Most of us acknowledge that catastrophic global warming is one of the most significant existential issues ever to face our species. But we tend to talk about it in the abstract, basing our information on international research, which seems distant from our home in New Zealand. The good old Kiwi “she’ll be right” can kick…
Continue reading →I called out Claude the AI on its hallucination, and asked it how humans should deal with hallucinating AI’s. Claude’s ultimate advice was: stop using me.
Continue reading →Are you looking for the latest developments in Education Techology – EdTech? In 2021, I started an EdTech news clipping page using Pinboard.in. I’ve changed my bookmarking technology to Raindrop.io, and am now also publishing these on Mastodon. Here’s how to find them: Raindrop.io direct: https://raindrop.io/davemosk/ed-tech-49190038/ Raindrop.io RSS feed: https://raindrop.io/collection/49190038/feed Mastodon: @[email protected] Bluesky: @edtech.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy If…
Continue reading →Skepticism mollified – for specific tasks If you’ve talked to me about AI recently, you’ll know that I’m a bit of a skeptic when it comes to AI being a panacea for the world’s problems. What between hallucinations about academic articles, many inherent biases, lack of training on obscure subjects, stuff that’s just plain wrong,…
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Sometimes we jokingly ask, “how hard can it be?” Don’t be complacent: even the simplest things can go wrong. Early in my career as a software engineer, I worked on IBM System 360/370 mainframes programming customisations for the MVS operating system in assembler language. Assembler language is not recommended for the faint of heart –…
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Did you know that you can access all of NZ’s free-to-air TV channels through your computer or mobile phone? It’s super easy, even for non-technical people. It’s true that most of NZ’s TV providers have streaming apps, as well as content buried in their websites. But if you just want to have the equivalent of…
Continue reading →The big cybersecurity news this week is the Apache Log4j zero-day vulnerability nicknamed Log4Shell, which allows an attacker to seize full control of a server by sending a rather innocuous message to a web (or indeed many other types of) server. Surprisingly, it even made the headline news on Radio New Zealand. But what can…
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Continue reading →At the start of Tech Week this year, I participated in the Better Rules Hack that was organised by Legal Hackers NZ and the DIA’s Service Innovation Lab. This was a big deal for me – after being involved in organising over 25 Startup Weekends and facilitating 16 of them in several countries, this was…
Continue reading →Just kidding, this post is a review of Kubuntu / Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) I’ve been running Linux on my desktop – either directly, or in a virtual machine (VM) – since Mandrake 8.1 in 2002, and I’ve had a love-hate relationship with it. Love: Free (as in both beer and speech) Open Source, configurability,…
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