Man Rescued From Mount Fuji For Second Time In One Week After Going Back For Phone
Posted 29th Apr 2025 @ 09:12
Universities should act like universities
This is the quote Kottke shared from M. Gessen:
This is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and [bring] education to communities. Create a base. Become a movement.
Cannot get behind this enough. For the past 4 years or so, I have been volunteering my time at two universities, multiple times a year. For one I am an alumni and for the other, I'm considered an "expert". It's not only rewarding on a personal level, but I hope it is rewarding to those students who get input from people with real industry experience. I'm coming up to 20 years now and there some that are a year into their journey and others that are even more seasoned than I am in their professions. We each bring different experiences but ultimately we are giving these students and the university access to a wider community.
Posted 15th Apr 2025 @ 08:23
This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like
Carol Cadwalladr sums up the situation of The Guardian partnering with OpenAI:
it married its rapist
Strong words, but what a way to describe the AI landscape right now. Companies gathering all they can for free and then charging a fee to see how a computer might put that content back together in answer to a question.
The more AI invades my life, the more I see value, but there is an ethical side that is just not being taken seriously.
AI may be doing more harm than good right now. It's energy intensive, it's built upon theft and you can't trust that it's output will be correct. Maybe no one cares about those first two points, but if you're not fact checking it's output then you are not using the tool correctly.
Governments should not be caving into AI companies, arguably they should not even be using AI until it is more energy efficient and it is free from bias (impossible?).
Algorithms have their own problems, as many social media companies have confirmed, but I prefer algorithms that can be explained over a tool that is wholly based upon the theft.
Posted 11th Apr 2025 @ 08:10
Music DNA
Posted 3rd Apr 2025 @ 13:12
Apple Hit With $162 Million Fine Over App Tracking Transparency
WTF, France? From the economic bloc that lead to the creation of cookie banners, they are mad at Apple for showing a prompt that asks if the user would like to preserve their privacy or not?!
The investigation was launched in 2021 following a complaint lodged by a coalition of French advertising trade associations, including Alliance Digitale and the Internet Advertising Syndicate.
Has this coalition also lodge complaints with the plague of cookie banners we've been subjected to for years now? If not, why not?
They should really be looking at why this pop up is necessary, not why it might be frustrating.
Posted 31st Mar 2025 @ 14:48
Adolescence trailer
Everyone is, rightfully, raving about Adolescence. The fact each episode was filmed in one shot blew my mind.
Once you've watch it, come back for some insight from Stephen Graham and this behind the scenes from Netflix is great if you're interested in how they pulled it all of.
Posted 24th Mar 2025 @ 16:52
Can You Fool A Self Driving Car?
If it's a Tesla, then yes. They took the decision to drop LiDAR around 4-years ago. Cameras, not matter how hi-definition, are never going to be enough.
However Tesla / Elon wish to spin it, cost cutting is probably at the route of it all. Full self driving is still a dream at this point and it will remain a dream until the right hardware is deployed to make it safe.
FSD in a Tesla is a lie.
Posted 19th Mar 2025 @ 14:11