Issue 90: When Machine Learning Goes Wrong
The People of Ukraine are not forgotten. The Tufts University newspaper published an article this week about a multinational effort to preserve the digita...
The People of Ukraine are not forgotten. The Tufts University newspaper published an article this week about a multinational effort to preserve the digita...
The first story below is one from National Public Radio on Ukraine libraries’ efforts are undertaking. Let’s not forget the terror they are facing, the peop...
For this week’s newsletter introduction, I searched the Flikr service for photographs of libraries in Ukraine. I thought that putting a picture here at the ...
What a strange article title to type: Sanctioning Governments on the Internet. What does that even mean? Who would decide? Who would implement the decisio...
We are one week into Russia’s war against Ukraine. From here in America, it is hard to understand the reality of a country whose citizens seemed to be going...
I reached a new milestone this month. A minor one in the grand scheme of things, but one worthy of a few remarks nonetheless. This month marks my longest t...
I’ve deleted what I originally had here as newsletter-opening-banter. These are serious times. I think the world has radically changed overnight, and roughly...
The middle of February already. Time is flying; I hope you are having fun. The threads this week: Privacy-busting Fingerprints in Journal Articles Fr...
This is the web page I wish I had found when I spent the afternoon sorting through why AWS CloudFormation kept telling me: Resource handler returned mess...
The invoice is in. This reengineered blog and the reinvigorated Thursday Threads newsletter cost just US$2.51 last month. All of that cost is in the blog co...
In the past few months, I’ve created about a half-dozen projects using “serverless” infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS). (And I’m about to start ano...
Greetings from the wintery mix that is central Ohio. The local school district called off school yesterday afternoon in preparation for what came today. Al...