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11 Apr 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Learning Pages
It was recently revealed by The Atlantic magazine that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has used LibGen, a vast database of pirated material, to train its AI models. I received a notification about this from ALCS (...
23 May 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Learning Pages
OpenAI has announced GPT-4o, its new flagship model that can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time. GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”) is a step towards a more natural human-computer interaction — it accepts any combination of text, audio, image,...
1 Apr 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Learning Pages
This month has seen quite a few changes in my online activities and an increase in earnings. PublishOx I didn't post any stories on PublishOx. Currently, my total assets are $0.76 Hive I joined Hive in December 2023 but didn't get into the swing of i...
3 Mar 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Learning Pages
“You shouldn’t interrupt my interruptions: That’s really worse than interrupting.” — T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) T.S. Eliot T.S. Eliot, born Thomas Stearns Eliot on September 26, 1888, was an influential American-British poet, essayist, playwright,...
2 Mar 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Learning Pages
December was my first month as a ‘Friend of Medium’, and the results were amazing. January’s earnings started off well but then plummeted, and February’s crashed… Friend of Medium In early December, there was a lot of interaction from other writers....
8 Nov 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Learning Pages
Pythonista is one of the best iOS apps for coding and running Python scripts. The latest version, updated for Python 3.10, no longer supports creating a Home Screen icon for running your scripts. This can be overcome with Apple’s Shortcuts app, but...
6 Nov 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Learning Pages
While drafting a series of articles about My Favourite Places and Locations, I thought that giving my readers the precise locations of these places would be a good idea. Using a zip code isn’t precise, especially in rural areas. Longitudes and latit...
