Old hypertext hand. President and co-founder Traction Software Inc. @TractionTeam. @roundtrip@federate.social @roundtrip.bsky.social
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Joined October 2008
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Place, not space. "Re-Place-ing Space: The Roles of Place and Space in Collaborative Systems" raction.tractionsoftware.com…
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TSI JPO launches ‘Team Staffing’ using TeamPage to organize, track, and pay subcontractors and staff for construction industries services.
‘Team Staffing’ is eligible for the Japanese Ministry of Trade’s 2023 IT Innovation subsidiary of up to 50% of the first two years’ price!
建設業界向け請負派遣業務管理ツール「チーム・スタッフィング」がIT導入補助金2023の対象ツールとして登録されました tractionsoftware.jp/traction… #TeamStaffing #IT導入補助金2023
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One of the videos was in Spanish, but I asked for a summary in English. No problem.
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Just launched the "YouTube Summary with ChatGPT" on @ProductHunt today 🙌
You can quickly access the summary of the YouTube videos you are watching with @OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Save your time before spending hours, and learn better with AI!
producthunt.com/posts/youtub…
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Wow: YouTube summarizer?! @_Glasp is going to totally change how I relate to my YouTube subscriptions! This is an aaaamazing use of #ChatGPT. Talk about a gap between those of us using tech like this & so many other people in the world though... youtube.com/watch?v=gzGjIVGe…
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#TicketToWatch on #DougDay :: The documentary "The Augmentation of Douglas Engelbart" and the Mother of All Demos /via hci.social/@mprove/109485532…
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#DougDay #OTD 9-Dec-1968 at Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francinsco, Douglas Engelbart gave is famous and groundbreaking presentation on a research center for augmenting human intellect.
hci.social/@mprove/109484190…
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I knew Providence was going to light up today but I didn't expect this! My first time photographing the Superman Building lit up in any fashion. It's been worth the wait!
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Fred Brooks was an innovator in computer design and software engineering, but his wide-ranging career also included research in computer graphics and virtual reality. Read Brooks' NYT obituary below, and his oral history interview here: archive.computerhistory.org/…
Frederick P. Brooks Jr., whose innovative work in computer design and software engineering helped shape the field of computer science, has died at 91. nyti.ms/3gGdnXC
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“Mr. Coyote seeks compensation for personal injuries, loss of business income, and mental suffering caused as a direct result of the actions and/or gross negligence of said company.” #NewYorkerArchive nyer.cm/hdNHf4P
“Grape salad was deemed universally gross, losing 83 percent of its matchups. Sauerkraut was considered a better Thanksgiving dish than grape salad. People hate grape salad about as much as they like mashed potatoes. Think about that.”
+++ Long @GQMagazine profile and deep conversation with James Cameron. Great quotes.
Spent a week in New Zealand with James Cameron while he was finishing AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER. All the stories about this man are true. Even the ones that aren’t. gq.com/story/james-cameron-p…
“…for an AI to ‘win’ at Diplomacy it needs to both understand the rules of the game efficiently but also fundamentally understand human interactions, deceptions, and cooperation, and know how to string together sentences without sounding like a malfunctioning dishwasher.” 🤖
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The famous bootprint photo was a planned soil mechanics experiment suggested by David Carrier of JSC. Buzz chose an undisturbed location and took the photo and was careful not to step on it. (I don't know if the crew was careful to avoid it for the rest of the mission.)
[With Echo devices sold at cost] "Alexa was getting a billion interactions a week, but most of those conversations were trivial commands to play music or ask about the weather." Those questions aren't monetizable.
Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022… by @RonAmadeo
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François Truffaut included an homage to L'Arroseur Arrosé in his 1957 short film Les Mistons
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In both versions of the movie, Louis Lumière used his own gardener, François Clerc, to portray the gardener