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Large language models - the chatty computer
Digital & Computing

Large language models - the chatty computer

...technologies can be considered entirely ‘safe’ for a wide audience. ChatGPT responds to prompts from users by using the relationships calculated during the training process to construct a linguistically accurate response. Whilst LLMs are sometimes said to use statistics to ‘predict the next word’ in their response; in actuality the process is much more complex...
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Warming winters: How will the Winter Olympics adapt?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Warming winters: How will the Winter Olympics adapt?

...technologies like artificial snowmaking. [An image of a competitive skier in a crouching position, taken from side-on. In the near background is a sloping, snowy hill. The skier is carrying sports equipment on their back.] The moving of the games to January is also one of the conclusions from a research note written by Daniel Scott, Robert Steiger and Madeleine Orr that...
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The physical impacts of ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

The physical impacts of ADHD

...technologies, changes in schedules, and additional support with certain types of tasks. This approach to accommodations recognises the social model of disability, which focuses on removing barriers for people and recognises that such barriers can be disabling. When it comes to ADHD, the application of such adaptations can sometimes overly emphasise enabling the person to...
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James Honeyborne - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

James Honeyborne - Earth in Vision

...educational and above all entertaining wildlife films, but they have to be true to nature in all its senses, and that means showing humanity, the effects of humanity, setting it in a context that’s real and relevant to today because that's the reality of it. A series like Africa, for example, yes, we showed the glorious wildlife but then we also, within the body of the...
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Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs

...educational needs or missing from home, to children who are well looked after, even domestic violence is not an indicator of risk – essentially any child is at risk of exploitation. The Children’s Society identified that Covid-19 restrictions led to an adaptation by criminal gangs, in how children were groomed or primed by the gangs to get involved in criminal...
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Criminology beyond crime
Society, Politics & Law

Criminology beyond crime

...technologies and global insecurities posed potential environmental, social and economic injustices on an international scale. Harding’s question requires criminologists to think outside nation-state and strict legalistic boundaries and to pursue what has been referred to as a ‘supranational criminology’ (Smeulers and Haveman, 2008). This course examines some of the...
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Fast Reactors and Thorium
Science, Maths & Technology

Fast Reactors and Thorium

...technology (including the BN-600 and BN-800 power plants). Despite the challenges fast reactors continue to attract much technical interest in the UK and around the world given their potential fuel cycle efficiencies. India, for example, has a major fast reactor programme based at the Indira Ghandi Centre for Atomic Research near Chennai in the south-east of the country....
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Budget 2016: The Experts Respond
Society, Politics & Law

Budget 2016: The Experts Respond

...education classes have a detectable impact on weight among children, perhaps because these substitute alternative forms of physical activity. But enabling children to do physical exercise is a good thing in itself, irrespective of the effect it might have on weight. Infrastructure Geraint Johnes, professor of economics, Lancaster University The Chancellor’s...
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