I've created a webpage of basic SVG shapes and written some introductory tutorials (task 3) on the WHS xo wiki SVG page.
On the webpage, Chrome displays the stroke-array feature, which produces a dashed line, and a second conventional line, whereas Firefox does not. See my previous post for a brief discussion about SVG support
What Will Transformers Transform?
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Generative Pre-trained Transformer models (GPTs) are now all the rage and
have inspired op-eds being written by everyone from Henry Kissinger (WSJ)
to Noam...
The Collapse of Antiquity – release
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The Collapse of Antiquity: Greece and Rome as Civilization’s Oligarchic
Turning Point Available on Amazon The Collapse of Antiquity, the sequel to
Michae...
Women As Worriers Who Exclude
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This is an excellent 2014 book on how men differ from women: In Warriors
and Worriers, psychologist Joyce Benenson presents a new theory of sex
differences...
Senate Budget Committee Hearing Today
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by Judith Curry The Hearing on “Risky Business: How Climate Change is
Changing Insurance Markets” starts at 10 a.m. You can watch the Hearing at
[link]. My...
ChatGPT Privacy Flaw
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OpenAI has disabled ChatGPT’s privacy history, almost certainly because
they had a security flaw where users were seeing each others’ histories.
The Vela Pulsar
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If you could see in X-rays, one of the brightest things you’d see in the
night sky is the Vela pulsar. It was formed when a huge star’s core
collapsed abou...
On fighting inflation
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from Lars Syll Absolutely lovely! Comedian and television host Jon Stewart
turns out to know much more about real-world economics than mainstream
Harvard e...
Welcome to the Era of Warring Elites
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* What the Warring Elites don't want us to realize is that a system of
transparent competition in which no fiefdom is allowed to become dominant
best serve...
The 1.5 C Temperature Fiction, Already Exceeded
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It is all over the news, another climate change report from the IPCC – the
United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Of course, it
tells...
COSN 2023 Resources
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The Case Against Innovation Resources Working with Dr. Stager Gary Stager’s
bio Gary Stager’s recent books Constructing Modern Knowledge 2023 summer
inst...
Week Notes 23-11
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It was a busy but fun week. I’m writing this in Malta where I am spending
most of the next working week. Last week I Participated on the first day of
a two...
The hierarchy of excuses
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I’ve lived through quite a few financial crises, some local to Australia,
and others global. Invariably, the first failures are those of obvious
shonks (Au...
Raising Heretics on a Diet of Open Data
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There's a lot of talk about boosting the pipeline. About getting more women
and non binary folks into tech in general, and Data Science in particular.
But ...
U.S. Banking System On The Brink
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The collapse of SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) has sent shock waves
throughout the financial world. It has also aroused a morbid sense of deja
vu hark...
How did the Chilean left crash their referendum?
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I’ve been looking for an explainer of what’s been going on in Chile and,
thanks to Brad Delong for pointing it out. Of particular interest was the
way a go...
UnconsciousModel
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This is a graph of the exponential growth (note the logarithmic ordinate)
of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT taken from here.
As I type these...
Why Write?
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Why write an essay when you can type a few words and have AI generate one
for you? Why write an email when AI can auto-respond for you with all the
typic...
What is ChatGPT?
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ChatGPT is a large-scale language model developed by OpenAI. It uses a deep
learning algorithm called a transformer network to generate human-like
response...
When the Economy Gets Squeezed by Too Little Energy
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When people forecast ever-rising energy prices, they miss the fact that
market fossil fuel prices consider both oil producers and consumers. From
the produ...
A history of the Voyager mission
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It’s rare to find an amateur documentarian that’s really good. I think this
is one of those cases. I was really interested watching “NASA’s Voyager
Mission...
Applying for NSF CAREER: CAREER-Specific Advice
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Now that I’ve shared general advice for how to structure an NSF proposal
and lessons I’ve learned from being an NSF reviewer, I’ll focus on advice
specific...
OpenAI – ChatGPT and Codex – Coding with AI
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“In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in using artificial
intelligence (AI) to improve the way we teach and learn. One promising
applicat...
Strongman Leaders And The Infallibility Trap
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It is easy to become exasperated with liberal democracy. Various factions
bicker and manoeuvre against each other in an endless grubby contest for
power,...
Mars Trilogy: Homesick
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Part of the Mars Trilogy Technical Commentary Series. Contains spoilers for
this chapter and earlier chapters. Google Mars .kml. Literary commentary
podcas...
What if failure is the plan?
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I’ve been thinking a lot about failure lately. Failure comes in many forms,
but I’m especially interested in situations in which people *perceive*
somethin...
Helion Needs You
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Helion has been progressing even faster than I expected and is on pace in
2024 to 1) demonstrate Q > 1 fusion and 2) resolve all questions needed to
desi...
AP CSA
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After 20 years in education at my local elementary school, I have a new
position in the fall at my local high school. I will be their Digital
Learning Spec...
My Formula Fun Car
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I was a Cub Scout in elementary school and participated in several pinewood
derby competions: I even won a third place trophy with one of my designs
and ...
How will the .gov bubble end?
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For the last year, I’ve been referring to being in a .gov bubble—that a
current western economic predicament has similarities to the .com bubble of
2000 al...
Improving FreeDV 2020
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It’s been a few years since FreeDV 2020 was released. On-air experience
suggests FreeDV 2020 is less robust to low SNR and fading than the 700x
modes, whic...
Should Psychology PhD Programs Require the GRE?
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Some colleges are no longer requiring that applicants submit SAT scores (or
they’re making them optional) because scores correlate with parental income
and...
December 13th 2021
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Running Santa! A STEAMJunk project to download and make. Turn the handle
and make the Santa run! All those parcels need delivering, quick!
#STEAMJunk #auto...
Teaching with Amazon Alexa
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Alexa is a voice-activated, cloud-based virtual assistant, similar to Siri
on Apple devices, or Google Assistant. Alexa is an umbrella name for the
cloud-b...
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