We are all of us works in progress. Sometimes progress looks messy.

Similar:Opening night of Sive.PersonalSimulated iceberg, preserved artifacts and re-creations at the Titanic installation. …CultureIt’s been a while since something got me into a movie theater. Obviously I wasn’t in a rus… It’s been a while since something got …AmusingJust in case you can’t find the tweet that Trump, who got trolled for making a rookie…

ChatGPT Can Be Broken by Entering These Strange Words, And Nobody Is Sure Why

Reddit usernames like ‘SolidGoldMagikarp’ are somehow causing the chatbot to give bizarre responses. […] “I’ve just found out that several of the anomalous GPT tokens (“TheNitromeFan”, ” SolidGoldMagikarp”, ” davidjl”, ” Smartstocks”, ” RandomRedditorWithNo”, ) are handles of people who are (competitively? collaboratively?) counting to infinity on a Reddit forum. I kid you not,” Watkins…

Pa. agency explains why it enacted new ‘no force-on-force rule’ for Bushy Run, other sites

Attending the re-enactment of the Battle of Busy Run was a favorite and familiar part of our homeschool curriculum. The end to battle reenactments at Bushy Run Battlefield has left many members of the community saddened and frustrated. But in Harrisburg, officials with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission consider the new “no force-on-force” policy…

An afternoon with Ben Franklin.

Similar:A new headshot for the girl.PersonalSwiss cheese metaphor for fighting the pandemic: "Multiple Layers Improve Success"The anti-maskers are right when they say…CulturePlanet of the Blind: Oprah, If Only You Had Read the Book!I can’t wait for a TV network by and for…BooksI am not really sure why I have kept it up this long. I…

The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months

“I have always understood the Nazis,” Golding confessed, “because I am of that sort by nature.” And it was “partly out of that sad self-knowledge” that he wrote Lord of the Flies. Rutger Bregmen writes: “began to wonder: had anyone ever studied what real children would do if they found themselves alone on a deserted island?…

Misaligned interior and exterior portholes. Bulkheads from the deck below visible above the floorboards. I can fix all these issues, but I have to stroll through my model looking for them first. Leveling up my texturing skills. #blender3d #design #aesthetics #blender3dart

Similar:A Matter of Time (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 5, Episode 9) Smarmy Time Traveler Observ…Rewatching ST:TNG An eccentric ti…AmusingSold out closing performance. Support the arts in your community!Sold out closing performance. Support th…PersonalSyllabusing Like a BossAcademiaA pleasant find: somebody left a painted rock by the side of the road.AestheticsA new study shows that students learn…

The Toulmin model for analyzing arguments came up at a faculty pedagogy workshop today. I spent some downtime updating a web page I posted in 1999.

Similar:Journalists Prefer "Said"Journalists prefer the neutral “said” to…EducationThis Is How Tyranny Begins (Robert Reich)As the faculty advisor to a college jour…CultureThe Curtains Were Blue: In Which I Fix Another Meme. Above is my response to a meme that …AcademiaYes I do own a copy of the 1975 Star Trek Enterprise blueprints, but this guy annotated…

Time lapse movie shows exoplanets orbiting star HR8799, 133 light years away. (Published in a Northwestern University press release yesterday.)

  Similar:Astaire Unwound (Ceiling Dance from "Royal Wedding")My high school physics teacher, Admiral …AestheticsFacebook Updates its Fight Against Fake NewsThe only reason Facebook is paying atten…BusinessThe daughter (giving the piggyback ride in pic 2) doing a thing that starts tomorrow. Tribune ReviewAmusingThe Anatomy of an Amazon 6-pagerIn the halls of power at Amazon, busy ex…BusinessLearning…

It’s been a Dwarf Fortress afternoon.

Similar:Evita in Zelionople CultureAI generated images from the prompt "guy being bricked in a prison like a poe story b…PersonalHitting the weekend with just 6 ungraded papers. #partylikeaprof Hitting the weekend with just 6 ungrad…PersonalEach of these #retro #neovictorian #steampunk control panels takes me about an hour. #gree…AestheticsAs yearbooks die, colleges lose a link to…

I wish I could credit the designer. This is brilliant.

Similar:Meme alleging Trump said “Africans Are Lazy, Good at Sex, Theft” is a hoax I’ve seen this meme shared by severa…EthicsAdventure | T.M. CampGreat story of nerdiness and discovery a…CybercultureThis morning I awoke to YouTube’s live footage of crowds circling a mosque in Mecca. For m… CultureThe Best of Both Worlds, Part 1 ( #StarTrek…

Just submitted final grades for the compressed course that began the day after fall grades were due.

Similar:I remember these young people. I remember these young people. PersonalSledding in Spring Break SnowMy wife suddenly decided I should be a G…Current_EventsOpening night. They've got magic to do! CultureFinal grades are due tomorrow. My Fall 2020 is almost over. I survived.Final grades are due tomorrow. My only u…AcademiaThe Princess and the PaintFriday night, my…

Some problems bringing #Blender3D models into the #Unity3D game engine. The pink represents a missing texture. The underside of the ceiling is reflecting the sky. The fake pools of light on the wallpaper looked great in Blender but awful in Unity. I'm learning. #blender3dart #design #aesthetics

Similar:Behind the bar in the officers' pub, from the #steampunk bedtime stories I used to tell my…AestheticsEssay on the flaws of distance educationThe web also creates the illusion that a…AcademiaAdam Bard shaves off half his hair and beard on opposite sides for unique driving licence …Something I might want to do one day, be…AestheticsThe Feynman…

Mindset matters. Sometimes it’s an accomplishment just to make it through the day. But we can aspire to be better than the worst parts of our environment & our attitude.

Similar:Huge Collection of Free CC-Licensed Textbooks (2012)2012 Book Archive. Business, humaniti…AcademiaAn alternate universeMy plans to use a Chromebook over the we…CultureThe facts evolve as we look into how our re-accommodation process that involved goons drag…The language in the official United…BusinessIf You Think You Hate Puns, You're WrongI wrote my college application essay on …AmusingWhy NORAD Tracks…

Academics work to detect ChatGPT and other AI writing

Today I met a class of English majors who love writing, and who expressed concern that AI writers will put them out of a job. Human- and machine-generated prose may one day be indistinguishable. But that does not quell academics’ search for an answer to the question “What makes prose human?” […] “Think about what…

Brought my in-progress #blender3d project into the #unity3d gaming engine. Plenty of frustrating moments but I’m circling back to skills I’ve practiced with before. And sometimes #itjustworks! (The bot is from the Unity template.)

Similar:No, this Jeopardy! contestant was not making a white supremacist hand gestureConspiracy theories, knee-jerk tribal th…Current_EventsSecrets of a 60 Minutes cameramanThey say polo ponies can run 35 mph and …Current_EventsFULL BLOOM at Latrobe’s Olde Main, Aug 30-Sep 2.CultureBetween static hand-coded HTML pages and modern content-management systems, there used to …When I started my blog in…

A news site used AI to write articles. It was a journalistic disaster.

Artificial intelligence has been deployed to handle facial recognition, recommend movies, and auto-complete your typing. The news that CNET had been using it to generate entire stories, however, sent a ripple of anxiety through the news media for its seeming threat to journalists. The robot-brained yet conversational ChatGPT can produce copy without lunch or bathroom breaks and…