#digital technology

[quotesfrommyreading]

Everything is public now, potentially: one’s thoughts, one’s photos, one’s movements, one’s purchases. There is no privacy and apparently little desire for it in a world devoted to non-stop use of social media. Every minute, every second, has to be spent with one’s device clutched in one’s hand. Those trapped in this virtual world are never alone, never able to concentrate and appreciate in their own way, silently. They have given up, to a great extent, the amenities and achievements of civilization: solitude and leisure, the sanction to be oneself, truly absorbed, whether in contemplating a work of art, a scientific theory, a sunset, or the face of one’s beloved.

  —  The Machine Stops (Oliver Sacks)

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[pythonprogrammingsnippets]

python - a brief history

In 1989, Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist, started working on a new programming language that would be easy to learn and use. He named it after Monty Python's Flying Circus, his favorite TV show.

The language quickly gained popularity and a cult following among developers who loved its simplicity and ease of use. Python soon became the language of choice for scientific and academic communities.

As Python's popularity grew, it faced some significant hurdles. In the early days, critics panned the language for being slow and inefficient compared to other programming languages. However, the Python community was undeterred and developed several optimization techniques and libraries to improve performance.

In 2000, Guido van Rossum released Python 2.0, which introduced a number of major new features and improvements, including list comprehensions, a garbage collector, and support for Unicode. This version of the language solidified its position as a powerful and versatile programming language.

Over time, Python faced some new challenges. The release of Python 3.0 in 2008 introduced significant changes that caused compatibility issues with earlier versions of the language. However, the Python community rallied to provide tools and resources to help developers transition to the new version.

Despite these challenges, Python has continued to grow and evolve. Today, it is one of the most popular programming languages in the world, with a vast ecosystem of libraries and tools. Python is used for everything from web development and data analysis to scientific computing and artificial intelligence.

Python's success can be attributed to the passion and dedication of its community, who have worked tirelessly to overcome challenges and make the language accessible to everyone. Guido van Rossum may have created Python, but it is the community that has made it a force to be reckoned with in the world of programming.

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[spaceintruderdetector]

Who benefits from smart technology? Whose interests are served when we trade our personal data for convenience and connectivity? Smart technology is everywhere: smart umbrellas that light up when rain is in the forecast; smart cars that relieve drivers of the drudgery of driving; smart toothbrushes that send your dental hygiene details to the cloud. Nothing is safe from smartification. In Too Smart, Jathan Sadowski looks at the proliferation of smart stuff in our lives and asks whether the tradeoff--exchanging our personal data for convenience and connectivity--is worth it. Who benefits from smart technology? Sadowski explains how data, once the purview of researchers and policy wonks, has become a form of capital. Smart technology, he argues, is driven by the dual imperatives of digital capitalism: extracting data from, and expanding control over, everything and everybody. He looks at three domains colonized by smart technologies' collection and control systems: the smart self, the smart home, and the smart city. The smart self involves more than self-tracking of steps walked and calories burned; it raises questions about what others do with our data and how they direct our behavior--whether or not we want them to. 

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[peachysprinkleface]

Early childhood education is important because, for children to achieve their Full potential,as is their human right ,they need health and nutrition, protection from harm and a sense of security, opportunities for early learning and responsive caregiving who love them.

The importance of early childhood development is found in the emotional, social and physical development of the young children and how education has a direct effect on their overall development. Early childhood education is most beneficial for children ages three through five and is also often referred to a pre school, pre-kindergarten, daycare, nursery school or early education. Early childhood education is necessary for the preparation of young children for their transition into elementary school and beyond. Sending children who are of preschool -age to an early education program can have a positive impact on the child's life and give them a noticeable head start towards a bright future. Given these High child early child education Care rates ,both parents and professional have sought to understand the impact of these experiences on children's cognitive and social development. Evidence regarding the effects of preschool child Care on children's development has be derived from two distinct areas of research early intervention programs for children at risk and typical communicaty children.

However,I believe the purpose of early childhood are to stimulate and encourage the development of all areas such as languages, physical, cognitive, social, emotionally as well as spirituality. Early childhood educators provide children with experiences and environment for a child growth, where can be More productive member in our development.

In theory we have learned about Piagets’ stages of cognitive development. He stated that a child goes through stages. Which he stated and explained as follows:

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[1five1two]

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[mila2010]

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[digital-doorway]

Digital Marketing has evolved at a very rapid pace over the past few years. and is constantly evolving.

Many companies are already mapping out their Digital plans for 2024 and looking for the latest Digital & AI trends to incorporate and maximize their revenue. 

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[ammg-old2]

It was a simpler time. A friend introduced us, pulling up a static yellow webpage using a shaky dial-up modem. A man stood forth, dressed in a dapper black pinstriped suit with a red-accented tie. He held one hand out, as if carrying an imaginary waiter’s tray. He looked regal and confident and eminently at my service. “Have a Question?” he beckoned. “Just type it in and click Ask!” And ask, I did. Over and over.

With his steady hand, Jeeves helped me make sense of the tangled mess of the early, pre-Google internet. He wasn’t perfect—plenty of context got lost between my inquiries and his responses. Still, my 11-year-old brain always delighted in the idea of a well-coiffed man chauffeuring me down the information superhighway. But things changed. Google arrived, with its clean design and almost magic ability to deliver exactly the answers I wanted. Jeeves and I grew apart. Eventually, in 2006, Ask Jeeves disappeared from the internet altogether and was replaced with the more generic Ask.com.

Many years later, it seems I owe Jeeves an apology: He had the right idea all along. Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence and the stunning popularity of generative-text tools such as ChatGPT, today’s search-engine giants are making huge bets on AI search chatbots. In February, Microsoft revealed its Bing Chatbot, which has thrilled and frightened early users for its ability to scour the internet and answer questions (not always correctly) with convincingly human-sounding language. The same week, Google demoed Bard, the company’s forthcoming attempt at an AI-powered chat-search product. But for all the hype, when I stare at these new chatbots, I can’t help but see the faint reflection of my former besuited internet manservant. In a sense, Bing and Bard are finishing what Ask Jeeves started. What people want when they ask a question is for an all-knowing, machine-powered guide to confidently present them with the right answer in plain language, just as a reliable friend would.

With this in mind, I decided to go back to the source. More than a decade after parting ways, I found myself on the phone with one of the men behind the machine, getting as close to Asking Jeeves as is humanly possible. These days, Garrett Gruener, Ask Jeeves’s co-creator, is a venture capitalist in the Bay Area. He and his former business partner David Warthen eventually sold Ask Jeeves to Barry Diller and IAC for just under $2 billion. Still, I wondered if Gruener had been unsettled by Jeeves’s demise. Did he, like me, see the new chatbots as the final form of his original idea? Did he feel vindicated or haunted by the fact that his creation may have simply been born far too early?

The original conception for Jeeves, Gruener told me, was remarkably similar to what Microsoft and Google are trying to build today. As a student at UC San Diego in the mid-1970s, Gruener—a sci-fi aficionado—got an early glimpse of ARPANET, the pre-browser predecessor to the commercial internet, and fell in love. Just over a decade later, as the web grew and the beginnings of the internet came into view, Gruener realized that people would need a way to find things in the morass of semiconnected servers and networks. “It became clear that the web needed search but that mere mortals without computer-science degrees needed something easy, even conversational,” he said. Inspired by Eliza, the famous chatbot designed by MIT’s Joseph Weizenbaum, Gruener dreamed of a search engine that could converse with people using natural-language processing. Unfortunately, the technology wasn’t sophisticated enough for Gruener to create his ideal conversational search bot.

So Gruener and Warthen tried a work-around. Their code allowed a user to write a statement in English, which was then matched to a preprogrammed vector, which Gruener explained to me as “a canonical snapshot of answers to what the engine thought you were trying to say.” Essentially, they taught the machine to recognize certain words and provide really broad categorical answers. “If you were looking for population stats for a country, the query would see all your words and associated variables and go, Well, this Boolean search seems close, so it’s probably this.” Jeeves would provide the answer, and then you could clarify whether it worked or not.

“We tried to discern what people were trying to say in search, but without actually doing the natural-recognition part of it,” Gruener said. After some brainstorming, they realized that they were essentially building a butler. One of Gruener’s friends mocked up a drawing of the friendly servant, and Jeeves was born.

Pre-Google, Ask Jeeves exploded in popularity, largely because it allowed people to talk with their search engine like a person. Within just two years, the site was handling more than 1 million queries a day. A massive Jeeves balloon floated down Central Park West during Macy’s 1999 Thanksgiving parade. But not long after the butler achieved buoyancy, the site started to lose ground in the search wars. Google’s web-crawling superiority led to hard times for Ask Jeeves. “None of us were very concerned about monetization in the beginning,” Gruener told me. “Everyone in search early on realized, if you got this right, you’d essentially be in the position of being the oracle. If you could be the company to go to in order to ask questions online, you’re going to be paid handsomely.”

Gruener isn’t bitter about losing out to Google. “If anything, I’m really proud of our Jeeves,” he told me. Listening to Gruener explain the history, it’s not hard to see why. In the mid-2000s, Google began to pivot search away from offering only 10 blue links to images, news, maps, and shopping. Eventually, the company began to fulfill parts of the Jeeves promise of answering questions with answer boxes. One way to look at the evolution of big search engines in the 21st century is that all companies are trying their best to create their own intuitive search butlers. Gruener told me that Ask Jeeves’s master plan had two phases, though the company was sold before it could tackle the second. Gruener had hoped that, eventually, Jeeves could act as a digital concierge for users. He’d hoped to employ the same vector technology to get people to ask questions and allow Jeeves to make educated guesses and help users complete all kinds of tasks. “If you look at Amazon’s Alexa, they’re essentially using the same approach we designed for Jeeves, just with voice,” Gruener said. Yesterday’s butler has been rebranded as today’s virtual assistant, and the technology is ubiquitous in many of our home devices and phones. “We were right for the consumer back then, and maybe we’d be right now. But at some point the consumer evolved,” he said.

I’ve been fixated on what might’ve been if Gruener’s vision had come about now. We might all be Jeevesing about the internet for answers to our mundane questions. Perhaps our Jeevesmail inboxes would be overflowing and we’d be getting turn-by-turn directions from an Oxford-educated man with a stiff English accent. Perhaps we’d all be much better off.

Gruener told me about an encounter he’d had during the search wars with one of Google’s founders at a TED conference (he wouldn’t specify which of the two). “I told him that we’re going to learn an enormous amount about the people who are using our platforms, especially as they become more conversational. And I said that it was a potentially dangerous position,” he said. “But he didn’t seem very receptive to my concerns.”

Near the end of our call, I offered an apology for deserting Jeeves like everyone else did. Gruener just laughed. “I find this future fascinating and, if I’m honest, a little validating,” he said. “It’s like, ultimately, as the tech has come around, the big guys have come around to what we were trying to do.”

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[englishlab2]

English Digital Language Lab Technical Specifications

1. The software should be capable of being installed on desktops, laptops, and in any windows based operating systems

2. Language lab should be developed as per CEFR refereed standards i.e. syllabus should be divided as per A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2 standards

3. The content should focus on building all four language skills namely, LSRW.

4. The content should have activities, exercises, and should be loaded with audio-video samples.

5. The main purpose of the is for self-practice for students, Language lab hence user interface should be easy to navigate and does not require any Teacher or facilitator to guide or monitor the student in the learning process

6. There should not be any limitations. Students should be able to go through the module unlimited time till he/she gets proficient in the topic

7. After completion of every Course, an assessment/Quiz should be available for the student to check their knowledge levels

8. Students should be able to record and download the voice unlimitedly

9. Software should not require high configuration machines. Even normal PCs and Laptops should be able to handle the software without any issue.

10. Graphic rich content to be used to explain concepts to students

11. Indian neutral /accent-free voice should be used in the Language lab

12. All levels and backgrounds of students i.e. rural students should also use easily and effectively

13. Should Provide equal weightage on LSRW

14. Basics of grammar must be covered in brief

15. Special activities to overcome Mother Tongue Influence (MTI). A focus on 'Mother Tongue Influence (MTI) to overcome pronunciation differences of consonant sounds using mouth movements.

16. Detailed coverage on phonetics

17. Reading - covers all aspects of grammar in usage

18. Writing - covers all discourses for CBSE and SSC

19. Editing - explores grammatical accuracy

20. Listening - provides exposure to a variety of text

21. Assessments

22. Well-graded content 23. Situational Approach

24. Well-guided practice activities

25. Learner-centered activity

26. Academic vocabulary

27. ELL should have 5000+ words (8 levels) with picture representation which helps the students in learning new words.

28. Prerecorded Lessons should be made available to students by experts with good quality graphics

29. Students should listen to and repeat after model track to practice common everyday situations and conversations & dialogues while their voices are recorded

30. Language lab should focus on

Fluency: To improve fluency Audio/Visual applications based on stress, intonation and modulation are practiced.

Speech sounds: Pronunciation of consonants and vowel sounds made easy with correct syllabic division and stress patterns.

Intonation: Improving the knowledge of English by mastering variations in volume, pitch, speed, and stress. 3000+ difficult words to recite for better pronunciation. 

Phonetics: The accent of different words is made easy through phonetics. Modulation: Modulation helps to achieve precision in pronunciation. Pronunciation, Syllabic division: Almost 3000+ syllabic words are used from Monosyllabic to Hexa syllabic.

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[quotesfrommyreading]

But there’s a darker spin. Humor, of course, is a coping mechanism; jokes about AI are on some level an expression of the anxiety around these tools. Bots are already replacing some jobs, and surely will replace more: Just last week, the National Eating Disorders Association announced that it was firing the humans who run its hotline and using a chatbot. The labor issues surrounding AI are also a big tension in the ongoing Hollywood writers’ strike, even as the public jokes about lackluster scripts being the work of AI. One picketer held up a poster that said A.I. THIS SIGN WROTE. Even a bad version of AI can take jobs, Whittaker argued, “not because it’s competent, but because it will allow companies to justify degrading their position, paying them less, offering fewer benefits, turning them into contractors—all of this.”

  —  AI Has Become One Big Joke

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teamLab, “Walk, Walk, Walk,” Moso Bamboo Forest, 2021, Digital Installation, Endless, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi, Voices: Yutaka Fukuoka, Yumiko Tanaka © teamLab, courtesy Pace Gallery

Interactive Projections Transform Historic Japanese Garden Into a Candy-Colored Kaleidoscope

Kairakuen is referred to as one of the “Three Great Gardens of Japan,” alongside Kenrokuen Garden in Kanazawa and Korakuen Garden in Okayama. Teamlab has installed several interactive digital works across the park's extensive grounds, utilizing an 800-year-old giant tree, 1,500 plum trees, a bamboo grove, pine trees, azaleas, and even a fallen tree. These works transform natural sites—which have been around since the end of the Edo Period in 1842—through projections of light, moving illustrations, and sound.

teamLab, “Ever Blossoming Life Tree,” Giant Taro Cedar, 2021, Digitized Nature, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi © teamLab, courtesy Pace Gallery

teamLab, “Concrete and Abstract,” Between Yin and Yang, 2021, Interactive Digital Nature, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi © teamLab, courtesy Pace Gallery

teamLab, “Enso in the Natural Spring,” Togyokusen, 2021, Digital Installation, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi © teamLab, courtesy Pace Gallery

teamLab, “Resonating Pine and Azalea,” 2021, Interactive Digitized Nature, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi © teamLab, courtesy Pace Gallery

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[diandrecapricedavis]

A frame from digital storytelling: 0_8.5 (fsindlf) version, 2019

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[englishlanguagelab]

Find English Language Lab service provider in Hyderabad. English language lab is the software which enhances the skills of a student, teaches English and enhances ability to Listen, Speak, Read and Write.

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[peachysprinkleface]

Here is a link 👆🏽 for more information on why Early Childhood Education is important.

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[topsolutionsrecruitmentagency]

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