My Comments Are in the Google Doc Linked in the Dropbox I Sent in the Slack – McSweeney’s Internet TendencyMY COMMENTS ARE IN THE GOOGLE DOC LINKED IN THE DROPBOX I SENT IN THE SLACK mixtape gardenMake a new mixtape You and other users add seven YouTube videos to the mixtape Once it’s full, your […]
WordPress and ACF as an HTML generator for Canvas Catalog
I’ve written before about trying to figure out some decent ways to customize Canvas Catalog. It’s not a straightforward path. I put together a mix of HTML and CSS on top of the basic bootstrap stuff that Catalog comes with. Unfortunately, that meant I was a choke point in creating new course listings. While we’re […]
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It’s a small, open world
. . . at least some of the time. At a recent basketball game for one of my children, a fellow parent whom I have spoken to a number of times over the years said “Hey, I saw one of your pictures in a presentation I was watching yesterday.”1 He described one of the images […]
ChatGPT Bias Exploration Tool
As part of this week’s AI Digital Detox, I built a little tool to help explore some of the possible bias in ChatGPT 3.5 Turbo responses. You put a sentence stem in on the right and it’ll populate a table on the right with 3 possible responses. The interaction is modeled after what Dawn Lu […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-01-28
[2012.15761] Learning from the Worst: Dynamically Generated Datasets to Improve Online Hate DetectionWe present a human-and-model-in-the-loop process for dynamically generating datasets and training better performing and more robust hate detection models. We provide a new dataset of ~40,000 entries, generated and labelled by trained annotators over four rounds of dynamic data creation. It includes ~15,000 […]
CSS bar graph for Gravity Forms submissions
For the Detox, I’ve got a form where people will rate their confidence in a few things on a scale of 1 to 10. I thought it’d be nice to have the data presented in text and visually. That makes the resulting post a bit more polished and scannable. Step one was to work out […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-01-21
Excavating AIThe contrast between Magritte and the physiognomists’ approach to representation speaks to two very different conceptions of the fundamental relationship between images and their labels, and of representation itself. For the physiognomists, there was an underlying faith that the relationship between an image of a person and the character of that person was inscribed […]
AI Wanderings
As I worked with Amy on this week’s AI article (It’s not live, it’s Memorex AI) that kind of addresses more sophisticated media generation and the weird world of whether people are people online . . . I got way too much stuff and examples that were probably too odd for the current audience. And […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-01-14
Brains Are Not Required When It Comes to Thinking and Solving Problems–Simple Cells Can Do It | Scientific AmericanAnd for the philosophically minded, basal cognition casts the world in a sparkling new light. Maybe thinking builds from a simple start. Maybe it is happening all around us, every day, in forms we haven’t recognized because […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-01-11
OpenVoice – a Hugging Face Space by myshell-ai Antoine Joseph Wiertz on photography“Let it not be thought that the daguerreotype kills art. No, it only kills the work of patience and pays homage to the work of thought.” [2305.17493v2] The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget We find that use of […]