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From boom to bust: the AI winter
Digital & Computing

From boom to bust: the AI winter

...English phrase: "the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak” into Russian and then back into English to produce: "the vodka is good, but the meat is rotten”. One of highest profile failures of this first wave of AI lay the perceptron. First unveiled in 1958, the perceptron was a novel form of computer hardware emulating operations of a single brain cell. Lavishly...
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Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary

...English crown forces; but the ballad evokes a romantic past in which O’Neill yet rules over Tyrone ‘in high state, with his fair English bride’. The language of the poem is given a ‘Celtic’ flavour by the use of the Scots Gaelic ‘sheiling’ and the Irish words ‘sugaun’ and ‘bawn’. The dialogue suggests spoken idiom of English in Ireland: ‘Poor weeny...
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53 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Education & Development

53 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...English and Welsh speakers, respectively). Transcripts STUDENTS Open University students who use OpenLearn are 5-10% more likely to pass and progress to their next module, than those who do not. Interested in our full course catalogue now? We understand studying after a number of years can be daunting so every new student about to take on an OU module studies a Badged...
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Home education as a provocation for the future of education
Education & Development

Home education as a provocation for the future of education

...English, 2021), warranting additional attention. Many families are opting for home education not for a deliberate choice, but as the ‘last resort option’, especially in the case of children with special educational needs (Gillie, 2022; Kendall and Taylor, 2016; Maxwell et al., 2020). The pandemic schooling experience, related to the COVID-19 pandemic, also served as a...
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Language in the real world
Languages

Language in the real world

...English language...Language in the real world: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand and describe the key features of (human) language and languages understand what applied linguistics is explore different contexts where language is a central issue...Language in the real world: 1 What is language? - Language is of central...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
In smokiest Sheffield
History & The Arts

In smokiest Sheffield

...English, with their love of brevity and simplicity, call these proud seats the Dukeries, but our affair was not with them, and I shall not be able to follow the footmen or butlers or housekeepers who would so obligingly show them to the reader in my company. I had a fine consciousness of passing some of them on my way into the town, and when there of being, however,...
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The Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

The Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice

...English Countesses do scarce exceede them". The account of the neighbours raising the alarm when burglars were loading goods stolen from the ghetto into a boat was taken from the trial records, which can be found in the State Archives. It included reports of the testimony of the witnesses and of the accused, and is quite detailed. Jews were seen as a threat to...
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Download your language survey kit
History & The Arts

Download your language survey kit

...English, based at the University of Leeds in England. Using a standard research tool like this offers you the possibility of comparing your findings with those of other people at other times and places - a key feature in any large-scale research. It also helps you to keep focussed as you conduct the interview. Some people like to distribute the ‘spidergram’ in...
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