Shit’s getting real in more than one language
Back in March, I wrote a short piece analyzing the COVID-driven toilet paper hoarding phenomenon from an anthropological perspective. Since then, it’s become my most visited post, and…
Back in March, I wrote a short piece analyzing the COVID-driven toilet paper hoarding phenomenon from an anthropological perspective. Since then, it’s become my most visited post, and…
A lot of interesting things coming from GPT-3. Arram Sabeti (via waxy.org) asked GPT-3 to write about human intelligence. The whole piece is worth a read. First, consider…
Liam Porr (via waxy.org): Over the last two weeks, I’ve been promoting a blog written by GPT-3. I would write the title and introduction, add a photo, and…
There’s an old saying, probably from a management textbook somewhere, that I see pop up on the software developer side of the internet from time to time. Everyone…
Sandie Friedman at Inside Higher-Ed on Asao Inoue’s “Labor-Based Grading System”: Any rubric that evaluates students’ language according to a single standard — which is invariably a white,…
Covid-19 -> Skynet 2021. Their new approach is to use AI itself to speed up the process of chip design. And the results are impressive. Their machine learning…
The Process of Design Squiggle by Damien Newman, thedesignsquiggle.com It seems to be well known among designers, but I only recently learned about the “Design Squiggle” a few day…
My attempts with Facerig have been fun, but I’ve learned of a tool that lets you use the technology behind deepfake videos to turn faces of famous people…
(via Stuff, a respected New Zealand news site, despite its name.) Teddy bears are popping up in windows around New Zealand homes as people come up with fun…
(For the past year or two, I’ve been contemplating writing a “missing manual” for university that explains the tacit skills and knowledge for getting by in university that…
If we’re all going to be locked down and locked into Zoom, then we might as well have a little fun with it. Inspired by a posting in…
In general, Zoom’s problems fall into three broad buckets: (1) bad privacy practices, (2) bad security practices, and (3) bad user configurations. Link (via Daring Fireball.)