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Genomic “dark matter”: a key to understand cancer biology?
Science, Maths & Technology

Genomic “dark matter”: a key to understand cancer biology?

...coding component of our genome [the flow of genetic information from DNA to RNA] shows the flow of genetic information from DNA to RNA via transcription and then to proteins via translation. As shown some genes do not encode for proteins such as lncRNAs. Each cell in our body contains all the information to build and maintain our organism alive and active. This...
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An expert’s take on AI
Digital & Computing

An expert’s take on AI

...Coding Week. ...Q: What is AI? A: There is no simple answer! AI is a collection of technologies and techniques that aim to reproduce the intelligence that we see in animals and people inside machines, particularly computers. Q: How does AI work? A: There’s no single way in which AI works – it’s a range of technologies. The simplest perhaps are expert systems which...
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Pineapples and Pashto: building intercultural competence through Peace Education
Education & Development

Pineapples and Pashto: building intercultural competence through Peace Education

...simple games like fruit salad, a game that mixes a circle of people by giving each person one of several fruits (pineapple, banana etc) and letting them race to swap seats when their fruit is called. The game is simple enough to change the language vocabulary to Afghan languages like Dari and Pashto, so pineapple become ananas, banana becomes kayla and so on. At the end...
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From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models
Science, Maths & Technology

From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models

...simple introduction to Bayesian thinking Bayesian statistics provides a framework for combining prior knowledge with observed data. Named after Thomas Bayes, an eighteenth-century mathematician, this approach is based on a simple idea: our beliefs about an unknown quantity can be updated as new evidence becomes available. Rather than eliminating uncertainty, Bayesian...
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How did music influence Virgina Woolf?
History & The Arts

How did music influence Virgina Woolf?

...Simple Melody to explain...[Virginia Woolf in 1902] Virginia Woolf As Virginia Woolf’s letters and diaries amply record, music was a central part of her social life as it was for many of her contemporaries and she was at her best as a humorist writing about these occasions. She records with glee the various mishaps that befall musicians and audiences – a prima donna...
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What is a password manager - and should I be using one?
Digital & Computing

What is a password manager - and should I be using one?

...simple password managers allow stored passwords to be copied and pasted into log-in boxes. More sophisticated managers let users launch and log in to an application or website by clicking on their entry in the manager itself, while some password managers include browser ‘plug-ins’ so that you can complete a log-in on a web page simply by pressing a button. How do...
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COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics

...simple statistical modelling assumptions and severe extrapolations (estimating unknown values using trends in values we know already, but going far beyond the current range of values). So where did these researchers go wrong? The core analysis of this study is based on a simple regression (a statistical technique of estimating the relationship of one variable with...
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Software development for enterprise systems
Digital & Computing

Software development for enterprise systems

...code is designed from scratch, making no allowance for the reuse of existing software. Because the development is carried out as a linear process, the waterfall process does not allow previous phases of the development to be repeated without repeating the whole sequence of steps. [Figure 1] Figure 1 The waterfall development process Exercise 2 What are the disadvantages...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs