Safeguarding Children
I have now completed 'Safeguarding children' with e-learning at work. Another really good course, and essential for anyone working with children. I also e-mailed them to give them some feedback on the course content.
I have included links to some of the key statutory documents in this post.
During this course you will hear many facts, figures and details surrounding the risk to children, the types of abuse suffered, how to recognise the signs of abuse and key safeguarding legislations put in place to minimise the abuse of children. Once you are able to recognise the signs of possible abuse, and know the steps you should take if you suspect it you will be better able to protect the children in your care.
The course covers the following modules:
Introduction to Safeguarding Children
Types of Abuse, who may carry it out and why children may not tell
How to Recognise the Signs of Abuse
What to do if you suspect a child is being
Safeguarding Legislation
Links
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#Safeguarding,#Children,#CPD,#Training,#LookingForWork
Introduction to Deep learning
I found this on the Fediverse, which is a really good place to find interesting content. I am not being fed what some crappy AI / algorithm thinks that I may be interested in. I just follow the right people and happen across something interesting and engaging.
There are some really interesting people on there too.
This is a video series on “Introduction to Deep Learning”
170 Video Lectures from Adaptive Linear Neurons to Zero-shot Classification with Transformers
Original post is here
Links
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#Course,#DeepLearning,#Fediverse,#TheYearOfTheFediverse
Duckduckgo and Google Ghrome
As I am running code club at Paignton Library, I need to use Google chrome, as this works really well with Scratch. It make it easier to manage some aspects of code club from home.
In order to mitigate what chrome does as a browser. Once I had installed, on the first run I Opted out of having chrome as my default browser and also opted out of the tracking it offers.
The first thing I did. was to switch my default search to duckduckgo.
First step click on the URL box and select Manage search engines
You will then see the list of search engines. I have already taken the step of adding duck duck go to Chrome.
You need to remove the unwanted search engines with the menu
Note: in order remove google as a search tool you need to make duckduckgo default then go ahead and remove google.
Debconf 2021 – STARTS TOMORROW
Debian Conference starts tomorrow Tuesday 24/8/2021 online, with talks, chat and lots more.
LINKS
1 Debconf 2021 Website
1a Contact info
2 Mailing list sign up
3 OFTC IRC
4 Poster (work in progress)
5 Salsa Gitlab
TAGS
#Debian,#Conference,#Developer,#Planning,#Meeting
CONTACT
The Mailing list sign up page has a sign up form, however you can just send a message to the e-mail address given to request more information, you need to ask for replies to be cc'd to you.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
Another Step for Open Access in the UK
More good news here, better access to science journals. This will be most welcome, especially given if it is publicly funded research.
I have quoted the first paragraph from [1] and added the latter part of this which is a link to Science Mag as [2] in the links list.
The UK is already a leader in achieving open access for journal articles but have recently taken a further step. The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), a major funder of UK research, has announced that starting in April 2022, researchers receiving support from their £8 billion annual fund [2]
Links
1 Article
2 ScienceMag.org
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#UK,#Science,#Journals,#OpenAccess
A Huge Number of Rogue Supermassive Black Holes Are Wandering The Universe
Citation
Angelo Ricarte, Michael Tremmel, Priyamvada Natarajan, Charlotte Zimmer, Thomas Quinn, Origins and demographics of wandering black holes, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 503, Issue 4, June 2021, Pages 6098–6111, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab866
From what I have managed to read on this, very interesting, there is so much out there yet to discover. Would be great to get access to the above paper, I will ask on the Open University forums if I have access given I am Alumni.
It does highlight the need for open access to science journals. A few posts on this coming up.
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#Rogue,#Wanderer,#Supermassive,#Blackholes,#Astronomy,
#Physics
Game developer business sim City Game Studio gets a big update
This game looks interesting, esp as you can start off with 70's retro technology and work up.
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#GodotEngine #Simulation #NewRelease #IndieGame #Steam
LibreOffice bug fixing
This 3 part series was presented on the LibreOffice Blog. I have taken the three parts and provided links below.
1 Understanding the Bugs and QA
2 Developing a Bug Fix
3 [Writing the Tests and Finishing the Task]()
Links
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#LibreOffice,#FOSS,#Office,#Productivity,#Bug,#Fixing,#QA,
#Development,
Can The Human Body Handle Rotating Artificial Gravity?
Another interesting item posted to Mastodon
Artificial gravity for spaceflight is a concept older than spaceflight itself, but we've only ever seen one small scale test ever flown in space. However decades of research have been performed to show that the human body can adapt to the conditions required for rotating artificial gravity.
There is a video on youtube, along with a discussion on Mastodon. Links below.
Video here
Links
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#Science,#Space,#Artificial,#Gravity
Scientists Have Measured Earth's Ancient Magnetic Field From Stone Age Artifacts
This looks like a really useful breakthrough and will allow more study of the magnetic field around earth at different times through out Earths history. and will help predict how the field may change in the future too.
#ScienceAlert #Science #News and #Amazing #Breakthroughs #bot