One of my go-to collaborators is Perplexity, my virtual assistant. I ask her questions several times a day, often to check facts or to memoralise notes to self. Today, while toggling between Mairead Pratschke’s excellent new work and some course notes for UX students, I asked Perplexity to go …
I’m reading a report in The Sunday Times of Ireland about a swingers' site that published a profile of an Irish politician. The account has been taken down but the presence of the profile has raised concerns in some circles. “Senator feared for her safety over fake profile on swingers …
Some people consider the slide rule as an icon of computational obsolescence. I think the slide rule is alive an well in the artillery community in the form of a graphical firing table. Despite the Ukrainians having $50,000 fire direction computers to calculate data, soldiers in the field still use …
Zuck is grappling with the challenge of maintaining a platform that supports free speech while also combating misinformation. He has vowed to push back against government pressure to censor content in the future. Meta has changed its internal policies so it no longer demotes content while waiting …
While the Wayback Machine continues to get bashed by hackers, I’m so glad bog-standard forums like Boards.ie and the CESI List keep on providing valuable continuity. aftermath.site/best-acti…
I have become very appreciative of “Designed by Apple in California” because of the clever user experience enabled by Airpods Pro.
Some of the best insights are Trust Insights. I learn a lot from following Christopher Penn as he shows readers and listeners and viewers how to leverage voice interfaces on mobiles. And how to turn ChatGPT into a podcast host. Every week, I enjoy big reveals from Christopher, Neville Hobson, and …
Trying to figure out if audio can be federated by starting at my microblog mobile screen with a meandering clip recorded on Spreaker at open.spreaker.com/CoeeYGHPx… So I will look for cross-publishing on Bluesky and Threads. If making a single five minute clip on a subscription audio platform …
We potty train scavengers who visit. And we have an album of more felines.
I am trying to create my own LLM by leveraging thousands of highlights I have made with web clippings, podcast notes, research abstracts, Instapaper articles, Otter summaries, and Kindle highlights. These things are stored inside Readwise. I have packed 5280 quotes inside a single notebook which …
I am teaching four different academic modules this semester and think we need to talk about Bluesky as a watering hole. On my University campus, 15 of the first 150 people to use Twitter in Ireland came from classrooms where we discussed that social network. Much has changed since 2007 when we had …
I am waitlisted by the ExCel in London when the Elvis Evolution opens in early 2025. The King of Rock and Roll’s immersive biopic captures Elvis in hologram form. Layered Reality, the production studio, used real-life performances, facial movements, and voice structure from hundreds of hours …
I teach digital transformation on a government-funded Springboard programme in Ireland. I need to talk to TEKenable to get their take on the thought space. I noticed TEKenable has 20 jobs available in its aviation division, including sales, dev, support, mktg, and management. The new jobs come on …
I tell young students to list their current “job” as “desired job title intern” on LinkedIn so the algo generates more meaningful jobs info. One talented animation student listed the name of the restaurant and “waitress” as her job title so all she gets is …
Simply by turning off the sound of their televised meeting, you could tell who won the debate between Trump (who looked like an incumbent) and Harris (who appeared as a challenger). The debate highlighted stark contrasts in their demeanor and messaging. Trump appeared frustrated, interrupting …
Irish haircuts have become more expensive since barbers are part of the hospitality sector and their VAT rate has increased. So I pay for my cuts because the govt is taking more from my hair Nearly 600 hospitality businesses closed in the past 12 months because the VAT rate went from 9% to 13.5%. So …
I think AI-generated Trump looks like a champ. Midjourney borrows the red MAGA theme colours and integrates the palette nicely with the true red Kremlin colour scheme.
Our Sunday Carvery is often over the fence in the Clonmel Garden Centre.
I have Irish ancestors who landed in America in the 1890s. If I had their letters or journals I would probably see how they adopted A.erican slang in the final decade of the 1800s. Eyes were called daylights, ogres, peepers, and squinters. Mouths were clamshells, muzzles, and rattle traps. Hands …
Advice from Danielle Abril in the WaPo: When it comes to AI, first find out whether your employer has policies for it. Some companies may allow its use, with stipulations like not providing it customer information, while others may outright ban it. But view AI as a tool to assist you with your …
While listening to Kamala Harris explain her plans to ease housing shortages, I know things are worse in Ireland. Ireland’s population is growing faster than predicted because of immigration. According to property firm Savills 3.8 people were added to Ireland’s population for every one …
So happy to have discovered Plausible Analytics and its campaign management services.
Here’s a simple way to share tables of data: csvbase.com/about You get full multi-format support. All tables are available in multiple formats as a simple download, including: Just add “.parquet”, “.xlsx”, “.csv” to any table url or use the dropdown on the …
We need more journalists who fact check people who never hesitate to lie on camera. Thanks to the semantic web, I can embed a call to action Dan Gillmor makes time and again. Dear journalists: Trump has said -- many times -- that he is proud of nominating the judges who overturned Roe, and that …
I need to upskill on web scraping and have descended into a multi-part tutorial on building a scraping project with a data science end goal. Here is what I’m using for Part 1 Web Scraping