Cyborg patented?
Forbes reports that Microsoft has obtained a patent for a “conversational chatbot of a specific person” created from images, recordings, participation in social networks, emails, letters, etc., coupled with the possible generation of a 2D or 3D model of the person.
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Racial bias in algorithms
From the UK Open Data Institute’s Week in Data newsletter
This week, Twitter apologised for racial bias within its image-cropping algorithm. The feature is designed to automatically crop images to highlight focal points – including faces. But, Twitter users discovered that, in practice, white faces were focused on, and black faces were cropped out. And, Twitter isn’t the only platform struggling with its algorithm – YouTube has also announced plans to bring back higher levels of human moderation for removing content, after its AI-centred approach resulted in over-censorship, with videos being removed at far higher rates than with human moderators.
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Gap between rich and poor university students widest for 12 years
Via The Canary.
The gap between poor students and their more affluent peers attending university has widened to its largest point for 12 years, according to data published by the Department for Education (DfE).
Better-off pupils are significantly more likely to go to university than their more disadvantaged peers. And the gap between the two groups – 18.8 percentage points – is the widest it’s been since 2006/07.
The latest statistics show that 26.3% of pupils eligible for FSMs went on to university in 2018/19, compared with 45.1% of those who did not receive free meals. Only 12.7% of white British males who were eligible for FSMs went to university by the age of 19. The progression rate has fallen slightly for the first time since 2011/12, according to the DfE analysis.
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Quality Training
From Raconteur. A recent report by global learning consultancy Kineo examined the learning intentions of 8,000 employees across 13 different industries. It found a huge gap between the quality of training offered and the needs of employees. Of those surveyed, 85 per cent said they , with only 16 per cent of employees finding the learning programmes offered by their employers effective.
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I am sure you already know about this blog http://wwar1.blogspot.com/ but it is always worth mentioning it again!
It is a quite inspiring way of inspiring pupils to learn about History! 🙂
One of the ideas that has already crossed my mind about creating “realia” and have the kids engaging with real content and historical facts is to connected them with the elderly, who lived that same past. And have them blogging and (photo)story-telling about it.
I know of some blogs and bloggers who have started something which could easily be converted and canalized to something more didactic.
Maria Amelia- the oldest blogger blogging http://amis95.blogspot.com/ – does talk about the Spanish Historical past from time to time.
And a group of Naval Officers in Portugal decided to continue their navigations – now virtually – after they retired http://blogueoc.blogspot.com/ . They also talk about their experiences in the colonies sometimes.
Now….wouldn’t it be grand to join different generations and learn all about contemporary History from those who, in one way or another, took part in it?
Wouldn’t it be bridging another gap of our society?
I can already see a project on story telling being developed around this motto! 🙂
…dreaming … as usual!
ahahahaha!
Have just noticed that all blog links provided in my comment are from blogger.com
I wonder if google would be willing to finance such project! LOL