Elmer Masters

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I am a full stack web developer focused on LAMP, Drupal, and Wordpress, IT manager, and occasional consultant. I’ve managed IT departments at a Emory and Cornell law schools, and started my professional career as a reference law librarian while working my way through law school at Syracuse. I’m the chief technologist for CALI, the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Education, a consortium of US law schools.
I've been building systems for legal ed and accessing the law for over 30 years.
Websitehttps://www.symphora.com
Follow My Bloghttps://law.builders/@[email protected]ra.com
Where I workhttps://www.cali.org
Elmer MastersJul 8, 2023
Started training a small BERT model yesterday afternoon using generic data. So far so good. Extra cooling and a round of software updates seems to help with temperatures and performance. If it keeps running it should finish in about 25 hours or around 1:30 PM ET on 7/9/2023.
If it finishes, and the model works, in going to delve into how to prepare some relevant legal ed data for training a model. Question: what can we do with a model trained on everything a 1L needs to learn?
#legaleduction
Elmer MastersJul 8, 2023
Ryan CordellJul 7, 2023

My new social media app is called Grouse. You can only post criticism of the 3,000 other new social media apps.

Posts are called “Gripes.” No likes or reposts—just one button to “Commiserate.” If a Gripe receives enough Commiseration it’s elevated by the algorithm into a “Complaint.”

Also there’s an academic version called “Faculty Meeting.”

Elmer MastersJul 8, 2023
Jason ScottJul 8, 2023
So on one level AI is causing everyone stress but I asked for a Lee Harvey Oswald corporate branding logo and
Elmer MastersJul 6, 2023
elmerJul 6, 2023

Here’s a great quick start guide to getting Jupyter Notebook and Lab up and running with the Miniconda environment in WSL2 running Ubuntu. When you’re finished walking through the steps you’ll have a great data science space up and running on your Windows machine.

I am going to explain how to configure Windows 10 and Miniconda to work with Notebooks using WSL2

Source: Configuring Jupyter Notebook in Windows Subsystem Linux (WSL2) | by Cristian Saavedra Desmoineaux | Towards Data Science

#jupyter-lab #jupyter-notebook #miniconda #python #windows-subsystem-for-linux #wsl2

https://www.symphora.com/2023/07/configuring-jupyter-notebook-in-windows-subsystem-linux-wsl2-by-cristian-saavedra-desmoineaux-towards-data-science/

Elmer MastersJul 5, 2023
David ColarussoJul 5, 2023
FWIW, my lab @SuffolkLITLab works on market failures (e.g., providing assistance to folks who can't afford traditional legal assistance). Money is a constant battle because we're trying to help folks who don't have any. If you happen to be rich or know someone who is, please let them know that we take donations, and we even have a membership model if they like their names on things. See https://suffolklitlab.org/docs/affiliates.pdf [And yes, we're a 501(c)(3)] #law #LawFedi #donate #charity
Elmer MastersJul 3, 2023
Jason MorrisJul 3, 2023
Here's some promising results: under the hood a GPT-powered agent chose a strategy of 1. Collecting an ontology from a Blawx endpoint, 2. Encoding facts in that ontology, 3. Sending those facts to the "interview" endpoint, and 4. Generating a natural language statement of the answer. The interface still looks like ChatGPT, but by giving it the ability to use Blawx as a tool to solve problems, there is no risk of hallucination, and the reasons are explainable. #RulesAsCode #LawFedi #LegalTech
Elmer MastersJul 3, 2023
Jason MorrisJul 3, 2023

OK, I've gone as far as I can go without GPT4 API access. Extremely promising results, but I'm stymied by 3.5-turbo.

Anyone out there have a license they are in a position to create and share a key for? The prototyping is low volume, and I'm happy to compensate for the tokens if required. #LawFedi #LegalTech #GPT4

Elmer MastersJul 3, 2023
If you missed #CALIcon23 a couple of weeks a go, we got you covered. Here are all the conference sessions right there on YouTube in a one convenient playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbHXrwmlOuqnW8yz7cpTF9UQbWaN9RkIS
CALIcon2023 at Penn-Carey School of Law, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, June 15-16, 2023 (Conference website: https://2023.calicon.org)

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Peggy Heinkel-WolfeJul 2, 2023

The FCC is accepting applications for new, low-power, community radio stations the first week of November.

This is huge, you guys, this window rarely opens (the last time was 2013), and as you know, KUZU shows one way LPFM can be a foundation to build valuable community information resources.

The Grassroots Radio folks are holding a conference in West Virginia to help folks out with this.

Please boost and share.

#radio
#community
#local
#journalism

https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/lpfm

Low Power FM (LPFM) Broadcast Radio Stations

In the following sections, we provide some basic information about Low Power (LPFM) radio stations (licensed service) and the related application processes. Contents   Introduction    LPFM Filing Window Periods    Find LPFM Records via the FM Query    Low Power FM Opportunities Map    LPFM Channel Finder    LPFM Notes    LPFM Service Rules    Related Information    LPFM Documents (includes recent items)    LPFM License Process Frequently Asked Questions (separate page)