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17 votes
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What AI tools are you actually using?
On my work system I mostly tend to use the Bing Copilot to help me quickly write emails and statements to prepare a document.
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Teaching coding to an eight year old with Scratch?
I have a relative whose 8 year old has shown a keen interest in coding. He even takes books out of the library about coding even though he's never done it and I dont think he understands most of...
I have a relative whose 8 year old has shown a keen interest in coding. He even takes books out of the library about coding even though he's never done it and I dont think he understands most of what he's reading. Seems like a little Bill Gates just dying to get started.
I used to teach LOGO to kids back when the dinosaurs roamed the earth and I looked at some recent versions. Its good, and the logic is all there, but the end results are fairly mundane for a kid who's already experienced amazing video games. Then I stumbled across Scratch, a much more visual programming tool and it seems to fit what we need. Scratch allows kids to make animations, simple games, even do motion detection, music all with sprites that they can manipulate using drag and drop coding blocks. Lots of online video tutorials that he can follow himself too. https://scratch.mit.edu/
Before I dive headlong into Scratch, just wondering if there are other even better tools for teaching coding to kids? Or what your experience might be with them?
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Introducing Mozilla Monitor Plus, a new tool to automatically remove your personal information from data broker sites
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Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware, researchers say
28 votes -
Tool safety
7 votes -
Google’s new AI-powered search tools are not coming for anyone’s job
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FediDB - Metrics and developer tools for ActivityPub servers
3 votes -
These new tools let you see for yourself how biased AI image models are
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Adobe announces Firefly, generative AI tooling inside of Adobe Creative Suite products
11 votes -
UChicago scientists develop new tool to protect artists from AI mimicry
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Toolformer: Language models can teach themselves to use tools
11 votes -
FutureTools - A site that collects and organizes all the AI tools
9 votes -
Getty Images is suing the creators of AI art tool Stable Diffusion for scraping its content
14 votes -
Apple's Self Repair Program toolkit weighs seventy-nine pounds
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How to turn your smartphone into a flatbed scanner to sign forms or digitize text
6 votes -
Cricut backs off plan to add subscription fee to millions of devices
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Cricut now wants users to pay extra for unlimited use of the cutting machines they already own
21 votes -
Tools for colorizing old photos and enhancing old videos | No Sweat Tech
6 votes -
Tool for adding trigger warnings to links
6 votes -
Checking the End Of Life dates for various tools and technologies
6 votes -
How do you design a Proof of Concept project for a new dev/test tool?
Input wanted for an article. Let's say that your company is considering the purchase of an expensive new application to help in the company's software development. The demo looks great, and the...
Input wanted for an article.
Let's say that your company is considering the purchase of an expensive new application to help in the company's software development. The demo looks great, and the feature list makes it sound perfect for your needs. So your Management arranges for a proof of concept license to find out if the software is worth the hefty investment. The boss comes to you to ask you to be in charge of the PoC project.
I'm aiming to write an article to help developers, devops, and testers determine if a given vendor's application meets the company's needs. The only assumption I'm making is that the software is expensive; if it's cheap, the easy answer is, "Buy a copy for a small team and see what they think." And I'm thinking in terms of development software rather than enterprise tools (e.g. cloud-based backup) though I suspect many of the practices are similar.
Aside: Note that this project is beyond "Decide if we need such a thing." In this scenario, everyone agrees that purchasing a tool is a good idea, and they agree on the baseline requirements. The issue is whether this is the right software for the job.
So, how do you go about it? I'm sure that it's more than "Get a copy and poke at it randomly." How did (or would) you go about designing a PoC project? If you've been involved in such a project in the past (particularly if the purchase wasn't ideal), what advice could someone have given you to help you make a better choice? I want to create a useful guide that applies to any "enterprise-class" purchase.
For example: Do you recommend that the PoC period be based on time (N months) or workload (N transactions)? How do you decide who should be on the PoC team? What's involved in putting together a comprehensive list of requirements (e.g. integrates with OurFavoredDatabase, meets performance goals of X), creating a test suite that exercises what the software dev product does, and evaluating the results? ...and what am I not thinking of, that I should?
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Obsidian is now in public beta - A knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files
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Jitsi Meet: Secure, fully featured, and completely free video conferencing
26 votes -
Apple will give indie repair shops the tools to fix iPhones
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Facebook moves to block ad transparency tools- including ours
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A collection of nerdy interviews asking people what they use to get the job done
9 votes -
Panopticlick: How unique is your browser?
29 votes