CompSci Majors Are No Longer Safe

As Kelli Maria Korducki explains in The Atlantic, computer science is no longer the safe major. From the time I left high school, computer science degrees have been sold as one of the safest paths to job security. Through several downturns, coding jobs kept spawning and wages are very good. By the …

Plenty of mid-level tech jobs out there

Paul Kedrosky points out that all eight of the Google-based authors of the seminal “transformers” paper that helped spark the current wave of large language models have now left Google to start various AI companies. That is more people than there were senior vice presidents at Google in 2004. …

Waving to Anchor OG peeps

Waving to Anchor OG peeps who are using the one minute audio option inside IG group messaging. The Instagram kludge isn’t as elegant as the original version of Anchor v1. I doubt few will know of the casual social audio of Anchor now that the app is all-Spotify. Shout-out

The Rapid Rise of Radio in the 1920s

From Bernie Goldbach's photostream: Wondering if AI is rising as fast in the 2020s Reshaping Education with AI Listening AssistanceStart at the experience and work back toward the techSeven New Rules of Digital Transformation by Red Hat 

Welcome to Hotel Elsevier

Elsevier appears to be collecting and monetizing our personal data, sometimes without writers' consent. Data can be used to “extrapolate core working hours, vacation times, and other patterns of a person’s life.” Over 20,000 researchers now refuse to publish, review, or edit for …

Continued growth in Fediverse

From @donncha@mastodon.ie I saw mind-boggling Fediverse stats Mastodon has the most users of any Fediverse sw. There are more Fediverse servers in EU than in the US.

When ActivityPub marries RSS

Anyway, when ActivityPub and RSS merge we will have a fantastic social network along with the news reader of the world, as an open system that the Bigs will never break. We will have the online system we’ve been waiting for. Now we just have to do everything right. 😄 Dave Winer …

According to Debirdify 2.5% of the people I follow on Twitter have Fediverse accounts. Most of the people I follow are using scholar.social.

AI Art at a Watershed

Eric Bellefeuille, art director for Ubisoft in Montreal, shared some of his text-to-art spaceship blueprints created by the Midjourney AI.The game art designers I teach have dramatically increased their outputs by using AI with their artwork. You can sketch ideas that in the past would have required …