I was asked by a colleague to answer a question no one can really answer without extreme powers of omniscience. They wanted as much as I could share about the breadth of H5P use across Canada. In a week! Likely it was because of my involvement with the BCcampus H5P Kitchen project one of the […]
I am more than comfortablly qssured that no generative AI can really hallucinate my writing. See those trademarked typos? Me. See a quirky nonsensical title? Me. I digress, as usual. Here is a typical small tale of unexpected adventure of one thing leading to another, like a neural path, but none one that can be […]
Quote/unquote hallucinations, questionable use of copyrighted materials in training, exploitations of labor, environmental impact, complete lack of transparency, we should recognize the litany of problems with the 2023 AI Hype machinery. The natural desire is, what if I can have an AI that is deriving it’s responses from purely MY stuff or from a specific […]
A reminder today from my Google Family Calendar, a descendent of my Mom’s paper habit of tracking events, read Dorothy b (1931). That means today her youngest sister aka Aunt Dorothy, turns 92 today. She is the last remaining sibling from the five kids my mom’s parents raised in the 1920s and 1930s, a Baltimore […]
It’s the little things, at least for me. With some luck and guesses sometimes I can fix technologies I do not understand the workings of. This is purely a followup for maybe one of my favorite web browser tools that I guess I might be the sole user of, the Library of Congress Free to […]
My new blog post category might be “Enough Of the Web Nostalgia” where this one can be filed. Trust me, I am excitedly peering into the future! I took the Amazing/True Stories of Openness for it’s last hurrah ride, back to the Open Education Conference where it started in 2009. It was perched in the […]
I’m cratering and writing about AI. Call me a lemming. Stop the presses. Where are the presses? All the time in webinars and discussions about AI there is much weeping and wailing… no actually there is not, but much concern about what Large Language Models are trained on. Often its the vein of “they are […]
One of the Mastodon new user bumps is getting your head around the extra layer of your name or handle being doubled with the place you call home, both a positive for appreciating federation but maybe a complexity in unraveling names and links. This also comes into play for those building tools, e.g. it gets […]
Whatever the web is becoming or devolving or transmorgiphing to, DS106 still goes on, in some fashion, especially with the Daily Create. And look out, the machinations are at work to oblivate it into perhaps something new? A hallmark of DS106 always was not just spitting out things created (“just type a prompt in a […]
There’s more to the Fediverse than trying to rejig your foregone twitter experience into Mastodon, indeed it is a party of distributed platforms. Given my love of photos, I’ve been casually exploring Pixelfed, the platform for photo sharing. Not that I will ever tear away from my firm flickr love, but I was curious to […]
