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GPT-3: What’s it good for?
GPT-3 made the mainstream media headlines this year, generating far more interest than we’d normally expect of a technical advance in NLP. People are fascinated by its ability to produce apparently novel text that reads as if it was written by a human. But what kind of practical applications can we expect to see, and can they be trusted?
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Opening the gates : the Lip affair, 1968-1981
\"How the occupation of a watch factory became one of the iconic labour struggles after May 1968 In the Summer of 1973, workers occupied the Lip watch and clock factory, sparking a national affair. The Lip occupation and self-management experience captured the imagination of the Left in France and internationally, as a living example of the spirit of May '68. In Opening the Gates, Donald Reid chronicles the history of this struggle. Beginning with the early stirrings of worker radicalism in 1968, Reid's meticulously researched narrative details the nationally publicised conflict of 1973, the second bankruptcy and occupation of 1976 and the conversion of Lip into a group of cooperatives operating into the 1980s. Reid explores the arguments that that animated Lip: between the labour bureaucracy and the rank-and-file; between the two main progressive trade unions, the CGT and the CFDT; between the established worker institions at Lip (CGT, CFDT, and the CE/works council) and the more militant, less structured organizations like the Action Committee; and lastly, between male workers and an increasingly-politicized female workforce at Lip, who gradually developed a parallel feminist struggle both inside and outside the factory\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Tobacco companies introduce ‘tobacco-free’ nicotine pouches
Regarding ingredients, Zyn’s website says that their pouches contain ‘pharmaceutical-grade’ nicotine salt, hydroxypropyl cellulose, microcrystalline cellulose, maltitol, gum arabic, sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, acesulfame K and food-grade flavourings.8 Similarly, Velo discloses that their products contain ‘nicotine-derived from the tobacco plant, microcrystalline cellulose, water, salt, sucralose, citric acid and artificial flavour’.4 Online marketing highlights how nicotine pouches can be used anywhere and how batteries and devices are not needed.1 8 In the USA, the products appear to be priced comparable to a pack of cigarettes. During the summer of 2019, we purchased Velo and Zyn (US$3.76 and US$5.11, respectively) from local retailers (North Carolina, USA), and Dryft and On! (US$5.54 and US$6.50, respectively) online. Because they are not combusted and contain no tobacco leaf, nicotine pouches have the potential to be a lower-risk product. [...]we are unaware of any independent testing of product constituents, exposure or biomarkers of harm. [...]research evaluating nicotine delivery is lacking. Research is needed to determine if nicotine pouches can help smokers transition from cigarettes to a less harmful nicotine source, or if these products would instead be used situationally by smokers, leading to dual-use. [...]because nicotine pouches are sold in a variety of fruit flavours and can be used discreetly, these products may appeal to youth and young-adult non-smokers.
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The rise of disposable JUUL-type e-cigarette devices
Correspondence to Dr Rebecca Williams, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA; rebeccawilliams@unc.edu For the first few years of the vaping epidemic, to draw in smokers, the tobacco industry provided disposable ‘try it and throw it out’ cigalike electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), potentially driven by desire to convince people to try a new product that looked similar to cigarettes with a low initial cost—about the same as (or less than) a pack of cigarettes1; much less than a typical reusable e-cigarette starter kit. [...]their availability from online vendors became more scarce and expensive, with the proportion of online vendors selling disposable e-cigarettes dropping from 55.2% in 20131 to 23.6% in 2016 (Williams R. Internet Tobacco Vendors Study, Unpublished Data, 2016), with only 6 of the 98 most popular online vendors selling disposable e-cigarettes in our 2014 purchase study.3 With this shift, vendors often grouped disposables in multipacks or priced them higher than starter kits in an apparent effort to start people with refillable instead of disposable products, encouraging them towards habitual use. Disclaimer The National Cancer Institute had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis and interpretation of the data; preparation, review or approval of the manuscript; nor decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
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The return of the chatbots
By all accounts, 2016 is the year of the chatbot. Some commentators take the view that chatbot technology will be so disruptive that it will eliminate the need for websites and apps. But chatbots have a long history. So what's new, and what's different this time? And is there an opportunity here to improve how our industry does technology transfer?
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Rapid proliferation of illegal pod-mod disposable e-cigarettes
Correspondence to Dr Cristine Delnevo, Rutgers Center for Tobacco Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA; delnevo@rutgers.edu Under pressure from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), JUUL Labs suspended sale of cucumber, crème, fruit and mango flavoured pods in US brick and mortar retail stores in November 2018 as part of the company’s plan to prevent youth e-cigarette use. Brands mentioned in these threads included ‘Posh’, ‘Eon Stik’ and ‘Mr. Vapor,” and comments focused on tasting similar to JUUL flavours, lasting longer than a JUUL pod and having a good ‘hit’ like a JUUL; posted images highlight the similar physical dimensions to JUUL.3–5 In October 2019, our staff noticed point-of-sale advertising for two brands of disposable ‘pod-mod’ (fruyt and Pop) in a convenience store near Rutgers University and purchased both products for less than $10 each. [...]the finalised enforcement policy appears to exempt disposable e-cigarettes.8 This potential loophole must be closed and FDA should immediately remove these illegal disposable pod-mod products, which lack marketing authorisation, from the marketplace. [...]local and state jurisdictions could pass legislation to ban the sales of any tobacco products which do not have FDA marketing authorisation.
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