BNK부산은행은 전날 한국생산성본부(KPC)에서 발표한 ‘2024년도 국가고객만족도 조사(NCSI)’ 지방은행 서비스업 부문에서 1위 기업으로 선정됐다고 13일 밝혔다. ‘NCSI’는 기업·산업·국가의 품질경쟁력 향상과 국민의 삶의 질 향상을 목적으로 한국생산성본부가 미국 미시간대학과 공동 개발한 고객만족도 측정 지표다. 국내외에서 생산돼 국내 최종소비

James Devitt-NYU, Futurity, Nov 13, 2024

This article challenges us to think more deeply on the distinction between knowledge and memory. The claim made here is that parts of the body - the kidney, say - can replicate the massed-spaced effect, retaining information over time, which is the same thing we see when connections are formed between neurons in the brain. But is that the same as forming a memory? I have Haglund's Deformity, a 'memory' of my many years of walking in bad shows. That seems more like "what our pancreas remembers about the pattern of our past meals to maintain healthy levels of blood glucose" and rather less like "knowing Paris is the capital of France". We can interpret these 'memories' as retained information, but it's not clear this is in any way any sort of knowledge.

Michael Franco, New Atlas, Nov 13, 2024

The depth and detail in this paper (8 page PDF) are daunting, but the gist, as summarized in this post, is straightforward: provided only with observations of a human cleaning (" using a so-called instrumented tool, which is a standard tool equipped with additional sensors") the front of an ordinary sink, a robot arm learn to clean entire sinks with varying surface topology. "The model implicitly learned the correct
tool orientation and position w.r.t. the freeform 3D surface." Michael Franco speculates, "a fleet of robots could learn the basic moves from each other through what's known as 'federated learning' and then they could apply those moves to their individual, specified tasks."

Roberto J. Rodriguez, et al., Office of Educational Technology, Nov 13, 2024

This is a longish (79 page PDF) resource from the U.S. government's Office of Educational Technology. "The Department heard educators say that AI is here to stay, AI will keep changing, and safely integrating AI in educational settings will require informed leadership at multiple levels across the education system." The toolkit is divided into three sections: migitating risks, strategy for AI integration, and guiding its use. The risks considered include privacy and data security, student civil rights, accessibility, and digital equity. The second section is weaker, focusing on the 'instructional core' (credited to Elmore, but basically Moore (1989)), with a corresponding focus on instruction. The third section begins with a discussion of AI literacy (limited to "includes the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to engage with AI safely") and promotion of "responsible use". 

Vinay K. Chaudhri, The Hechinger Report, Nov 13, 2024

This is an idea straight from the 50s but expect to see more of the same as companies wrestle with how to make their publications relevant in the age of AI. Vinay K. Chaudhri beghins with a reaffirmation of the importance of textbooks (as "a carefully curated body of knowledge... nearly 100 percent accurate... (and) the view of an expert educator"). Needed now, though, is "authoring textbooks so that their concepts can be read as computer code." How? Back to the 50s - a controlled vocabulary. "Textbooks, using the discipline of knowledge engineering, can support the curation, preservation and learning of all forms of human knowledge." Next up? I guess it would have to be the unification of the sciences.

Mathew Lowry, Medium, Nov 13, 2024

This post deserves a look if only for its cracking good diagram illustrating the difference between the ActivityPub protocol (used by Mastodon and others) and the ATmosphere protocol (used by Bluesky). View it here. Essentially the difference is that the AT protocol disaggregates posting and applications, which (in theory) means that a viral post won't cause your 'instance' to crash (presumably because the post is being cached by the applications?). However "Bluesky's openness means there will not be separate villages, nor private groups for collaboration." 

Paul Sawers, TechCrunch, Nov 13, 2024

According to this article, "Meta has launched a new partnership with a slew of universities in the U.S. and U.K., as it looks to ingrain VR across the education system." I guess it's a big deal (per Mixed, Upload, Social Media Today, Technopedia, ReadWrite, etc etc) but it's hard for me to stifle a yawn. It's not simply that I was here for the Second Life hype, it's that their product is a "digital twin" of the university - "environments that directly replicate their real-world campus counterparts" - the least imaginative use of any media ever. I think there's a lot of room for VR in education, but this announcement isn't it.

The Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management (Ministerie van Verkeer en Waterstaat) announces their new RSS news feed. It is a noteworthy model for other governmental agencies to emulate.

Salt Lake City and 17 other Utah cities are planning to construct the largest ultrahigh-speed data network in the country using fiber optic cables. The project to complete a direct fiber optic connection to homes is considered by The New York Times as one of the most ambitious of its type in the world.

eGovLinks, the e-Government starting point, is featuring two news feeds on its home page and site navigation bar, and both are from Utah State Government!

Gilbert Jorgensen from ITS will demonstrate at this month's eDG meeting how to set up a Web page so that it can be automatically reformatted as a printer friendly page. Several agency pages will be used as part of the demonstration. The eDG meeting provides a venue where State Web Developers can learn about State development standards and new initiatives. This eDG meeting will be Wednesday, Jan 21, 2004, 2 - 4 PM in State Office Building, Rm. B110.

Steve Faulkner recently released a tool for Internet Explorer called the Accessibility Toolbar. It provides one-click access to accessibility validators and has features that go beyond simple accessibility checks.

프로농구 비시즌, 각 구단은 팀 전력의 절반 이상을 차지하는 외국인 선수 영입에 심혈을 기울인다. 그동안 기량은 출중하지만 한국에 적응하지 못해 팀에 피해를 주거나 마음에 들지 않으면 불성실한 모습으로 태업하는 선수 때문에 한 해 농사를 망치는 일이 적지 않았기 때문이다. 2024∼2025시즌을 앞두고 부산 KCC와 울산 현대모비스가 과거 한국 무대에서 최

프로농구 서울 삼성은 2024~2025시즌을 야심 차게 준비했다. 3년 연속 최하위에 그쳤던 삼성은 김효범 감독을 정식 사령탑으로 임명하며 팀 재건에 나섰다. 논란 끝에 이대성(사진)을 영입하고, LG에서 뛰던 저스틴 구탕을 데려오는 등 명가 재건을 다짐하며 새 시즌을 준비했다. 하지만 1라운드를 마친 11일 현재 삼성은 2승9패로 원주 DB와 함께

여자 프로농구(WKBL) 부산 BNK의 기세가 심상치 않다. BNK가 하나은행을 격파하며 개막 이후 패배 없이 5연승을 달려 우승 후보다운 면모를 뽐냈다. BNK는 11일 부산사직체육관에서 열린 2024∼2025시즌 WKBL 정규리그 1라운드 부천 하나은행과의 홈 경기에서 65-45로 완승을 따냈다. 지난 시즌 최하위까지 추락했던 BNK는 올 시즌 강

프로농구 서울 SK가 무려 42점을 몰아친 자밀 워니의 괴력을 앞세워 원주 DB를 물리치고 4연승을 달리며 단독 선두로 나섰다. SK는 12일 원주종합체육관에서 열린 2024-2025 KCC 프로농구 정규리그 원정 경기에서 DB에 88-80으로 이겼다. 4연승을 달린 SK는 대구 한국가스공사와 공동 1위에서 단독 선두(8승 2패)로 올라섰다. 반

Arkansas has joined the growing number of states syndicating agency produced headlines for its citizenry using RSS. The Arkansas Government eNewsRoom is a news portal featuring a RSS 0.91 feed that indexes news releases in PDF format.

The Award for Best Government Website went to www.govt.nz at the 2003 NetGuide Awards in Auckland on November 14. New Zealand's State Service Commission�s E-government Unit develops the portal and has authored a RSS standard for press releases and event-related content published by government agencies.

With the proliferation of government web portals and pages, it is becoming ever more necessary for agencies to reach their customers by email. You can no longer even expect your most devoted readers to visit your web sites on a...

Web surfing is passé. If you as a government information provider think that visitors will continue flocking to your sites through traditional surfing, following links, or saving bookmarks.... think again. Chad Dickerson, explains in his wake up call in today's InfoWorld that something "profound is happening with the delivery of information online with tools that leverage RSS."

Moreover Technologies, the premier provider of aggregated online current awareness and business information, today announced that Pluck Corp., a software company dedicated to making it easier to find and manage Internet information, will integrate several of Moreover's RSS (Rich Site Summary) news solutions within Pluck's free Internet Explorer browser companion application. This will provide users with a more convenient and comprehensive view into breaking online news. These new capabilities include...

Read to the end to see a bunk bed for cats. (Yes, really!) In today’s edition: We get a thrilling affiliate offer we can’t refuse from WP Forms. Twenty Twenty-Five and the like, impermanent beauty of the passage of time, man. How to make sure your WordPress site (and your XML sitemap) doesn’t get lost […]

Read to the end for a tiny yet extremely majestic lion. In today’s edition: The truth behind the classic “average person eats 3 spiders per year” factoid. Tips that’ll make organizing your taxonomies a little less, uh… taxing. America’s finest news source, The Onion, is now powered by our old friend WP. Hot Off The […]

We’re launching a new feature on The Hub: Tickets. Now you can effortlessly communicate with your clients entirely within The Hub, with an easy-to-use instant ticketing system. Plus, it’s entirely white label so it’ll appear to clients as part of your own site. Why We Created Tickets At the moment, you’re probably using email or […]

October saw plugin EVs take 23.6% share in Germany, down from 24.5% share YoY. BEVs in Europe’s largest auto market are now even below the levels of October 2021. Overall auto volume was 231,992 units, up 6% YoY. The bestselling BEV in October was the Skoda Enyaq. The October auto ... [continued]

The post EVs Take 23.6% Share In Germany — Below 2021 Levels appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Over the past three weeks, I’ve been assessing various aspects of the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium’s (CUTRIC) positions, research, and publications on transit bus decarbonization. I’ve published ten articles directly about CUTRIC’s material and reports, or closely related and with serious implications for their claims that both ... [continued]

The post Canadian Transit Think Tank CUTRIC Chooses Inaccuracy, Irrelevancy, & Attack appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Remember when the Tesla Model Y outsold every other electric car, anywhere in the world, all the time? That was then; this is now. According to Yahoo Finance, registration data from Germany’s Motor Transport Authority (KBA) shows the Volkswagen brand has delivered 49,200 electric cars in that country through the ... [continued]

The post Tesla Outsold By BMW & Volkswagen In Germany, MG In UK appeared first on CleanTechnica.

These days, it seems like everyone is into emergency preparedness, or at least wants to think they are. Whether it’s a fear of natural disasters, the communists, the fascists, or even the space aliens, there is no shortage of content these days on social media, blogs, and YouTube. But, we ... [continued]

The post E-Bikes For Preparedness appeared first on CleanTechnica.

On one hand, 2024 is likely to be the year of global peak energy emissions. “It is a historic moment,” cheers the World Economic Forum (WEF) in this year’s edition of DNV’s Energy Transition Outlook. On the other hand, we have so much more work to do before we can ... [continued]

The post Is This The Year Of Peak Energy Emissions? appeared first on CleanTechnica.

This Luckeep X2 Stormtrooper E-Bike is Awesome We’ve tested a lot of electric bikes. I like some for certain reasons, others for other reasons, and some I really don’t care for much at all. I have to say that one thing I’ve found over the years is that e-bikes seem ... [continued]

The post Exploring the Luckeep X2: A High-Performance Urban E-Bike for All Terrains appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Today, CleanTechnica’s Tesla Ethicist columnist answers a question about the tensions among being true to one’s morals, Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s absolutist tendencies, and personal Tesla stock portfolios increases. Dear Tesla Ethicist: I’ve always prided myself on my personal wherewithal. I self-financed my own college education by working and extending ... [continued]

The post The Tesla Ethicist: How Can I Reconcile My Tesla Stock Gains With Musk’s Skewed Self-Interest? appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Colombia’s EV market is booming. As I said a couple months ago, we’re not only seeing significant YoY (year over year) growth (as we are in several other markets, including Costa Rica, Uruguay, Mexico, and Brazil), but we’re also looking at “bursts” of demand that lead to significant MoM (month ... [continued]

The post Colombia EV Sales Report: 1000 Sales Surpassed in October, Country Reaches 6.4% EV Market Share! appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Weird things are happening in the Australian auto market at the moment. In recent weeks, we have seen the launch of several new electric vehicles: the BYD Shark EREV ute (see here), the fully electric Jeep Avenger, and the Deepal SO7 SUV made by Changan from China. Not only that, ... [continued]

The post Something Weird in the Neighbourhood — Australian & New Zealand EV Market October Update appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Following Hurricane Helene, I had difficulty getting a dual-motor e-bike shipped to me in Asheville that I so wanted to review. So, as it went back to the company after more than a week of not being able to be delivered in devastated Western North Carolina, they shipped me another ... [continued]

The post The Extraordinary Traction & Torque of LANKELEISI MG740PLUS Dual-Motor Electric Bike — CleanTechnica Tested appeared first on CleanTechnica.

What difference would it make to be able to unlock ocean data at scale? How would deploying hundreds of marine sensing platforms improve marine weather predictability and accuracy? A company named Sofar is answering some of those questions these days due to their capacity to use real-time data to improve ... [continued]

The post How Networks Of Ocean Sensors Can Improve Marine Weather Predictability appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Solar panels between the rails of train tracks is a new idea being tested in Switzerland by start-up Sun-Ways.

The post Swiss Experiment Will Place Solar Panels Between Train Tracks appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Juan Diego Celemín Mojica just explained this well himself, but it was perhaps hidden a little bit under a headline about Colombia and various other details. This point is one that I’ve been waiting for, and we’ve seen the market building toward this with the expansion of BYD into more ... [continued]

The post It’s Leapfrog Time For EVs In Smaller Auto Markets appeared first on CleanTechnica.

This year, the U.S. has faced extreme weather, including record heatwaves and intense hurricanes, like Idalia, causing widespread disruptions and power outages. In August 2024, Hurricane Idalia alone left over 2.4 million homes and businesses without power​. As these natural disasters become more frequent, the vulnerability of traditional electricity grids ... [continued]

The post BLUETTI Unveils Elite 200 V2 Power Station: 17-Year Battery Life for Resilient Backup During Extreme Weather appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Arches National Park in Utah recently announced that rangers are looking for comments on a proposed plan to deal with congestion. For over a decade, the National Park Service (NPS) has struggled to keep the park from becoming a gridlocked traffic mess as outdoor recreation has become more popular while ... [continued]

The post E-Bikes Could Solve A Big Problem For Arches National Park appeared first on CleanTechnica.

2024年11月8日、NPO法人知的資源イニシアティブ（IRI）は、7日に図書館総合展で開催されたLibrary of the Year 2024最終選考会の結果を発表しました。

選考の結果、大賞は沖縄県立図書館“Finding Okinawan Roots” Projectが選ばれました。また、会場投票によるオーディエンス賞も同時受賞しました。

Library of the Year 2024 大賞およびオーディエンス賞決定！（IRI, 2024/11/8）
https://www.iri-net.org/loy/library-of-the-year2024result/

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2024年11月7日付けの米・ワシントンポスト紙のブログ記事で、生成AIツール“Ask The Post AI”の公開について発表されています。

発表によると、これは、ユーザーが入力した質問に対して、同紙の2016年以降のニュース記事を基に、大規模言語モデル（LLM）を用いて生成された回答を表示するツールです。回答には、生成に当たって参照された記事へのリンクが示されます。

The Washington Post Launches “Ask The Post AI,” a New Search Experience（Washington Post, 2024/11/7）
https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2024/11/07/washington-post-launches-ask-post-ai-new-search-experience/

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2024年11月12日、カナダの出版団体BookNet Canadaが、カナダの英語書籍の出版状況に関する調査報告書“The State of Publishing in Canada 2023”を公開しました。

同調査はカナダに拠点を置く出版社を対象とした包括的な調査であり、隔年で実施され、2023年で8回目となります。

主な調査結果として、以下が挙げられています。

・ ほとんどの出版社は、2022年から2023年にかけて収益が僅かに増加した。
・ AIの活用が最も検討されている分野は、マーケティングであった。
・ 調査対象となった出版社のほぼ半数（44%）が、2022年から2023年にかけて電子書籍の収益が増加すると予想した。
・ 2023年にはカナダの出版社の半数以上（58%）がオーディオブックを制作し、2021年の53%から僅かに増加した。

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