I've created a webpage of basic SVG shapes and written some introductory tutorials (task 3) on the WHS xo wiki SVG page.
On the webpage, Chrome displays the stroke-array feature, which produces a dashed line, and a second conventional line, whereas Firefox does not. See my previous post for a brief discussion about SVG support
Thursday: Hili dialogue
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Welcome to Thursday, April 18, 2024, and National Animal Cracker Day. I ate
many boxes of these as a child, all the famous “Barnum’s Animals” variety,
abou...
Other Attempts to Take Over Open Source Projects
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After the XZ Utils discovery, people have been examining other open-source
projects. Surprising no one, the incident is not unique:
The OpenJS Foundation...
Wenar on why you shouldn’t try to help poor people
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In all the discussion of Leif Wenar’s critique of Effective Altruism , I
haven’t seen much mention of the central premise: that development aid is
generall...
The Spear in AI's Back
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*That real harm will result from the use of AI tools is a given. *
*AI is like the powerful character in an action movie who looks invincible
until they t...
The eclipse part wo
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from Peter Radford What are we to say of a discipline that steadfastly
ignores reality in its pursuit of ever more formality in its methods? Wow.
Steve Lev...
Agent-Based Models (Part 8)
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Last time I presented a class of agent-based models where agents hop around
a graph in a stochastic way. Each vertex of the graph is some ‘state’
agents ca...
Old Folks See Culture Change
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Why do we fear being lied to? Because we don’t like others manipulating our
beliefs. But our fear of being misled by false news pales by comparison to
our ...
That IACR preprint
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For those who don’t yet know from their other social media: a week ago the
cryptographer Yilei Chen posted a preprint, eprint.iacr.org/2024/555,
claiming t...
AERA 2024 trip report: blight and belief
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[image: Two imposing marble columns, a dimly lit hallway, and a hundred
attendees swarming.]The imposing main entrance to the conference.
Although I’ve alw...
Week Notes 15-24
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I spent the week mostly at home. I felt off for most of the week. Grumpy,
finding it hard to get started on things. At least the weekend brought some
nice ...
Meet the Makers: Hello Play Collective
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A dynamic new addition to the Chibitronics Design Team, the powerful trio
comprising Hello Play has already left us clamoring for more! In their
debut po...
Gaza: The Strategic Imperative
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PROF. MICHAEL HUDSON, THE TRUTH ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF GAZA. – Ania K
ANIA: Hello, everyone. Welcome back to my channel. Today I have with me for
th...
Introducing OpenAI Japan
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We are excited to announce our first office in Asia and we’re releasing a
GPT-4 custom model optimized for the Japanese language.
Avi wins the Turing, TCS for all
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Avi Wigderson has won the Turing award. I just can’t find the words on how
happy this makes me, so won’t even try to write a post, beyond what I wrote
on T...
There is no human right to a safe or stable climate
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by Judith Curry “Europe’s highest human rights court ruled Tuesday that
countries must better protect their people from the consequences of climate
change ...
A response to “The legacy of 1968”
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Platypus Review 165 | April 2024 On June 24, 2023 at Trades Hall in
Melbourne, Australia, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a panel on the
legacy of 1...
The Wicker Man
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A form of self-strawman, belief, or philosophy which can never be pinned
down or held to account for anything it contends. Like pseudo-theory it
explains e...
Degradation, Legitimacy Threats, and Isolation
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New research on census, youth, mental health; a recent talk and an upcoming
one tl;dr: 1. New paper with Janet Vertesi: “The Resource Bind: System
Failure...
Return to 4th grade Code Club
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One of my high school seniors wanted to do a service project teaching
coding to elementary students. He loved our field trip to the elementary
school that ...
Israel's Crimes Do Not Deserve This Much Attention
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Israel is a state founded on a principle of ethnic supremacy and a practise
of ethnic cleansing at exactly the point in history where these became
univer...
Live Q & A with David Harvey & Miguel Robles-Durán
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Join me and Miguel Robles-Durán for a live Q&A session tomorrow, Wednesday,
January 10th at 2:00pm (EST). Support our Politics in Motion Patreon to
submit ...
Predictions Scorecard, 2024 January 01
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[You can follow me on social media: @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social] This is my
sixth annual update on how my dated predictions from January 1st,
2018 concernin...
Wellness: Bad Stress: Philosophy – Stoicism
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In a previous post, I mentioned that I started researching wellness a few
months into the pandemic when I noticed my physical and mental health
declining. ...
CMK23
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Constructing Modern Knowledge returned to Manchester, New Hampshire this
summer and it was awesome! I posted a Twitter thread but Gary badgered me
to ex...
Languages for Learning
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As recommended and used at Constructing Modern Knowledge Language Use URL
Turtle Art 2D art and Logo geometry – also exports SVG files. Great first
progr...
40 Inspirational Paulo Coelho Quotes On Success
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A s 1. “It takes huge effort to free yourself from memory.” Paulo Coelho
2. “No one can lie, no one can hide anything when he looks directly into
someone’s...
UnconsciousModel
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This is a graph of the exponential growth (note the logarithmic ordinate)
of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT taken from here.
As I type these...
What is ChatGPT?
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ChatGPT is a large-scale language model developed by OpenAI. It uses a deep
learning algorithm called a transformer network to generate human-like
response...
Domes are over-rated
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Part of my series on common misconceptions in space journalism. It is an
unwritten rule of space journalism that any article about Moon or Mars
bases needs...
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