j_french

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by j_french 3mo ago
.... Anthropic began buying books in bulk, tearing off the bindings and scanning each page before feeding the digitized versions into its AI model, according to court documents. Wow. This image of Anthropic employees ripping books apart t
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by j_french 4mo ago
I think the answer to "how will AI agent guidelines be enforced" is that they won't be because they can't be, at least not directly. This doesn't mean that this approach doesn't have value though. I think it ve
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by j_french 4mo ago
I wish you good luck! And add that I'd be interested to hear how you get on. I intend to adopt a similar approach with my classes in September. The . history folder is a great idea. How do you intend to assess your students?
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by j_french 4mo ago
I had forgotten Northern Exposure existed for 30 years until remembering it recently, and discovering that i had very fond memories of watching it on Irish tv as a teenager. There was something different about it, definitely going to watch
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by j_french 5mo ago
they had me at the theme tune. very charming, my kids are gonna lap this up
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by j_french 5mo ago
it's listed here, though out of stock (and in Ireland) https://www.celticwhiskeyshop.com/Vin-Mariani-50cl Seems an Irish company started remaking it https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/i
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by j_french 5mo ago
never knew this was a thing. seems it's still available to buy! sounds like a more respectable version of Buckfast, the tonic wine made in an abbey in Devon that had/has a cult popularity with the youth of parts of Ireland and Sco
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by j_french 6mo ago
Sterck's article from The Conversation referenced in this article: https://theconversation.com/measuring-poverty-on-a-spectrum-...
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by j_french 6mo ago
I did most of this route by bus in the late 2000s, mostly semi-cama style where available. Was entirely manageable mostly, apart from feeling weird as the altitude kicked up heading to Cusco, and the horrendous surface of the la paz to uyun
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by j_french 8mo ago
I had planned to move towards projects counting towards the majority of my CS class grades until chatgpt was released, now I've stuck with a 50/50 split. This year I said they were free to use AI all they liked (as if I can do any
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by j_french 10mo ago
Shout out to the gulf stream for keeping Ireland's climate significantly more temperate than our Canadian latitude neighbours. As kids when we looked out to sea on the west coast we thought next stop was New York, but it's more li
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by j_french 1y ago
I did not know they offered this. Thanks for the heads up
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by j_french 1y ago
I use bandcamp intermittently and have often wished that they offered a "subscription" feature like this, whereby they take a certain amount of money from me a month to put into my "bandcamp wallet" or whatever, that I c
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by j_french 1y ago
FIP and NTS are my goto's. The discovery features for shows on NTS and the "in focus" specials are great, so many good opportunities there for serendipitous listening. Will def check out radio paradise
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by j_french 1y ago
I have so many questions. Why is the bread depressed? Why is it in space? Why is the soundtrack so cool?
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by j_french 1y ago
I recently saw it used in the documentation a university department produces when they want to propose running a new program. I was agog.
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by j_french 1y ago
From what I remember I had a decent amount of success copying games using a twin tape deck for my amstrad 464. I ended up passing on the amstrad to a colleague over a decade ago, who since moved to the US and is almost certainly on here. If
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by j_french 1y ago
As an educator, it seems to me that a lot of people here are missing the point that teaching and generating teaching materials are not the same thing. Teaching is actively engaging with the real live (possibly small) humans in the classroom
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by j_french 2y ago
Ah yes, so it is
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by j_french 2y ago
Looks interesting, but it would be nice to be able to try it out (once even) without subscribing. The one token that seems to be available when you create an account disappears when you try to create an animation
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by j_french 2y ago
I thought this was an exclusively Hiberno twist, maybe not?
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by j_french 2y ago
I found some of my first BASIC programs recently, written in 89/90 on an amstrad464. They're on cassette tape. I have a tape deck with line out, but I don't even know how to start trying to get data off an "audio" c
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by j_french 3y ago
My older brother gave me Animal Farm to read as a child, I enjoyed it as a (somewhat depressing) story about animals taking over a farm.
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by j_french 3y ago
The big draw for me is the curation, articles, scene reports, bandcamp weekly, all nicely and simply integrated with a way to listen to what you're reading about on the platform. Recommendations from humans as opposed to the Spotify al
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by j_french 3y ago
I didn't pick up disdain or displeasure from your original message, and I didn't feel bad for you. I felt good for you! I thought "here's someone like me, who's making a decent living in a nice job, but who has a go
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by j_french 3y ago
To be fair to Raj (the guy who had just accidentally killed a bull), from his perspective "the bull is dead" is a very important part of the story. It's maybe a question of perspective. His ability to consider his parents&#x2
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by j_french 3y ago
That shameless plug got you a new subscriber here anyway :)
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by j_french 3y ago
I've been doing this with my kids. It's been so enjoyable, we're all getting a lot of joy out of it. My youngest became obsessed with Totoro when she was 4 and I think I enjoy it more every time we watch it. Waiting a while
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by j_french 3y ago
Ah yes, thanks. Us papists go straight to "amen" and a mic drop after "evil". That doxology (in a slightly different form) is familiar too, but it's used somewhere else. The version we learned also refers to "t
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by j_french 3y ago
Would you mind explaining? It does read a little differently to the version we rattled off growing up in holy catholic Ireland. I didn't know there was a remix out there

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