspot.com/2016/04/hgb-ep-119-folly-beach.html Become an Executive Producer: http://patreon.com/historygoesbump  

In using ghostwriters, authors hide their own weaknesses and put money before the truth. Therefore, ghostwriting is out of step with the way of Christ.

Play the Game 2013. Anti-doping: Saving sport, sacrificing athletes? Tuesday 29 October 2013, 11:30-13:00 Chair: Peter Forsberg (DEN) Speakers: Gerhard Treutlein, Professor, Heidelberg University of Education (GER). Nils Zurawski, University of Hamburg (GER). Daniel Westmattelmann and Marcel Goelden, Research Assistants, University of Münster (GER). Herman Ram, Director, Anti-Doping Authority Netherlands (NED). Leviathen Hendricks, Member, Federation of Gay Games, External Affairs and International Development Committees (USA/UK). Lassi Jyrkkiö, PhD Student, Lawyer, University of Helsinki (FIN). Panel discussion, Q&A