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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...
Opening up history: political culture in eighteenth-century Ireland
History & The Arts

Opening up history: political culture in eighteenth-century Ireland

...technology, but in what it enabled in terms of the circulation of ideas and information. My PhD project focused on print in Ireland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and my book Print and Party Politics in Ireland, 1689-1714 was based on that work. 3. What is it about your specialist area that fascinates you? I was particularly drawn to printed...
Revealing the surface of an asteroid using robotic telescopes
Science, Maths & Technology

Revealing the surface of an asteroid using robotic telescopes

...Technologies, and are able to track asteroids as they move across the sky each night. Since the publication of this article, the observatories have undergone a significant upgrade. For an up-to-date list of technical details, please visit our specifications page here. Using these telescopes, we study the properties and compositions of asteroid surfaces to characterise...
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...
What can you do with leftover coffee grounds?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can you do with leftover coffee grounds?

...technology more viable, it also provides an environmental advantage: methane is a harmful greenhouse gas. This is by no means the only use for waste coffee grounds. As a relatively pure and essentially free waste stream, scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs have looked into various ways of putting it to use. Burn coffee for low-cost fuel For a few years now, Nestlé...
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...
Welcome to Applying Psychology to Work Hub
Health, Sports & Psychology

Welcome to Applying Psychology to Work Hub

...technology and a multi-generational workforce. It is no wonder that many people feel demotivated and disconnected, with lower wellbeing and performance at work. In developing this hub, we want to help answer questions around how psychology can help: How important is the application of psychology in the workplace during such turbulent times, and in moving forward? What can...
Seven myths of being a female engineer
Science, Maths & Technology

Seven myths of being a female engineer

...technology and bridge construction – what does an engineer look like? You don’t have to wear overalls to excel in the sector. Transcript. 3. Women are too timid to be engineers Historically, female engineers might have struggled to hold their own in a room full of male colleagues. Diana Thomas McEwen knows, first hand, that this simply isn’t the case any more. “I...