From a cosy Cornish inn with open fires to a boutique hotel in Northumberland, these new and revamped boltholes tick all the right boxes

Mapping Earth’s underground mycorrhizal fungal networks — the hidden infrastructure beneath our feet.

About a year ago I was invited to give a lecture designed to spark critical thinking in graduate students when considering using generative AI and other tools that had started applying the “a…

A new flu jab offer for homeless people arrives just as the NHS bodies meant to deliver outreach face cuts and restructuring.

Featuring vacancies with Citizens Advice Scotland. Citizens UK, HMRC and many others

“The vast majority of cases we find are people who are entitled to claim for something, claiming for that thing,” the researcher told TechCrunch.

It’s been a bit over five years since the Stochastic Parrots paper (Bender, Gebru et al 2021) was published (and somewhat longer since…

The fixes could be cheap and easy, though.

"I have not left the Conservative Party. They have left me."

Transform any topic into peak LinkedIn thought leadership guaranteed to make your followers shudder.

Filterable list and timeline of dated AI forecasts: falsified and currently open.

A while back I wrote about language modeling without neural networks, where I generated Shakespeare with an unbounded n-gram model: no weights, no training, …

Featuring roles with The Kings Trust,. Barnardos, Plymouth City Council and many others.

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A bumper edition featuring vacancies with Cheshire Wildlife Trust, St John Ambulance, the DVSA and many, many others

Culture secretary says her department will stop using platform, citing concern over its far right content that fuels violence and division The UK’s culture and media department will stop using X because the site “now favours abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate”, Lisa Nandy has announced. The culture secretary’s department is the UK’s second to quit the Elon Musk-owned platform over increasing concerns about the way it highlights and prioritises often inaccurate far right and racist content, and is used to incite violence and division. Continue reading...

The Shrine Keeper

Featuring vacancies with the Royal National College for the Blind, Coram, Environmental Standards Scotland and many more

With tourists buying up property and landlords opting for lucrative Airbnb rentals, young Cornish people are turning to old campervans to give them a roof over their heads

Featuring vacancies with Platform Housing Group, Cumbria Wildlife Trust, Public Health Wales and many others

Notes from the #30DayChartChallenge and the process of making a chart every day of the month

"There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks."

An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction.

As Singapore’s population ages, more seniors are becoming caregivers to other seniors. Here’s a look into the challenges they face and what we can do to help them.