I’ve been meaning to get all the stuff that used to be automated to Twitter to work with Mastodon. I took about 15 minutes1 after reading a Mastodon-related post from Alan to mess around and see what I could figure out. Now I’ve got 15 minutes to write it down. Consider that half an hour […]
Making a bunch of dropdowns from Google Sheets data
For some ongoing work with the AI Persona bot, I needed to create a drop down that would let you choose a country and get the cultural dimension scores. Turns out there were 120 something countries, each with six possible scores. Luckily, they were given to me in a Google Spreadsheet. Make the data In […]
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Request this workshop
I’m working on a DLINQ website and I’m recycling1 ideas I liked from the old ALT Lab website days.2 This one is about having a list of workshops that we normally offer and making it easy for people to request them. My goal is to try to meet people’s needs for workshops and make what […]
Google Sheets permissions issue and my beliefs about technology and institutional improvement
I was contacted by one of Middlebury’s schools abroad regarding a Google Sheets issue. It’s a pattern you’ve seen before. The main system didn’t support their edge-case needs.1 A person, who has recently moved to a new job elsewhere, set up some Google Sheets to accomplish the task. Now that this person was gone, no […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-02-04
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
![Completion for the statement "Tall people smell like" are adventures, fragrant pine trees on a crisp morning, and regular people because height does not affect body odor.](https://bionicteaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-05-at-14.40.01.png)
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
![An AI-generated image of a robot shouting lies and throwing confetti.](https://bionicteaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/robo-lies-confetti.jpeg)
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 […]