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LevelUp & Mosney Creative Arts

Direct provision is a system in Ireland that was put in place in 1999 in order to provide accommodation and care for refugees seeking asylum. Direct provision was created as an emergency measure before large numbers of asylum seekers entered Ireland.

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Universal Language of Pain

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Mercedes-Benz has partnered with the Thai Health Foundation to develop a set of symbols that medical staff can use with patients to describe pain, particularly when language barriers result in miscommunication and possible mis-diagnosis. Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans are widely used as medical and ambulance vehicles around the world.

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Life

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ML Footstep Recognition System

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Researchers in the UK and Spain have developed and tested a biometric system that identifies users based on their footprint using ground reaction force measurements and machine learning data processing.

Innovation

Science

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The Inspiration Behind Baymax

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This is a fantastic video interview by Quartz with Chris Atkeson, Professor of Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. Chris was the inspiration for Baymax, the robot in Disney's Big Hero 6.

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Brass Against - Wake Up

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The best cover I've ever heard of Wake Up, with extra brass!(H/T to Seán Taylor for sharing this)

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Best Irish Music Cross Over

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This video was recommended to me this week and for me, it's acontender for the best Irish music crossover ever! - The Chieftains and Sinead O'Connor performing Bab O'Reilly with Roger Daltry and The Juiliard Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. They even have Irish dancing in it!

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Bitcoin Explained By AI

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This hilarious video was made to accompany a script written using predictive keyboards, which were trained using dozens of bitcoin explainers.

AI & ML

Tech

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Google Cloud AutoML

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Google Cloud AutoML has entered public alpha. The product allows the user to train custom maching learning models to implement vision AI without much machine learning experience.

AI & ML

Innovation

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Latest Jupiter Images

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NASA has released the latest batch of amazing images of Jupiter taken from Juno and the processed results from public submissions.

Photo

Space

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The Parrot Carmarthen

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This week Rhodri Davies, Pat Morgan and The Swansea Laptop Orchestra played a concert at The Parrot, a fabulous music venue in Carmarthen, with an amazing upstairs record & music shop!Check out the rest of my photos from the gig here.

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