SYNTHESIS is our choice of direction in working with science. Transdisciplinarity.

"Creativity is important not only in DHT, but in any science"

ABDRAKHMANOVA G.T., AKYLBEK.A., DARIMBAY ZH.

PART 1 INTERVIEW
Today, interdisciplinary projects that combine IT and mechatronics, chemical sciences and metallurgy are becoming more and more popular. However, at the same time, they are considered high-risk, since it is initially almost impossible to predict what result they will lead to. Why combine the humanities and technical sciences and how to convince partners of the prospects of our idea and our tasks.

Question from Abdrakhmanova G.
— One of the main areas in which you work is high technology and exact sciences, or Digital Humantechnologies (DHT)). What do specialists in this field do?

In most cases, specialists in DHT come from the humanities, and their goal is to find modern digital methods that can be applied in their "native" areas, for example, in mechatronics, chemistry, geology. Digital technical sciences and humanities are developing, first of all, in our directions, since it is here that information technologies help scientists process large arrays of research texts. Other promising areas that are now in DHT areinformation technologies and 3D modeling, which are actively used for planning and creating digital collections of artifacts. In these sciences, digital technologies are important because they make research collections more accessible to specialists, young people, and people from related sciences. Using 3D models, for example, you can simply use a computer to study artifacts that are actually restricted.

Question: Akylbek.A
— Why, a person with an initial technical education, became interested in working at the intersection of IT and social sciences?

— My dream is to find synthesis and synergy in DHT, some novelty for technical sciences. Now, in the overwhelming majority of cases, specialists in digitalengineering gain new knowledge for all sciences. This is somewhat offensive for a person with a technical education, so I am trying to understand what new methods can be extracted from DHT for technical areas. The most famous of them are genetic methods and artificial neural networks. By and large, techies first study nature, find certain patterns, build models of technological systems, explain how they work, and then specialists with IT or technical education adapt these ideas for use in related disciplines. go and find new methods in DHT.

Question from Abdrakhmanov G.
— How much demand are digital, technical, or social sciences today? Are they of interest to students?

– In Kazakhstan, there are now areas related to DHT in a dozen leading universities throughout the country. The first areas were opened as master's programs, but now they are also training bachelors. The fact that there is no shortage of applicants, perhaps, indicates that this direction is really in demand in the market and it is professionals.

— What skills should applicants and specialist students have in order to successfully master Digital HumanTechnologies??

— First of all, these should be creative people. Most often, as I have already said, they are specialists from social fields who see the prospects for the use of digital technologies in their field. They come with their ideas and, as part of the preparation of the master's thesis, find out what technologies exist today that allow these ideas to be implemented. I believe that creativity is important not only at DHT, but also in science in general. Without creativity, there is nothing to do in science.

Question: Akylbek.A
— That is, you don't have to understand programming and IT to enter the field of digital technology or humanities? Will they teach you everything you need?

— By and large, the ability to program is not always necessary. There are many ready-made systems and algorithms of artificial intelligence, with the help of which you can process data without understanding programming at all. You just need to be able to properly prepare the material and understand what you actually want to get as a result, what hypothesis you want to confirm or refute. for example, Python, GPT Chat with a large number of ready-made libraries with which you can process data with minimal programming skills.


Question: Darinbay Zh.
- Are there such competitions in Kazakhstan? Is it necessary to hold them and why?

- In Kazakhstan, there are probably no such bold projects as OPEN SPACE. In general, we have a lot of traditional competitions offered and they are usually focused on winnings, on a paid basis, there are not so many of them in universities. , For example, those carried out by sponsors, government organizations, philanthropists or universities under the auspices of science and innovation. Competitions like ours are certainly important, since their participants offer initially high-risk projects that can give a good result. Developing a project for such competitions, the team can afford to try to implement the most daring ideas.is supported by any fund based on the results of the competition, it becomes, in addition to financial, a huge psychological supportor laundering of grant money, but it is not an incentive and motivation, growth, the usual profonation, as I say. For example, when we give support to our projectand participants, they are hired, invited to other projects, within the framework of the competition, investors have shown more trust in us and become more willing to cooperate, or they clearly understand that they are going in the wrong direction and their projects, ideas have no practical significance, and the illusion turns out to be an empty idea and a waste of time in reality.