Alfred Thompson

A Review of Grokipedia, Using Myself as Test Subject What? You didn’t know that Grokipedia exists? Well, it does, and it’s Elon Musk’s attempt to run Wikipedia out of town on a rail: An “AI”-generated compendium of infor…

A Review of Grokipedia, Using Myself as Test Subject whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/30/a... by @scalzi.com

Physical Computing Exam - Fall 2025 Physical Computing Exam Fall '25 with Prof. John Gallaugher Each slide is a different question. Advance the slide and the video should play, demonstrating the final product. 8 builds in CircuitPython ...

Here's a link to today's CircuitPython exam: docs.google.com/presentation... Students had to complete 8 builds in 2.5 hrs. Themes: "Magic-8 Ball Yoda", "Diwali Musical Chairs", An anti-cat distance-activated Turkey, & "Yip Yip Yip" martians from Sesame Street.

A tweet from John Fugelsang reads in all caps: "NO FOOD FOR YOU UNTIL THE DEMOCRATS LET US TAKE AWAY YOUR HEALTHCARE" – US House Speaker Mike Johnson.

This perfectly encapsulates what the GOP position is on the shutdown.

Accessibility in CS Education at CSTA 2025. Written by Richard Ladner & Elissa Hozore.

At this year's annual conference, multiple sessions offered ideas and support for teachers to include all students in CS classrooms. Read about them on The Voice: buff.ly/ESncTNX #CSAccess #Accessibility #CSEd

I'm going to go with over. Seems like the safe bet.

Any chance you can write this thread in a blog post that I can share and riff off of in my own blog? It's seriously thought provoking.

#CSed question - can students learn critiquing programs as a skill without being able to write programs on their own? Asking since LLMs can synthesize programs but do so too eagerly and will need spec clarification to iterate.

For the record, I have all my life been pronouncing "gyre" with a g-sound and not a j-sound, and I understand that the j-sound version is recognized as the "correct" version, WHICH IS WRONG, also it's "gif" with a "g," anyone who says otherwise is a plant for Big J

Now with the actual link to the blog post www.robmiles.com/journal/2025... #CSed 3d printing

Super Secret Encoder by @robmiles.com I need to play with this #CSed

As other people have noted, if you have local food banks, now would be an excellent time to donate cash to them, if you have the cash to spare. We will be upping our donations to food banks and hunger-related charities here in Ohio.

Thoughts on user interfaces and artificial intelligence inspired by interactions with a microwave. #CSED #AI blog.acthompson.net/2025/10/user...

Proposition: You become a writer the moment you write, a musician the moment you make music, a painter the moment you paint, etc. You become an artist the moment you find your own voice as a writer/musician/painter/etc.

Yes? No?

Part of make America healthy again? :-)

In related news... happy @csteachersorg.bsky.social and @nctml.bsky.social and @oamelearns.bsky.social proposal season, friends. ✨

May the odds be ever in your favor. 🙏

Not sure I want to know why you know what ass tastes like.

So… we have a President who just arrests and jails his political opponents…

There’s a word for that.

No Trump voter ever gets to say they believe in democracy and freedom ever again.

We don’t believe what you say because we see what you do.

I think you're right

Never seems harsh

Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals. Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

Trump claims ICE’s reign of terror in Chicago is targeting the “worst of the worst.”

But out of the 1,000 undocumented immigrants that have swept up, the agency has only cited 10 men with a criminal background.

Don’t believe his lies for a second.
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I do have everything on the cloud but I regularly back that up because I don't trust anyone with caring about my data. Two external drives each in a fire safe 100 miles apart. Every couple of months,

I don't understand why people are upset about the Super Bowl halftime show this year. Though to be honest, I don't really understand why people care about the Super Bowl halftime show any year.

Tonight was "backup the PC to an external drive and put it if a fire safe" night. When is the last time your backed up your computer?

What? No pizza nearby?

Blog: In Praise of Slowness How using a slow computer can help us to refine our programming skills.

AI and programming is a bit hit-and-miss. I haven't tried Copilot, but when I was writing this blog, neither Gemini nor ChatGPT could produce a BBC BASIC sorting program that would even run. It demonstrates that it's copying its homework rather than "thinking".
www.advanced-ict.info/blog/slownes...

I used to use minesweeper

Algorithms: Flood Fill See how flood fill can be implemented with a simple recursive procedure.

I think the key to understanding recursion is finding an intelligible example - I used to use factorials, palindromes, drawing trees (in Scratch) and prime factors, but my new favourite is flood fill: #TeamCompSci
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Trump: "I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One."
Also Trump: Refuses to stop health insurance premiums from bankrupting the middle class
 
Democrats just want Trump to keep his promises.

They were pretty cool in the day.