In December, last year at Polly Farmer we had a visit from Jono (check out his awesome site) to show us how to do Claymation. Here are some of the results. I did the nerdy maths one and the kids did the more creative ones.
The war to end war, still going on
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Anzac Day (the anniversary of the disastrous Gallipoli landings in 1915) is
always a sad day, but even more so this year, with the horrors unfolding
before...
The Ghetto-ization of American Life
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*Behind the facade of normalization, even high-income lifestyles have been
ghetto-ized.*
*Consider the defining characteristics of a ghetto:*
1. The res...
The Lancet extols Indigenous Traditional Knowledge
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The British medical journal The Lancet has become infamous for being woke
(its editor is beyond redemption), and is most infamous for the cover
below. As ...
The Rise of Large-Language-Model Optimization
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The web has become so interwoven with everyday life that it is easy to
forget what an extraordinary accomplishment and treasure it is. In just a
few deca...
Syndicate Science – The Definition
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This is what we identify as Syndicate Science. Ironically, amidst our focus
on external threats, a more insidious danger has evolved from within the
corrid...
Giving to the Sepik, on ANZAC Day
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There were a couple of thousand of us at the dawn service this morning here
in Yeppoon to commemorate ANZAC day – when Australian and New Zealand
troops ...
Chibitronics is Presenting at ISTELive2024!
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Venture into the future of learning with Chibitronics! Details This summer,
Chibitronics is excited to be presenting a hands-on workshop at ISTELive24
in...
Lies, Damned Lies, and AI
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In which I rant about tech companies marketing chatbots that are not fit
for purpose. People keep telling me this tech can only improve, so I gave
it the b...
My Passover press release
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – From the university campuses of Assyria to the
thoroughfares of Ur to the palaces of the Hittite Empire, students across
the Fertil...
Culture As A Cruel Master
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Thomas Carlyle famously warned against stuff that is “a good tool to have
as a slave, but a bad master to be ruled by." Consider applying this
warning to c...
Jill Stein: Splitting the Pro-Imperial Vote
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RADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to the 27th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the
show that examines the fast-changing political and geopolitical economy of
ou...
In search of radical alternatives
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from Crelis Rammelt and current issue of RWER Our presumed dominion over
nature is an illusion. No matter how clever technological innovations may
seem, th...
Hoops (a Machine Learning for Kids worksheet)
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Machine Learning for Kids is intended to be an open creative sandbox to let
students invent their own AI-powered projects. But in order to enable that,
I c...
Struggling with a Moral Panic Once Again
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I have to admit that it’s breaking my heart to watch a new generation of
anxious parents think that they can address the struggles their kids are
facing by...
The world’s economic myths are hitting limits
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There are many myths about energy and the economy. In this post I explore
the situation surrounding some of these myths. My analysis strongly
suggests that...
Agent-Based Models (Part 8)
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Last time I presented a class of agent-based models where agents hop around
a graph in a stochastic way. Each vertex of the graph is some ‘state’
agents ca...
AERA 2024 trip report: blight and belief
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[image: Two imposing marble columns, a dimly lit hallway, and a hundred
attendees swarming.]The imposing main entrance to the conference.
Although I’ve alw...
Week Notes 15-24
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I spent the week mostly at home. I felt off for most of the week. Grumpy,
finding it hard to get started on things. At least the weekend brought some
nice ...
Avi wins the Turing, TCS for all
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Avi Wigderson has won the Turing award. I just can’t find the words on how
happy this makes me, so won’t even try to write a post, beyond what I wrote
on T...
A response to “The legacy of 1968”
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Platypus Review 165 | April 2024 On June 24, 2023 at Trades Hall in
Melbourne, Australia, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a panel on the
legacy of 1...
Return to 4th grade Code Club
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One of my high school seniors wanted to do a service project teaching
coding to elementary students. He loved our field trip to the elementary
school that ...
Israel's Crimes Do Not Deserve This Much Attention
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Israel is a state founded on a principle of ethnic supremacy and a practise
of ethnic cleansing at exactly the point in history where these became
univer...
Live Q & A with David Harvey & Miguel Robles-Durán
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Join me and Miguel Robles-Durán for a live Q&A session tomorrow, Wednesday,
January 10th at 2:00pm (EST). Support our Politics in Motion Patreon to
submit ...
Predictions Scorecard, 2024 January 01
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[You can follow me on social media: @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social] This is my
sixth annual update on how my dated predictions from January 1st,
2018 concernin...
Wellness: Bad Stress: Philosophy – Stoicism
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In a previous post, I mentioned that I started researching wellness a few
months into the pandemic when I noticed my physical and mental health
declining. ...
CMK23
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Constructing Modern Knowledge returned to Manchester, New Hampshire this
summer and it was awesome! I posted a Twitter thread but Gary badgered me
to ex...
Languages for Learning
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As recommended and used at Constructing Modern Knowledge Language Use URL
Turtle Art 2D art and Logo geometry – also exports SVG files. Great first
progr...
40 Inspirational Paulo Coelho Quotes On Success
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A s 1. “It takes huge effort to free yourself from memory.” Paulo Coelho
2. “No one can lie, no one can hide anything when he looks directly into
someone’s...
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...
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...
Domes are over-rated
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Part of my series on common misconceptions in space journalism. It is an
unwritten rule of space journalism that any article about Moon or Mars
bases needs...
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