3/15/24: Start new reading

 

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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?
• We read Lifetime Estimation Using Only Failure Information From Warranty Database, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5196697 up to section II, where we can start next time.

Meeting ended here

• 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 discussed and refined the strategy above.
• Next week's plan is to evaluate some readings (including re-evaluating ones that were evaluated some time ago by the group when it had different members).