Author: Christine Betterton-Jones
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The Impact of AI in higher education
On Thursday. June 11th, guest speaker, Grant Douglas will discuss the impact Artificial Intelligence has had on higher education in recent years. Grant is a senior professor of practice and the intercultural track coordinator at IÉSEG School of Management, where … Read more
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AI – the nitty gritty of Large Language Models
How do LLMs work? There is an EXCELLENT intro on the Swiss site http://www.soekia.ch/gpt.html for preparing teachers to explain it to students. Unfortunately it is in German. Here is a survey of LLMs – while highly technical, it contains interesting … Read more
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AI – the naked “truth” Part 2. Large Language Models
This Thursday, July 4th, Peter Breger continues his personal reflections on Artificial Intelligence by looking under the hood (or inside the black box) of Large Language Models such as ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Co-Pilot and Google’s Gemini (it used to be … Read more
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AI – the Naked Truth – Part 1: Neural networks
On Thursday, June 27th, Peter Breger gave part 1 of his personal investigation into how AI works. This week he looked “under the hood” into neural networks. Here are links to some useful on-line resources. 1. Sabine Hossenfelder looks at … Read more
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AI – the naked “Truth” – A look under the hood -some personal reflections
This Thursday, June 27th Peter Breger will share some of his personal reflections about what is arguably the most important development in Information Technology today – Artificial Intelligence. He will peer under the hood of AI to find out what … Read more
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Free software – is it any good? What software are you happy to pay for?
On Thursday, June 20th we discussed what software club members pay for and what free software they use. Several members pay annual subscriptions for software such as Microsoft Office 365, Malwarebytes Premium, VPNs, specialist software such as genealogy programs and … Read more
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Is free software really free? Is it safe?
Many of us use “free ” apps on our phones and PCs. What are the best and safest places to get them? Often these apps are supported by ads or are “crippleware” (cut-down versions of the paid-for versions). What would … Read more
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I can’t believe it’s not Windows!
My Windows 10 laptop cannot be upgraded to Windows 11 and they say that support for Windows 10 will end soon… must I buy a new computer? I only do documents, photos, email and internet. Is there an alternative to … Read more
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Annoying Windows 11 features which you can turn off or modify
If you have just upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11, or bought a new PC with Windows 11 as the operating system, you may find that you are suddenly faced with all kinds of distracting stuff and things are … Read more
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Features you should disable in Windows 11 for a better experience
Have you just upgraded from Windows 10 to 11, or have you just bought a new PC and are completely flummoxed by all the stuff which keeps popping up and annoying you? Well, help is at hand. This Thursday, June … Read more