At some point someone is going to have to write about the collapse of the insect population. Most people, I think, haven't noticed it. But I have.
Back home from Morocco all stiff and sore from the flight (but I'll survive)
English translation of my talk: Artificial Intelligence in Education: Context, Rules, and Limits https://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2024/09/artificial-intelligence-in-education.html
Slides and transcript for my presentation in Morocco today. French only for the moment; I'll provide a translation and upload audio when I can. https://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?presentation=585
just got a royalty statement for Your Linux Toolbox and apparently since it was published in 2019 I've made $14,707.16 in royalties, on 6,314 sales. So I guess around $2/sale on average. Not mad about it at all (my goal was to learn about how traditional […] [Original post on social.jvns.ca]
Falling under the category of 'important' in conference organizing... Telling the speaker where they will be speaking. ;)
Heading out the door to go to Morocco
@ben I had an incident about 18 years ago when our employers decided they would no longer provide mobile phones for researchers, only management. I got an email at midnight on a Sunday to demand I turn in my phone the next day. I responded with an unfortunately very undiplomatic email and there […]
Oh yeah, completely passed by a watershed day on Friday, I signed up to start getting my Canada pension plan payments. It's not a ton of money, but I paid into it my whole life, so I deserve to get it back.