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20 things you might not know about Belfast
History & The Arts

20 things you might not know about Belfast

...opening happened four years later. 11. Belfast has its fair share of famous alumni Seamus Heaney (Poet and Nobel Prize winner), David Trimble (First Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2002) and Mary MacAleese (8th President of Ireland from 1997 to 2011) are all alumni of Queen's University. 12. Sir Kenneth Branagh won an Oscar for his screenplay to "Belfast" The...
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Lesbianism and the criminal law of England and Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Lesbianism and the criminal law of England and Wales

...Open University's Criminology courses and qualifications Many people believe that, in stark contrast to sex between men, sex between women has never been prosecuted. It is assumed that lesbianism was unknown to lawmakers, or disbelieved by them, or too embarrassing to explain. Women’s intimate relationships are imagined as untroubled by a criminal justice system which...
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The OU meets Pink Floyd
History & The Arts

The OU meets Pink Floyd

...Open University talks to Pink Floyd's drummer Nick Mason about his drumming concerns and career...In an exclusive interview, Nick Mason discusses the evolution of Pink Floyd's equipment and the difficulties of using delays in music. Click on the image below to listen to what Nick has to say. Transcript NICK MASON The main change that I’m conscious of is the way that...
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Large language models - the chatty computer
Digital & Computing

Large language models - the chatty computer

...open artificial intelligence...In late November 2022, the American artificial intelligence company OpenAI opened its ChatGPT chatbot to the public. ChatGPT caused a sensation – not only amongst artificial intelligence experts - but also amongst the wider public. It quickly became the fastest growing online service - ever. Within hours of its release, newspapers,...
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Helen Cammock and the art of storytelling
Languages

Helen Cammock and the art of storytelling

...opens up a disquieting gap in our interpretation of the effects of the speech. As she says, ‘the more we can play around with what something means the more we can understand how meaning can change and therefore understand how experience shifts and changes depending on who you are’. Or to put it another way, if you can see how meaning is constructed, you can also see...
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60 Second Adventures in Artificial Intelligence
Digital & Computing

60 Second Adventures in Artificial Intelligence

...Open University's Open degree. The Quest For AI (And Why We’re Not There Yet) The concept of thinking machines dates back to antiquity. Renaissance craftsmen built complex automatons to try to simulate intelligent behaviour. However, the possibility of genuine Artificial Intelligence (AI) had to wait until the arrival of programmable computers in the twentieth century....
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Musicians, loops and the longest piece ever
History & The Arts

Musicians, loops and the longest piece ever

...Open University music degree are asked to experiment with the digital equivalent of Reich’s physical tape loops. Any sound whatsoever, once recorded, can be manipulated in this way to create new timbres and reveal hidden rhythms. Here, for instance, is the sound of a dog eating a carrot: [Dog eating a carrot] It is an easy task for a computer to make a ‘loop’ from a...
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Sounds of environmental change
Society, Politics & Law

Sounds of environmental change

...open to sounds generated from all around, and humans are more 'vulnerable' to sounds as a result. Particular sounds can evoke powerful memories of people and places too. In the past, geographers were mostly concerned with what places and environments looked like in maps and pictures. More recently, though, some geographers have turned their attention to senses such as...
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