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Last Wednesday (June 18) I finished clearing out my filing cabinets in my old office in Goodwin Hall; I have fulfilled my last obligation to Queen’s University. The School of Computing staff has graciously offered to move the few things I want to keep to a retirement office in Sutherland Hall. 1/6

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

One of many, many examples of "externalization," where corporations arrange for the community to pay a significant fraction of what should be their own cost of doing business.

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Libraries are a wonderful resource for much more than reading books.

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Here's how you remove Google AI from your mobile devices.

submitted 4 days ago • 240 comments

This, I think, will be my approach for today. And tomorrow. And (hopefully) (at least) the week to come.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

i don't mean to come off as rude but we cannot sustain ourselves on outrage and anger forever. i think it's even more important now to post about other things too. even if it gets less engagement. you never know who will find it cool and interesting.

submitted 4 days ago • 169 comments

Indeed

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

The Schlock Mercenary webcomic is a great example of this. www.schlockmercenary.com

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"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

submitted 6 days ago • 53 comments

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

submitted 6 days ago • 558 comments

On Wednesday I finished clearing out my filing cabinets in my old office in Goodwin Hall, which means I have fulfilled my last obligation to Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario). The staff has kindly offered to move the few things I want to keep over to a retirement office in Sutherland Hall. 1/5

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Don't get me started on Idioms. #english #language #esl

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Denmark’s Ministry for Digitalization is looking to get off Microsoft products by the end of the year, starting with the adoption of LibreOffice. It follows similar moves by Copenhagen and Aarhus.

submitted 10 days ago • 12 comments

A little less than a month to apply for this position! Happy to answer any questions if you're thinking about it.

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