I supported the creation of a PressBooks OER textbook at VCU. It’s now getting published as part of a VIVA grant. As part of that, the book is imported into the central VIVA PressBooks site. They reached out to me indicating that the image links for WP media links were failing on the VIVA site. […]
tldraw An app can be a home-cooked meal Home-cooked Software and Barefoot Programmers: Maggie Appleton (Local-First Conf) – YouTube Inkbase: Programmable InkWe want a digital pen and paper that maintain as many of the above attributes as possible, but with all the benefits of a dynamic digital medium. The most important being programmability—describing new behaviors […]
Disability:IN 2024 Agenda Bookmarklet — Adrian RoselliSplendid. 583: Language Models, AI, and Digital Gardens with Maggie Appleton – ShopTalkI listened to this again recently. It’s worth listening to. I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — LudicityAnd then some absolute son of a bitch created ChatGPT, and now look at us. Look […]
Pivoting From React to Native DOM APIs: A Real World Example – The New Stack“We were completely surprised by the speed gain,” Moulis said. “Our application engine is designed to produce complex ERP-type applications, which involve heavy data consumption to present in real-time. On a page we consider complex, with over 800 DOM elements, some […]
Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in language models AnthropicReward tampering is a specific, more troubling form of specification gaming. This is where a model has access to its own code and alters the training process itself, finding a way to “hack” the reinforcement system to increase its reward. This is like a person hacking […]
Engineering for Slow InternetIf you’re an app developer reading this, can you tell me, off the top of your head, how your app behaves on a link with 40 kbps available bandwidth, 1,000 ms latency, occasional jitter of up to 2,000 ms, packet loss of 10%, and a complete 15-second connectivity dropout every few minutes? […]
KCS v6 – Consortium for Service InnovationA framework for support documentation Coding my Handwriting — Amy Goodchild University Suspends Students for AI Homework Tool It Gave Them $10,000 Prize to MakeThe school “figured out that the Eightball program accesses the Canvas data through the Canvas user generated token, which is essentially users’ Emory credentials that […]
There was a cricket game going on next to the soccer game. I don’t really know the rules, but it’s visually pretty dramatic. I liked the combination of white uniforms and the white fence. Riverrock was going on this weekend and my oldest (John) was photographing the bouldering competitions so I hung out for a […]
Canvas LMS “Unpublish All” Hack | Dave EargleCanvas foils both goals, as of publication date of this post. (1) There is no built-in way to unpublish all assignments. (2) When a module is published, all items within it are auto-published. But when a module is unpublished, items within it remain published. :facepalm: h/t ohheybrian.com Model […]
That’s K.P.O.A.S.P.P. for those of you playing along at home. Anyway, here’s how I ended up writing up our issues with academic software purchasing. I think it’s got to be hitting other places as well. More stuff, more complexity, more concerns, and less people and funds can’t be unique to our organization. Even without financial […]
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