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computers started local-first and will go back to local-first
January 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
computers started local-first and will go back to local-first
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Stanford scholars share their reflections from the classroom as they tackle the limitations of current educational technologies. Here, they outline how to empower both teachers and learners through collaborative innovation. hai.stanford.edu/news/languag...
Language Models in the Classroom: Bridging the Gap Between Technology and Teaching | Stanford HAI
Instructors and students from Stanford class CS293/EDUC473 address the failures of current educational technologies and outline how to empower both teachers and learners through collaborative innovati...
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April 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Stanford scholars share their reflections from the classroom as they tackle the limitations of current educational technologies. Here, they outline how to empower both teachers and learners through collaborative innovation. hai.stanford.edu/news/languag...
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📢Introducing #AIIndex2025: This year's report highlights the most critical trends in AI – from shifting geopolitical landscape and rapid technological evolution, to AI’s expanding role in science and medicine, business, and public life. Read more: hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/202...
The 2025 AI Index Report | Stanford HAI
hai.stanford.edu
April 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
📢Introducing #AIIndex2025: This year's report highlights the most critical trends in AI – from shifting geopolitical landscape and rapid technological evolution, to AI’s expanding role in science and medicine, business, and public life. Read more: hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/202...
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Wrote up my notes on ModernBERT, the brand new modern alternative to 2018-era BERT released by @benjaminwarner.dev and @howard.fm and team simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/24/...
Finally, a Replacement for BERT: Introducing ModernBERT
[BERT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BERT_(language_model)) was an early language model released by Google in October 2018. Unlike modern LLMs it wasn't designed for generating text. BERT was trained ...
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December 24, 2024 at 6:22 AM
Wrote up my notes on ModernBERT, the brand new modern alternative to 2018-era BERT released by @benjaminwarner.dev and @howard.fm and team simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/24/...
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Seems likely that at some point AI will make it much easier to hack critical infrastructure, create bioweapons, etc etc. Many argue that if so, a hardcore nonproliferation strategy is our only option.
Rising Tide launch week post 3/3 is on why I disagree 🧵
helentoner.substack.com/p/nonprolife...
Rising Tide launch week post 3/3 is on why I disagree 🧵
helentoner.substack.com/p/nonprolife...
April 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Seems likely that at some point AI will make it much easier to hack critical infrastructure, create bioweapons, etc etc. Many argue that if so, a hardcore nonproliferation strategy is our only option.
Rising Tide launch week post 3/3 is on why I disagree 🧵
helentoner.substack.com/p/nonprolife...
Rising Tide launch week post 3/3 is on why I disagree 🧵
helentoner.substack.com/p/nonprolife...
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"DOGE Moves From Secure, Reliable Tape Archives to Hackable Digital Records
♦️...magnetic tapes are regarded by storage & archivist professionals as being a stable, reliable & safe medium for long-term data storage..."
www.404media.co/doge-gsa-mag...
♦️...magnetic tapes are regarded by storage & archivist professionals as being a stable, reliable & safe medium for long-term data storage..."
www.404media.co/doge-gsa-mag...
Another Masterful Gambit: DOGE Moves From Secure, Reliable Tape Archives to Hackable Digital Records
DOGE claimed it saved "$1M per year" by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes to digital storage.
www.404media.co
April 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
"DOGE Moves From Secure, Reliable Tape Archives to Hackable Digital Records
♦️...magnetic tapes are regarded by storage & archivist professionals as being a stable, reliable & safe medium for long-term data storage..."
www.404media.co/doge-gsa-mag...
♦️...magnetic tapes are regarded by storage & archivist professionals as being a stable, reliable & safe medium for long-term data storage..."
www.404media.co/doge-gsa-mag...
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Struggling with Python `re`? regex is a superset of re with additional functionality and more thorough Unicode support. It is very powerful and still kind of an open secret. When I saw
@howard.fm explain this I just had to write about it!
Today I Learned:
carlo.ai/til/regex-se...
@howard.fm explain this I just had to write about it!
Today I Learned:
carlo.ai/til/regex-se...
regex.search - Carlo Lepelaars
Using regex.search for simple string parsing. `regex` is a superset of `re` with additional functionality and more thorough Unicode support.
carlo.ai
March 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Struggling with Python `re`? regex is a superset of re with additional functionality and more thorough Unicode support. It is very powerful and still kind of an open secret. When I saw
@howard.fm explain this I just had to write about it!
Today I Learned:
carlo.ai/til/regex-se...
@howard.fm explain this I just had to write about it!
Today I Learned:
carlo.ai/til/regex-se...
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General consensus in the replies and quotes of this seems to be that the entire concept of "AI skills" is a joke - how hard is typing text into a chatbot, really?
I will continue to argue that it's genuinely difficult, and that the challenge in using these tools is widely underestimated
I will continue to argue that it's genuinely difficult, and that the challenge in using these tools is widely underestimated
No, they're not caught between anything. Stop it. The fact that AI may be used or useful in future jobs does not create a single dilemma at all for college students in how to actually complete their coursework. This is all nonsense & excuses for not doing the reading & learning how to think & write.
College students caught between professors' AI bans and employers' growing demand for AI skills
Research shows 75% of workers now use artificial intelligence on the job, yet many universities still classify its use as cheating.
www.phillyvoice.com
December 26, 2024 at 5:15 PM
General consensus in the replies and quotes of this seems to be that the entire concept of "AI skills" is a joke - how hard is typing text into a chatbot, really?
I will continue to argue that it's genuinely difficult, and that the challenge in using these tools is widely underestimated
I will continue to argue that it's genuinely difficult, and that the challenge in using these tools is widely underestimated
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teachers are in a difficult position. it's good to warn your students that chatgpt is not a search engine. but it undermines your authority if you keep doing it after chatgpt becomes a search engine (it did today). reminds me of when teachers would warn about wikipedia
December 16, 2024 at 10:30 PM
teachers are in a difficult position. it's good to warn your students that chatgpt is not a search engine. but it undermines your authority if you keep doing it after chatgpt becomes a search engine (it did today). reminds me of when teachers would warn about wikipedia
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Anthropic released an interesting thing today: an attempt at a standard protocol for LLM tools to talk to services that provide tools and extra context to be used other the models https://modelcontextprotocol.io
November 25, 2024 at 7:21 PM
Anthropic released an interesting thing today: an attempt at a standard protocol for LLM tools to talk to services that provide tools and extra context to be used other the models https://modelcontextprotocol.io
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Built my first experiment on top of Bluesky's API (actually the Jetstream WebSocket proxy) - it took ~15s of prompting in Claude to get this working: https://tools.simonwillison.net/bluesky-firehose
More details including the prompt transcript here […]
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More details including the prompt transcript here […]
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November 20, 2024 at 4:17 AM
Built my first experiment on top of Bluesky's API (actually the Jetstream WebSocket proxy) - it took ~15s of prompting in Claude to get this working: https://tools.simonwillison.net/bluesky-firehose
More details including the prompt transcript here […]
[Original post on fedi.simonwillison.net]
More details including the prompt transcript here […]
[Original post on fedi.simonwillison.net]
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The thingie that brings over your twitter followers worked jolly well for me. Very cool! I am following another 500 people now thanks to that…
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...
Sky Follower Bridge - Chrome Web Store
Instantly find and follow the same users from your Twitter follows on Bluesky.
chromewebstore.google.com
November 19, 2024 at 10:28 AM
The thingie that brings over your twitter followers worked jolly well for me. Very cool! I am following another 500 people now thanks to that…
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...
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Support the LEGO Ideas project to recreate UC San Diego's iconic Geisel Library @ucsandiego.bsky.social! Vote here: ideas.lego.com/s/p:51970910... #EduSky #AcademicSky #LibrarySky #DrSeuss
Geisel Library, UCSD
== Overview ==Geisel Library, designed by William Pereira, is the main library building of the University of California, San Diego. It is named in ...
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November 19, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Support the LEGO Ideas project to recreate UC San Diego's iconic Geisel Library @ucsandiego.bsky.social! Vote here: ideas.lego.com/s/p:51970910... #EduSky #AcademicSky #LibrarySky #DrSeuss
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I added multi-modal (image, audio, video) support to my LLM command-line tool and Python library, so now you can use it to run all sorts of content through LLMs such as GPT-4o, Claude and Google Gemini
Cost to transcribe 7m of audio with Gemini 1.5 […]
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Cost to transcribe 7m of audio with Gemini 1.5 […]
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![But let’s do something a bit more interesting. I shared a 7m40s MP3 of a NotebookLM podcast a few weeks ago. Let’s use Flash-8B—the cheapest Gemini model—to try and obtain a transcript.
llm 'transcript' \
-a https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2024/video-scraping-pelicans.mp3 \
-m gemini-1.5-flash-8b-latest
It worked!
Hey everyone, welcome back. You ever find yourself wading through mountains of data, trying to pluck out the juicy bits? It’s like hunting for a single shrimp in a whole kelp forest, am I right? Oh, tell me about it. I swear, sometimes I feel like I’m gonna go cross-eyed from staring at spreadsheets all day. [...]
Once again, llm logs -c --json will show us the tokens used. Here it’s 14754 prompt tokens and 1865 completion tokens. The pricing calculator says that adds up to... 0.0833 cents. Less than a tenth of a cent to transcribe a 7m40s audio clip.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mro7axagquvjt63foaqzddjx/bafkreic3mmai7l7x4ren7ererhjeufokwnc3q3eaejqaogx3ya7b5s6frq@jpeg)
October 29, 2024 at 3:11 PM
I added multi-modal (image, audio, video) support to my LLM command-line tool and Python library, so now you can use it to run all sorts of content through LLMs such as GPT-4o, Claude and Google Gemini
Cost to transcribe 7m of audio with Gemini 1.5 […]
[Original post on fedi.simonwillison.net]
Cost to transcribe 7m of audio with Gemini 1.5 […]
[Original post on fedi.simonwillison.net]
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#AcademicSky this is a great tip
If you find an out of copyright book on Google Books, that they have a scan of but aren't making fully available, use this form to ask them to release it:
support.google.com/websearch/an...
It's simple, gets results, and enriches the #PublicDomain
support.google.com/websearch/an...
It's simple, gets results, and enriches the #PublicDomain
June 21, 2024 at 8:53 AM
#AcademicSky this is a great tip
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Announced today, out in July -- super proud of our new Scholarly Journals Market Trends 2024, basically decades of experience and industry knowledge distilled into one package. All you need to know about how we got here and where we're going www.ce-strategy.com/reports/scho...
Scholarly Journals Market Trends 2024 | Clarke & Esposito
www.ce-strategy.com
May 30, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Announced today, out in July -- super proud of our new Scholarly Journals Market Trends 2024, basically decades of experience and industry knowledge distilled into one package. All you need to know about how we got here and where we're going www.ce-strategy.com/reports/scho...
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Code-breaker Sonja Sinclair kept her wartime work a secret for nearly 75 years: During her long life, Morawetz became a successful writer, raised a family and played a role in the defection of Soviet ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov
Code-breaker Sonja Sinclair kept her wartime work a secret for nearly 75 years
During her long life, Morawetz became a successful writer, raised a family and played a role in the defection of Soviet ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov
www.theglobeandmail.com
June 5, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Code-breaker Sonja Sinclair kept her wartime work a secret for nearly 75 years: During her long life, Morawetz became a successful writer, raised a family and played a role in the defection of Soviet ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov