5/10/2024:

  The Human Race Into Space Requires Kidneys, and Other Important Topics 

 

          A research and discussion group             

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Agenda and Minutes

1. Updates/announcements/status reports

• AM's master's report --> publication status?
• ???

 2. Reading and discussion

• Short-Term Load Forecasting of Smart Grid Based on Load Spatial-Temporal Distribution, G. Yan et al., 2019 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia), Chengdu, China, 2019, pp. 781-785, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8881259. We read up to "When the research is carried out with the aim of enhancing the forecast accuracy, the improvement of the algorithm may not improve the forecast accuracy." (Reading suggested by ECG)
• JS is pursuing research based on https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/14/8/244, so we can read from that article in future meetings.
  
• Https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240424-do-societies-civilisations-grow-old-frail-and-vulnerable-to-collapse. We previously read up to "Unlike the states we studied, the world is now hyperconnected and globalised – but this should not be a cause for comfort." and can start there next time we read this.

3.  Reminders

• Discussion of "How to find & do PhD research" is now stored in a separate page.
• Want to do a reading related to your specific interests? We can. Please send suggestions or requests.
  
• If we have an item for each person we can read from 2 or 3 each week and rotate among them from week to week. A student could suggest a research paper or a methodology paper related to their specific topic. Which readings to do on a particular day could depend in part on who is present.
• We could read and discuss our own papers. There are quite a few benefits to doing so. For example, we have a number of systematic reviews that have been published.
• We could also read articles or other materials like AI outputs on research methodology in general. We could also do other general interest readings, not necessarily about methodology, such as philosophy of science or something else. For example:
  
• Procedures for performing systematic reviews, B Kitchenham, Keele, UK, Keele University 33 (2004), 1-26
• http://www.prisma-statement.org/
• We could read from our existing list of evaluated (and unevaluated) potential readings.

We could evaluate different readings and read the ones that bubble to the top. This could be applied to all the other categories of readings listed here. We could even hybridize and do parallel readings from multiple categories above.

4/26/24: Readings

 The Human Race Into Space Requires Kidneys, and Other Important Topics 

          A research and discussion group             

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Agenda and Minutes

1. Updates/announcements/status reports

• Turn AM's master's report into a publication? RS suggests sending it to WMSCI. He will get back to us with more details soon.
• ???
  

2. Reading and discussion

• Short-Term Load Forecasting of Smart Grid Based on Load Spatial-Temporal Distribution, G. Yan et al., 2019 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia), Chengdu, China, 2019, pp. 781-785, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8881259. We read up to "When the research is carried out with the aim of enhancing the forecast accuracy, the improvement of the algorithm may not improve the forecast accuracy." (Reading suggested by ECG)

• JS is pursuing research based on https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/14/8/244, so we can read from that article in future meetings.
• Https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240424-do-societies-civilisations-grow-old-frail-and-vulnerable-to-collapse. We read up to "Unlike the states we studied, the world is now hyperconnected and globalised – but this should not be a cause for comfort." and can start there next time we read this.

3.  Reminders

• Discussion of "How to find & do PhD research" is now stored in a separate page.
• Want to do a reading related to your specific interests? We can. Please send suggestions or requests.
  
• If we have an item for each person we can read from 2 or 3 each week and rotate among them from week to week. A student could suggest a research paper or a methodology paper related to their specific topic. Which readings to do on a particular day could depend in part on who is present.
• We could read and discuss our own papers. There are quite a few benefits to doing so. For example, we have a number of systematic reviews that have been published.
• We could also read articles or other materials like AI outputs on research methodology in general. We could also do other general interest readings, not necessarily about methodology, such as philosophy of science or something else. For example:
  
• Procedures for performing systematic reviews, B Kitchenham, Keele, UK, Keele University 33 (2004), 1-26
• http://www.prisma-statement.org/
• We could read from our existing list of evaluated (and unevaluated) potential readings.
• We could evaluate different readings and read the ones that bubble to the top. This could be applied to all the other categories of readings listed here. We could even hybridize and do parallel readings from multiple categories above.
  

4/19/24: Electricity forecasting

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 The Human Race Into Space Requires Kidneys, and Other Important Topics 

The sun's corona, 4/8/24, Little Rock area.

(Left) By me with an old phone cam. (Right) By EG's colleague with more expertise and a better camera. Live, it looked somewhere between these two pictures.

          A research and discussion group             

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Agenda and Minutes

1. Updates/announcements/status reports

• Updates?

2. Reading and discussion

• ECG suggested: Short-Term Load Forecasting of Smart Grid Based on Load Spatial-Temporal Distribution, G. Yan et al., 2019 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia), Chengdu, China, 2019, pp. 781-785, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8881259. We read up to "When the research is carried out with the aim of enhancing the forecast accuracy, the improvement of the algorithm may not improve the forecast accuracy."

The meeting ended here.

• IE: We still need to evaluate the third abstract that we didn't get to earlier.
  

• https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9347460 evaluated at 3.8 on 4/5/24.
  
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050915023479 evaluated at 3.1 on 4/5/24.
  
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296321002290 - we will check this abstract in a future meeting.

• JS is pursuing research based on https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/14/8/244, so we can read from that article in future meetings.
  

3.  Reminders

• Discussion of "How to find & do PhD research" is now stored in a separate page.
• Want to do a reading related to your specific interests? We can. Please send suggestions or requests.
  
• If we have an item for each person we can read from 2 or 3 each week and rotate among them from week to week. A student could suggest a research paper or a methodology paper related to their specific topic. Which readings to do on a particular day could depend in part on who is present.
• We could read and discuss our own papers. There are quite a few benefits to doing so. For example, we have a number of systematic reviews that have been published.
• We could also read articles or other materials like AI outputs on research methodology in general. We could also do other general interest readings, not necessarily about methodology, such as philosophy of science or something else. For example:
  
• Procedures for performing systematic reviews, B Kitchenham, Keele, UK, Keele University 33 (2004), 1-26
• http://www.prisma-statement.org/
• We could read from our existing list of evaluated (and unevaluated) potential readings.
• We could evaluate different readings and read the ones that bubble to the top. This could be applied to all the other categories of readings listed here. We could even hybridize and do parallel readings from multiple categories above.
  

4/12/24: Finish a reading

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 The Human Race Into Space Requires Kidneys, and Other Important Topics 

Finally, a new photo connected, perhaps tangentially, to space exploration. (Taken 4/8/24, 1:45 p.m. CDT, a few miles west of Little Rock, by the side of Highway 10 near Lake Maumelle.)

          A research and discussion group             

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Agenda and Minutes

1. Updates/announcements/status reports

• Updates?

2. Reading and discussion

• We finished reading Lifetime Estimation Using Only Failure Information From Warranty Database, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5196697.

The meeting finished here.

• Let's evaluate the third abstract that we didn't get to last time.
  

• https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9347460 evaluated at 3.8 on 4/5/24.
  
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050915023479 evaluated at 3.1 on 4/5/24.
  
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296321002290 - we will check this abstract next time.

• JS is pursuing research based on https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/14/8/244, so let us read from that article.
  

3.  Reminders

• Discussion of "How to find & do PhD research" is now stored in a separate page.
• Want to do a reading related to your specific interests? We can. Please send suggestions or requests.
  
• If we have an item for each person we can read from 2 or 3 each week and rotate among them from week to week. A student could suggest a research paper or a methodology paper related to their specific topic. Which readings to do on a particular day could depend in part on who is present.
• We could read and discuss our own papers. There are quite a few benefits to doing so. For example, we have a number of systematic reviews that have been published.
• We could also read articles or other materials like AI outputs on research methodology in general. We could also do other general interest readings, not necessarily about methodology, such as philosophy of science or something else. For example:
  
• Procedures for performing systematic reviews, B Kitchenham, Keele, UK, Keele University 33 (2004), 1-26
• http://www.prisma-statement.org/
• We could read from our existing list of evaluated (and unevaluated) potential readings.
• We could simply continue our process of evaluating/voting on different readings and reading the ones that bubble to the top. This could be applied to all the other categories of readings listed here. We could even hybridize and do parallel readings from multiple categories above.

4/5/24: Review abstracts from two articles

 

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 The Human Race Into Space Requires Kidneys, and Other Important Topics 

  

          A research and discussion group             

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Agenda and Minutes

1. Updates/announcements/status reports

• Updates?

2. Reading and discussion

• Here are three papers we can read the abstracts of, and decide on one to explore in more depth. We did two of them today.
  

• https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9347460 evaluated at 3 4/5 on 4/5/24
  
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050915023479 evaluated at 3.1 on 4/5/24
  
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296321002290 - we will check this abstract next time.

• We have read Lifetime Estimation Using Only Failure Information From Warranty Database, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5196697 up to section III.B, and can start there next time we do this reading.

3.  Reminders

• Discussion of "How to find & do PhD research" is now stored in a separate page.
• Want to do a reading related to your specific interests? We can. Please send suggestions or requests.
  
• If we have an item for each person we can read from 2 or 3 each week and rotate among them from week to week. A student could suggest a research paper or a methodology paper related to their specific topic. Which readings to do on a particular day could depend in part on who is present.
• We could read and discuss our own papers. There are quite a few benefits to doing so. For example, we have a number of systematic reviews that have been published.
• We could also read articles or other materials like AI outputs on research methodology in general. We could also do other general interest readings, not necessarily about methodology, such as philosophy of science or something else. For example:
  
• Procedures for performing systematic reviews, B Kitchenham, Keele, UK, Keele University 33 (2004), 1-26
• http://www.prisma-statement.org/
• We could read from our existing list of evaluated (and unevaluated) potential readings.
• We could simply continue our process of evaluating/voting on different readings and reading the ones that bubble to the top. This could be applied to all the other categories of readings listed here. We could even hybridize and do parallel readings from multiple categories above.

3/29/24: Continue discussing the article

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 The Human Race Into Space Requires Kidneys, and Other Important Topics 

  

          A research and discussion group             

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Agenda and Minutes

1. Updates/announcements/status reports

• Updates? 
• Congratulations to RS for a keynote speech at the IMCIC 2024 conference, and for spearheading getting TE's master's project published as a conference paper there.
  

2. Reading and discussion

• We read Lifetime Estimation Using Only Failure Information From Warranty Database, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5196697 up to section III.B, and can start there next time.
• Next time we will read/discuss the abstract of Sullivan et al. (2021), "So many ways for assessing outliers: What really works and does it matter?" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296321002290. Then IE will say a few words about it. We could then read from this paper weekly if it is useful to do so.

3.  Reminders

• Discussion of "How to find & do PhD research" is now stored in a separate page.
• We need some new readings related to your interests! Please send suggestions or requests.
  
• If we have an item for each person we can read from 2 or 3 each week and rotate among them from week to week. A student could suggest a research paper or a methodology paper related to their specific topic. Which readings to do on a particular day could depend in part on who is present.
• We could read and discuss our own papers. There are quite a few benefits to doing so. For example, we have a number of systematic reviews that have been published.
• We could also read articles or other materials like AI outputs on research methodology in general. We could also do other general interest readings, not necessarily about methodology, such as philosophy of science or something else. For example:
  
• Procedures for performing systematic reviews, B Kitchenham, Keele, UK, Keele University 33 (2004), 1-26
• http://www.prisma-statement.org/
• We could read from our existing list of evaluated (and unevaluated) potential readings.
• We could simply continue our process of evaluating/voting on different readings and reading the ones that bubble to the top. This could be applied to all the other categories of readings listed here. We could even hybridize and do parallel readings from multiple categories above.

3/22/24: Continue reading the warrantee/lifetime article

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 The Human Race Into Space Requires Kidneys, and Other Important Topics 

  

          A research and discussion group             

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Agenda and Minutes

1. Updates/announcements/status reports

• Updates?
• Reminder: Discussion of "How to find/do PhD research" is now stored in a separate page.
• We need some new readings related to your interests! Please send suggestions or requests.
  
• If we have an item for each person we can read from 2 or 3 each week and rotate among them from week to week. A student could suggest a research paper or a methodology paper related to their specific topic. Which readings to do on a particular day could depend in part on who is present.
• An article I would like to read is: Lifetime Estimation Using Only Failure Information From Warranty Database, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5196697.
• We could obtain an article from each participant!
  
• We could read and discuss our own papers. There are quite a few benefits to doing so. For example, we have a number of systematic reviews that have been published.
• We could also read articles or other materials like AI outputs on research methodology in general. We could also do other general interest readings, not necessarily about methodology, such as philosophy of science or something else. For example:
  
• Procedures for performing systematic reviews, B Kitchenham, Keele, UK, Keele University 33 (2004), 1-26
• http://www.prisma-statement.org/
• We could read from our existing list of evaluated (and unevaluated) potential readings.
• We could simply continue our process of evaluating/voting on different readings and reading the ones that bubble to the top. This could be applied to all the other categories of readings listed here. We could even hybridize and do parallel readings from multiple categories above.

2. Reading and discussion

• We have read Lifetime Estimation Using Only Failure Information From Warranty Database, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5196697 up to section II.C, and can start there next time.
• We could evaluate some readings (including re-evaluating ones that were evaluated some time ago by the group when it had different members).