Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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The biggest problem with “AI” is probably that it’s used as label for two completely different things: 1. Specialized neural networks trained to do highly specific tasks (e.g. cancer screening) which often work reasonably well as a tool to support human experts. 2. Generative AI which thoroughly produces the most mid bullshit. It doesn’t help that neither are intelligent in any way, they’re both statistical pattern matching. - Thomas
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Golf
Andrew Stephens doesn't approve of golf, but perhaps not for the reason you're thinking of.
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Where Should Visual Programming Go?
Niki has some great thoughts on the future of visual programming. I consider that maybe the IF community are already getting ahead of the curve.
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Write Websites
Enbies and gentlefolk of the class of ‘24: write websites. Sara Joy reinvented Baz Luhrmann reinventing Mary Schmich, adding an IndieWeb slant, and it's brilliant.
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The Eyebrow Painter
Take a guess what kind of pottery the unknown ancient Greek decorator of plates known as "the Eyebrow Painter" made.
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Ranking Every Elevator in the Myst Series
Part of the joy of the collaborative Internet is that people can share their passion. Today's example comes from this YouTuber who's made an hour long video demonstrating and ranking the 35 elevators in the first five games in the Myst series.
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llswater Steamers and the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway have introduced a season ticket for dogs. And it's called the "Rover" ticket. 😘🤌
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A completely plaintext WordPress Theme
Terence Eden took my idea for a completely plain text blog, ran with it, and just kept running. Now it's a WordPress theme!
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Roman object that baffled experts to go on show at Lincoln Museum
An archeological dig in Lincolnshire has unearthed a Roman... thingy. It joins hundreds of other thingies of the same design that we've found over the last three centuries, but we can't conclusively say anything about what these thingies are FOR. That's amazing.
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AI isn't useless. But is it worth it?
The ever-excellent Molly White has wise words to say on the subject of generative AI: specifically - it's actually pretty useful for some tasks, but she's not sure it's worth the cost. This mirrors my thinking so closely I wish I'd written it first!
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you are a printer we are all printers
In an effort to work-around Google Search's obsession with everything having to be "new" to be searchworthy, Nilay Patel of The Verge reiterates his previous article about the joy of Brother printers, and it's excellent.
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A Proper Cup of Tea
This "choose your own adventure"-style game about making the perfect cup of tea is just... excellent. If you lack the imagination to understand how a game like this could have dozens of possible endings, you desperately need to play it.
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Aberystwyth 1984
A promotional video for Aberystwyth University, made in 1984, could almost pass as being 15 years younger than that. Aber never changes, I guess.
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Bumblebees surprise scientists with 'sophisticated' social learning
There are two - maybe three - things I love about the recent discovery that bees exhibit complex social learning behaviours. Allow me to drone on about bees for a while...
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Young Squirrel Talking About Himself
This week, Parry Gripp and Nathan Mazur released Young Squirrel Talking About Himself. I've been singing it all day.