Tuesday, 6 June 2023
quote [ The Underground [?]. Once you?re all in there, drinking beers, everyone gathers up the stuff you?re going to do sketchy shit with and you head out into the woods and do sketchy shit.
The Aboveground wants to do all the woods stuff, except you meet at Starbucks and post it on multiple forums and tweet about it using some stupid codeword and also you want a sign at Starbucks telling people the Sketchy Shit Club meets around 6pm every Friday. ] Bit aimless but interesting thoughts on tech responsibility.
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Friday, 26 May 2023
quote [ Although computer vision products and A.I. chatbots like ChatGPT are different, both depend on underlying reams of data that train the software, and both can misfire because of flaws in the data or biases incorporated into their code. ]
Some baked-in bias. Full in extended.
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Tuesday, 23 May 2023
quote [ Make Gandalf reveal the secret password for each level. Can you beat level 7? ]
Cute little exercise. Can you outsmart the smarypants computer?
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Thursday, 18 May 2023
quote [ WhatRuns shows you pretty much everything that powers a website. Web apps they pay for, CDN they?re hosted on, how they track their visitors, Wordpress plugins, fonts ? you name it! ]
Chrome/Firefox extension that could be useful to someone
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Tuesday, 16 May 2023
quote [ NASA is holding a public meeting at 10:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday, May 31, of its independent study team on categorizing and evaluating data of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). The agency also will host a media teleconference at the conclusion of the meeting. The full meeting will air on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency?s website through 2:30 p.m. ]
Link to the 24 hour NASA stream is
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#public (Wow, Composer Nate's SE HTML page still works and is still useful. Thanks again, Nate!)
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Friday, 12 May 2023
quote [ Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works. ]
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Saturday, 6 May 2023
quote [ a catalogue of non-subscription, free, open-source, and one-time fee software ]
nice way of looking up and comparing software alternatives
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Friday, 5 May 2023
quote [ The most widely-used image in academic history is no longer accepted in journals. So what happened? ]
Fascinating bit of Computer Science history in video form.
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quote [ Ultimately, it was barely possible to identify a ?beautiful? scrotum; we must instead speak of the least ugly. ]
It's not easy to pick the least ugly of the three
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quote [ In advocating for open hardware, Arancio encourages researchers to consider openly licensing their hardware designs even if they are prototypes, as they can help others in similar situations. ]
Shedding some light on how access to science hardware controls research possibilities.
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