Completed in 1907|!!| the spectacular Swallow Boathouse stands heads above other Lakes Region buildings used for storing watercraft.
Service Objects are a popular software design pattern in the Ruby on Rails community. They are used to extract procedural logic away from models and controllers and into their own objects.
Good article on an arcane topic that the ruby community loves to debate and discuss.
Read my manifesto on Code as an alternative to Mathematics. Code for this article can be found on this Colab Notebook should you choose to follow along. Why Kalman Filters? Kalman filters are ingenius. If you have never heard of them, then a very intuitive (and arguably reductive) way to think about them is to
What happens next() will shock you
Really good performance tips for python, pandas and numpy.
Shale - Ruby object mapper and serializer for XML, JSON and YAML
A pretty amazing, super useful package.
This article is a reference for generating migrations in your Ruby on Rails app — I cover the basics like adding columns and tables, adjusting column types (and loads more), plus some tips and tricks...
Handy exhaustive list of rails generate migration commands.
This is extremely useful. Good interesting information if you are learning to leverage the new AI LLMs.
This is a set of reminders and reviews that I could really use!
Look at any student academic-integrity policy, and you’ll find the same message: Submit work that reflects your own thinking or face discipline. But that’s not what’s going on!
I've been using setuptools and setup.py for my Python packages for a long time: I like that it works without me having to think about installing and learning any additional tools such as Flit or pip-tools or Poetry or Hatch .
Super useful somewhat demystification of the #chaotic world of #python #packaging
We curate collections of images, books, audio and film, shining a light on curiosities and wonders from a wide range of online archives. Leaning toward the surprising, the strange, and the beautiful, we hope to provide an ever-growing cabinet of curiosities for the digital age
Very cool stuff. Inspiration for creative work.
Could it even be the key to longevity?
I think generative AI tools such as DALL-E and MidJourney for images and ChatGPT for text have scrambled people’s brains a bit. What the AI is capable of, and the way it presents its output to us is genuinely amazing and it’ll mess you up when you first see it.
To thrive in a world that now includes generative AI tools like ChatGPT, students need to develop five essential skills, says professor Oguz A. Acar. Use this four-step framework to empower your students and equip them for success in the digital age.
An ok article about this very timely question.
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Just learned about this. A package that helps structured interaction with chatGPT to build software. It’s still pretty new and there will be others I am sure. But this is in the right direction!
The XRP Robotics Platform is a hands-on, comprehensive robotics platform and includes everything needed to build and program a beginner to advanced robot.
This product is excellent and appropriate for many many educational scenarios. Also check out the video about it.
Login and Background Items are increasingly common, and can cause all sorts of problems. Diagnosing and fixing them is better in Ventura.
A very useful resource!
This is the ultimate Dokku + Ruby on Rails guide — I cover running Dokku on x86 and ARM, deploying Sidekiq and Redis, dockerizing our Ruby on Rails app, and more...
Dokku is one of several do-it-yourself heroku replacements which started getting attention when Heroku terminated their free tier.
This article has been heavily referenced because Marc Andreesen is famous and opinionated.
"Standards-based grading (SBG) is an innovation in education that focuses on learning and helps increase achievement. It is often combined with updated instructional practices and culture to better engage students and foster a positive environment. This page is an introduction for parents and educators new to standards-based education."Explaining Standards Based Grading, which I think is almost the same as Specs Based Grading. Another concept I am learing about.
I am looking into the idea of ungrading or other alternative ways of dealing with assessment and grading. So expect to see more links along those lines!