Verónica Ruiz Méndez

A few days ago, I presented my final project for the Data Science course in collaboration with my colleague and great friend, Isaias Siliceo Guzmán. In this project, we worked with a Kolmogorov-Arnold Network, a very recent deep learning model inspired by the Kolmogorov representation theorem. This model was proposed as a highly interpretable alternative to MLPs, replacing fixed activation functions with learnable activation functions. This project gave me the opportunity to enhance my understanding of neural networks, architectures, and scaling laws. Without a doubt, it has been my favorite work to date. In the following github link you can consult the work done as well as the original article: https://lnkd.in/exBnBhbb

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I finished the Skill truck Machine Learning Fundamentals with Python! Included the following courses and proyects: Courses: ·      SUPERVISED LEARNING WITH SCIKIT-LEARN ·      UNSUPERVISED LEARNING IN PYTHON ·      LINEAR CLASSIFIERS IN PYTHON ·      INTRODUCTION TO DEEP LEARNING WITH PYTORCH Projects: ·       Predictive Modeling for Agriculture ·       Clustering Antartic Penguin Species

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Ja està disponible el 𝟑𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐮𝐭𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐢́ 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐨̀𝐧𝐢𝐜 📖📱 𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞 𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐮 𝐃𝐈𝐆𝐓𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐌. 🏝️ El projecte està co-financiat per la UE 🇪🇺 dins del programa Erasmus+. En ell trobaràs informació dels 3 𝒕𝙖𝒍𝙡𝒆𝙧𝒔 𝒅𝙚 𝙘𝒐-𝒄𝙧𝒆𝙖𝒄𝙞𝒐́ que es varen dur a terme entre gener i març a nivell nacional en Espanya 🇪🇸, Italia 🇮🇹 i Croacia 🇭🇷 i el taller final a nivel internacional. En aquests tallers es van 𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒛𝒂𝒓 𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒅𝒆𝒍 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒊́𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒆𝒏 𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒂 𝒍𝒂 𝒅𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒛𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒐́.💡 A més, es presenta la 𝕘𝕦𝕚𝕒 𝕕𝕖 𝕣𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕒𝕔𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤 🧾 feta al llarg del projecte per tal de fomentar un turisme intel·ligent i sostenible.♻️ Consorci de la Ribera, entitat formada per la Mancomunitat de la Ribera Alta i Mancomunitat Ribera Baixa 👉👉 https://bit.ly/4am3Gn4 ------------------ The 3rd electronic newsletter of the European project DIGTOURISM is now available. The project is co-financed by the EU as part of the Erasmus+ programme. In it you will find information about the 3 co-creation workshops that took place between January and March at national level in Spain, Italy and Croatia and the final workshop at international level. In these workshops, the training needs of the tourism sector in terms of digitalisation were analysed. In addition, the guide of recommendations made throughout the project to promote smart and sustainable tourism is presented.

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As a Coordinator of Master in Design and Optimization is a pleasure to evaluate contens and presentations

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🌱 In an increasingly demanding business environment focused on sustainable long-term growth, at BBVA Corporate & Investment Banking we implement a highly specialized sectorial approach that allows us to become a key strategic ally in the energy transition of our wholesale clients. With a structured advisory model across seven key industries ranging from the consumer sector to energy or infrastructure, including industrial, TMT, financial institutions, and financial sponsors, our approach enables us to address the specific challenges of each sector and tackle the main business needs of our clients. 🗣️ As highlighted by Antonio Bravo Acín, Global Head of CIB Strategy, Industries & Cross-border: "The decarbonization of the economy represents the greatest disruption in history, not only because of the magnitude of the challenge but also due to the significant investment it will require. With this specialized sectorial advisory, we aim to proactively seize the opportunities presented by the energy transition and make them accessible to our wholesale clients with depth and specificity." 🔗 Discover how our sectorial specialization can help your company find the path to sustainability: https://lnkd.in/dip6gfF5 #BBVACIB #Sustainability #SectorSpecialization #FinancialInnovation

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📊 How do different coaches work with #Data? 🎙️ Pedro Jiménez Caballero | Head of MSC Academic Advising at Sports Data Campus & International football #Scouting with Rafa Benitez ✨ Become a football #BigData expert! New edition begins on October 15th! 👉 https://lnkd.in/d3N5mcVC #Stats #DataAnalytics #DataScience #SportsBigData #IA #SportsAnalytics #Data #SportsData #Innovation #MachineLearning

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Acting Executive Principal James Petrie at BSB reflects on the evolution of teaching methodologies towards a skills-based approach in recent years for El Confidencial when asked about the role of memorisation in current teaching and learning: "We are placing increasing emphasis on what we have identified as the 9 BSB Learning Habits. These are transferable skills, which are the starting point of a lesson. They include Curiosity, Organisation, Reflection and Leadership. Rather than make lesson content the starting point, the skill is actively worked on and then applied to an area of content. Even within this, some memorising of information may be important but it is not, by any means, the thing that “leads” the lesson." "There may be short, memory-testing questions in exams and some longer answers in humanities questions will always benefit from a pupil memorising the plot of a book or the key dates and events of a period of History. However, the main questions will always ask “Why?” or “How?”, not “What?”." "We feel what we are doing blends more conceptual skill-based thinking with the rigour needed for exam preparation to good effect. It takes time to encourage a shift in teacher’s thinking from delivering content to students to guiding their wider thinking. You need absolute buy-in from school leadership, good communication across the school community and time for training." Read full article in the link below: https://lnkd.in/d2D6fzTM #SkillsBasedLearning

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Amazing #maplibrary 🗺 created by Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya that allows you to integrate (almost) any kind of #geoinformation from Catalonia in your #website or #webmap 🕸 . Everything thoughtfully and accurately documented 📝 , with lots of tutorials and step by step examples 👩‍🏫 so nobody gets lost during the integration process 🛣 . #MapICGC #maplibre #Svelte #webmapping #geography #js #node #MapBox #OpenStreetMap #cartography #gis #qgis #freegis #sig

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💥 JOB OFFERS FOR THE IBERIAN CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENERGY STORAGE (CIIAE)💥 ✅ Although yesterday I published a post about the job offers we have published for this centre. Today I want to highlight those of the Thermal Storage department 🔥 . This department is focused on phase change materials and thermal storage systems. The positions published are: 3 for Junior Research Staff 👨‍🔬 👩‍🔬 and 1 for Senior Master Technician 👨‍🎓 👩‍🎓 . 💻 JUNIOR RESEARCHER IN PROTOTYPING: Prototyping is a transversal research line that gives flexibility to work with different research lines, since prototyping is nothing more than turning ideas into physical objects, solving technical challenges and integrating them into a functional device.  https://lnkd.in/dFde9weD 💥 JUNIOR RESEARCHER IN MELTED SALTS: Molten salt sensitive heat storage is a very mature and commercially proven technology. The major challenge of this technology is to improve the chemical compatibility between the salts and the tanks or components in contact with them to reduce corrosion problems.   https://lnkd.in/dKG696Gg ♨ JUNIOR RESEARCHER IN TC: Current research in this field focuses on designing new thermochemical materials and establishing the optimal routes from materials to TCES systems for future integration into sustainable energy grids. https://lnkd.in/dKBThsXh 🖥 SENIOR MASTER TECNICIAN IN PROTOTYPING: Prototyping refers to focusing on turning ideas into physical objects, solving technical challenges and integrating them into a functional device. It is a critical piece of validating the theoretical work that other researchers/engineers are developing at lab scale. If you are excited about this concept, this work awaits you. https://lnkd.in/d698znh7 If you want to know more about the positions, feel free to contact me. 😉 Thanks for sharing the publication and helping me reach more people!

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What can you build in 9 weeks? 🤔 Have a look at the most recent projects developed by our #DataScience, #AI, and #DataAnalytics students in Lisbon, Madrid and Barcelona that will inspire you! 🔥 Project phase is the ultimate experience of the bootcamp, where students invent, pitch, design, code, and deploy an original project in teams of 3 or 4 people during the final two weeks. Ready to kickstart your tech journey? 🚀 On campus or online, our summer batches are starting in a few days!

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One month ago I had the privilege of participating in the EU Sparks for Climate​ Madrid Hackathon, where we utilized the Design Thinking methodology to tackle some of the most pressing climate challenges. With all the hustle of the end of the academic course I didn’t have time to announce that my teamates Javier Rodríguez Pascual, Zeliha ŞAHİN ÇAĞLI and I, with and our mentor Julián Rodríguez emerged victorious! 🌱🏆 This journey was incredibly enriching and taught us the true power of collaboration and innovation. Working alongside passionate individuals from diverse backgrounds, we were able to combine our unique perspectives and skills to create impactful solutions for our planet. I want to extend a huge thank you to all the participants who brought their energy, creativity, and dedication to the table. Your hard work and enthusiasm were truly inspiring. A heartfelt thank you to the jury (Irene Rodríguez Sánchez, Pedro Salazar Díaz-Marta, Verónica G. Javier Martín Sanz and Lorenza Moreno) for recognizing our efforts and for their invaluable feedback and guidance throughout the competition. Your insights have been instrumental in shaping our project and pushing us to strive for excellence. Last but not least, an enormous thank you to my great friend and now kind of personal mentor, Laura Álvarez Carrillo for encouraging me to apply to the Hackaton 💜🌍 A big thank you to the EU for organizing and supporting this incredible initiative. This opportunity has not only provided us with a platform to innovate but also to learn and grow as professionals committed to making a difference. Looking forward to the next steps! #ClimateAction #EUSparks #Hackathon #DesignThinking #Innovation #ClimateChange #Sustainability #EUClimateInitiative

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✨ Highlights from our diversity and inclusion workshop in Barcelona with the Master in Quantum Science and Technology @ Barcelona and DigiQ students! The workshop was part of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Course at StartUB! Universitat de Barcelona and ICFO. Thanks to Robert J Sewell for inviting us to do the workshop. Using an evidence-based approach and Applied Theatre, the workshop covered the following questions: → Understanding of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion → Who might be facing discrimination in Quantum Science & Technology? → Where do biases and discrimination originate? → Why recognizing and addressing our own biases is important in personal and professional settings? → What actionable steps can be taken against discrimination, individually and structurally? In our workshops, we combine theoretical frameworks, data, and theatrical role-plays of real-life scenarios to shed light on biases and discrimination in STEM. Want to know more? Contact us at info@sciencemeltingpot.com and learn more about our innovative approach to fostering awareness and change! #DEI #STEM #ScienceMeltingPot #InclusiveSTEM Picture credit: José Dardón Sánchez and Shaeema Zaman

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I will be co-presenting with the great Fernando José Mena Serrano on ITC 2024 about a conceptual framework for Test-taker experience I developed during my dissertation and on which Fernando, Eduardo Crespo Cruz, and Stephen Sireci have been working. The model tries to define in more detail what is test-taker experience. The model includes at least three principles that constitute experience in general: a principle of continuity, interaction, and sense-making. For each, you can define categories and locate moments in the test-taker experience using the model. Join us to learn more about this!

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🔍 Chat with your Data! Just read the article of our teammate Pedro Córdoba González about the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to revolutionize information retrieval. At Alice we have created a chat-like experience with data, making it faster and more comfortable to find information. Check out the full article for more insights. #InformationRetrieval #LLMs #RAG #AliceBiometrics https://lnkd.in/dndTzZwV

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🚀 We recently announced our program to support student talent at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) 🎓📡. This initiative, framed within the Fractus-UPC Deep Tech Hub https://lnkd.in/ebZPxU3H, is a key part of our strategy to promote higher education, specialization and the development of academic and research careers in technological fields 🌐🔬. 👩‍🔧👨‍💻 We know that technological profiles are and will be increasingly in demand. In fact, the first study of the Engineering Observatory of Spain estimates that, in the next ten years, more than 200,000 engineering professionals will be needed in our country to meet the needs of the industrial and services sector ⚙️💼. ✨ You can find more information in this Tecnonews article: https://lnkd.in/dim_wv6t #deeptech #stemeducation #FractusUPChub #talent #technology #intellectualproperty ACCIÓ Innovació UPC Barcelona Activa Barcelona City Council

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Last class of Computer Organization course at University of Alicante. These great students of the High Performance Group (ARA) were super nice, proactive and eager to learn. Hope to see you soon in upcoming classes next year! #computerengineering #higheducation

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We keep working on our Innovative Methodologies Report, which Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic-UCC) CEIG will be in charge of. Throughout our working sessions, we have commented on diverse #methodologies and feel fit to spread the word on some of them, such as #Relief #Maps, a #tool for studying social inequalities from an #intersectional perspective. Relief Maps are a data collection tool, an analytical method and a means of conceptualizing intersectionality (all in one!). Check the link below to learn more about this tool, and stay tuned to read about the latest developments of the InterHEd project! https://lnkd.in/dpM6cNWR #Erasmusplus #intersectionality #interHEd #InterHEdproject #inequalities #inequality #highereducation #pedagogy #teaching #learning #education #project #euproject #highereducationteaching #education #report #innovativemethodologies #practices #toolkit #report

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