Stories of The PoCS, Vol. 2

The Timeline

Note about clips and episodes:
  • Unlike in real-space settings, on YouTube you have the ability to speed up or slow things down.
  • Subtitles (or closed captions) are available on YouTube as well and may be helfpul. Captions may take a while to generate after a video is posted.


Weekly stories will be posted and organised here.

The stories will pull together clips and episodes and slides.

There will be approximately 2.5 hours of video per week.

When possible, assignments will point to the appropriate stories.

Readings of tarot cards may be involved.

  • Instructions for final presentations and reports:

    Final presentations will take place on Friday May 14, and project write-ups will be due by 11:59 pm on the same day.

    Please submit recorded videos via Teams and and pdfs via Blackboard.

    Here's what you need to know and do. Grading will take into account all of these aspects and more.

    0. Final talk, < five minutes (300 seconds) per person.

    1. Page length minima:
    — 3 for 1 person group.
    — 4 for 2 person groups.
    — 5 for 3 person groups.
    — 6 for 4 person groups.

    2. Talks should absolutely be G rated and respectful of others. See the PoCS syllabus, UVM's student conduct standards, and UVM's Our Common Ground.

    3. Time: Please aim for no more than 3 minutes per person.

    4. Your mission is to:
    (a) quickly review the problem/area you've been investigating;
    (b) describe what you've been able to achieve so far (or what went horribly wrong).

    Please re-introduce yourself in a sentence (name + your field), and to acknowledge who you're working with.

    5. Talks will be made available on Microsoft Streams for viewing on the Thursday.

    6. Slides: Suggest 3 to 5. More may work but 100 is right out. Quality of slides forms part of the grade.

    7. If you are feeling up for Beamer/LaTeX, I highly encourage it. Keynote is fine as well. Anything that ends up as a pdf will work.

    8. Overleaf provides many journal format templates. At PoCS, we recommend Physical Review's template:
    https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/revtex-4-dot-2-template-and-sample/yydsrzvrqrzs

    9. Practice! These are short talks so you can run through
    them a number of times to straighten everything out.

Current:

For weeks 10 and on of the $n$ weeks of the semester, where $n$ is large but basically unknowable, 2021/04/06—.

Coverage of an assortment of topics including the COVID-19 pandemic, stories, Google Books, sociotechnical time series, fame and ultrafame, political stories, the POTUSometer, narrative control, collective chronopathy, and the measurement of meaning.

Previously on:

For the ninth of the $n$ weeks of the semester, where $n$ is large but basically unknowable, 2021/03/29—2021/04/02:


Episodes may be consumed in three ways:

1. Clips for slides as listed on the slides page.

OR

2. Playlists with clips organized:

20: Linguistic Pollyanna Principle: The positivity bias of languageMeasuring Happiness, Health, and Stories of Populations (51:10)

3. Full episodes:

No.


Assignment(s):

09: Becoming, Part 2

For the sixth and seventh and eighth of the $n$ weeks of the semester, where $n$ is large but basically unknowable, 2021/03/08—2021/03/26:


Episodes may be consumed in three ways:

1. Clips for slides as listed on the slides page.

OR

2. Playlists with clips organized:

No playlist for organizations.

19: Measuring Happiness, Health, and Stories of Populations (4:45:16)

3. Full episodes:

29: Robust, deep-problem-solving organizations (1:10:46)
and
19: Measuring Happiness, Health, and Stories of Populations (4:45:16)


For the fifth of the $n$ weeks of the semester, where $n$ is large but basically unknowable, 2021/03/01—2021/03/05:


Episodes may be consumed in three ways:

1. Clips for slides as listed on the slides page.

OR

2. Playlists with clips organized:

05: Optimal Supply Networks, Part 3: How to get stuff from everywhere to everyone (41:48)

No playlist for organizations.

OR

3. Full episodes:
06: Optimal Supply Networks, Part 3: How to get stuff from everywhere to everyone (41:48)
and
29: Robust, deep-problem-solving organizations (1:10:46)


For the first two weeks of the semester, 2021/02/01—2021/02/12:


Episodes may be consumed in three ways:

1. Clips for slides as listed on the slides page.

OR

2. Playlists with clips organized:
02: Introduction to natural branching networks (2:07:30)
and
03: Unifying branching network laws, but missing mechanisms (1:53:30)

OR

3. Full episodes:
02: Introduction to natural branching networks (2:07:30)
and
03: Unifying branching network laws, but missing mechanisms (1:53:30)


Related assignments:

01: The Zeppo
02: The Wish