3/5/25

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

 

          A research and discussion group             

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Agenda and Minutes

1. Status of KB data? RS received the data. He plans to communicate with BH.

2. Another paper?

• WMSCI has upcoming deadline(s).
• RAG results with VJB and his student who is working on it? RAG: Retrieval Augmented Generation - is a type of intelligent tutoring system. VJB has a senior capstone project student working on this in Spring semester. Expect something next semester or in May or thereabouts.
• 3/5/25: RS is getting some books about this topic that will be useful for the literature review and such.
• Something new from V's dissertation? For example, the graphs showing what fraction of satellites last at least a given number of years might be publishable. R suggests there might be other results in the dissertation that could also be valuable.

4. AI, how is it affecting education, how AI could be used to enhance teaching, etc.? 

• Automating the Socratic method of teaching. 
• TE is leaning toward this for a dissertation.
  
• See research at https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13919 
• 3/6/25: We got up to "6.1. Limitations" and can start there next time.

The meeting ended here.

• Consider this prompt to an AI:
• Teach me about an article using Socratic questioning. You ask me questions to guide my learning. Here is the article. <copy paste an article about something here.>
• See for example this example and this video.
• See research at https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/assets.jmir.org/assets/preprints/preprint-57995-submitted.pdf

5. Reviewing discussion updates: MDPI said to reapply in 2026.