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Royal Institute Christmas Lectures
category9 writes "One of the best xmas tv highlights for us chaps in the UK is the RI Christmas Letures. Once broadcast by the BBC, Channel4 now have the helm. Past lecturers include the world renowed cybernetics engineer, Prof. Kevin Warwick. This year Sir John Sulston, of Human Genome Project fame, will be talking about genetics and the building blocks of life over 5 lectures. This is a must see for anyone interested in artificial intelligence. The lectures are presented in a format which allows technical detail, but in a way very accessible to those outside the particilar scientific fields. The website has transcripts for anyone not able to receive Channel4, perhaps with streams coming at a later date (lobby Channel4 if you must)."
Discovery Science and Discovery Wings is pretty good, alot more technical than just plain Discovery. No show on tv is going to start throwing out equations at you
perhaps there was a slight hint at sarcasm in my reference to kevin warwick, but we all love him really. he even offered me a place on his course at Reading uni. i decided against.
when i said AI, i kind of meant neural nets, alife, and such things. i admit i could have worded it better. oh well, its a first article for me, better luck next time.
What they normally use is a database with all the addresses which don't have a TV licence. Then they send "Occupier" at those addresses a letter on the lines of, "You don't appear to have a TV Licence, you need to have one to watch TV, here are the ways to pay."
There's a strong suspicion that all the vans contain is an electric motor to rotate the fake aerial on top.
Lately the BBC tried a "name and shame" campaign on the lines of "x homes in Easy Street, Anytown, don't have a TV licence". This led to at least one such poster being graffitied with "That's because I don't have a fscking TV, and you know it."