The findings reveal a counterintuitive paradox: pedagogical partnerships simultaneously activate cognitive vigilance (critical evaluation) and cognitive offloading (strategic delegation). Contrary to traditional assumptions that delegation diminishes learning depth, our results indicate that strategic cognitive offloading—when exceeding specific thresholds—liberates mental resources for higher-order reflection, thereby enhancing transformative learning experiences
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Daring Fireball: MacOS Tip: Enable the Zoom ‘Peek’ Gesture
So I sat next to him and we started examining the UI changes in detail. And Cabel was zooming in and out instantaneously. I was like, “Whoa, how are you doing that?” And Cabel was like, “You don’t know about the Accessibility Zoom gesture? Here, let me show you!” And my mind was blown. Cabel emphasized the importance of going into the “Advanced…” dialog to turn off “Smooth images”, and I agree. This is a fantastic feature, but Apple has the default setting wrong for smoothing (a.k.a. blurring) the zoomed image. I honestly can’t imagine why anyone would want the zoomed image blurred.
Source: Daring Fireball: MacOS Tip: Enable the Zoom ‘Peek’ Gesture
Henry VIII’s Dating App Profiles – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Must be able to ignore the most foul stench coming off my open leg wound, and not ask any pointed questions about the double-edged fate that befell my most recent wife.
Source: Henry VIII’s Dating App Profiles – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Pan American Luggage Labels – Ella Freire
SF shoe brand Allbirds pivots to AI, shares surge
Allbirds, the San Francisco footwear company that recently agreed to sell its core shoe business, said Wednesday it plans to reinvent itself as an artificial intelligence company — a shift that sent its stock surging in early trading.
Tiny US soft drinks firm changes name to cash in on bitcoin mania | Bitcoin | The Guardian
Shares in a tiny US soft drinks firm, Long Island Iced Tea Corp, have quadrupled in value in just one day after it changed its name to Long Blockchain Corporation, the latest move by a string of obscure companies rebranding themselves in an attempt to ride the bitcoin bubble.
Source: Tiny US soft drinks firm changes name to cash in on bitcoin mania | Bitcoin | The Guardian
VueBuds: Visual Intelligence with Wireless Earbuds
Despite their ubiquity, wireless earbuds remain audio-centric due to size and power constraints. We present VueBuds, the first camera-integrated wireless earbuds for egocentric vision, capable of operating within stringent power and form-factor limits. Each VueBud embeds a camera into a Sony WF-1000XM3 to stream visual data over Bluetooth to a host device for on-device vision language model (VLM) processing. We show analytically and empirically that while each camera’s field of view is partially occluded by the face, the combined binocular perspective provides comprehensive forward coverage. By integrating VueBuds with VLMs, we build an end-to-end system for real-time scene understanding, translation, visual reasoning, and text reading; all from low-resolution monochrome cameras drawing under 5mW through on-demand activation.
Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This – The New York Times
Suffer like the artist you are. It ain’t easy, but if it were easy, it wouldn’t be worth doing.
Source: Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This – The New York Times
— The piece that I struggle with is that many, many people are just doing a thing for money (even art) and that argument holds no weight there. Maybe that’s the final stage of capitalism? Get by with whatever you can so you get paid as you wait for the thing you’re using to get by to replace you.
h/t Sara P.
samuelbradshaw/text-to-timestamps: Python and command-line utility for aligning audio to a transcript.
Text to Timestamps (previously Text to VTT) is a Python package and command-line utility for aligning audio to a transcript. It can provide block, phrase, and/or word-level timestamps for an existing transcript or a generated transcript.
The open web isn’t dying. We’re killing it | Ouvre Boite
The open web’s values were always expensive. Someone has to run the servers. Someone has to maintain the software. Someone has to define the standards. Someone has to pay for storage, bandwidth, security, spam mitigation, abuse handling, moderation, and UX work. The fantasy was never that these costs did not exist. The fantasy was that advertising would cover them without eventually reshaping the system around the needs of advertisers and intermediaries.
Source: The open web isn’t dying. We’re killing it | Ouvre Boite