If you like this content become a member. Members get access to my book notes. Remember Atomic Notes is just one way of doing things Danny talks about why he doesn’t use atomic notes. It’s important to remember that anyone telling you how to do your notes is just sharing an idea … | Continue reading
A Plea for Sober AI Great piece by Drew Breunig: “Imagine having products THIS GOOD and still over-selling them.” | Continue reading
1st Americans came over in 4 different waves from Siberia, linguist argues: The languages of the earliest Americans evolved in 4 waves, according to one expert. By Kristina Killgrove, Live Science (May 3, 2024) Killgrove reports: Indigenous people entered North America at least f … | Continue reading
Towards Westminster, from the Towre, by water, and was fain to stand upon one of the piers about the bridge,1 before the men could drag their boat through the lock, and which they could not do till another was called to help them. Being through... | Continue reading
Alexandre Andorra interviewed me for his Learning Bayesian Statistics podcast. The topic was my new book with Aki, Active Statistics: Stories, Games, Problems, and Hands-on Demonstrations for Applied Regression and Causal Inference. In the podcast, Alexandre and I discussed the … … | Continue reading
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There have been many LLOG posts on misuse of the term "passive voice", going back to 2003. As far as I can tell, the most recent post was "'Is is the passive voice you don't like?'", 8/11/2021. In "'Passive Voice' — 1397-2009 — R.I.P", I wrote that the traditional sense of passiv … | Continue reading
AI counter app from my PyCon US keynote In my keynote at PyCon US this morning I ran a counter at the top of my screen that automatically incremented every time I said the words "AI" or "artificial intelligence", using vosk, pyaudio and Tkinter. I wrote it in a few minutes with t … | Continue reading
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It's been a while since we had a post in the Prescriptivist Poppycock category. This example is more a case of badly-researched etymology, but we'll take what we can get, courtesy of Florent Moncomble, who writes: In the May update of the prescriptive « Dire, ne pas dire » sectio … | Continue reading
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Justin Savoie came across this webpage on “Abacus Data MRP: A Game-Changer for GR, Advocacy, and Advertising”: We should get these people to write our grant proposals! Seriously, we should tap them for funding. They’re using MRP, we’re developing improvements … Continue reading → | Continue reading
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They mostly start out clever, cute, and catchy: e.g., "curated". The problem is that they soon go viral, and then just never go away, even after they have become banal and overused, as with "perfect storm": I'm campaigning to have "perfect storm" added to peeve polls in the futur … | Continue reading
This week, our Free Culture Book Club plays Catburglar. To give this series some sense of organization, check out some basic facts without much in the way of context. Full Title: Catburglar Location: https://johngabrieluk.itch.io/catburglar Released: 2023 License: MIT Creator: Jo … | Continue reading
If you turn your trauma into the most talked-about show on Netflix—are you still a victim? | Continue reading
This is a good overview of how badly forms fail. I’d add that the amount of development and testing time they eat up is quite something. Whereas emails take less than a minute to add to a site, and just work. Mostly. Anyway, when one understands the real purpose of a form all thi … | Continue reading
Sunny morning after the rain. This has to be up there in the list of my favorite weather conditions. Get in touch Have something to share? Want me as your first reader? Get in touch. My inbox is always open. Connect — Guestbook One a month That's how little it takes to help with … | Continue reading
I rewrote it [the Oracle of Bacon] in Rust in January 2023 when I switched over to TMDB as a data source. The new data source was a deep change, and I didn’t want the headache of building it in the original 1990s-era C codebase. — Patrick Reynolds | Continue reading
All the morning at home. At noon Lieutenant Lambert came to me, and he and I to the Exchange, and thence to an ordinary over against it, where to our dinner we had a fellow play well upon the bagpipes and whistle like a bird exceeding well, and I... | Continue reading
Corey Quinn: I’m sorry Slack, you’re doing fucking WHAT with user DMs, messages, files, etc? I’m positive I’m not reading this correctly. [Screenshot of the opt out portion of Slack’s “privacy principles”: Contact us to opt out. If you want to exclude your Customer Data from Slac … | Continue reading
Understand errors and warnings better with Gemini As part of Google's Gemini-in-everything strategy, Chrome DevTools now includes an opt-in feature for passing error messages in the JavaScript console to Gemini for an explanation, via a lightbulb icon. Amusingly, this documentati … | Continue reading
“I was terrified.” The high school educator tells The Free Press she hid in locked classroom to escape anti-Israel protesters. | Continue reading
As discussed previously, on Fridays, I present my weekly social media roundups. Note that toots of articles generally include header images from the articles, which I don’t include here unless their creators happen to have released them for use under a free license, and I notice. … | Continue reading
Over the past week, several threads have been posted on Reddit claiming photos deleted years ago are reappearing in their libraries, and in those of sold and wiped devices. Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: There are a number of reports of similar situations in the thread on Reddit. Some u … | Continue reading
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I dream of having a closet that has a built-in slot for all of my clothes, shoes, and accessories. I long to splurge on a custom build, with cubbies, hooks, and every other bell or whistle I can painstakingly select to ensure the space never becomes a black hole of haphazardly to … | Continue reading
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Commit: Add a shared credentials relationship from twitter.com to x.com A commit to shared-credentials.json in Apple's password-manager-resources repository. Commit message: "Pour one out." Via @rmondello@hachyderm.io | Continue reading
So many of Canada’s commentators are cowards—but Rex Murphy was never afraid to call it as it is. | Continue reading
If you're going to install a farmhouse sink, make sure you're in it for the long haul. READ MORE... | Continue reading
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I have seen the extremely restrictive off-boarding agreement that contains nondisclosure and non-disparagement provisions former OpenAI employees are subject to. It forbids them, for the rest of their lives, from criticizing their former employer. Even acknowledging that the NDA … | Continue reading
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It’s one of the best mojitos you will ever make. READ MORE... | Continue reading
I instinctively mistrust any service that offers to describe an image for you – to automatically generate alt text, for example. Firstly, this implies that describing images – and by extension, making your article understandable to people using AT – is a problem. More fundamental … | Continue reading