Tag: software
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Weekly digest 41
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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Weekly digest 37
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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Improve online reading with Reader view in Firefox
This post describes the Reader View feature in Firefox, which allows users to read web pages in a clutter-free, distraction-free mode with customisable text and background settings, making it ideal for online reading.
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Automated page translation in Firefox
Firefox’s page translation feature allows users to translate web pages directly in the browser, ensuring privacy by running the language model locally. While the translations are not perfect, it’s a convenient option for simple browsing activities, without relying on cloud services or sending data to servers.
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Weekly digest 23
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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Who is responsible for building the software stack we use in higher education?
There was an interesting conversation in one of the sessions I attended, after a participant asked who is responsible for building the software we use in higher education. Universities aren’t in the business of building software, so it seems reasonable to think that we’re not going to do this well. Companies and organisations are designed…
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Open Source: Zotero (reference manager)
Zotero is a free and open-source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials (such as PDF files). Notable features include web browser integration, online syncing, generation of in-text citations, footnotes, and bibliographies, as well as integration with the word processors Microsoft Word, LibreOffice Writer, and Google Docs. It is produced by…
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Comment: Why AI is a threat to democracy—and what we can do to stop it
The developmental track of AI is a problem, and every one of us has a stake. You, me, my dad, my next-door neighbor, the guy at the Starbucks that I’m walking past right now. So what should everyday people do? Be more aware of who’s using your data and how. Take a few minutes to…
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Publish or perish: A nifty little research tool
“Publish or perish” is a great little research tool that retrieves and analyses your citations. It uses Google Scholar for the raw data and is then able to calculate the following: Total number of papers and total number of citations Average citations per paper, citations per author, papers per author, and citations per year Hirsch’s…
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Managing information 2.0
Edit (07/07/08): I need to include PDF Download, another Firefox extension that makes managing PDF documents within the browser a lot easier and more flexible. Up until the latest release, my main use of it was the option to automatically download any PDF document, rather than open it in the browser, a process that’s really…