If you’ve been on the internet at all lately, you’ve seen AI generated art and discussion of the impact of the tools. You’ve also probably seen a lot of hate for AI generated art. There’s a lot of drama going on, as art focused communities across the internet decide how to handle this. Does AI generated/assisted art need tagged as such? Should it be allowed at all? There’s the whole Deviant Art situation (ArsTechnica).
#Livestream courses worth it or not? Sample feedback:
> I like livestreaming as you can have multiple levels in the course depending on your background. Like this document, where you can ask also more advanced questions. +1 (livestreaming is so much more flexible. Lecture halls are easily dominated by one or a few students - whose questions others might find not interesting/important)
The fruits of academic research mostly take the form of articles that are published in specialised journals. The majority of these journals are owned by a small number of commercial publishers, who benefit from public money to achieve record profits. This situation is detrimental to research and calls for a systemic change. The open-access movement has partially succeeded in promoting better practices, but it has not managed to fight the monopolistic control of these companies. Meanwhile, the digital revolution has permitted the development of fair alternatives that can be the seeds of a new global model. This report is aimed at scholars, politicians, and institutions willing to take action to make the necessary shift happen. In the first chapter, the report reviews the history and current status of the academic publishing system. In the second chapter, it proposes a series of recommendations, based on concrete examples of solutions that have already been tested.
New blog post: Using the
@ORCID_Org API to auto-generate a list of publications for my website. ✨
Part of my intention to spend more time on my personal website since (to my knowledge) it can't be bought by an incompetent billionaire. 😄
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