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Use Loom to record quick videos of your screen and cam. Explain anything clearly and easily – and skip the meeting. An essential tool for hybrid workplaces.
by Jay Graber
The third of a series of three 30 minute videos produced by the American Society for Cybernetics and Change Management Systems, directed by Pille Bunnell, 1998.
There are many hypotheses for science's ultimate word origin. According to Michiel de Vaan, Dutch linguist and Indo-Europeanist, sciō may have its origin in the Proto-Italic language as *skije- or *skijo- meaning "to know", which may originate from Proto-Indo-European language as *skh1-ie, *skh1-io, meaning "to incise". The Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben proposed sciō is a back-formation of nescīre, meaning "to not know, be unfamiliar with", which may derive from Proto-Indo-Eur...
Protomaps is an alternative to Map APIs that you run on your own cloud storage.
Release Notes: How to make self-hosted maps that work everywhere and cost next to nothing • MuckRock
Can we build a better way to build — and maintain — maps? DocumentCloud developer Chris Amico shares his recent work exploring new advances and opportunities when it comes to self-hosting maps.
Remember when you saw the first DALL-E and ChatGPT-texts? How do you feel about them now? Could the same thing happen to AI videos?
…we have a certain partially evolved state of a structure. This state is described by the wholeness: the system of centers, and their relative nesting and degrees of life.
On the work, and being endlessly clever.
Edwin Hutchins combines his background as an anthropologist and an open ocean racing sailor and navigator in this account of how anthropological methods can ...
A visiontype is a prototype of the future, centered on new ideas and the goals an organization wishes to achieve. No one can perfectly predict the future, but a visiontype can align a company around a shared understanding of their goals. DesignMap helps companies craft visiontypes to serve as powerf
Easily make tints and shades that match the output of Chrome DevTools, Sass, Less, and PostCSS.
Shopify's public product taxonomy serves as an open-source, standardized, and global classification of products sold on Shopify. Composed of product categories, attributes, and attribute values, the taxonomy is leveraged across Shopify and is integrated with numerous marketplaces.
It is offered from the perspective of how not to design systems, based on system engineering failures. The primary precept of the treatise is that large complex systems are extremely difficult to design correctly despite best intentions, so care must be taken to design smaller, less-complex systems and to do so with incremental functionality based on close and continual touch with user needs and measures of effectiveness.
AI can be kind of useful, but I'm not sure that a "kind of useful" tool justifies the harm.
A practical guide for user testing your software, so healthcare workers will love it. The guide is based on 6 years of experience user testing Simple, DHIS2, OpenSRP, and other digital health tools.
Pace layers provide many-leveled corrective, stabilizing feedback throughout the system. It is in the contradictions between these layers that civilization finds its surest health. I propose six significant levels of pace and size in a robust and adaptable civilization.
Leveraging ethnographic thinking to increase resonance with stakeholders
In Jack London’s novel, Martin Eden personifies debates still raging over the role and purpose of education in American life
There’s not going to be some new killer app that displaces Google or Facebook or Twitter with a love-powered alternative. But that’s because there shouldn’t be. There should be lots of different, human-scale alternative experiences on the internet that offer up home-cooked, locally-grown, ethically-sourced, code-to-table alternatives to the factory-farmed junk food of the internet. And they should be weird.
Best Practices on Recommendation Systems. Contribute to recommenders-team/recommenders development by creating an account on GitHub.
The latest weather forecasts for the UK and worldwide. Offering weather forecasts up to 14 days in advance, hourly forecasting, weather warnings and more.
Tech and the liberal arts have always been at war. Don’t assume Silicon Valley will win.
In typography/design, ‘sidenotes’ place footnotes/endnotes in the margins for easier reading. I discuss design choices, HTML implementations and their pros/cons.
Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech | Knight First Amendment Institute
A natural language interface for computers. Contribute to KillianLucas/open-interpreter development by creating an account on GitHub.
Next-generation therapeutics to improve brain health. MedRhythms is on a mission to help people living with neurologic injuries and diseases optimize their health and independence.
Uncontrolled corpus composition drives an apparent surge in cognitive distortions
a kind reader reached out about all of my iphone alarms and asked how specifically did I run OCR on my mac. I’m not one to gatekeep, so here’s how you can get yourself a nice local ocr ‘service’ that works in the terminal/CLI/python and costs 0 dollars:
Linguistic relativity holds that your worldview is structured by the language you speak. Is it true? History shines a light
What's different about LLMs versus traditional ML
Explore the timeline of milestones in the history of web design from 1990 to the present day.
While the EU is committed to net-zero emissions, the prevailing approach hinges on maintaining capitalist expansion, raising questions about the viability of a true green transition. The endeavor faces complexities, notably in the context of global competition and the imperative to secure essential raw materials, emphasizing extractive production models.
Elevate your professional style with the Konstella Collection by Toyo Steel. Luxurious briefcases that perfectly blend Japanese design and functionality.
From Ghent’s De Krook to Helsinki’s Oodi, recent civic constructions have shared a vision of the library as a living room for the modern city