{"id":3170,"date":"2023-03-19T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=3170"},"modified":"2023-07-03T07:57:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T15:57:38","slug":"href-weekly-mar12-17-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=3170","title":{"rendered":"href weekly | Mar12-18 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Many things can be done by tools that write for you, but they won\u2019t help you learn to think or understand a problem with deep fluency. And you need deep fluency to solve hard problems. https:\/\/fs.blog\/why-write\/ <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

#ai<\/a> #LLaMA there are a ton of very real ways in which this technology can be used for harm.
Just a few:
* Generating spam
* Automated romance scams
* Trolling and hate speech
* Fake news and disinformation
* Automated radicalization (I worry about this one a lot)
https:\/\/simonwillison.net\/2023\/Mar\/11\/llama\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Time and Clocks Are Children\u2019s Things and Hold No Sway Over Me in the Realm of the Shadow Fortress” https:\/\/archive.ph\/olYD4<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fatalism becomes the handmaiden of inevitability, and inevitability becomes the justification for acceleration. #ai<\/a> https:\/\/archive.ph\/1vE5F<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

a five-week one-credit “mini-course” on scraping data from the web. The course is intended for researchers in the social sciences and humanities with computational instincts but limited or no prior programming experience. https:\/\/github.com\/CU-ITSS\/Web-Data-Scraping-S2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sound & Music<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A beautiful cover from Elisapie<\/a> youtu.be\/g7BSjmxg9DY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A simple online tool to generate free synthesized kick drum\/bass drum sounds. https:\/\/muted.io\/kick\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is small web, consent driven, artist populated, non-commercial mechanism, attribution promoting, community #radio<\/a> for the #fediverse<\/a> https:\/\/radiofreefedi.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

an upcoming open-source hardware sampler inspired by childhood devices such as the Casio SK-1 https:\/\/chompiclub.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daisy is an embedded platform for music. It features everything you need for creating high fidelity audio hardware devices. Just plug in a USB cable and start making sound! Programming the Daisy is a breeze with support for a number of languages including C++, Arduino, and Max\/MSP Gen~. https:\/\/www.electro-smith.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

St. Patrick’s Day 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creating #gifs<\/a> for the channels between channels .. she used a Goldbeam portable CRT, soldered the tuning potentiometer to the ESP32, and set up 10 different GIFs to act as \u201cchannels\u201d with space in between.\u00a0https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2023\/03\/17\/creating-gifs-for-the-channels-between-channels\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politics & Economics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

“Seeds are the new antiques.” https:\/\/archive.ph\/65Lur<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember that those choices are not inevitable. The decision to make #housing<\/a> the primary driver of intergenerational wealth transfer is both recent and very, very stupid ..” #svb https:\/\/pluralistic.net\/2023\/03\/15\/mon-dieu-les-guillotines\/#ceci-nes-pas-une-bailout<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With our #union we will have a voice in our working conditions and the power to hold #bandcamp<\/a> accountable to the independent artists and labels who use it\u2014most of whom are workers just like us, and for whom #bandcamp<\/a> provides vital income to help sustain their creative projects. https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1PGyTD7qYPeOQ0FwOXtN8ymCvYBiQfMHl\/view?usp=sharing<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bits Many things can be done by tools that write for you, but they won\u2019t help you learn to think or understand a problem with deep fluency. And you need deep fluency to solve hard problems. https:\/\/fs.blog\/why-write\/ #ai #LLaMA there are a ton of very real ways in which this technology can be used for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-links","kind-article","h-entry","hentry"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3177,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions\/3177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}