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Category Archives: Micro
After a gap of over a year, we resumed our IndieWeb podcast and got together to discuss what has been going on, how we have been building the community during the pandemic, and about our topic of micro.blog. There is also a video attached this time.
Enjoyed listening to this. Getting a take on micro.blog from the IndieWeb point of view was interesting. As usual listening makes me think I should dig into the IndieWeb a bit more and get this blog working the way I want.
The first time I’ve been in Victoria Park for a while. The pair of dabchicks we visited daily through lockdown and the summer are now on their second set of chicks.
After reading the great article in the Observer Michael Sandel: ‘The populist backlash has been a revolt against the tyranny of merit’ I subscribed to the podcast.
The best thing about the podcast is how Michael Sandel, summarises and pushed the arguments on without any delay.
I am enjoying listing to podcasts again now I am commuting once more.
Chilli pepper is firmly established as the most widely used spice around the world, and nowhere more so than in China. And yet, chillies were unknown in China before about 1570.
Another really interesting listen from @jeremycherfas I alway am amazed at how a food stuff becomes embedded in a culture.
Wallace Stephens or Bot
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.
You can have fun with the previous GPT-2:
Write With Transformer
@livedtime #tds1886 a lovely film. The problem of trying to be still made visible.
The SAFE Project has been placing recording devices throughout the rainforest in Borneo. That audio is now available to listen to here.

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

Micro.blog August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge
#mbaug Day 24 frosty
I had to look back to last December to find some frost.


