Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-03-10

How (and Why) the University of Michigan Built Its Own Closed Generative AI Tools | EDUCAUSE Reviewh/t D’Arcy Action Scheduler – Background Processing Job Queue for WordPress | Action Scheduler – Job Queue for WordPressA scalable, traceable job queue for background processing large queues of tasks in WordPress. Designed for distribution in WordPress plugins – […]

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Categorizing institutional AI use

I feel like we’re in a weird place with AI. I imagine most institutions are. We’ve had AI in various products for quite some time and haven’t really thought too much about it. If we’re going to think about AI across the institution, it’s important that we include the older stuff, the stuff that might […]

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Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-02-25

How the Memory of a Song Reunited Two Women Separated by the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade | History | Smithsonian MagazineThe breakthrough came when Koroma recognized a word from the song as a Mende dialect from southern Sierra Leone. In 1990, the researchers traveled around the country’s Pujehun District, playing the song for villagers in hopes […]

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Revisiting Minimal WordPress

I’ve blogged a number of times over the years about minimizing the complexity that’s exposed in WordPress’s dashboard. I’ve done that in a couple different ways. The Gravity Forms-driven front end where you avoid WP’s dashboard entirely is one path. The other way was to just remove stuff that’s like irrelevant to different groups. I […]

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Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-02-18

JavaScript Bloat in 2024 @ tonsky.meh/t Tim Klapdor Search, sort, filters, flexibility to tables, list and more! – List.jsTiny, invisible and simple, yet powerful and incredibly fast vanilla JavaScript that adds search, sort, filters and flexibility to plain HTML lists, tables, or anything. Help | Route Analysis | AutodeskLearn about route analysis tools in Revit […]

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Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-02-11

University of Michigan Sells Recordings of Study Groups and Office Hours to Train AIh/t Grant Potter MonadGPT – a Hugging Face Space by Pclanglais an open source LLM model trained on early modern books created by Pierre-Carl Langlais, a cultural historian h/t Res Obscura Pinokio | PinokioPinokio is a browser that lets you install, run, […]

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