Upload a paper, highlight confusing text, get an explanation. A better way to read academic papers. I bet most academics will get their cheating sensors running at red alert, but might it be possible this can aid understanding of papers?
Decker is a multimedia platform for creating and sharing interactive documents, with sound, images, hypertext, and scripted behavior. You can try it in your web browser Decker builds on the legacy of HyperCard and the visual aesthetic of classic MacOS. It retains the simplicity and ease of learning that HyperCard provided, while adding many subtle and overt quality-of-life improvements, like deep undo history, support for scroll wheels and touchscreens, more modern keyboard navigation, and bulk editing operations. Anyone can use Decker to create E-Zines, organize their notes, give presentations, build adventure games, or even just doodle some 1-bit pixel art. The holistic "ditherpunk" aesthetic is cozy, a bit nostalgic, and provides fun and distinctive creative constraints. As a prototyping tool, Decker encourages embracing a sketchy, imperfect approach. Finished decks can be saved as standalone .html documents which self-execute in a web browser and can be shared anywhere you can host or embed a web page. Decker also runs natively on MacOS, Windows, and Linux. h/t Tom Woodward
The rules of this game are simple. You'll be given a starting Wikipedia article and an ending Wikipedia article. Your goal is to navigate from the starting article to the ending article using only the article links.
Want to publish interactive musical scores on the Internet? Want to collaborate with other musicians who use different music applications? MusicXML offers the solution. MusicXML was designed from the ground up for sharing sheet music files between applications, and for archiving sheet music files for use in the future. You can count on MusicXML files being readable and usable by a wide range of music notation applications, now and in the future. MusicXML complements the native file formats used by Finale and other programs, which are designed for rapid, interactive use. Just as MP3 files have become synonymous with sharing recorded music, MusicXML files have become the standard for sharing interactive sheet music. With MusicXML you can create music in one program and share your results – back and forth – with people using other programs. Today more than 260 applications include MusicXML support.
The aim of the project is to create an easy to use, lightweight, cross-browser, general purpose 3D library. The current builds only include a WebGL renderer but WebGPU (experimental), SVG and CSS3D renderers are also available in the examples.
MAPEO is a free digital toolset for documenting, monitoring and mapping many types of data. MAPEO is an offline-first open-source technology which makes it easy for many to use. No internet or special hardware required to collect, view, or share data. With the push of a button, contributors can gather map data by linking GPS points, photos, and notes. All data is completely owned by the communities themselves. And a simple and adaptive interface makes it accessible for many different people to use. Communities stay organized and manage documented evidence. Data can be shared between project collaborators with MAPEO's mobile-to-mobile sync feature.
LOC Serendipity is a website that aggregates a subset of the open digital records available from the Library of Congress. With each click of the button at the top of the page, the website provides a list of freely available books from the library, available through archive.org.
Never Before Heard Sounds – Expressive AI Music Tools
Manipulate sound in previously impossible ways. After building AI powered music tools for years, we combined them with our favorite open source projects into a browser-based studio for anyone to access. Transformations like timbre-transfer (turning one instrument into another) are built straight in.
It’s an interactive web-based program, designed to generate abstract waveform graphics that you can capture and save as animation loops and image stills directly from the generator. The application runs on the 5PJS library and uses a Simplex-based noise algorithm to generate and animate the graphics. h/t to Clive Thompson https://clivethompson.medium.com/mall-music-full-body-deepfakes-and-20-quadrillion-ants-913639554a05
This Padlet is a presentation for Future Teacher Talk: Strategies to Support Writing on Sept. 30 2022. To view as a presentation, switch to Slide view. You can also download a PDF (updated Sept. 29 2022). Please feel free to add comments or ask questions; each post/slide has its own comment box. The conversation can go on beyond the webinar. :-)
RB Search Gizmos: Find and Explore the TwitterSpace of Higher Ed Institutions with Pam’s University Pin – ResearchBuzz
Pam’s University Pin (we’ll refer to it as PUP) is sort of a combination of Pam’s Pin, which lets you enter a street address and get a Twitter radius search for that address, and Super Edu Search, which lets you filter .edu Web space by various university characteristics (location, ownership type, etc.). PUP takes a zip code, a radius, and a set of university characteristics, and does two things: Finds all higher education institutions matching those characteristics in the radius Builds the following Twitter queries: A search for all tweets within a 2km radius of the university location A search for all verified account tweets within a 2km radius of the university location A search for tweets which include the university’s domain name (any location) A search for tweets from Twitter accounts which include the university’s domain name.
Penpot is the first Open Source design and prototyping platform meant for cross-domain teams. Non dependent on operating systems, Penpot is web based and works with open web standards (SVG). For all and empowered by the community.
Contra Chrome – a webcomic – How Google's browser became a threat to privacy and democracy
a comic artist and digital rights activist. She loves pomegranates, poppyseed muffins and democracy. When asked what Contra Chrome is about, she will answer: „It‘s about you. Seven of ten readers will reach this site using Google Chrome, which is a very different road than other browsers like e.g. Firefox.“ In Contra Chrome, Leah carefully charts this road and its terrain in a funny and easily accessible way. In webcomic form, she documents how over the last decade, Google’s browser has become a threat to user privacy and the democratic process itself. With her meticulous rearrangement of Scott McCloud‘s Google-commissioned Chrome comic from 2008, she delivers what she calls „a much-needed update“. Laying bare the inner workings of the controversial browser, she creates the ultimate guide to one of the world‘s most widely used surveillance tools: Google Chrome, which – by design – is all about you.
Technologies | Database of Machine Vision in Art, Games and Narratives
This database collects information about games, art and narratives that use or represent machine vision technologies. This is part of the ERC project Machine Vision in Everyday Life: Playful Interactions with Visual Technologies in Digital Art, Games, Narratives and Social Media. Citation: Rettberg, Jill Walker, Linda Kronman, Ragnhild Solberg, Marianne Gunderson, Stein-Magne Bjørklund, Linn Heidi Stokkedal, Kurdin Jacob. 2021. Machine Vision in Art, Games and Narratives. Research database. http://machine-vision.no.
Paywalls Everywhere You Go? Get to the Goodies With These Two Paywall Ladder Bookmarklets – @ResearchBuzz
On the one hand, I hate paywalls. I spend much of my day reading the news and paywalls are the bane of my existence. I want the news, not a login page. On the other hand, I love paywalls. Why? Because newsrooms have to keep the lights on and journalists need to eat. It’s good to subscribe to newspapers (I subscribe to three, much to the chagrin of my wallet) and support local journalism. That means respecting a paywall. But no one said you couldn’t be clever. The thing about a lot of the news behind paywalls is that it doesn’t stay behind paywalls. It gets syndicated, sometimes to paywall-free sources. Most stories, even those paywalled, have a paragraph or so of content. To find these articles elsewhere, you could easily copy a phrase and then look for it in Google News. Or you could make a couple of bookmarklets and have a one-click, instant search for different case scenarios.
@GetVideoBot is a Twitter bot made to help you download videos & gifs from twitter. Mention @GetVideoBot in a reply to any tweet with a video or gif, and you will get a response in few seconds. Alternatively, you can copy and paste the link of the tweet on the text field above and we will extract the video download link and present it to you in different MP4 formats.
Spinner Wheel is an online random wheel app to help decide upon making a choice. Whether you need to spin the wheel for a random number generator, a wheel of names, a raffle generator, a wheel spinner for games or a simple yes or no wheel - Spinner Wheel has it covered.
ISA - Easily Add Information about Images on Wikimedia Commons
ISA is a multilingual, mobile-first tool, that makes it easy for people to add 'micro-contributions' in the form of structured data (descriptions, captions, tags, etc.) to images that have been contributed to Wikimedia Commons by Wiki Loves competitions
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