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AI information retrieval: A search engine researcher explains the promise and peril of letting ChatGPT and its cousins search

A new generation of artificial intelligence-based information access systems, which includes Microsoft’s Bing/ChatGPT, Google/Bard and Meta/LLaMA, is upending the traditional search engine mode of search input and output. These systems are able to take full sentences and even paragraphs as input and...
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The effectiveness of team-based learning in nursing education: A systematic review - PubMed Nurse education today.

Overall, TBL was found to be effective in achieving undergraduate nursing students' learning outcomes, but evidence was not sufficiently strong to warrant that it is more effective than other teaching methods. The results of this review are in favour of the implementation of TBL in nursing education...
Source: nih.gov

Learning Outcomes of High-fidelity versus Table-Top Simulation in Undergraduate Emergency Medicine Education: Prospective,

The student's performance on quantitative medical-knowledge assessment was equivalent between the high-fidelity control and low-fidelity experimental simulation groups. Analysis of knowledge acquisition between the two groups also demonstrated statistical equivalence.
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Coaching for Clinician Educators

Branzetti, Jeremy. Love, Linda M.. Schulte, Elaine E. Journal of Graduate Medical Education. Clinician educators (CEs) face manifold challenges, such as teaching under increasing clinical productivity pressures, satisfying evolving accreditation requirements, and combatting trainee and faculty burnout....
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Digital map created of UK's underground pipes and cables

It is hoped a digital map of power cables, gas pipes and sewers will help avoid accidents.
Source: bbc.com

Recent waning snowpack in the Alps is unprecedented in the last six centuries - Nature Climate Change Carrer, Marco. Dibona,

Snow cover in high-latitude and high-altitude regions has strong effects on the Earth’s climate, environmental processes and socio-economic activities. Over the last 50 years, the Alps experienced a 5.6% reduction per decade in snow cover duration, which already affects a region where economy and...
Source: nature.com

Pharma recommends five priorities for future pandemic preparedness and response - IFPMA

As the global architecture for pandemic preparedness and response is discussed, IFPMA shares practical solutions and recommends focussing on five priorities.
Source: ifpma.org

Shared decision making learning package | Shared decision making | Guidance | NICE

"To support implementation of the NICE guideline on shared decision making, Keele University and NICE have worked in partnership to develop an online learning package. This is suitable for all healthcare professionals and aims to equip people with the skills and knowledge they need to have good-quality...
Source: nice.org.uk

Exclusive: The $2 Per Hour Workers Who Made ChatGPT Safer

A TIME investigation reveals the difficult conditions faced by the workers who made ChatGPT possible
Source: time.com

ChatGPT: Threat or Menace? | Inside Higher Ed

Are fears about generative AI warranted?
Source: insidehighered.com

Gender differences in individual variation in academic grades fail to fit expected patterns for STEM - Nature Communications

Fewer women than men pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), despite girls outperforming boys at school in the relevant subjects. According to the ‘variability hypothesis’, this over-representation of males is driven by gender differences in variance; greater male...
Source: nature.com

GCSE pass rate in UK by gender 2022 | Statista

In 2022, 76.7 percent of female students and 69.8 percent of male students achieved a C/4 grade or higher at GCSE level in the United Kingdom.
Source: statista.com

Why gender and income inequality are linked

The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. Incorporated as a not-for-profit foundation in 1971, and headquartered...
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AI Can Now Write Your Lesson Plans

Meet your new AI teaching assistant - ChatGPT.
Source: barefootteflteacher.com

Ransomware group LockBit apologizes saying 'partner' was behind SickKids attack | CBC News

A global ransomware operator has issued a rare apology after it claims one of its "partners" was behind a cyberattack on Canada's largest pediatric medical centre.
Source: www.cbc.ca

Police seize on COVID-19 tech to expand global surveillance

JERUSALEM (AP) — Majd Ramlawi was serving coffee in Jerusalem’s Old City when a chilling text message appeared on his phone. “You have been spotted as having participated in acts of violence in the Al-Aqsa Mosque,” it read in Arabic.
Source: apnews.com

Remembering the people

blog post image Please suggest some technology that might help ... but remind me who you are first. What do you use to keep track of everyone that you work with, live near, party with, study with, or just share time with? Mere humans can only maintain about 150 close relationships (Dunbar's number) so just wondering...
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Life-threatening infections on the rise due to drug-resistant bacteria, new WHO report reveals 

Over 50 per cent of life-threatening bacterial infections are becoming resistant to treatment, a new World Health Organization (WHO) report published on Friday reveals. 
Source: news.un.org

Saints, Kings & Mermaids - Discovering Breage's Medieval Wall Paintings - The Cornish Bird

Discover some of the finest medieval walling paintings in Cornwall and their meaning in the St Breaca church in Breage.
Source: cornishbirdblog.com