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Or get an AMD 395 laptop or mini PC for half the price of an equivalent mac device

which explains why this tool requires a NEAR AI account to use

I tried this out on huggingface, and it has the same issue as every other multimodal AI OCR option (including MinerU, olmOCR, Gemini, ChatGPT, ...). It ignores pictures, charts, an…

Cognitive load isn't a valid or useful concept: https://edtechdev.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/cognitive-load-th... https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2024.2... Ther…

Some research: Students learn and understand college math more when the classes are contextualized (usually engineering, biology, but you can also use everyday examples). See decad…

Good to see further development in this space. Would be interesting to see how it compares to Decap CMS https://decapcms.org/ and Static CMS https://www.staticcms.org/ Me personall…

It struggles with basic math: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-is-tutoring-students-but-stil...

There are some activitypub apps that support nomadic identity like HubZilla and Streams: https://codeberg.org/streams/streams Another non-activitypub alternative is nostr, where yo…

MAA has a free, evidence-based instructional practices guide https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/curriculum%20re...

I'm not sure, but maybe GPT4All will eventually add support for it: https://gpt4all.io/

Educational researcher here. There's no such thing as a "science of reading." It's part of the highly politicized "reading wars" (see also the "math wars" which has been going on f…

Wikipedia is unfortunately biased in many areas that have any kind of controversy/disagreement. Education is one other topic where Wikipedia has a lot of bias. Wikipedia's "neutral…

Would be interesting to see this connected to YouTube, to improve upon their auto generated transcripts. There is this command line version using YouTube-dl and OpenAI's API https:…

You could do a similar 4GB RAM server setup for around $7/month using the Yunohost server app manager (free) + a VPS server host like Hetzner (or see lowendbox for others). See the…

I was curious if there are plugins for [[wiki links]] and backlinks. Best I can tell, you'd need to use this wiki link plugin for the remark markdown processor: https://github.com/…

Chemicals from tires are killing off fish, too: https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/presspacs/2022/...

There have already been responses to this criticism before, such as: https://drbenvincent.medium.com/the-dunning-kruger-effect-pr... including from David Dunning himself https://th…

Logseq is free and open source https://logseq.com/ You have to sync yourself though (for now). You can also publish to github pages. My only issues are: they are focusing more on t…

This Falstad animated circuit simulation has been the best at conceptually understanding what's going on in circuits: https://falstad.com/circuit Click on the 'Circuits' menu to se…