3/26/25

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

 

          A research and discussion group             

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Agenda and Minutes

1. VJB will work on the case study section, RS will work on the introduction section.

2. Automating the Socratic method of teaching. 

• TE is leaning toward this for a dissertation.
  
• See research at https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13919 
• 3/26/25: We finished the paper.

3/19/25

 

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

 

          A research and discussion group             

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Agenda and Minutes

1. RS sent us a list of relevant references which he has obtained.

2. Next step is to work on an introduction for a paper. 

3. Another next step is to start the background section.

4. Automating the Socratic method of teaching. 

• TE is leaning toward this for a dissertation.
  
• See research at https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13919 
• 3/19/25: We got up to "7 Conclusion" and can start there next time.

3/12/25

  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. The current challenge is the fastq files. He sent a couple of people emails but there has not yet been any response.

2. Paper?

• Abstract is submitted: Enhancing Language Models through Retrieval Augmented Generation: Applications and Challenges.
• 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.

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.

2/26/25: reading and discussion

      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. VK wrote to the prospective collaborator. They might meet in Bentonville soon.

3. 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. He might be able to attend some of these meetings and tell us what he is doing. There is programming involved in this project. Expect something next semester or in May or thereabouts.
• 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 
• 2/26/25: We finished up to "Figure 4 presents the semantic annotation results" in section 5 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.

2/12/25: reading etc.

     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? Drive has been signed for and delivered to UALR.

2. VK wrote to the prospective collaborator and got a response.

3. 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. He might be able to attend some of these meetings and tell us what he is doing. There is programming involved in this project. Expect something next semester or in May or thereabouts.
• 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 
• 2/12/25: We finished up to section 4 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.

2/5/25

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

 

          A research and discussion group             

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Agenda and Minutes

1. BH's inquiry about KB's data...? RS checking with PW about sending a storage device, getting login access, or something else.

2. We all got an email from someone wanting to collaborate. Still a possibility. Nothing to report on this today.

3. Making a paper out of VJB's dissertation.

• WMSCI has a first deadline Feb. 6. But there will be other later deadlines.
  
• 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. He might be able to attend some of these meetings and tell us what he is doing. There is programming involved in this project. Expect something next semester or in May or thereabouts.
• 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 
• 1/15/25: We finished up to section 3.3 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.