events/2024-04-27-hwc-galactic

Galactic Bonus Homebrew Website Club was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2024-04-27.

Notes archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2024-04-27-hwc-galactic

Participants

• Mark Sutherland
• Yousef Amar
• capjamesg
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Notes

• Talking about what we did on our websites
  • Mark - bringing in content from other platforms
  • Yousef - writing
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
    • loc- is the prefix for the Latin for "place" - location
    • augmented reality
    • tricorder, sonic screwdriver, CueCat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat , wands in Harry Potter- which are used as needed
    • versus passive consumption, the heavy glasses from Wm Gibson's book Virtual Light (1993), Google Glass
    • Memory Palace
  • https://googleai.devpost.com/
  • https://dev.amar.io/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat
• https://www.wizardexploratorium.io/wand
• https://yousefamar.com/memo/projects/communicator/
• https://www.ibm.com/blogs/think/nl-en/2017/06/06/whats-cooking-chef-watson/
• https://lemire.me/blog/2024/04/27/large-language-models-e-g-chatgpt-as-research-assistants/
  • "AI tools in science risks introducing a phase of scientific enquiry in which we produce more but understand less"
• Vizcom is the AI/LLM tool used to take a basic sketch to a more rendered version -
  • https://artlung.com/blog/2023/10/26/ai-artificial-intelligence-is-not-that/

Example of poor instruction translation - pre AI https://marksuth.dev/photos/2018/03/some-of-this-almost-makes-sense-almost

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56718036 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal

• "moral crumple zones" https://estsjournal.org/index.php/ests/article/view/260 https://artlung.com/blog/2024/04/18/danah-boyd-moral-crumple-zones/

• Therac-25 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

• Yousef Amar: Book recommendation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Decision sci-fi on autonomous drones