Image Source: Generated in Bing’s Image Creator AI, then modified with Sketch.io. Based on Craig Alanson’s Expeditionary Force series featuring the best AI of all, Skippy “Trust the Awesomeness.”
Is AI dumb? If you read Seth Godin, "ChatGPT is dumber than it looks,” …
Inflammation and Long-Term Memory Connection
When your students say, learning hurts their brain, believe them…
New research reveals that the process of remembering something long-term comes at a cost – specifically, inflammation in the brain and DNA damage in nerve cells, as the memories get ‘fused’ into neurons and stored.
But …
HellDivers 2 Teaches Lessons
In the screenshot of above of my son and I, in transit to a mission, he’s the one determining which mission to go on, while I stand looking on off the left.
“Get a cup of Liber-TEA,” yells a Helldiver as he flings a grenade into the oncoming horde of mechanicals. Yes, I have joined …
Drink and Eat for Life is Brief #Food #FriedEggs #SanAntonio #Texas
What a wonderful wall decoration featuring this saying, or “dicho:”
It says, “Eat and drink for life is brief.” You could also say, “Eat, drink for life is short.”
The food at El Catrin Mexican Restaurant was delicious. It consisted of:
Huevos rancheros Huevos …
Books Unbanned: A Shameful Account of American Censorship
I don’t understand why some folks engage in censorship, especially here in America. When I read reports like Books Unbanned I reflect on my own experiences with reading.
Werewolves and Cave Bears My first experience with books centered around exciting conventional reads, like Max Brand and Louis …
Moving Files Around
Interested in moving large files from one device to another? I know I was after setting up an obsolete Win10 machine with Linux Mint to give it new life. One of the things I want to do is quickly move files from one device to another. While I had experimented with Syncthing, I had failed utterly …
Converting RSS Feed to OPML with Claude.ai
Perhaps, I’m easily amazed at how AI makes hard things easy. I stumbled across a micro.blog RSS feed file earlier this morning, saved it to my phone, then, maybe, went back to sleep. Later this morning, I tried to import the micro.blog RSS file into Feedbro, a fantastic browser-based RSS feed …
Attitudes Towards Evolution, Evolve
Evolution is an old debate, and every year, I learn something new about it. I still remember studying this in my Catholic High School, explaining it at nineteen years of age to my girlfriend (later my wife). I can’t imagine how we would have continued if she had believed in the literal …
Reputable? Yes! National Center for Science Education
In an upcoming blog entry on evolution attitudes changing, I cite some info from the National Center for Science Education. I ran into the group on Facebook, so I was curious as to whether it was a reputable organization. You might enjoy their Misconception of the Month.
Prompt to AI: Is the …
Burn It Down. Goodbye, Windows 10
Have a Windows 10 device in your life? Then it may be time to look for that exit strategy. Running a Surface Book laptop, I realized that I didn’t want to mess with Windows 10 craziness. So, I decided to trade it in for GNU/Linux machine. Of course, I decided that before finding out that the …
AI Creators Are Not Responsible for What Harm May Result #AI #mgshare
Leonardo da Vinci failed, if he hoped to keep men and women in ships safe:
… I do not publish nor divulge [methods of building submarines] by reason of the evil nature of men who would use them as means of destruction at the bottom of the sea, by sending ships to the bottom, and sinking them …
“How do you change the time a screenshot was created?” asked a friend yesterday. What a curious question, I thought. “What’s up?” I asked? So, she explained the situation that required a file that she generated after a deadline to have a certain date and time. …
Do Hard Stuff Daily
What about dental care? David Truss writes this sermon about doing hard stuff. But is dental care even mentioned once?
Flossing is hard. Most dentists recommend it. Lots of people don’t do it.
Harder Things Bring Results David Truss makes this point:
Harder things bring results that you can see, …
Image: Make your Teaspoon Count
Reposting this from Neil DeGrasse Facebook group:
Imagine I said something profound connecting our experience creating and being a part of a team with this bee pic…..
What Is Valued at Work vs What Matters
The things bad managers value in their employees?
Technical skill Lack of complaints about stupid ideas managers foist on staff in their bid to be relevant, innovative, responsive to the market Obedience Initiative aligned to organization goals, but not too much Patience while company takes forever …
Slack Adds AI Features
Slack adds AI features…
A quick summary via Perplexity recap:
Recap Feature: Start your day informed with daily summaries of key channels. AI-Powered Search: Find answers and relevant messages quickly with smart search. Conversation Summaries: Click to catch up on threads—highlights and action …
Criminalizing Being a Librarian
Unbelievable….
library-friendly measures are being outpaced by bills in mostly red states that aim to restrict which books libraries can offer and threaten librarians with prison or thousands in fines for handing out “obscene” or “harmful” titles. At least 27 states are considering 100 such bills …
What To Do: Chronic School Absenteeism
What is high-impact tutoring? Could it involve more human relationships and connections, more personalized learning?
…preliminary research released earlier this month found that high-impact tutoring could increase attendance. A study by the National Student Support Accelerator at Stanford …
AI Jobs: Adapt and Learn
Worth keeping Ruben Hassid’s assertion below in mind for AI…but what evidence is there he is right? Or wrong?
Steam engines freaked out the strong.
Printing presses put scribes out of business.
Cars replaced horse-drawn carriages.
Computers got rid of filing cabinets.
Light bulbs switched off gas …
3-2-1: Parental Rights in Education
3 Ideas I. “Parental rights in education are essential for fostering a collaborative environment between families and schools, but they must be balanced with the educational standards and the rights of all students to receive a comprehensive education.”
II. “The involvement of …
Generating Images with Perplexity Pro
I have relied on Perplexity Pro ($20 or $10 with this referral link) for awhile now, but had not given much thought or exploration time to the image generation features. That is, until today when Dr. Dru Stevenson asked me on Mastodon, “will it generate images?”
The answer, as you can …
#AI: Towards a Sense of Ethics
Doug Johnson introduced me to a new quote from Christopher Hitchens. I’d first run into Hitchen’s Razor, which goes like this:
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
That’s a great quote and one of the first that went into my notebook on …
MyNotes: Trashing the Earth #ClimateChange
What a warm winter it’s been. That’s on top of a hot hot hot summer. It’s no coincidence that this chart from the University of Maine reflects rising sea surface temperatures.
What an eye opening post with data that should make everyone sit up and take notice. Check out the lead on …
3-2-1: The Cost of Higher Education
Paying for college as I approach retirement isn’t something I hoped for, but it is something that became necessary. I always knew I would be paying for, or assisting my children, in paying for college. Not earning a degree has never been an option. In fact, I always encouraged my children to …
The Obstacle is The Way...and there is more than one #stoicism #stoic
Have you encountered obstacles in achieving your goal? Do you imagine that once you achieve a certain pinnacle, it will all be OK from that point forward? No more issues or things getting in your way of being happy or worry-free? That’s not how life works, but you know, I thought it was for a …