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Talking about it isn’t good enough / But quoting from it at least demonstrates / The virtue of an art that knows its mind. // Seamus Heaney : Squarings

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I’ve read a few AI things recently. I can’t say I’ve got my head round it. A few bookmarks:

Donald Clark Plan B: GPT-3 is like looking into the future What a time to be living.

I couldn’t tell the difference between Wallace Stephens and a bot. Interestingly my wife could, she pointed out that reading out loud made the human poet easier to pick.

Not just words: Let’s talk about that GPT-3 AI tweet that shook designers to the core

Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) is an autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text.

GPT-3 – Wikipedia

You can have fun with the previous GPT-2:
Write With Transformer

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The Small Web is for people (not startups, enterprises, or governments). It is also made by people and small, independent organisations (not startups, enterprises, or governments2).

I got site.js up and running on my raspberry pi for a while. Pretty straightforward (I managed the certs stuff eventually).

The idea of The Small Web is the sort of thing I’ve been interested in since I started blogging. I’d love Glow to do something like this for educators (Glow Blogs is part way there, government hosting for some (educators) of its citizens).

Hope to dig into this some more. All the ideas are just lovely!

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Bookmarked Monday 24 August, 2020 by John NaughtonJohn Naughton (Memex 1.1)
Quote of the Day The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.” B. F. Skinner Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Claudio Abaddo conducting the Berlin Phil. And I mean conducting. Link “Years of photos” permanently wiped from iPhones, iPads by bad Lightroom app update

I am pretty much addicted to @jjn1’s daily, this one is particularly interesting.

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Bookmarked SAFE Acoustics - Rainforest Audio (acoustics.safeproject.net)
The SAFE Project has been placing recording devices throughout the rainforest in Borneo. That audio is now available to listen to here.
screenshot of safe project

SAFE Acoustics – Rainforest Audio a beautiful project. Raspberry Pis, across different environment in the Borneo rainforest record audio. There is a how to at: Ecosystem monitoring, made easy.
Via Raspberry Pi listening posts ‘hear’ the Borneo rainforest – Raspberry Pi

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Bookmarked Mona Chalabi: what if everyone had an air-mile allowance? – cartoon by Mona Chalabi (theguardian.com)
We could cut global CO2 emissions, and non-travellers could sell theirs to frequent flyers, argues the data journalist

This is brilliant, I’d vote for it in a second:
Mona Chalabi: what if everyone had an air-mile allowance? – cartoon

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Liked https://twitter.com/wordpressdotcom/status/1291360306459889666?s=20 by wordpressdotcom (twitter.com)
Today we’re announcing an all-new P2 beta as a standalone product, powered by http://WordPress.com. We’re excited to have you try it out: https://wordpress.com/blog/2020/08/06/improve-your-remote-collaboration-with-p2/

We had the p2 theme in Glow Blogs and I though it had a lot of potential. I wonder if running your own p2 will be on the cards? I’d love to see it back in Glow.

We removed the p2 theme from Glow a while back and it hasn’t been updated for a few years now.

Update, this thread: Tom J Nowell on Twitter: “Interestingly enough this is in their public theme svn folder as P2020, which reveals why they aren’t letting you install it locally” / Twitter and this tomjn/p2020: A self hosted fork of P2 2020

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Liked A tweet by Celeste (twitter.com)
Here's my #AnimateYourWorld exploration using the #VideoSensing blocks in @scratch. I wanted to bring my books to life! The blue square recognizes what book I'm reading (based on color of the cover) and populates my screen with some interactive characters. #ComputationalTinkering

This is amazing.

Interactive Storybook Animations Using Video Sensing on Scratch

I made a quick test:

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