How to Recognize AI Snake Oil
Much of what’s being sold as “AI” today is snake oil — it does not and cannot work. Why is this happening? How can we recognize flawed AI claims and push back?
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HTTP Archive
The HTTP Archive Tracks How the Web is Built. We periodically crawl the top sites on the web and record detailed information about fetched resources, used web platform APIs and features, and execution traces of each page. We then crunch and analyze this data to identify trends — learn more about our methodology.
Alf.io
Alf.io is a free and open source event attendance management system, developed for event organizers who care about privacy, security and fair pricing policy for their customers. It features an ecosystem of tools to cover the lifecycle of an event from ticket distribution, to event management, to reporting.
10 cool things you might not know about CSS - Sheldon Led - Medium
I just want to say that this is not about new features, or features yet to be released. This is about things that have "always" been there, or new stuff that might have not gotten as much attention to some people, or just interesting things or fun facts about the language.
Customizing the TinyMCE Editor to Add Buttons in WordPress
In this guide, we’re going to create a plugin for the TinyMCE editor, inside our WordPress theme. When we’re done, we will have a new button in the editor’s toolbar, which will trigger a modal window. This window will offer the user three text fields, where they can add the author, citation and citation URL in a more simplified fashion. Confirming these properties will convert the selected text into a shortcode for the blockquote, and insert any defined attributes automatically.
Recording Audio from the User | Web Fundamentals | Google Developers
Many browsers now have the ability to access video and audio input from the user. However, depending on the browser, it might be a full dynamic and inline experience, or it could be delegated to another app on the user's device.
WordPress TinyMCE Editor Tips | How to Add Custom Buttons, Styles, Dropdowns & Pop-ups
The release of WordPress 3.9 didn’t just update WordPress; it also came with the latest TinyMCE editor, version 4.0. This update marks big changes in the editor API, and there’s a lot of interesting things that you can achieve with the flexibility it provides. To help you on your way, we’ve spent loads of time playing around with the editor to bring you an in-depth guide to making it your own. From adding your own buttons, implementing the editor in your comment section to form validation, if you’re interested in PHP and the TinyMCE editor then you’re sure to find something to interest you here.
‘Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable’ Illuminates Artist – Variety
It’s an amazing time for documentaries — in fact, there are so many looks into fascinating lives and subjects out there right now that it’s hard to keep track of them all. The brilliant, complicated life and legacy shown in “Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable,” which premiered at SXSW last year, is as compelling as many of the other lauded docus of the past year. But if it slipped under the radar amongst the riches, there’s another chance to catch it when it airs on PBS’ “American Masters” on April 19. Over three decades of street photography, Winogrand confronted some of the most central themes of mid-century America, from sexism to fame to race and poverty. Though he became one of the last century’s most important visual artists, the photographer died at 56 leaving thousands of negatives unseen — a mystery that underpins the first documentary made about him.
WordPress File Upload with AJAX - Igor Benić
WordPress is a great CMS and has a nice feature for uploading files. That is the media uploader which can be found inside the WordPress administration. In this tutorial we will not use the media uploader. We will develop our own WordPress file upload using AJAX and PHP. The code used in this tutorial can be reused inside a theme or a plugin so feel free to experiment with it and create your own uploader. This tutorial will show you the code that can be used inside the WordPress administration or even on the front end.
OVER VIEW
Over View is an international travelling filmproject for which curators were invited to select films of outstanding audiovisual artists from their home countries. Each curator was asked to programme 30 minutes of contemporary short cuts of any genre, except trailers or recordings.
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Beginner's Guide to Twitter Data | Programming Historian
Twitter data are widely used for research purposes and are collected through a variety of methods and tools. In this guide, we’ll show you easy methods for acquiring Twitter data, with some gestures toward specific types of spatial and social analyses. More specifically, we will be acquiring unique IDs from Twitter, linking those IDs to detailed data about the tweet texts and the users, and processing that data to make it usable. Then we will be ready to generate insights from the data and analyze them with various methods and tools, such as textual and social network analysis. This process might be attractive to historians, political scientists, public policy experts, sociologists, (and even literary scholars like myself) who want to examine the Twitter discourse and human interaction surrounding historical events, and gain insight into the geographic, chronological, and social elements of twenty-first-century politics. While this walkthrough proposes a specific workflow that we think is suitable for students and researchers of all experience levels (it was originally conceived as a workshop for first-year undergraduates at Georgia Tech), we will note points in the process where other/more advanced techniques could be substituted. Please note that this guide is aimed at beginners, and thus utilizes several GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces) so as to be more accessible to more people. It is our hope that this will serve as an “on-ramp” to working with Twitter data, thus allowing more researchers insight into the geographical and social dimensions of discourse on Twitter.
Text2MindMap
Turn tab-indented lists into mind maps
The mind-mapping.org Blog – This blog is about software for visual thinking and organising information. It will give you the low-down on developments in the world of visual networks and all types of business maps.
This blog is about software for visual thinking and organising information. It will give you the low-down on developments in the world of visual networks and all types of business maps.
Showdownjs - A markdown to HTML converter
is a Javascript Markdown to HTML bidirectional converter, based on the original works by John Gruber. Showdown can be used client side (in the browser) or server side (with nodejs).
Open access in an age of surveillance technology – erin rose glass
What is fingerprinting? The online tracking you can’t avoid. - The Washington Post
Just when you thought we had hit rock bottom on all the ways the Internet could snoop on us — no. We’ve sunk even lower. There’s a tactic spreading across the Web named after treatment usually reserved for criminals: fingerprinting. At least a third of the 500 sites Americans visit most often use hidden code to run an identity check on your computer or phone. Websites from CNN and Best Buy to porn site Xvideos and WebMD are dusting your digital fingerprints by collecting details about your device you can’t easily hide. It doesn’t matter whether you turn on “private browsing” mode, clear tracker cookies or use a virtual private network. Some even use the fact you’ve flagged “do not track�� in your browser as a way to fingerprint you.
Caring for OER – Nate Angell
This is the beginning of a post I’m researching on the CARE Framework using a workflow that includes Zotero to record and display reference information and Hypothesis to record and display notes.
How I use CSS Grid and Flexbox to Create a One-page Website
While we can use either CSS Grid and Flexbox for a webpage layout, CSS Grid tends to be used for page layouts while Flexbox tends to be used for aligning UI elements. Let’s create a webpage to see how this pans out in real code
The Black Mirror Writers' Room: A Speculative Ethics Exercise - Google Slides
The following sets of slides are intended to show the relationship between current technologies/social implications/ethical controversies and real episodes of Black Mirror. A reason that Black Mirror is so compelling is that it often builds upon our existing anxieties about technology and pushes them just a step farther. This is the perfect place to build from when using creative speculation to think through the possible consequences of new technology.
Practical Deep Learning for Coders, v3 | fast.ai course v3
Welcome! If you’re new to all this deep learning stuff, then don’t worry—we’ll take you through it all step by step. (And if you’re an old hand, then you may want to check out our advanced course: Deep Learning From The Foundations.) We do however assume that you’ve been coding for at least a year, and also that (if you haven’t used Python before) you’ll be putting in the extra time to learn whatever Python you need as you go. (For learning Python, we have a list of python learning resources available.) You might be surprised by what you don’t need to become a top deep learning practitioner. You need one year of coding experience, a GPU and appropriate software (see below), and that’s it. You don’t need much data, you don’t need university-level math, and you don’t need a giant data center. For more on this, see our article: What you need to do deep learning. The easiest way to get started is to just start watching the first video right now! On the sidebar just click “Lessons” and then click on lesson 1, and you’ll be on your way. If you want an overview of the topics that are covered in the course, have a look at this article.
The problem with metrics is a big problem for AI · fast.ai
Goodhart’s Law states that “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” At their heart, what most current AI approaches do is to optimize metrics. The practice of optimizing metrics is not new nor unique to AI, yet AI can be particularly efficient (even too efficient!) at doing so. This is important to understand, because any risks of optimizing metrics are heightened by AI. While metrics can be useful in their proper place, there are harms when they are unthinkingly applied. Some of the scariest instances of algorithms run amok (such as Google’s algorithm contributing to radicalizing people into white supremacy, teachers being fired by an algorithm, or essay grading software that rewards sophisticated garbage) all result from over-emphasizing metrics. We have to understand this dynamic in order to understand the urgent risks we are facing due to misuse of AI.
Ring™ Doorbell Log
Ring™ Log is an experiment in speculative surveillance. Amazon's Ring™ doorbells are motion-activated high definition surveillance cameras. Once triggered, Ring™ cameras transmit video to the Ring™ app and Ring™ servers, where the video footage is preserved for future viewing. What happens when Amazon begins using AI object detection to identify, categorize, and report what the Ring™ camera sees? Imagine a year from now, Halloween night, October 31, 2020. What would Ring™ see? What would Ring™ report? And what happens when the program fails, as programs always do?
Open Education Licensing Project
The Open Education Licensing Project was a joint research and development project undertaken by Swinburne University of Technology and the University of Tasmania in 2015/16. In 2015 the project team surveyed and collected information from managers, educators and information professionals in Australian universities about their understanding and experiences with licensing issues for open online education. On the basis of information collected, in 2016 the team developed the OEL Toolkit to support the use and development of Open Educational Resources (OER) in the Australian higher education sector.
D3 annotation
Annotations establish context, and direct our users to insights and anomalies. So why are annotations so few and far between in visualizations on the web? Because implementing them is difficult. But it shouldn't be. Use d3-annotation with built-in annotation types, or extend it to make custom annotations. It is made for d3-v4 in SVG.
Line Mode Browser 2013
The line-mode browser, launched in 1991, was the first readily accessible1 browser for what we now know as the world wide web. It was not, however, the world’s first web browser. The very first web browser was called WorldWideWeb2 and was created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990.
Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the World Wide Web | Internet Society
Back around 1991, I was traveling throughout the eastern USA teaching an “Introduction to the Internet” course I had written. The students were mainly from telecom, financial, and software companies wanting to know what this Internet thing was all about. I taught about IP addresses and DNS, using email, sending files with FTP, using archie and veronica to find info, engaging in USENET discussions, and using Gopher to explore “gopherspace”. At the end of the course, one of the final sections was on “emerging technologies”. And there, nestled in with HyTelnet and WAIS, was one single page about this new service called the “World-Wide Web”.
The World Wide Web project
The web as it was in 1991, command line simulation
The Outline
he Outline is a new kind of publication founded by journalists and storytellers. We want to help you understand the world better, feed your curiosity, challenge your assumptions, and show you something new. We’re dedicated to telling the right stories for right now, and our coverage is focused on the increasingly complex confluence of culture, power, and technology.