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13.07.2025 00:01 — 👍 26 🔁 466 💬 4 📌 1
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Here's a thoughtful essay about what AI is doing to college education. In short, it's taking away from students the process of struggling to learn. That process, where you figure it out and skill up, just doesn't happen to AI-dependent students, and wow will they hit a wall when they're actually […]
07.05.2025 16:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I feel anxious for stepping away from teaching just as AI assistants have swept through the education system. This piece, linked below, is a thoughtful look at what we're giving up, for junior developers who rely on AI rather than having to actually think through the problem and understand the […]
17.02.2025 12:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Here's an amazing dance video, only a minute and a half. It's a Japanese dance troupe, Beat Surf Tendo. The choreography is by the woman in the middle in the yellow pants, Moga Almeri. It's hip hop-ish dancing to James Brown (Funky Good Time) with elements drawn from other dance styles. For […]
25.01.2025 14:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I looked at the news this morning, and there was a story about Panama. Every time this happens, David Lee Roth immediately shouts "way-ooooooh" and I've promptly got Van Halen in my head, rent free. Again.
Happy new year!
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01.01.2025 12:45 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Coffee nerding: decaf edition.
Coffee YouTuber James Hoffman organized a cool thing: he bought several tons of a specific single origin bean and then divided it four ways. Three went to different decaffeination plants, one normal as a control. Then they […]
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29.12.2024 00:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An orange striped cat, stretched out and snoozing on his arms, on a blue striped beach towel, over my legs.
Meanwhile, at Casa Wallach.
25.12.2024 18:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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@adamshostack For a few years, I had a 40" 4K monitor, which was just fantastic for coding and web browsing, but was junk in terms of color accuracy and brightness. Now anything larger than 32" tends to be curved, unless you want to just buy a flat panel TV and pretend it's a monitor.
If you […]
01.12.2024 16:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hey #infosec folks, if you've bridged your account to #Bluesky using BridgyFed (https://fed.brid.gy/) let me know so I can add that bridged account to a starter pack there. 👍
Would be great to highlight the infosec people who are here, over there.
Boost around so I can nab everyone! 🚀
16.11.2024 13:03 — 👍 2 🔁 7 💬 6 📌 0
