Build-A-Blog
I mentioned in my last post that I pulled together this blog with AI. I want to share a bit more detail as a way of demonstrating to others some things AI can do.
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19 posts
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Hello Again, World
Read more → More from Original →I have a habit of starting lots of blogs, tumblrs, and newsletters, writing enthusiastically in them for a few years, and then letting them fade away. For a while, I've had it in my head to pull all of my old forgotten posts together into a central place, but the effort seemed insurmountable. I wasn't sure I even remembered what all my old blogs were.
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A Guide to Reading API Documentation
Read more → More from Parsons Blog →A lot of progressive data work involves moving data into and out of third-party tools. While Parsons aims to make that easier, it's still pretty hard. One skill that's really helpful is getting comfortable reading documentation, and in particular, API documentation. So: this is a primer on how to read API docs.
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Legacies of Disruption
Read more → More from Duly Noted →“Many scientists prefer not to think about politics, but the work that scientists do has always had political consequences, from the quiet tragedy of an understudied disease to the undeniable horror of a city destroyed in an instant.
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Super Princess Saves the Night
Read more → More from Duly Noted →Almost five years ago now, frustrated by the lack of trans-inclusive children’s books that my best friends’ kids had as options, I sat down and wrote a story about a tiny trans/gender non-conforming superhero named Super Princess. It’s so exciting to finally be able to put this book out into the world. This is a story about the magic of empathy and the importance of approaching the world with love instead of fear.
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Bad Things, a poem/checklist
Read more → More from Duly Noted →You did a bad thing…
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If it takes starting a war for us to meet, it will have been worth it
Read more → More from Duly Noted →So I read Kushner’s statement today, which includes the line “I am not a person who has sought the spotlight” and, well, I couldn’t help myself.
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To whom the earth belongs
Read more → More from Duly Noted →Inspired by this letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison.
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Romeo v Juliet
Read more → More from Duly Noted →The players
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When everything looks like a nail
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →I've long known the adage "When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail" but I've only recently come to appreciate its truth.
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Open Projects - Wikipedia Project Medicine
Read more → More from Open Science Collaboration Blog →*This article is the first in a series highlighting open science projects around the community. You can read the interview this article was based on: edited for clarity, unedited.*
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Chasing Paper, Part 3
Read more → More from Open Science Collaboration Blog →*This is part three of a three part post brainstorming potential improvements to the journal article format. Part one is here, part two is here.*
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The end of an era
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →I've been doing Iron Blogger, in one form or another, for almost two years now. That's over a hundred weeks of posts, with a few misses here and there, paid for in beer. I try to make each post substantive, meaningful to someone, even if just to me.
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My life in links
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →A round up of recent goings on:
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If I Were a Network Executive...
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →I recently watched Miss Representation, a documentary about how limited and disparaging portrayals of women in mainstream media hurt society. While I agree with most of the documentary, I do think it skips right over a number of amazing female characters both past and present (I started to list my favorites, but I think that's a whole other post.) Obviously individual portrayals can't make up for the overall patterns of representation, which tend to feature young, white, thin, able-bodied women playing out tired tropes. There is plenty of room for criticism there. But for me, personally, what I want even more than better female characters on my television, is explicitly feminist shows.
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We Contain Multitudes
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →I have an idea in my head for an interactive fiction story: a depressed young man sits in a cafe, waiting for a phone call from his girlfriend. Depending on what happens - what she says, whether he even gets the call, whether he talks to the older man reading a paper or the little girl playing with his shoelaces, whether he springs for the expensive sandwich and finds out he's overdrawn his account, whether an overheard phrase or a stray shadow spark a memory - the young man experiences a different future. Sometimes he reaches out for help. Sometimes he goes home and kills himself. Sometimes he lashes out in anger and hurts someone. Sometimes an instinctive, kind reaction on his part saves someone else's life.
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Tales from Sumer
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →I have another old story of mine I'd like to share. But first, let me explain something: for years and years I've been obsessed with ancient Sumer.
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Silence
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →I've put off posting my original fiction to this blog, because most of the stuff that I think is really good - that I'm really proud of - I'm trying to polish and submit for publication. Which leaves the 'halfway decent' and the 'truly terrible'. No one will ever get to hear the truly terrible, except for maybe my cat, but the halfway decent\... the halfway decent I'm going to start sharing here.
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A Christmas Present
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →Ah, Christmas Eve in a Jewish/agnostic household. My tummy is full of Chinese food and my stockings stuffed with feet.