Calendar 2020–2021
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September
Programming For Dummies Workshop (AI)
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Location: Blackboard Collaborate on Cover Nestor page
IMPORTANT: There are two identical Programming for Dummies Workshops. If you can't make this one, there is also one on Thursday! Also, we're not teaching you C, that's what Imperative Programming is for!
Programming for Dummies is here to help you think programmatically! In this lecture-workshop hybrid, we will discuss how daily life is full of complex algorithms, how a computer makes sandwiches, and how to cut your tomatoes recursively! All this and more to help those students who have little or no experience with programming to get into the right mind frame.
PS. Note that we will only look at pseudocode - that is, no programming language specifics will be discussed.
If you don't have access to the Cover Nestor page yet here is the link to join the session as a guest: https://eu.bbcollab.com/gues...465285d854fd3bc80c464c36bd0a2
Introductory Week Event: Cover Radio
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Location: Cover's Discord Server
We’re starting off the week with a chill online activity! Candidate Board XXIX will introduce themselves, talk about the ins and outs of studying in Groningen, and of course play some great songs. Interested in what their favorite spots in town are, or what their first year was like? Tune in on the Cover Discord server to listen to some sweet tunes and fun stories!
Link to join the Discord Server: https://discord.gg/VBFK2zz
Linux Workshop (AI)
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Location: Blackboard Collaborate, Cover Nestor page
IMPORTANT: We will not be showing you how to install virtual box/linux on your own machine so you will have to do that beforehand if you want to follow along. Otherwise, we will be talking through all the exercises and content like a lecture 
To make your life a little easier, we are organising a workshop for Linux. We will cover navigating the maze of Linux, getting the terminal to listen to you, and getting that C-code compiled right.
So, whether you have problems taming that Linux monster or you just want to stop by to pick up some cool tips & tricks, this is the workshop for you! Be sure to come, and bring your friends!
If you do not have access to the Cover Nestor page yet you can join the session as a guest: https://eu.bbcollab.com/gues...3169cb4f749dabd75e3124d7c7203
Programming For Dummies Workshop (CS)
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Location: Blackboard Collaborate, Cover Nestor page
Programming for Dummies is here to help you think programmatically! In this lecture-workshop hybrid, we will discuss how daily life is full of complex algorithms, how a computer makes sandwiches, and how to cut your tomatoes recursively! All this and more to help those students who have little or no experience with programming to get into the right mind frame.
PS. Note that we will only look at pseudocode - that is, no programming language specifics will be discussed.
If you don't have access to the Cover Nestor page yet here is the link to join the session as a guest: https://eu.bbcollab.com/gues...429c5bed345f59891a7065ef25f36
Linux Workshop (CS)
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Location: Blackboard Collaborate, Cover Nestor page
IMPORTANT: We will not be showing you how to install virtual box/linux on your own machine so you will have to do that beforehand if you want to follow along. Otherwise, we will be talking through all the exercises and content like a lecture
To make your life a little easier, we are organising a workshop for Linux. We will cover navigating the maze of Linux, getting the terminal to listen to you, and getting that C-code compiled right.
So, whether you have problems taming that Linux monster or you just want to stop by to pick up some cool tips & tricks, this is the workshop for you! Be sure to come, and bring your friends!
If you do not have access to the Cover Nestor page yet you can join the session as a guest: https://eu.bbcollab.com/gues...757159ac640558554135b8f80796f
Introductory Week Event: Pub Quiz
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Location: Cover's Nestor Page
What better way to learn more about the city, Cover, and your upcoming studies than through a little competition? Our quiz master will present a series of questions that will challenge your knowledge on a wide variety of subjects.
In the signup form below, you can indicate whether you are signing up alone and want to play alone, signing up alone but want to be put on a random team, or signing up with a team! The questions will be presented through our very own Nestor page, and we will be using Discord as a communication channel. Please also disclose your Discord username(s) so we can put you in a team!
If you do not have access to the Cover Nestor page yet you can join the session as a guest: https://eu.bbcollab.com/gues...f08059ef844658c9d8389d76d446c
Let’s quiz away!
Introductory Week Event: Minecraft Tournament
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Location: Cover's Discord Server & Minecraft
To start off the weekend, the LCDee is hosting an online Minecraft tournament! This classic game has stood the test of time with its limitless ways of play and minigames. We will be using the Discord server to communicate. Grab your gear, and may the best Steve (or Alex) win.
Sign up with the Google form
Link to join the Discord Server: https://discord.gg/VBFK2zz
Introductory Week Event: Games at the Park
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Location: Stadspark Groningen (https://goo.gl/maps/Ln18V9Ei7eiwadhQ9)
After learning more about the many facets of studying AI/CS in Groningen online, it’s finally time to meet your fellow students in real life! To get to know each other, we will be hanging out at the park and play some fun games. We will also provide some snacks, soda, and plenty of disinfection.
Since this activity takes place in person, there is a capacity of 140 people divided over 2 shifts. In the sign-up form, you can select your preferred shift. We will try to put everyone in their preferred shift, this is not a guarantee however. Deadline for signing up is the 4th of September, 22:00!
Shift 1: 12:00 - 14:30
Shift 2: 15:00 - 17:30
NB: there is no bathroom on site
CoverTalks: Stephen Wolfram
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Location: Blackboard Collaborate, Cover Nestor page
Stephen Wolfram addresses the Rug AI/CS class of 2020
"As far as I’m concerned, its intellectual core [computational thinking] is about formulating things with enough clarity, and in a systematic enough way, that one can tell a computer how to do them."
Apart from being the founder and CEO of the software company Wolfram Research where he worked as chief designer of Mathematica and the Wolfram Alpha answer engine, Stephen Wolfram is also a computer scientist, physicist, and entrepreneur.
His recent work has been on knowledge-based programming, expanding and refining the Wolfram Language, which is the programming language of the mathematical symbolic computation program Mathematica. During this talk, he will elaborate on his work and his insights with regards to AI and CS. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to interact with a distinguished scientist, technologist and entrepreneur, who has devoted his career to the development and application of computational thinking.
Blackboard Collaborate guest link: https://eu.bbcollab.com/gues...f9151881d4e56b3d37bc7ce776e82
Check his other talks at https://www.stephenwolfram.com/ or on YouTube
CoverTalks: Joscha Bach
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Location: Blackboard Collaborate, Cover Nestor page
Joscha Bach addresses the Rug AI/CS class of 2020
Joscha Bach is a cognitive scientist that has studied cognitive architectures focusing on human emotion and behaviour. He is currently a member of AI Foundation, an Artificial Intelligence company that develops ethical Artificial Intelligent agents. He has researched diverse topics including a novel data compression algorithm using concurrent entropy models; development of microPsi cognitive architecture for modelling emotion, motivation, and mental representation.
Before joining AI Foundation, he worked as a visiting researcher at the MIT Media Lab and the Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics.
He is also a proliferous speaker in AI and cognitive science-related topics and you can find plenty of hours of his super interesting talks and conversations filled with juicy insight into his marvellous mind.
Blackboard Collaborate guest link: https://eu.bbcollab.com/gues...0065a63234ddab6fbf83a4089d4c6
More information: http://bach.ai/ or on YouTube
[Sign-up] Dies Natalis: Cover's Cinematic Celebration
On the 20th of September Cover turns a year older! Of course we want to celebrate this in a cool way. So, on the 18th of September Cover will treat her members on a movie in the cinema! We have rented out a cinema room in Kinepolis for Cover members only, and it will be completely corona proof. We are still keeping the exact movie a secret, so join us and find out.
Before the movies we are going to get some dinner at 18:15 at Huize Maas and all together we will cycle to the cinema.
The sign ups for the dinner and the movie are separate, in case you can't make it to one of them.
Tl;dr
Dinner @Huize Maas: 18:15
Movie @Kinepolis: 20:30
[CANCELLED] RDW Self Driving Challenge - Lego Edition
Location: Rozenburglaan 5 / online
This activity is not organised by Cover.
Due to the new COVID-19 measures announced on the 28th of September, this event is cancelled.
RDW has been organising Self Driving Challenges with electrical karts since february 2019. During the span of this challenge, two teams battle each other for sweet victory, by programming the best functioning self driving kart!
Now, RDW is back with another Self Driving Challenge - but this time, there is a little twist! The cars that will be programmed are made of Lego! There will also be multiple teams competing against each other from Cover, ASCI (study association for Information Science), and RealTime (study association for HBO-ICT).
You can sign up alone or as a team (should consist of 3-7 people). If you sign up alone, we will put you in a team. Note that this might be a mixed team with members from the other associations as well.
Due to space limitations, this event will be an online-offline hybrid: one person from each team will be present at the location, the other team members can follow along at home. Please specify in the form below whether you'd be willing to come to the RDW location.
Check out the aftermovie of a previous Self Driving Challenge!
October
[Online] CoverTalks: Davide Grossi
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Location: Blackboard Collaborate, Cover Nestor page
Davide Grossi addresses the Rug AI/CS class of 2020
David Grossi is our awesome in-house associate professor in Multi-Agent Decision Making at the Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence of the University of Groningen.
He taught Artificial Intelligence 1, Introduction to Logic, Computational Social Choice at the University of Groningen and Digital Legal Studies at University of Amsterdam. With plenty of publications in the field we can't wait to hear is insights and answers to your juicy questions!
Blackboard Collaborate guest link: https://eu.bbcollab.com/gues...bdb14d1cb497e81a6889c39df3bd3
More information at https://davidegrossi.me
[Sign-up] Schlagball
Location: ACLO sport centre
Do you want to relive your childhood during a nice game of Schlagball(the simple variant of baseball)? Come and join us at the ACLO sport centre and play against your fellow Cover members. Enjoy a few hours in the company of your friends while hitting some balls at them.
Of course, we will take the RIVM corona guidelines into account. Therefore please be so kind as to sign up for the activity.
[Online] Imperative Programming Q&A
Location: Online - bbcolab https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/01e50ad15b5c44ce920a2b16ba11845f
A question and answering event where people can ask any question about Imperative Programming, from simple to complex. The questions will be answered by former tutor in Cover's CACTuS system, head of Imperative Programming TAs last year, 2 year Algorithms and Datastructures TA, and honours student Isaiah van Hunen.
The event is on the Cover Nestor page (guest link). It starts at 19:00 and it stops when your questions stop! In the case of there being no questions, he will go over a previous midterm resit with you. If you have any questions beforehand please submit them to education@svcover.nl so we can prepare accordingly.
See you there!
[Online] Cover Radio
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Location: Cover Discord server
It's time for another Cover Radio!
Tune in to catch up with the board, while we play some fun games and listen to music! You can also send in requests for songs, games, and conversation topics in the radio text channel on our Discord.
We hope to see you there!
[Online] Study Support Lecture: Statistics (AI & CS)
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Location: Online - https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/5017520342874205818bafbdf0b8ae94
Do you still have some questions about Statistics? Are some topics still unclear? Join this last unofficial lecture given by students who followed the course in the past. They will walk you through all the content of the course once more and will try to answer your remaining questions. The event is on the Cover Nestor page (guest link).
This will be done by helping you explore and report on the data you find, a skill that is very relevant for the exam. We will not put the main focus on R; the support session is mostly meant to help you fill in some blanks and to explain to you some important bits of the Statistics course. There will also be an opportunity to ask general Statistics (course) questions.
[Online] Committee Market
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Location: Cover's Discord Server
Committees are the perfect way to get to know new people and work on things that interest you outside of your studies!
If you are wondering what committees Cover has to offer and what they do, swing by our online committee market to talk to former and current committee members about their experiences.
Bonus: if you sign up, we'll give you a free Knaek that offers discounts on many cool places in and outside of Groningen!
You can find our Discord here!
[Online] Study Support Lecture: Neurophysics
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Location: Blackboard Collaborate, Cover Nestor page
Do you have any problems with the course Neurophysics? Do you want help in preparing these topics for your exam? During this study support session, we will discuss the physics component of Neurophysics, in order to help you with topics such as `mechanics' and help you understand the physics subjects that are relevant for your exam!
You can join the event through the Cover nestor page or use the (guest link).
[Online] Study Support Lecture: Imperative Programming
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Location: Online - bbcolab https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/1a81c3022d1242e492be61c2ea70d93f
Do you have any problems with the theory of Imperative Programming? Do you want help in preparing for you exam? During this study support session, we will discuss parts of an old exam and help you understand subjects that are relevant for your exam.
The event is on the Cover Nestor page (guest link).
During this lecture, we will also shortly deal with some topics that might need a short reminder, such as the workings of recursion, pointers, etc. There will also we the opportunity to ask questions.
Join this last unofficial lecture given by students who have passed this course in the past.
[Online] AI Master's Fair
Location: https://www.twitch.tv/nsvki_
This activity is not organised by Cover.
Do you have no idea what you want to do after the bachelor AI? Then this master's fair is for you!
Together with all Artificial Intelligence Study Associations in The Netherlands, NAIS (National AI Summit) has organised a master's fair where you will learn more about the different AI related masters in the Netherlands. The master's fair will be online, and livestreamed on Twitch.
[Online] Halloween Horror Movie Night
Do you love horror movies? Are you terrified of them? Don't worry, so are we, but we're gonna watch one anyway! On Halloween night, the 31st of October, we'll be watching a terrifying movie together, online. You'll get all the fun from watching a scary movie with friends, plus all the horror of watching it home alone.
We'll be using Teleparty (formerly called Netflix Party) to all watch the movie together, so you can chat with your friends when you get scared. Which movie will we watch? You can decide! Vote in this weeks poll to pick the scariest (or least scary) movie to watch.
The link to the movie will be available right here on the cover site, on Saturday the 31st of October, so we hope to see you there!
November
[Online] Study Support Lecture: Introduction to logic
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Location: Blackboard Collaborate, Cover Nestor page
Do you have any problems with Introduction to Logic? Do you want help in preparing for you exam? During this study support session, we will aim to discuss every topic in the course, with special attention going out to topics such as Semantics and Formal Proofs.
Join this unofficial lecture given by students who have passed this course in the past. There will be ample opportunity to ask questions!
You can join the event through the Cover nestor page or use the (guest link)
[Online] Imperative Programming Q&A
Location: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/0bc46cb4f91c4fc0b1a9b1108345eb97
After a first very successful Q&A we're here to give you more!
This is a question and answering event where people can ask any question about Imperative Programming, from simple to complex. The questions will be answered by former tutor in Cover's CACTuS system, head of Imperative Programming TAs last year, 2 year Algorithms and Datastructures TA, and honours student Isaiah van Hunen.
The event is on the Cover Nestor page (guest link). It starts at 15:00 and it stops when your questions stop! In the case of there being no questions, he will go over exercises. If you have any questions beforehand please submit them to education@svcover.nl so we can prepare accordingly.
See you there!
Which horror movie do you want to watch with us on Halloween night?
The Shining  |
43.2% |
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The Conjuring |
5.4% |
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Annabelle |
5.4% |
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Split |
24.3% |
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The Babysitter |
21.6% |
| Number of votes: 37 | |
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