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Digital neurosis: How our attention is attacked

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While I was trying to write a post on artificial intelligence, I was briefly distracted by an article on anxiety disorders. What people with anxiety disorders do, for example, is they get anxious about something trivial, then have an elevated pulse, interpret this body perception as a symptom of a possibly life-threatening situation, call the […]

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How an app evaluates the climate data of different land areas

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At the Climate Hackathon, researchers and developers worked on solutions for reducing and assessing carbon footprints by remotely classifying the landscape for the Cool Farm Alliance Challenge [1]. BFH data expert Namrata Gurung reports on the hackathon and her work. The Climate hackathon was organised and hosted by Stratiteq in partnership with Microsoft was held […]

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The narratives of the IT industry

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Narratives shape the digital transformation of society much more than we think. We don’t like to admit this because we love the illusion of rational action too much and like to assume objectivity ourselves. But in fact, almost all of us are influenced by narratives. That in itself is neither bad nor good. It is […]

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The underestimated automation

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Automation supposedly has two very different meanings: On the one hand, we use it to describe the taking over of human tasks by machines (= automata) and, on the other hand, our own learning to perform tasks unconsciously. However, both forms of automation are very similar. In both cases, we outsource tasks from conscious thinking, […]

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“Man is an analogue being” – Interview with Moritz Leuenberger on digitalisation, stupidity and democracy (2)

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Part 2 of the interview with former Federal Councillor Moritz Leuenberger is about the advantage of natural stupidity over artificial intelligence, the need to regulate infrastructure and the “essentialisation” of democracy thanks to digital tools. Part 1dealt with the consequences of the digital transformation for political consensus-building and social solidarity, as well as the question […]

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Lessons from Covid-19 – Paradigm shift through distance testing (4)

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Completely secure online exams are neither possible nor necessary. In many cases they do not even make sense. Instead, the current situation shows us how we could fundamentally change the credentialing system for the benefit of all. In Part 1 of this mini-series, we gave an overview of how the health crisis is changing university […]