Once, my home for trying to find useful things to do with emerging technologies in open education and data journalism. Snarky and sweary to anyone who emails to offer me content for the site.
Every so often I tinker with Claude.ai to refactor code. It typically makes huge claims about how many lines of code it has refactored out, but diffs rarely back that up. So I challenged, and challenged again about the false claims it made on improvements, and whether this was typical and the sort of thing Continue reading "False GenAI Claims"
Last year, I retired , taking the early option to leave via a mutual resignation scheme. The break was pretty much a clean one, except for a visiting position to see out getting JupyterLite and browser executed R code deployed to support a student in a secure environment (one of His Majesty s pleasure facilities). I m not Continue reading "Elsewhere "
I admit to using genAI for coding but I m still reluctant to engage with in pretty much any other context except a bit of OCR (particularly with not-quite-Roman alphabets such as Old and Middle English texts), but eben then with a lot of care (genOCR doesnlt like minority positions, preferring the statistically most likely next Continue reading "If you must "
Noticing that Martin has announced the publication of his first novel — Publication Day! — along with a professionally designed cover, I thlought I might as well mention that I ve also announced on my storytelling persona blog that I ve started putting together workflows for getting my storynotes onto Amazon for distribution as print-on-demand paperbacks or Continue reading "Onto Amazon with some…
Somehow I missed this, I guess in my run up to retirement container is a tool that you can use to create and run Linux containers as lightweight virtual machines on your Mac. It s written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon. A native — and official — Apple CLI tool for running containers https://github.com/apple/container
Things like https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-cognitive-shortcut-paradox/ (AI used by novices may give answers but means they miss out on learning etc.) put me in mind of things like telly talent shows, where folk are transported from nowhere to stardom in an afternoon, rather than spending years putting in the hours, gigging to no-one, and learning craft.
For several years, I ve been creating storynotes , collections of story variants for particualr folk tales, as well as collections of news stories contemprary to particular historical events that I can then use as the basis for developing my own accounts, and then stories, around particular events. Now that I m retired , I m also looking for merch Continue reading "Moving to quarto and LaTeX "
Being now rather tired of WordPress and the requirements for hosting, I thought I d build my personal stroytelling website using Hugo. I ve not looked at Hugo before, but the Hugoplate template made things pretty easy to get going, and with some approriately crafted prompts to the free Claude.ai plan, which seems happy to pull in Continue reading "A new website, built with Hugo"
The things you find clearing out a machine 1 day to go
According to Wikipedia, a consensual summary of human understanding, regarding a particular human memory error condition, [c]onfabulation occurs when individuals mistakenly recall false information, without intending to deceive. Confabulation was originally defined as the emergence of memories of events and experiences which never took place [and is] symptomatic of brain damage or dementias.…