A little while ago, I read an article from a local online paper.
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@stefano I’m starting to see a lot of odd errors in news stories: factual, grammar and spelling, that makes me wonder how much of it is written by AI and then not checked for errors. And I’m also wondering how often I read and absorb information from a news article that should be correct, but isn’t.
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@stefano I’m starting to see a lot of odd errors in news stories: factual, grammar and spelling, that makes me wonder how much of it is written by AI and then not checked for errors. And I’m also wondering how often I read and absorb information from a news article that should be correct, but isn’t.
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@stefano Possibly not, but I am seeing spelling and grammar issues far too often, and it’s only started in the last year or so. Can’t help feeling all three are connected. I’ve read something in the last couple of days about spellcheck going weird because it’s now done by AI, so it is possible.
(Found the article: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/01/ducking-annoying-why-has-iphones-autocorrect-function-gone-haywire)
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@stefano the BBC of all institutions seems to be heavily written by CBS (USA 'partner') and/or AI. Odd terms, out of context terms/words and other weirdness in many articles.
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The last day in Europe. Heading to the Berlin Brandenburg Airport.
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Gemini, mi prendi per i fondelli?
@aitech - Per usare al meglio Gemini, bisogna dirgli di non essere troppo leccapiedi
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We've looked at absorbance spectra of a bunch of magnatiles but she doesn't quite get all the details I'm trying to explain.
The joys of trying to teach a preschooler physics lol. (Having Paisley's Corner playing in the background was also a bit of a distraction but she insisted)
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Comparing spectra of the incandescent and white LED bulbs
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Fine tuning the Lego spectrometer more.
Using a maglite as the source eliminates the need for a separate collimating lens.
I also switched away from the very flaky variable slit made of a sliding brick that wouldn't stay in place if you looked at it wrong.
After some failed experiments with aluminum foil, I discovered that the round tree trunk Duplo brick was a tiny bit smaller than a nominal square 2x2 brick. When placed next to a square brick and locked in place with a plate on top you get a very consistent, repeatable slit that I'd ballpark as somewhere around 200 μm.
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Another relaxing evening playing around with soundfonts
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@staff if it weren't for all the sport bots that jam the feed it'd have been cool to keep seeing it
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@staff to be fair one can say the same about the Trending feed, in the sense that it features a pretty homogeneous side of Mastodon that focuses on the same subjects over and over (e.g. exclusive focus on U.S. issues, technology, cats when people have other pets or none at all, etc.) and this can discourage people with more varied interests or lived experiences beyond that. We should be encouraging more diversity of interests beyond those things. The Trending feed does not sufficiently do that, despite the lack of an algorithm.
(this is kind of tangential to my earlier point about moderation, but I still feel it is worth mentioning)
