More French Budget Complexities

It’s always interesting to see how people do things in other places. Our school in France has a lot of non-standard things going on. This one is based on the idea that overtime and recuperation time (coming in late to make up for working longer) needs to balance out for each week that starts with […]

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A countdown timer page breakdown (with AI assistance)

A screenshot of the timer page showing no time left and an audio waveform under the numbers 00:00.

I have long meant to get around to making a countdown timer page. It’s a handy thing to have for workshops and for workouts or pomadoro/productivity. There have been enough options out there that kept me from doing it. This pomadoro one is actually really nice. I could also link to a point in the […]

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Podcast Episodes for Diving Deeper into AI

Despite occasional silicon-valley-venture-capital-frosting that sticks in my craw1, I’ve been really enjoying the Latent Space AI engineering podcasts. There is technical stuff that’s beyond what I can understand at times but the majority of it is understandable, adds interesting depth to my AI knowledge, and has led to me to interesting things outside of AI. […]

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Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-09-08

Vertex AI – Google Cloud console Anima AI + Science Lab | HomeWe envision and build principled foundations for AI. We enable and accelerate scientific applications by developing new AI methods. AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry – Google DeepMind The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica—Stephen Wolfram Writings LLMs […]

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Logging Time: A Song as Old as Time

As always occurs in places I work, we are looking to better log how we spend out time1 I do think it’s good to reflect on how you spend your time as an individual and as an organization. It’s also nice to be able to present aspects of that data with qualitative elements to paint […]

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Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-09-01

Four Thieves Vinegar Collective – Harm Reduction for the LivingThe Four Thieves Vinegar Collective is an anarchist collective dedicated to enabling access to medicines and medical technologies to those who need them but don’t have them. WebSim – Advanced Guide to Structuring Requests and IterationIn WebSim, you can invent your own hypothetical protocols to further […]

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Panopto video link with captions on

We had a request to be able to make Panopto videos show the captions automatically. I thought that should be possible. The first thing I did was try to Google an answer. I ended up on the Panopto embed API page. It has enableCaptions as an option so I tried that in the URL in […]

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Make a bunch of documents with Google Script

I’ve got a Google spreadsheet with the last name in column B and the email address in column D. My goal is to make a bunch of blank Google docs,name them in a pattern, share them with individual students, and put them in a particular folder. I decided to go ahead and write the document […]

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