<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Recent &amp; Upcoming Talks | Gordon McDonald</title><link>https://gordonmcd.com/talk/</link><atom:link href="https://gordonmcd.com/talk/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><description>Recent &amp; Upcoming Talks</description><generator>Source Themes Academic (https://sourcethemes.com/academic/)</generator><language>en-us</language><copyright>© 2026 Dr. Gordon McDonald</copyright><image><url>https://gordonmcd.com/images/icon_hu6422bb7c17f2a7780857d30742df6648_26094_512x512_fill_lanczos_center_2.png</url><title>Recent &amp; Upcoming Talks</title><link>https://gordonmcd.com/talk/</link></image><item><title>SOLES AI Workshop: Some thoughts on productive use of AI</title><link>https://gordonmcd.com/talk/2024-11-28-soles-ai-workshop/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://gordonmcd.com/talk/2024-11-28-soles-ai-workshop/</guid><description>&lt;ul>
&lt;li>What can AI help you to do well?&lt;/li>
&lt;li>What&amp;rsquo;s going to go wrong?&lt;/li>
&lt;li>What&amp;rsquo;s going to stay the same as everything else accelerates exponentially?&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Some top tips on squeezing out value rather than junk.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>AI Coding: How to code yourself into a mess (&amp; hopefully out of it again)</title><link>https://gordonmcd.com/talk/2024-11-19-ai-coding-business-school/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://gordonmcd.com/talk/2024-11-19-ai-coding-business-school/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Gen-AI Applications for Early-Mid Career Researchers</title><link>https://gordonmcd.com/talk/2024-09-10-genai-emcr-research-insights/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://gordonmcd.com/talk/2024-09-10-genai-emcr-research-insights/</guid><description/></item><item><title>AI in Research</title><link>https://gordonmcd.com/talk/2024-02-21-ai-in-research-spotlight/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://gordonmcd.com/talk/2024-02-21-ai-in-research-spotlight/</guid><description>&lt;p>Presented with
&lt;a href="https://github.com/hlydecker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Henry Lydecker&lt;/a>.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Design Your AI Chatbot</title><link>https://gordonmcd.com/talk/2024-02-07-design-your-ai-chatbot/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://gordonmcd.com/talk/2024-02-07-design-your-ai-chatbot/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Gen-AI in Research Masterclass</title><link>https://gordonmcd.com/talk/2023-11-30-genai-research-masterclass/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://gordonmcd.com/talk/2023-11-30-genai-research-masterclass/</guid><description>&lt;p>Presented by
&lt;a href="https://github.com/hlydecker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Henry Lydecker&lt;/a> and Dr. Gordon McDonald of the
&lt;a href="https://sydney.edu.au/informatics-hub" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sydney Informatics Hub&lt;/a>, on 30th November 2023, as part of CSIRO&amp;rsquo;s National AI Month.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>ChatGPT for Research</title><link>https://gordonmcd.com/talk/2023-09-26-chatgpt-for-research-resbaz/</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://gordonmcd.com/talk/2023-09-26-chatgpt-for-research-resbaz/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Generative AI: Its Use in Research</title><link>https://gordonmcd.com/talk/2023-07-14-generative-ai-centenary-institute/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://gordonmcd.com/talk/2023-07-14-generative-ai-centenary-institute/</guid><description/></item><item><title>ChatGPT Masterclass</title><link>https://gordonmcd.com/talk/2023-02-23-chatgpt-masterclass/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://gordonmcd.com/talk/2023-02-23-chatgpt-masterclass/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Predator-Prey Interactions in Fish</title><link>https://gordonmcd.com/talk/2019-predator-prey-fish/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://gordonmcd.com/talk/2019-predator-prey-fish/</guid><description>&lt;p>Published as
&lt;a href="https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0448" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fine-scale behavioural adjustments of prey on a continuum of risk&lt;/a>.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>OpalMiner</title><link>https://gordonmcd.com/talk/2018-05-30-opalminer-pitchfest/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://gordonmcd.com/talk/2018-05-30-opalminer-pitchfest/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Inter-rater Reliability</title><link>https://gordonmcd.com/talk/2018-inter-rater-reliability/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://gordonmcd.com/talk/2018-inter-rater-reliability/</guid><description/></item><item><title>SVD and PCA</title><link>https://gordonmcd.com/talk/2017-12-05-svd-and-pca/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://gordonmcd.com/talk/2017-12-05-svd-and-pca/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Using Bayesian Methods to Predict Self-Discharge in the Sydney Children's Hospital Network</title><link>https://gordonmcd.com/talk/2017-10-06-bayesian-discharge-prediction/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://gordonmcd.com/talk/2017-10-06-bayesian-discharge-prediction/</guid><description>&lt;p>Published as
&lt;a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16081326" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Predictors of Discharge Against Medical Advice in a Tertiary Paediatric Hospital&lt;/a>, followed up by
&lt;a href="https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2019-317063" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Discharge against medical advice in culturally and linguistically diverse Australian children&lt;/a>.&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>