AI+Building Energy Modeling: IBPSA SimBuild 2024 Notes

Notes from attending the SimBuild conference, especially sessions on data science and modeling.

Helping fix aircraft - from NLP to Bayes Nets

NLP to help aircraft mechanics reason about maintenance actions

Escaping Echochambers

The echochamber effect is a worrisome issue in social media. It risks isolating users in exclusive groups as they repeatedly subscribe to content that reinforces their biases. To keep users engaged, websites expose users to content similar to their history. You will get recommendations for movies you may like, or peoply you may befriend, or communities you may join - all based on some measure of similarity with your profile.