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I finally properly published an introductory Python course that I wrote a few years ago, on http://proficientpython.com/
I added interactive quizzes and Pyodide-powered code widgets with doctest runners.
Blog post overview:
https://blog.pamelafox.org/2025/06/proficient-python-free-interactive.html
Any blog entry or social media post with A. Bertram Chandler in the title gets a read. Being written by @marick never hurts.
(The above is what's called, in Mastodon land, a "CW", which used to mean "content warning" but is now often referred to as a "content wrapper": i.e., the subject line. You have been warned, or wrapped, about what I will now subject you to.) Background There is a heated
"People are random, chaotic, and unpredictable. Anyone who works with humans either routinely struggles with this, or is not paying enough attention."
Finally read @tqbf 's article. It is the latest of several blog posts that are persuading me I need to dig into agentic coding. (*)
My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/
(*) Is it at least okay that I really dislike the new word "agentic"?
The gallows humor in me wants to say:
ChatGPT thinks it’s Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
but stories like this really are scary. Then again, so is having RFK setting medical policy.
https://researchbuzz.masto.host/@researchbuzz/114689137820565673
Jesus Christ God. This is horrifying. 'One particularly alarming anecdote, due to its potential for harm in the real world: a woman who said her sister had managed her schizophrenia with medication for years — until she became hooked on ChatGPT, which told her the diagnosis was wrong, prompting her to stop the treatment that had been helping hold the condition at bay.' https://futurism.com/chatgpt-mental-illness-medications
I checked out the new SF bay area MicroCenter and discovered you can still buy a boxed copy of WordPerfect.
Sometimes it's reassuring to see something that hasn't changed in 46 years of computing history.
"I was in a meeting yesterday when we got the news that a U.S. Senator had been thrown to the ground and handcuffed during a press conference. One of my colleagues said, 'It is time. We all need to step up for some planned audacity.' I loved this phrase.
"Go out and plan some audacity this weekend!"
-- Caterina Fake's newsletter
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