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Critical practice of grant application and administration: an intervention
Introduction: Researchers experience increasing pressures to connect with bodies that finance their projects. In this climate, critical scholars face many obstacles as they seek to navigate the treacherous waters of securing external funds. To debate these challenges, the ACME Editorial Collective organized a panel for the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Las Vegas. This intervention represents a follow-up discussion and collective writing process among some of the panelists and members of the audience who attended the panel.
Below, we examine the neoliberalization of the current funding systems, discuss the implications for research practice, and make suggestions for critical engagement and transformation. Our suggestions, however, will not be easy to implement, as we can infer from the experience of the radical scholars of the post-1968 generation whose ascension into the upper echelons of North American and European university systems was also associated with the neoliberalization of the funding systems. This intervention represents a modest contribution in the tradition of critical research practice of creating the possibilities for progressive change
Apperceptive patterning: Artefaction, extensional beliefs and cognitive scaffolding
In âPsychopower and Ordinary Madnessâ my ambition, as it relates to Bernard Stieglerâs recent literature, was twofold: 1) critiquing Stieglerâs work on exosomatization and artefactual posthumanismâor, more specifically, nonhumanismâto problematize approaches to media archaeology that rely upon technical exteriorization; 2) challenging how Stiegler engages with Giuseppe Longo and Francis Baillyâs conception of negative entropy. These efforts were directed by a prevalent techno-cultural qualifier: the rise of Synthetic Intelligence (including neural nets, deep learning, predictive processing and Bayesian models of cognition). This paper continues this project but first directs a critical analytic lens at the Derridean practice of the ontologization of grammatization from which Stiegler emerges while also distinguishing how metalanguages operate in relation to object-oriented environmental interaction by way of inferentialism. Stalking continental (Kapp, Simondon, Leroi-Gourhan, etc.) and analytic traditions (e.g., Carnap, Chalmers, Clark, Sutton, Novaes, etc.), we move from artefacts to AI and Predictive Processing so as to link theories related to technicity with philosophy of mind. Simultaneously drawing forth Robert Brandomâs conceptualization of the roles that commitments play in retrospectively reconstructing the social experiences that lead to our endorsement(s) of norms, we compliment this account with Reza Negarestaniâs deprivatized account of intelligence while analyzing the equipollent role between language and media (both digital and analog)
Detect Related Bugs from Source Code Using Bug Information
Open source projects often maintain open bug repositories during development
and maintenance, and the reporters often point out straightly or implicitly the
reasons why bugs occur when they submit them. The comments about a bug are very
valuable for developers to locate and fix the bug. Meanwhile, it is very common
in large software for programmers to override or overload some methods
according to the same logic. If one method causes a bug, it is obvious that
other overridden or overloaded methods maybe cause related or similar bugs. In
this paper, we propose and implement a tool Rebug- Detector, which detects
related bugs using bug information and code features. Firstly, it extracts bug
features from bug information in bug repositories; secondly, it locates bug
methods from source code, and then extracts code features of bug methods;
thirdly, it calculates similarities between each overridden or overloaded
method and bug methods; lastly, it determines which method maybe causes
potential related or similar bugs. We evaluate Rebug-Detector on an open source
project: Apache Lucene-Java. Our tool totally detects 61 related bugs,
including 21 real bugs and 10 suspected bugs, and it costs us about 15.5
minutes. The results show that bug features and code features extracted by our
tool are useful to find real bugs in existing projects.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables conference; 2010 IEEE 34th Annual
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Beyond representations: towards an action-centric perspective on tangible interaction
In the light of theoretical as well as concrete technical development, we discuss a conceptual shift from an information-centric to an action-centric perspective on tangible interactive technology. We explicitly emphasise the qualities of shareable use, and the importance of designing tangibles that allow for meaningful manipulation and control of the digital material. This involves a broadened focus from studying properties of the interface, to instead aim for qualities of the activity of using a system, a general tendency towards designing for social and sharable use settings and an increased openness towards multiple and subjective interpretations. An effect of this is that tangibles are not designed as representations of data, but as resources for action. We discuss four ways that tangible artefacts work as resources for action: (1) for physical manipulation; (2) for referential, social and contextually oriented action; (3) for perception and sensory experience; (4) for digitally mediated action
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