Weekly Web Harvest for 2020-05-24

Canon U.S.A., Inc. | EOS Webcam UtilityWon’t work with Zoom but tempting . . . Chapter 1 | Chatting with Glue Sa11y – accessibility quality assurance assistant – Ryerson University Queer Paranormal ????? on Twitter: “Listen, I just need y’all to read this https://t.co/lrM1jGGTIC” / Twitter Automated – IBM Accessibility Teaching Online by Going Offline: […]

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Weekly Web Harvest for 2020-05-17

elizabeth ballou on Twitter: “NYU made a bizarre attempt at an MMO called “Grad Alley” that recreates parts of campus for graduating students. I cannot describe how bad it is. a random assemblage of textures. auto-generated usernames. nonsensical tools. e How we organized one of the largest virtual U.S. journalism events to dateOne approach to […]

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Weekly Web Harvest for 2020-05-03

Hero Shrews’ Extreme, Superstrong Backbones Are the Stuff of Legends | Smart News | Smithsonian MagazineEach of their vertebrae are dense and heavily reinforced—features that make the spine sturdier—and fringed with fingerlike projections that interlock the bones together when the shrews contract their muscles. 3Dmol.js – A modern, object-oriented JavaScript library for visualizing molecular dataA […]

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Weekly Web Harvest for 2020-04-26

A state-of-the-art open source chatbot Though it’s rare, our best models still make mistakes, like contradiction or repetition, and can “hallucinate” knowledge, as is seen in other generative systems. h/t Stephen Downes Doomer Macron on Twitter: “Effort thread on the Japanese Communist Party ?????, the largest non-governing Communist party in the world, still have their […]

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FotoFika Art Baseball Cards

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Origin Story The 2020 All Stars project1 is tied to the FotoFika site supporting photography faculty teaching online due to COVID. One of the concerns that came up in discussions was that this year’s graduating class wouldn’t be getting the personal connections that normally happen during exhibitions. That led to a discussion around Mike Mandel’s […]

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