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 […]
It’s been a bit chaotic over the last few weeks and I haven’t been posting much but I have been making fast videos of things. So I’m going to cram a bunch of those things together here with a bit of text to explain what they are and why they might be interesting. Some of […]
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 […]
CastleDB – The structured static databaseCastleDB allows efficient collaboration on data editing. It uses the JSON format with newlines to store its data, which in turn allows RCS such as GIT or SVN to diff/merge the data files. Unlike online spreadsheet editors, changes are made locally. This allows local experiments before either commiting or reverting. […]
Kanban Project Management Software – KanboardKanboard is a free and open source Kanban project management software. ‘Harry Potter’ Wedding Story Is Fake: Meet the ‘Troll Handbook’ Author“My dad used to troll Saved by the Bell message boards in the 1990s, pretending to be some kind of corporate shill ‘Screech’ character reminding the kids to stay […]
Elizabeth Archer on Twitter: “To whomever is chalking names and descriptions of trees on the pavements across Walthamstow. I love you. This made my heart sing today. https://t.co/6lmauYeQVD” / Twitter Education Outrage: Please don’t ruin online learning because teachers don’t know how to do itWhen we go back to thinking about online education, please don’t […]
Leonardo What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About the Toilet Paper ShortageGeorgia-Pacific, a leading toilet paper manufacturer based in Atlanta, estimates that the average household will use 40% more toilet paper than usual if all of its members are staying home around the clock. That’s a huge leap in demand for a product whose supply chain is […]
PressBooks has a filter that runs in prior to the kses filter and that was removing iframes that we wanted to remain. This bit of PHP in a plugin adds a single domain to the list. If you needed to add a bunch array_merge would let you do that easily. […]
We All Know Photography is MagicAn extension of photography is magic. Videoconferencing Alternatives: How Low-Bandwidth Teaching Will Save Us All | IDDblog: Instructional Design Tips, Advice, & Trends for Online & Distance Learning | Educational Technology and Online Course Design Help […]
The Story Behind Alexis Pereira’s Viral Essay Twitter JokeAfter he and several other big accounts realize it’s a spoof, a new debate emerges about whether or not jokes about professors are okay. A college professor who thought it was funny debates a Marxist-Leninist writer in my replies about whether satire is permissible. ink – inkle’s […]