- So, when I started at QMUL with the drive to change the culture in two ways: - automating the drudgery in teaching while replacing outdated content/delivery approaches with that built around these automation tools for assessment; and - Doing research in an ambitious manner with a crazy but commercially tasteful vision. - I've done this is with the Rigid Body Dynamics teaching- a core engineering subject being taught in an outdated manner relying purely on pen and paper. My change was to introduce students to use a computer algebra system to manipulate vectors and applying this knowledge to modelling the kinematic and dynamics of physical systems like simple and double pendulum systems. - This base knowledge form the first year engineering module is used in the 2nd year module introducing spacecraft dynamics. # Howler - At the same time I was also working on howler which led me through all sorts of things about how to like improve speeds of communication but also just general communication. And that involved building a messaging app from the ground up and using that I was able to four year little bit into how you can apply pre-existing AI code towards transcribing stuff. And that gives you all sorts of other ideas like the transcription could be used for social media analysis or something like that to determine sentiment. But that same kind of thing could also be used in robotics context. Right? Like I imagine in the future if robots are working around us we're going to communicate with them with our voices not with keyboards. So what I'm trying to get at with all of this is that this approach to build from the ground up while compromising publications is a risky move but it's a way to change the culture of my being. #riskywork # related [[16 Metascience entrepreneurs work on new social processes of science]]