I was curious how well the AI would do at creating sentences that were the opposite of what I wrote. I wanted full opposite-ness, as much oppositeness as I could get. If I type in “The black cat sat.” I’d want something like “A white dog stood.” With my admittedly minimal effort, I got minimal […]
AI Prompting Basics
I ran a AI prompting basics workshop this past Friday.1 The slides are here and there are way too many examples. It led me to try lots of things. This is roughly what we did in the workshop.2 The images were generated via Copilot with a 1950s comic book prompt I’ve used pretty consistently. Amy […]
The overhead of scarcity
I’m reading a fantasy/sci-fi series called the Broken Earth.1 A theme running through it is the laws/rules that apply during times of environmental upheaval (fifth seasons). Essentially, it’s your basic post-apocalyptic, dystopian Earth with frequent geological turmoil that lead to hard times. As a result, they’ve got a bunch of rules (stone loreLore that’s carved […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-03-24
JavaScript Visualized – Promise Execution Models All The Way Down 3D DOM viewer, copy-paste this into your console to visualise the DOM topographically.A really different way of looking at the DOM h/t D’Arcy Stanford Prison Experiment: why famous psychology studies are now being torn apart – VoxMany of the classic show-stopping experiments in psychology have […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-03-17
Pressure grows to ditch controversial forced swim test in rodent studies of depression | Science | AAAS—Nemo missed a great advertising tie in . . . just keep swimming, just keep swimming For the past few decades, scientists studying candidate antidepressant drugs have had a convenient animal test: how long a rodent dropped in water […]
Add media storage amount to wpms sites view
For one of our multisites, I wanted an easy way to see show people the media storage usage per site. I did a bit of Googling and got a couple functions to get the size of a directory using PHP.1 Then I just appended it to the column I’d already customized to show the posts […]
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 – […]
Sending Reminder Emails
So what I’m doing here is sending an email the day before an event someone registered for via a Gravity Forms process I set up. This is kind of an interesting pattern because it moves back and forth from the Gravity Forms API and uses a mix of Events Calendar functions, in addition to basic […]
List all my WP multisite blogs shortcode
Just a little function with a shortcode to list all your sites in a WP Multisite scenario. It gives you a link to the front end and the dashboard. Simple and easy to tweak. This function uses three WP functions. You can check out the links for more details.<footnote>This is actually kind of a neat […]
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 […]