We’ve got some fun stuff this week, starting Alek Golijanin’s interactions with the AI on X. As an aside, what do we call tweets now that it’s no longer twitter? One candidate I’ve heard is “X-crements”, which, while likely appropriate, is a little too long to roll off the tongue (and now that I say… Read more »
From my early beginnings as a young introvert, the public library has always been a bit of a refuge. Years later, not much has changed, albeit with an additional affinity for endless hours spent scouring second-hand bookstores to add to my ever-growing “to-read” pile. From one bookworm to another, this column will be underscoring and… Read more »
Snow-hardy Canadians hearing about the “snow bomb” hitting parts of Belgium last week—dropping 10 centimetres of snow or more!—may have chuckled a bit. We did, too, then we shovelled through the archives to find a couple of references to that hard-hit country. Pass the Jesus, please. Xine Wang goes beyond the borders of turkey dinner… Read more »
There’s a meme out there with the caption “no talk before coffee”. And yet, miraculously, instances occur where a person will pound back that morning cup of joe and breezily go about their day, only later to realize that they’d consumed decaf. What?!? Herein lies somewhat of a mystery: how the placebo effect of something… Read more »
If only I had more money. If only I had more space. If only I had more time on the assignment. If only I had better resources or materials. We all experience limitations that bump against our expectations and ambitions. Like children (or cows in a pasture), we often believe better opportunities lie on the… Read more »
If you like computer coding and always wanted to invent a board game this is the job posting for you. Other tasks include utilizing word and language predictive software in the “research areas: natural language processing, artificial intelligence, neural networks, [and] software development”. As course material uses more complex software, you’d be part of the… Read more »
Library Chat Tues, Jan 30, 10:30 am to 2:30 pm MST Online Hosted by AU Library www.athabascau.ca/library/index.html No pre-registration needed; access through chat box on home page How to APA: The Essentials of Formatting, Citing, and Paraphrasing Tues, Jan 30, 12:30 to 2:00 pm MST Online Hosted by AU Library and Write Site www.athabascau.ca/news/events/how-to-apa-the-essentials-of-formatting-citing-and-paraphrasing-5 Register… Read more »
X (formerly Twitter) might be the social media platform with the most potential. It may be the ultimate “newsflash” app due to the way it allows users to customize their notifications and, given how all breaking news tends to drop over the app, includes everything from trashy tabloids and who broke up with who to… Read more »
One of the rarer criminology angles that is explored has to do with the specifics of money laundering and the intersectionality of the issue with other parts of Canada’s society. As someone who has been trained and certified in FINTRAC’s Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing (an annual requirement for anyone who works in the… Read more »