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Nuovo episodio del #podcast, dopo una lunga pausa.

https://77nn.it/podcasts/S03-E04.html

Sento sempre più spesso, da amici e conoscenti, racconti di aziende che incoraggiano i loro dipendenti a utilizzare per lavoro i chatbot alimentati dai Large Language Model.
Altre aziende, piuttosto che incoraggiare, obbligano a questa pratica, impedendone la disabilitazione sui propri computer e telefoni aziendali. Ma il tutto è un legittimo interesse del datore di lavoro, o così viene spiegato...

77nn.itE04 - IpocrisIAAziende che incoraggiano insistentemente ad utilizzare gli LLM sul lavoro scambiano la cultura lavorativa con l'ipocrisia.
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@BackFromTheDud Not this time, no. Sadly. #GER played superbly but were undone by a super-late goal from #ESP

Both teams deserved it, but - for me - #ESP relied too much on trying to trick the ref with some simulation and gesturing.

See also: #ITA and this scourge entering the women's game.

⚽ Probabilistic forecasts for today's match at #WEURO2025 using our machine learning ensemble.

In Semifinal: #ENGITA #ENG #ITA
Probability to advance: 76.3% vs. 23.7%

🥅 In normal time:
Mean goals: 1.6-0.6
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 61.2%
Draw 24.4%
🇮🇹 14.4%

Heatmap with probabilistic forecasts for the possible outcomes of the match in normal time:

⚽ Probabilistic forecasts for today's match at #WEURO2025 using our machine learning ensemble.

In Quarterfinal: #NORITA #NOR #ITA
Probability to advance: 43.0% vs. 57.0%

🥅 In normal time:
Mean goals: 1.0-1.2
🇳🇴 29.6%
Draw 28.5%
🇮🇹 41.9%

Heatmap with probabilistic forecasts for the possible outcomes of the match in normal time:

This is interesting to me, at least. It looks like they trialled this in poorer areas of the country, so mostly I see Lancashire in the article, but also Plymouth; possibly places where kids wouldn't be expected to have access to books at home?

I went to school at a very early age, to a day-boarding school. They taught ITA and normal English together, I think, at least, I could read normal English, but I thought in ITA and still do.

If you ask me to spell something, I spell it in my head in the phonetic alphabet (ah, bu, ker, der, eh, pff, ger) and I have a mostly instinctive translation mechanism that translates it to normal English style before I speak it; except when I have to actually think about the spelling, and split my brain, then it comes out phonetically, I have to experiment with the spelling in phonetics before I can convert - I just can't think in normal English.

I am not sure it messed me up much. I have learned to spell, but some words don't make sense to me (which is just English), and some I am stubborn about.

I also collect ITA books now, the first one I got after 50 years or so, I realised I could read perfectly. I'd never thought about what happened to ITA, maybe I was lucky that I used both and wasn't suddenly hit with a whole new reading language; but I do wonder where it went, and when I stopped using it.

theguardian.com/education/2025

lemmy.mlThe radical 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of children unable to spell - Lemmy> … > English is one of the most difficult languages to learn to read and write. Unlike Spanish or Welsh, where letters have consistent sound values, English is a patchwork of linguistic inheritances. Its roughly 44 phonemes – the distinct sounds that make up speech – can each be spelt multiple ways. The long “i” sound alone, as in “eye”, has more than 20 possible spellings. And many letter combinations contradict one another across different words: think of “through”, “though” and “thought”. > > It was precisely this inconsistency that Conservative MP Sir James Pitman – grandson of Sir Isaac Pitman, the inventor of shorthand – identified as the single greatest obstacle for young readers. In a 1953 parliamentary debate, he argued that it is our “illogical and ridiculous spelling” which is the “chief handicap” that leads many children to stumble with reading, with lasting consequences for their education. His proposed solution, launched six years later, was radical: to completely reimagine the alphabet. > > The result was ITA: 44 characters, each representing a distinct sound, designed to bypass the chaos of traditional English and teach children to read, and fast. Among the host of strange new letters were a backwards “z”, an “n” with a “g” inside, a backwards “t” conjoined with an “h”, a bloated “w” with an “o” in the middle. Sentences in ITA were all written in lower case. > > By 1966, 140 of the 158 UK education authorities taught ITA in at least one of their schools. The new alphabet was not intended as a permanent replacement for the existing one: the aim was to teach children to read quickly, with the promise they would transition “seamlessly” into the standard alphabet by the age of seven or eight. But often, that seamless transition never quite happened. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/06/1960s-schools-experiment-created-new-alphabet-thousands-children-unable-to-spell [https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/06/1960s-schools-experiment-created-new-alphabet-thousands-children-unable-to-spell]

Was anyone else taught this? I learnt ITA in my earliest education. Unlike the people profiled in the article I've never had any trouble with spelling or any aspect of learning or using English and I'd wondered if that was *because* I'd been taught ITA but judging by this article I was just lucky!

theguardian.com/education/2025

The Guardian · The radical 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of children unable to spellBy Emma Loffhagen

𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘄𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗴 𝗜𝗧𝗔 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗶𝘁 𝗸𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗸𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘃𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝘇𝗼𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗲

Schouwburg ITA in Amsterdam opent op zaterdag 2 augustus zijn kleedkamers voor bezoekers van de botenparade van de pride. Het theater aan het Leidseplein wil hiermee een 'safe space' creëren voor mensen die niet in hun favoriete pride-outfit naar Amsterdam durven te reizen. ITA komt met het...

rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/55123

RTL Boulevard · Schouwburg ITA gooit kleedkamers open voor bezoekers prideSchouwburg ITA in Amsterdam opent op zaterdag 2 augustus zijn kleedkamers voor bezoekers van de botenparade van de pride. Het theater aan het Leidseplein wil hiermee een 'safe space' creëren voor mensen die niet in hun favoriete pride-outfit naar Amsterdam durven te reizen. ITA komt met het initiatief na signalen uit de gemeenschap en een recent onderzoek dat minder dan de helft van de Amsterdamse jongeren zegt homoseksualiteit te accepteren.