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Struggles for rural students interested in coding
A recent The Hill article that despite colleges seeing a rise in computer science majors, students from rural high schools are being left out. Small differences in high-speed access in rural areas remain, but the main issue appears to be … Continue reading
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Twitter’s direction?
People use microblogs (e.g., Twitter, Mastodon) for different reasons. I have mostly used such tools for discovery. I get the feeling many have moved from RSS readers to microblogs to keep up with innovations. I am also on the other … Continue reading
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Companies warn employees about use of popular AI services
Apple, Amazon, and several other companies that make heavy use of tech have requested that their employees not use services such as ChatGPT and Bard. It is not that these companies are concerned about the use of AI in general, … Continue reading
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Blogging with AI
One of the concerns I have read about large language models (AI such as ChatGPT) is that these services allow the creation of content so easily that the Internet will be flooded with material written for all purposes and of … Continue reading
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Cost of AI services
Those excited about the capabilities of AI services need to understand that the inexpensive or free services they use presently are not sustainable. This analysis appearing in online Forbes provides details of the actual costs which will eventually need to … Continue reading
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Project Tailwind – Signup now
Google has announced an AI service they call Project Tailwind, which seems to have great promise for learning. The service allows a user to interact with documents you upload or have stored in Google Docs. The link above does not … Continue reading