Posts by NearerAndFarther@techhub.social
(DIR) Post #AoFFnTn64AtgeB96Qq by NearerAndFarther@techhub.social
2024-11-20T20:17:21Z
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Ordered a #FrameworkLaptop over the weekend -- a bit more than I'd like to spend but excited for it to get here.So excited that I've been refreshing the tracking info every 5 minutes for the last several days, lol. Arrives tomorrow.The big question is: what #Linux distro do I want to install?!?!?!?
(DIR) Post #AoFHXYfgLxaD3gDIhs by NearerAndFarther@techhub.social
2024-11-20T20:44:58Z
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@alejandrobdn Not completely new but haven't done much experimenting. Have mostly worked in Xubuntu.Not sure I'm ready for Arch yet, but who knows, I'm feeling adventurous...
(DIR) Post #Aq8tw7njnSdtmPmsBk by NearerAndFarther@techhub.social
2025-01-16T12:06:11Z
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Does anyone know of a tutorial/guide that I could use to set someone up for marking up documents digitally while #reading?Here's what I mean:I have a lot of students who only/primarily read digitally. They don't have printers, typically won't print out sources. I've learned to work with that in a lot of ways, but *in class* we mark up sources on paper regularly, and I encourage students to take this action and apply it in their own reading at home. So there's a disconnect between the physical practice in the classroom and how some students are likely to do things at home.I have all sorts of annotation tools for digital stuff, and notetaking tools that include PDF markup tools, but what I'm looking for is a guide that sets someone up for doing digital scribbling naturally, just as part of everyday reading for coursework: the best software to use, but also best practices, ways to make it more natural, easier. Does anything like that exist?#Annotation #EReading #PDF #AcademicMastodon
(DIR) Post #Aq8twBsUdip6QK2j9k by NearerAndFarther@techhub.social
2025-01-16T12:08:01Z
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(It's also not how I read - digital scribbling like this is a little unnatural for me, and I only do it in very particular situations - so it's hard to imagine exactly what I'm looking for here.)
(DIR) Post #AqEnYgaJO5IDvrhuGe by NearerAndFarther@techhub.social
2025-01-19T10:53:11Z
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@futurebird @jonny can't tell what the relationship is between the imperative to "be normal" and "better resume ant posting" and i love it.(Also, i saw a poem abt ants the other day and thought, "I should send this to the Mastodon ant person!" Which is definitely normal. I'll pull it out later!)
(DIR) Post #AqLDr3T0oWALryTKXw by NearerAndFarther@techhub.social
2025-01-22T13:16:06Z
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@futurebird @u0421793 @crypticcelery You can see some of the details of different models, including size, at the Ollama site:https://ollama.com/searchThey really range but most of the very capable but not huge ones are currently running between 3 and 5 GBs.Ollama is also one of the key tools that can help you run an LLM locally, which I've found a good way to learn more about them.
(DIR) Post #Aqbgw3RMLXMUR0nIH2 by NearerAndFarther@techhub.social
2025-01-30T11:57:21Z
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@futurebird Did not know that you could see edit history like this! Nice feature, thanks for highlighting it.
(DIR) Post #Argl7IbU99EvwLVFh2 by NearerAndFarther@techhub.social
2025-03-03T18:56:17Z
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Am thinking about putting together a series of (videos? essays?) for undergrads with the working title: 'Be a human: How to differentiate yourself in an 'AI' world'Section headings and pertinent lessons include:"Let Your Nerd Flag Fly": LLMs tend toward generalities or well-known details, so be nerdy to distinguish yourself in your writing."Tell Me Something a Computer Doesn't Know" or 'Your Body, Your Self": you are a human in space and time, draw on your experience and background, including *other* classes you've taken, to make something unique to you."Be Bad at Poetry, but in a Human Way": writing poorly as a human will probably still be more interesting than writing "well" via an LLM.[I am really thinking about this, nobody steal it][jk, you can steal it]#HigherEd #Teaching #HaveBeenGradingPapers
(DIR) Post #Argl7NDuyCMKGhW09Y by NearerAndFarther@techhub.social
2025-03-03T19:12:13Z
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Inspiration:I am genuinely sympathetic to students who now feel like a quick turn to ChatGPT will sound and be better than anything they do, *even if they are doing the reading and other work for a course*. For those who suffer from a lack of confidence, who feel they "write bad" or have trouble understanding readings, going to ChatGPT feels like a win.In my convos with students, they really don't understand that what they are turning in, with assistance from LLMs, are collections of generalities that are often perfectly sound, but also perfectly general.I think we might need to go all in on convincing students that they have a perspective, that perspective is unique, and we want to hear it.(I also think this means being real with students about LLM use and not just jettisoning it altogether.
(DIR) Post #AsvOoBO8PyMJsq43zE by NearerAndFarther@techhub.social
2025-04-09T19:52:41Z
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@frameworkcomputer so ridiculous and thank you for putting up with the bs from the us
(DIR) Post #Au1KUWCjEIu8Ks10oC by NearerAndFarther@techhub.social
2025-05-12T14:24:36Z
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@futurebird My take, focusing just on quality of output, and assuming a decent prompt:#1 - sure but wouldn't recommend (results are certain to be boring, although with a bit of back and forth you might get somewhere)#2 - sure, for personal use. results are minimally equivalent to google translate, often better -- just like with Translate, be alert to possible errors#3 - sure, but late in revisions, not from a first to second draft, and better for someone fairly confident in their own writing *style* (if not their grammar etc)#4 - with a web-capable LLM, sure but seems like overkill#5 - Sure, but confidence level is important here again. I'd also encourage a student to ask for an explanation of the output, engage with it past a "right or wrong" answer#6 - no way#7 - with a web-capable LLM, sure -- but it probably wouldn't be my one and only source#8 - maybe, but only for a native speaker or speaker with high proficiency -- mainly bc result is likely to sound artificial
(DIR) Post #AuQW1MtqftJw85qots by NearerAndFarther@techhub.social
2025-05-24T18:01:33Z
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@futurebird I am sort of surprised that a full third of respondents met partners online --- that's more than I would have guessed!(And love seeing Usenet, ICQ references in some of these stories, lol.)
(DIR) Post #AyFNEOw32DEfwypSUa by NearerAndFarther@techhub.social
2025-09-16T00:29:41Z
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@futurebird I can see enjoying this myself, but I suspect that would be a disadvantage.
(DIR) Post #B2Nigozot3mVYTPaSW by NearerAndFarther@techhub.social
2026-01-17T16:36:15Z
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@futurebird @EricLawton Is there a section with ants in The Once and Future King, or am I misremembering? That's the first thing that comes to mind when I think about ants in fiction, but considering how uncertain I am, it's probably not a great example!