AI 2027Pretty slick display The Chatbot in the Classroom, the Forklift at the Gym | Alfie KohnTo rely on AI to read for you is no more sensible than using it to write for you. This is true not only because, as I’ve pointed out, its summaries are often wildly inaccurate, but because the intrinsic […]
Sports Photography – Middlebury Football Home Game
After shooting mainly soccer for a chunk of time, I’ve had the chance to shoot two of James’s football games. I’m trying to get shots of most of the people and I’m mixing action shots with some shots that are closer to portraiture. Shooting for coverage really slows down editing as I keep far more […]
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Weekly Web Harvest for 2025-09-14
classics | Search Results | Wrong Hands The Return of Misleading but Accurate Descriptions of Popular MoviesGhostbusters (1984): Three failed college professors start a company where they threaten businesses for money, use their position to coerce dates, and destroy the environment. […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2025-09-07
MOSS: A System for Detecting Software SimilarityMoss (for a Measure Of Software Similarity) is an automatic system for determining the similarity of programs. To date, the main application of Moss has been in detecting plagiarism in programming classes. Since its development in 1994, Moss has been very effective in this role. The algorithm behind moss […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2025-08-31
Nothing but the truth: Are the media as bad at communicating science as scientists fear? – PMCIn a previous study, Brechman and his colleagues had also concluded that “errors commonly attributed to science journalists, such as lack of qualifying details and use of oversimplified language, originate in press releases.” Even more worrisome, as Fox told […]
AI Lightroom and Claude Code Experiment
To see how it’d go, I used Claude Code to see if I could make a Lightroom Classic plugin to auto-tag photos with visible jersey numbers using the Google Gemini API. Adobe uses Lua as a scripting language. It did end up working but it took quite a while and, in general, I feel mostly […]
Photos and screenshots tell stories
This slide tackle is the before. After is the compound fracture below. The ER gave us the x-rays on paper and a Windows-only application on a CD.1 After having to buy an Apple USB-C to USB adapter for my Superdrive to deal with typical Apple nonsense.2 Once I could read the CD, I couldn’t find […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2025-08-17
Jules – An Asynchronous Coding Agent […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2025-08-10
Dynamicland FAQWhy do you use these unusual words? Because we’re trying to accomplish something unusual, and normal words are misleading. […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2025-08-03
Anysphere CEO Michael Truell on Cursor and the race to adopt AI coding | The VergeOne is that as Cursor watches you do your work, it tries to predict the next set of things you’re going to do within Cursor. So this is the autocomplete form factor, which can be really souped up in programming […]