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I recently spent far too much time creating a wholly unnecessary (but nice to have) app with Gemini. Everything worked perfectly in the private sandbox environment, but we couldn’t get the final Wordpress embed to function (Wordpress security?), despite numerous of Gemini’s over-confident assertions that “this time it will definitely work”. I now have NetiflyNetlify, Github Gist and Pages accounts I didn’t know I needed. Talk about yak shaving!
Tbf to AI, I know (of) a few very successful plausible bullshitters, and most of them are all over the internet it’s trained on.
This is brilliant – a piece told in screenshots (which is probably an accessibility nightmare…) showing how ChatGPT’s confident tone can make complete bullshit seem plausible at first.
Read the whole thing.
Aside from our journey home taking four hours longer than expected, we had an amusing if disconcerting experience once we set off again.
According to our dumb electronic navigator, as we left Peterborough, the closer we got to home the longer it would take us to get there - the estimated journey time somehow kept increasing the further we travelled.
Fortunately, when we got to the Black Cat roundabout, we happened to notice that staying on the A1 would save us 46 minutes. A no brainer. But our stupid satnav said nothing and would gladly have continued sending us up the junction to the A421 and down the M1 on its preferred but needlessly extended drive.
We’re up to our eyeballs in AI, but unsupervised, my toaster is a wannabe arsonist and my satnav can’t tell me the quickest way home.
Oh, ffs. First it was Porridge Radio and now it’s my beloved Kiwi Browser that’s a dead duck.
A bit late in the day, but a handy and relatively easy to use Python script that automates bulk downloading Kindle books before tomorrow.
defragg.com/bulk-download-kindle-books/ defragg.com
After “fixing” my pyromaniac toaster I have now, somehow*, reconnected my anti-social music player with the internet.
Time for a cup of tea.
*Fiddled around with various router settings.
So far so good
Six weeks into my new full-time role at work with the additional two days a week focussed on fundraising for a new youth work.
I’ve scoped about 15 potential grant funders, small and large, and submitted 4 applications or pre-applications.
It seems to be grant application season as many of the closing dates are in February and March.
Unfortunately, one funder switched their closing date to Thursday last week after previously advertising it as Friday (The Wayback Machine agrees with me). Another closed their online form the day before or on the morning of their published closing date (Friday). Luckily, perhaps, they didn’t remove the live application form page I had bookmarked so I could still submit.
It will be annoying if our applications are disregarded in these two cases, although the lesson is don’t wait until deadline day.
I’m not beating myself up about it. We only had a few days to put something together, and I was chasing/waiting on my boss to draft and agree final wording. It’s a learning curve for all of us, and lots we can do better.
AI tools were genuinely helpful, and also provided useful feedback on our applications - need to remember to do that step before submitting them next time.
A better all round social work experience for everyone involved. They should be able to move to a four day week.
Ealing Council slashes admin work by 44% with new AI tool ealing.nub.news
AI will drink all our water, use up all our electricity, take all our jobs, deliver to us online shopping and pizza and feed our timelines forever and ever with slop, before framing us on made up charges of terrorism or sexual deviancy, or just go right ahead and murder us in our beds.
Concern UK's AI ambitions could lead to water shortages bbc.com