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href weekly | Oct 6 – Oct 12 2024

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A journalist asked him, “Professor Feynman, can you explain — in just a couple of minutes — what you won the for?” Feynman apparently replied, “Listen, buddy, if I could explain it in a couple of minutes, it wouldn’t be worth the Nobel Prize.” https://archive.ph/iD1Tn

The OER Knowledge Cloud – a curated database and repository to identify, collect, preserve and disseminate documents related to open educational resources. There are currently 2807 published records by 4731 authors from 990 sources https://www.oerknowledgecloud.org/

a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written generated content on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup

Sound & Music

… join the car crash set … https://wfmu.org/archiveplayer/?show=144850&archive=259860&starttime=2:39:36

Attended a wicked show with my daughter in this weekend https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6514062

Inspired by Sinclair Lewis’ dystopian novel, It Can’t Happen Here, Dresser offers a glimpse of what could happen after the 2024 election if fascism creeps into the USA. Told through the voices of a fragmenting American family, It Happened Here 2024 describes a country that still has Netflix and free two-day delivery, where the only thing lost is freedom. https://www.ithappenedhere2024.com/2402472/about

Politics & Economics

“Students in the survey also questioned the seamlessness of the systems. Clinton-Lisell said many students feel that because publishers are the ones creating the exercises, professors end up not being knowledgeable about the problems their students are working on or they are unable to help troubleshoot technical issues that might come up.” https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/64833/why-are-students-paying-fees-to-access-homework-assignments

1. Physics cannot be wished away.
2. invites a game of weighted choices.
3. wields the energy of atomic bombs.
5. Our slowness to adapt incurs tremendous future costs.
4. Extreme storms kill slowly.
6. Every event reveals another fragility.
7. The crisis grows exponentially.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/10/07/Future-Named-Helene/

href weekly | Aug 25 – Aug 31 2024

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If you were suspected of a crime, would you trust a chatbot to accurately explain what happened? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/chatbots-offer-cops-the-ultimate-out-to-spin-police-reports-expert-says/

“interactive HTML apps, Markdown, HTML, SVG, Mermaid diagrams and React Components.” https://www.anthropic.com/news/artifacts

“Reading widely about things that don’t seem immediately or practically useful, in the hope that what you learn now may prove meaningful later—that’s pretty much the definition of a liberal-arts education.” https://archive.ph/owJ8Z

We’re a cross between a band, a hackathon team, and an ephemeral research lab. We’re musicians seduced by math. We do the science, we engineer the software, we make the music. All in one project. Don’t need nobody else. Except we do, because we’re standing on the shoulders of giants, and because the whole point is to collaborate with more artists. https://www.dadabots.com

AI as Algorithmic Thatcherism https://danmcquillan.org/ai_thatcherism.html

Sound & Music

Great Techtronic conversation with Jon Leidecker on https://wfmu.org/archiveplayer/?show=142638&archive=256757