Month: November 2024

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Kathy (Nell Barlow, left) and Ruth (Matilda Bailes) in Never Let Me Go Hugo Glendinning/Bristol Old Vic Written by Suzanne HeathcoteBased on the novel by Kazuo IshiguroDirected by Christopher Haydon Bristol Old Vic until Saturday 23 November, then Chichester Festival Theatre from 26 to 30 November. It took Kazuo Ishiguro a long time to write his best-selling novel Never
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here you have it, the most popular stories from this week’s installments of Today in Books. And the Winners Are… When He Was 42, Cormac McCarthy Began a Relationship With a 16-Year Old Girl That’s the headline. In
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Judges can use algorithms to help make their decisions Frances Twitty/Getty Images A US courtroom experiment suggests a popular risk assessment algorithm makes harsher recommendations than human judges – possibly because it is worse than people at anticipating which defendants will violate pretrial agreements. “Some jurisdictions wanted to work with us to evaluate whether these
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