For some time now, people have been exploring public AI models like DALL-E and GPT-3/GPT-4. From the software development standpoint, it appears that with the correct prompts, these models can generate source code that can do 80-90% of what you want (for specific tasks). Simon Willison has a great walkthrough of one of his experiments. Another area is training models on your own data. Dave Winer is working with Chat Thing to create his own personal chatbot which can answer questions about the content he has published since 1994 (Ton Ziljstra has shared some thoughts on this topic). I don’t think that these types of applications will be replacing programmers just yet, but they are already helping programmers be more productive. The uptick of people using these apps to create content is somewhat troubling, I would say the “jury is still out” on those types of use cases.
Where were you when Trump was indicted?
I was checking my email between 2:50pm and 3:00 pm on Friday, March 30, 2023. I got an email alert from the New York Times:
I then went to check CNN:
This was followed by the headline I predicted months ago:
Confirmed also by NBC News:
Hopefully, now that New York has gotten the ball rolling, the US DOJ and Fulton County, GA can release their indictments soon…
I posted a question on Dave Winer’s chatbot about fat pages, got a decent response!
John Johnston notes a podcast on a WordPress plugin (Friends) for a social network (although back in 2021). Seems to be lots of activity in the social area – why not MyStatusTool and MST-PHP?
My Micro.blog glossary plugin is now updated and working!
Frank McPherson would like a personal search engine for his writing rather than an AI. I don’t think I have enough online writing to make use of an AI of my writing.
I like how Ken Smith continues to write about activism (Indiana legislature, lack of journalism influence, etc.), but what I don’t like is how he does not link to any resources of people who are in this fight (like this list of resources I put together and referenced here). Ken, please make an effort to add this type of material to future posts.
I have been working on developing a glossary plugin for Micro.blog, and that has been taking up my time the past few weeks. I plan to get back to MyStatusTool development, as well as some blogging.
I like reading Jack Baty’s stream of ideas writing, thought I would give it a try…
Glossary plugin now available for Micro.blog and Hugo sites
As a result of this thread, I have developed a glossary plugin for Micro.blog! Thanks to @JohnPhilpin for his review and testing. The plugin is available in the Plugins directory, and more info on using the plugin is at the Github repo. Enjoy, and let me know if there are any questions!
In addition, the shortcode and data file within the repo can be used for standalone Hugo sites, so Hugo users should take a look as well. Credits go to Brian Wisti at Random Geekery for basically developing the entire concept!