The following is a list of new ebooks received during February 2023 ordered by title. More complete details, and listings from previous months, are available on our website’s New Books page as downloadable Excel spreadsheets.
The Police have warned of an increase in the number of local vehicles being targeted around the city by an opportunist thief who breaks into the vehicles to examine or steal belongings left behind by the owner.
The following is a list of books received during February 2023 ordered by classmark. More complete details, and listings from previous months, are available on our website’s New Books page as downloadable Excel spreadsheets.
Like diamonds, few pearls today are found by chance. Unlike diamonds, which can be manufactured on demand in a laboratory, pearls are still grown organically. Literally, they are grown inside of shellfish in response to a deliberately introduced irritant. I would sign off here saying ‘the rest is history’ but as this video shows, the process is actually surprisingly involved and painstaking care has to be taken to ensure a smooth, even, entire pearl is produced every time. It’s truly an expert process.
Interested in witnessing the cutting edge of design technology and its creative uses? The Creative and Cultural Industries (CCI) faculty Research Excellence Framework (REF) showcase will be on display at the Institute of Marine Sciences next Thursday, 9 March 2023. They’ve even laid on a free bus to take you there.
Don’t trust anything ChatGPT tells you. It might well find nothing of relevance, panic and start making stuff up. Only, it will give you beautiful quotes, citations and references for the things it made up in a very polished and convincing way. The only snag is that it will all be meaningless or just plain wrong. Today’s AI cannot carry out the critical research required for your assignments (or research papers!) in the way you can. They are tools with a very specific purpose and asking them to do more than they were designed for – asking them to research or write your assignments, for instance – quickly exposes their limitations.
Why use substandard free legal sites when we have access to the legal information databases that most law firms can only dream about?
It’s National Student Money Week all week, and this year the focus is on helping you cope with the cost of living crisis. Look out for Student Finance around campus, running competitions, asking you for your best money-saving tips, and lots more.
BASIC (Beginners’ All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) remains the simplest programming language, first used at Dartmoor College, New England in 1963, to teach Humanities students and other non-mathematicians to code, and specifically to build a time-sharing programme for mainframe time-sharing. This was back in the day when powerful computers filled a room, and people queued up for time to use it for advanced computational calculations – much as they continue to do today for modern supercomputers, telescopes, and other expensive and rare pieces of shared technology. This interview with one of the lecturers explains where BASIC came from and how the first coding class came about.
People hate to ask for advice. We stopped calling it asking for ‘help’ years ago when we realised no one was prepared to admit they needed any. It’s curious. “No man is an island, entire of himself,” preached John Donne …
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