Day archives: November 18th, 2024

visprex – visualise your CSV files in seconds

Visprex is a lightweight data visualisation tool that helps you speed up your statistical modelling and analytics workflows. Visualise your CSV files in seconds without sending your data anywhere. The main high-level features include: Quick You can visualise your data in seconds to quickly build an intuition on your dataset No need for referring to …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Behold a Digital Restoration of 655 Plates of Roses & Lilies by Pierre-Joseph Redouté

Open Culture – The Greatest Botanical Illustrator of All Time: “Pierre-Joseph Redouté made his name by painting flowers, an achievement impossible without a meticulousness that exceeds all bounds of normality. He published his three-volume collection Les Roses and his eight-volume collection Les Liliacées between 1802 and 1824, and a glance at their pages today vividly suggests the …

Subjects: Climate Change, Education

20 things you didn’t know about Google Scholar

Google Blog: “To celebrate 20 years of Google Scholar, we’re sharing some fun facts about the go-to resource for researchers worldwide. …some features available on Scholar Review a paper efficiently and effectively with AI outlines. We recently added AI outlines to Scholar PDF Reader to help you read papers both quickly and in depth. PDF …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

US Patent and Trademark Office Banned Staff From Using Generative AI

Wired – [unpaywalled] “The US Patent and Trademark Office banned the use of generative artificial intelligence for any purpose last year, citing security concerns with the technology as well as the propensity of some tools to exhibit “bias, unpredictability, and malicious behavior,” according to an April 2023 internal guidance memo obtained by WIRED through a …

Subjects: AI, E-Government, E-Records, Government Documents, Legal Research, Patent and Trademark

The rise of Bluesky, and the splintering of social

MIT Technology Review: “..Last year, we put “Twitter killers” on our list of 10 breakthrough technologies. But the breakthrough technology wasn’t the rise of one service or the decline of another. It was decentralization. At the time, I wrote: “Decentralized, or federated, social media allows for communication across independently hosted servers or platforms, using networking …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Search Engines, Social Media

America’s News Influencers

The creators and consumers in the world of news and information on social media – In the heat of the 2024 election, news influencers seemed to be everywhere. Both Republicans and Democrats credentialed content creators to cover their conventions – and encouraged influencers to share their political messages. Influencers also interviewed the candidates and held fundraisers …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines, Social Media

DOJ Will Push Google to Sell Chrome to Break Search Monopoly

Bloomberg unpaywalled – “Top Justice Department antitrust officials have decided to ask a judge to force Alphabet Inc.’s Google to sell off its Chrome browser in what would be a historic crackdown on one of the biggest tech companies in the world. The department will ask the judge, who ruled in August that Google illegally …

Subjects: AI, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Search Engines