Injunction ruling provides new look at Operation Midway Blitz, from tear gas to agent using ChatGPT to help write reportThe judge also revealed for the first time that one body-worn camera video captured an immigration agent using the AI tool ChatGPT to “compile a narrative for a report based off of a brief sentence about […]
ESRI Scraping
ESRI is sunsetting the Classic StoryMaps. Apparently that was announced in 2019 so they’ve been pretty generous. They provided a link to the content that is going to be retired. I couldn’t figure a decent way to export that content and copy/pasting was a mess.1 It is HTML though and that means I can take […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2025-11-02
Building a standalone bookmarks web application – D’Arcy Norman, PhDThe process of vibecoding (gag) this thing went pretty well. To be transparent, it was definitely not a one-shot vibecoding thing. It took 46 sessions spread over 3 weeks – 237 “turns” of going back-and-forth to get the application to this point. It’s like working with […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2025-10-26
Sickofancy – Wikipedia Randy suggests talking to someone about their marriage, but instead of a counselor, he consults ChatGPT, much to Sharon’s ire, pointing out that the sycophantic artificial intelligence (AI) software indiscriminately praises all his ideas. Randy and his sole remaining employee, Towelie, rebrand Tegridy Farms as a hybrid technology/marijuana company named Techridy. To […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2025-10-19
Why these Wyndham residents oppose proposed 400-acre data center campus“We like data, we like AI. We just don’t want it here. Again, not because it’s breaking up our scenic view or scenery, it’s just really, really bad,” Brodziak said. An Open Letter to Perplexity AI: – by Marc Watkins […]
Script to Target-Language Audio in Google AI Studio
I had a faculty request for a way to generate target-language audio from a provided script. In this case the language was Russian. I tried it Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude as a normal prompt but all of them failed pretty badly. Listen to Claude’s attempt here. ChatGPT gave up on it. Gemini got completely confused […]
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OpenStax to NotebookLM Workflow
Google put out several OpenStax textbooks in NotebookLM format. One of our faculty was interested in how that’d work in physics but that was not one of the options currently available. Looking at what was happening, it just looked like they chopped up the PDF into chapters and pre-generated some of the NotebookLM studio options. […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2025-10-12
An Open Letter to Perplexity AI: – by Marc Watkins New Yorkers Are Defacing This AI Startup’s Million-Dollar Ad Campaign“I know people in New York hate AI, and things like AI companionship and wearables, probably more than anywhere else in the country,” he told Adweek. “So I bought more ads than anyone has ever done […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2025-10-05
ergs0204/LatexInNotebooklm: A tempermonkey for rendering latex in NotebooklmA Tampermonkey userscript that adds LaTeX rendering capability to Google’s Notebooklm using KaTeX. This allows you to write mathematical formulas with standard LaTeX syntax using $formula$ delimiters. Jacob Andreas @ MITI’m interested in language as a communicative and computational tool. People learn to understand and generate novel utterances […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2025-09-28
openai/whisper: Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak SupervisionWhisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model. It is trained on a large dataset of diverse audio and is also a multitasking model that can perform multilingual speech recognition, speech translation, and language identification. librechatLibreChat is the ultimate open-source app for all your AI conversations, fully customizable and […]