Osaurus is the AI edge runtime for macOS.

It runs local and cloud models, exposes shared tools via MCP, and provides a native, always-on foundation for AI apps and workflows on Apple Silicon.

Handy is a cross platform, open-source, speech-to-text application for your computer

[@gla](https://mastodon.social/@gla) A couple of months ago, someone told me they allow the LLM to create its own file and use a diff tool to jump quickly from typo to typo. I think if I switch to a new system, that’s what I’ll go with.

But I would like to see your system if you have it posted somewhere.

- pleasing to the eye thanks to a nice table view
- filterable and sortable output
- interactive killing of processes
- JSON and custom formattable output
- from netstat -tulpn to somo -l
- you can find all features further down

How exactly does sakura help you?
- Just drop it in, even on existing HTML content, to get a pretty-looking website (everything “just works”)
- Quick prototyping, especially when working on backend sites and can’t yet be bothered to fidget with CSS/HTML
- Building a quick (but pretty) site/blog for your best friend or aunt!
- No need to remember tons of different class names for every other CSS framework
- Works amazingly with markdown-generated HTML pages (eliminates the need for hacks like including .img img-responsive in <img></img> tags generated from markdown-parser
- Wonderful for people who aren’t really good or interested in design as sakura is nothing but a set of reasonable defaults

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?

Jevin West and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.

<https:thebullshitmachines.com>

This is not a computer science course.

It’s a humanities course about how to learn and work and thrive in an AI world.

Neither instructor nor students need a technical background. Our instructor guide provides a choice of activities for each lesson that will easily fill an hour-long class.

The entire course is available freely online. Our 18 online lessons each take 5-10 minutes; each illuminates one core principle. They are suitable for self-study, but have been tailored for teaching in a flipped classroom.

The course is a sequel of sorts to our course (and book) Calling Bullshit. We hope that like its predecessor, it will be widely adopted worldwide.

Large language models are both powerful tools, and mindless—even dangerous—bullshit machines. We want students to explore how to resolve this dialectic.

An AI thing I'm watching play out at another org:

1: Expert A, with a deep understanding of a nuanced and difficult problem answers a question they've been given, offering several options.

2: Director B, recipient, uses an AI to summarize it and then runs it up to leadership saying, "A says this." That generated summary is subtly and very wrong.

3: A is now being held responsible for plans made based on B's AI-generated and very wrong rewriting of his recommendations.

Fun times.

We are collecting the sounds of woodlands and forests from all around the world, creating a growing soundmap bringing together aural tones and textures from the world’s woodlands.

The sounds form an open source library, to be used by anyone to listen to and create from. Selected artists will be responding to the sounds that are gathered, creating music, audio, artwork or something else incredible, to be presented at Timber Festival 2021.

Those were, of course, tree swallows in a barn.

Here's a barn swallow in a tree.

Prettier git diffs in the terminal

I may have made a thing

“Of course I like to read nontechnical books, although I read very slowly. Here are some that I heartily recommend.”—Don Knuth

😳

<https:www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/retd.html>

Git is a frustratingly useful tool that has many lesser known features that really should be on by default. Today I wrote about one of them: zdiff3. It makes merge conflicts easier to work through and frees you up for more important things.

<https:ductile.systems/zdiff3>

Made a Dutch baby! SO GOOD (and easy)!! 😋

How Canadians are hatched:

Eggs are laid in early fall and hatch mid-winter. The pucklings then make their way into the forest to forage for syrup amongst the moose.

🐦 [#MonaTheme](https://mastodon.online/tags/MonaTheme): ‘Monarrific-Akikiki

Inspired by [@Iconfactory](https://iconfactory.world/@Iconfactory) Twitterrific Light Mode Theme ‘’Akikiki’.

Link: mona-cat:60d8

[#ChaMona](https://mastodon.online/tags/ChaMona) [#MonaApp](https://mastodon.online/tags/MonaApp) [#MonarrificAkikiki](https://mastodon.online/tags/MonarrificAkikiki) [ [@MonaApp](https://mastodon.social/@MonaApp) ]

[@lethain](https://mastodon.social/@lethain) Schedule 1:1s with everyone in your org. If that's not practical, have office hours where people can sign up for a 1:1. And publish your 90-day plan.

Every time I get a new manager or leader I freak out a little about how they're going to change things. And you come with a bit of celebrity status.

The plan makes it clear what's going to happen in the next 3 months and 1:1s give people a chance to know you as a person not the famous author.

I do not photograph architecture that often. But it is a lot of fun trying something new.

[#Photography](https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/Photography?src=hash) [#Nature](https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/Nature?src=hash) [#Projekt1zu1](https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/Projekt1zu1?src=hash) [#Project1to1](https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/Project1to1?src=hash) [#Squared](https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/Squared?src=hash) [#Architecture](https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/Architecture?src=hash) [#ArchitecturePhotography](https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/ArchitecturePhotography?src=hash)