reflection impressions on the free flow seminar
The main take away from the two day free flow seminar was that I talked to a lot of people. The exercise where we had to bring three books to talk about was arbitrary for me(the books ended up being too random and specific for my tastes and preferences, but nevertheless I could find an overarching theme in them), but it felt good wandering through the library and discovering the various fields the books were categorized in. For the “idea speed dating” exercises I anxiously come up quickly with projects ideas I already had in mind to evade being embarrassed not having any idea what to do for my bachelors. One idea consisted about deliberately training an AI wrongly. Playing and experimenting with the notions of correlation and causality. Feeding machine learning algorithms with various datasets and looking for interesting results would have been the main focus. But after a talk with one of the mentors the obvious fact of the existence of already falsely trained AI come up. L...