Posts tagged meta
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1 Jan, '25
I come from the future
It’s already 2025 in Aotearoa New Zealand. The universe did not collapse with the change of year. Moreover, the universe… -
30 Dec, '24
Paring down web presence
Following last year’s migration and site integration I was happy with hosting most of my writing under a single, self-hosted… -
27 Dec, '24
AI for peer review
I was reading a ‘suggested post’—that I don’t seem to be able to find again—where an academic suggested using AI… -
14 Dec, '24
Ethically and responsibly
Some Profs at uni say that we should teach students how to use LLMs (like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, etc) ethically… -
21 Nov, '24
Exciting news
Let’s set the bar at the right level: I am not having a child or moving countries. I confess that… -
18 Jul, '24
The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID)
This is a popular* dictum by systems theorist Stafford Beer, pointing out that the self-described purpose of a system (or… -
7 Jul, '24
Questions while watching Netflix
In 2022 28% of New Zealand’s total exports and 53% of the forestry exports (by value) went to China. China’s… -
20 Jun, '24
The AI House of Cards
Many of the people pushing today for AI to be used in all organisations, particularly of the ChatGPT/LLM persuasion, were… -
4 Apr, '24
Taylor & Francis made me do it
Today I received an email from Taylor & Francis letting me know that the final volume and pagination for one… -
8 Mar, '24
Tabla de salvación
༄> Mi post Tuesday evening mid-life crisis tuvo buena acogida. Como acá en Nueva Zelanda ya es viernes en la tarde,… -
3 Mar, '24
Keeping track of my links
༄> I have been using internet since 1993, which means thousands of browsed sites, broken links, storing and losing information for… -
1 Mar, '24
Background on research and memex
༄> “As we may think” by Vannevar Bush (1945), the introduction of the Memex (local copy PDF) -
29 Feb, '24
Teaching tsunami
One day you are all happy and relaxed, with plenty of time for cooking dinner of any kind. Three course… -
29 Feb, '24
Tumblr and WordPress to sell users’ data to train AI tools
༄> As if the web was not dystopian enough, all of your content in hosted sites now becomes fodder for AI… -
29 Feb, '24
memex birth
I am all the time reading and taking notes in bits and pieces of paper, that inevitably I lose. They… -
9 Nov, '23
The not-so-glamourous part of my job
Grading, grading, grading… 90 Regression Modelling final exams. -
7 May, '23
Looser social media
On 5th May I wrote something very simple and not new in Mastodon, which appeared to resonate with a few people: -
1 May, '23
Social everything buckets
In 2009, Alex Payne wrote an article about the proliferation of Everything buckets, at least in the Mac universe. Software… -
8 Apr, '23
I’m not a content creator
I struggle with the word “content”—as used in “content creator” or “content producer”—to refer to creative endeavours. Content as something… -
5 Apr, '23
Flotsam 16: new laptop
In my job I get a new laptop every 3 years or so; at least that is how it works… -
31 Jan, '23
Migration
I was thinking that I have six domain names (including the .net and .com for my surname), posts spread all… -
29 Jan, '23
Returning to the small web
It’s no secret that social media has been progressively deteriorating for, at least, ten years. Simultaneously, many of us (myself… -
28 Feb, '17
Why you shouldn’t entrust your pet to Glenstar Kennels
Travel is part of life and if you have pets, finding appropriate boarding for them is a must. This is… -
7 Apr, '15
I have seen 8 alien shape-shifting reptiles…
Some months ago I supported a PledgeMe campaign to get Matthew Dentith, who has a PhD in conspiracy theories, to… -
9 Feb, '15
My setup (early 2015 edition)
Almost 3 years ago I posted my computer setup following the model introduced by The Setup. A few things have… -
29 Jan, '15
For a better-sampling Quantum Forest
I have been writing in internet on and off—perhaps mostly off—for near 20 years, including various blog stints since July… -
28 Jan, '15
Keeping momentum
I don’t believe in New Year resolutions: the idea that people have to wait until this particular position of the… -
17 Dec, '13
Excel, fanaticism and R
This week I’ve been feeling tired of excessive fanaticism (or zealotry) of open source software (OSS) and R in general.… -
6 Apr, '13
Dealing with software impermanence
Every so often I get bored writing about statistical analyses, software and torturing data and spend time in alternative creative… -
8 Jan, '13
Remembering server installation details
I’ve been moving part of my work to university servers, where I’m just one more peasant user with little privileges.… -
24 Dec, '12
My R year
End-of-year posts are corny but, what the heck, I think I can let myself delve in to corniness once a… -
22 Dec, '12
R for inquisition
A post on high-dimensional arrays by @isomorphisms reminded me of APL and, more generally, of matrix languages, which took me… -
19 Oct, '12
Publication incentives
(This post continues discussing issues I described back in January in Academic publication boycott) -
21 May, '12
On point of view
Often times we experience mental paralysis: we can only see a problem, a situation or a person from a single… -
17 Apr, '12
My setup
Yesterday I accidentally started a dialogue in Twitter with the dude running The Setup. Tonight I decided to procrastinate in… -
26 Feb, '12
Eucalypt earthquake memories
[◉¯] This week was the first anniversary of the February 22nd earthquake in Christchurch. Between that and the first week of… -
3 Jan, '12
Deactivated Intense Debate, testing default comments
Intense Debate did not play well with Linux users, so I’m going back to WordPress’s default commenting system. Please email… -
20 Oct, '11
On R, bloggers, politics, sex, alcohol and rock & roll
Yesterday morning at 7 am I was outside walking the dog before getting a taxi to go to the airport… -
4 Oct, '11
A shoebox for data analysis
Recidivism. That’s my situation concerning this posting flotsam in/on/to the ether. I’ve tried before and, often, will change priorities after… -
21 May, '10
Publon: my simple publication Python script
After using PmWiki (PHP wiki software) for nearly five years to maintain my web site I was a bit tired… -
19 Jan, '10
Un cronopio no more
According to the nice domaintools folks, I first registered uncronopio.org on 5 February 2002. That is eight years with a… -
4 May, '06
Two hundred and counting
This is post two-hundred for this blog that started on Monday 14 July 2003. There have been gaps both on… -
6 Apr, '06
Geotagging memory lane
Google Maps continues to include some higher resolution images (if not maps) for some parts of the planet. I was…