How often has this happened to you – when you update some app, the app breaks or doesn’t work in the way it did before? 🙁 There is now a super simple script to pull backups of your favorite apps to your computer:
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It’s finally October and as you may know that means Hacktoberfest! This year the theme is open-source and AI. If you want to share Ham Radio / AI tools check out the event next week at the Medford library:
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If you’ve updated Firefox recently you may have noted tabs look rounded, circular on both sides. Does that really make sense? BrenTech channel showed the option to turn this off and it just takes a minute…
Continue reading “Turning off the new rounded tabs, Firefox 157”Ubuntu 26.04 “Resolute Raccoon”
Why is the latest Ubuntu the Resolute Trash-panda? I don’t know… but it’s just a name I guess? After updating I had to kill the process for the upgrade process then “apt upgrade” to make sure it finished… Other than that it seems a good release:
Continue reading “Ubuntu 26.04 “Resolute Raccoon””Expected Value Estimations In Finance, in Business, and in Health
Some mathematical topics can be useful in various real life cases… Expected value is one of these that can inform mathematical thinking in many practical ways. The basic formula:
Expected value = sum( Xi * Pi )
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If you’ve used Matomo (formerly Piwik) for user tracking you may know that it’s quite easy to add in the Matomo tracking code to pages or base blade.php templates… but the new AI Insights tab is empty?? And furthermore there is no instruction on how to add it to a Laravel based site which you think would be fairly common:
Continue reading “Adding Matomo AI Insights from Laravel”Outlook Lite is gone… but the web version lives on?
This week the previous Outlook Lite was discontinued, as you may have seen with the warnings in app for weeks now. The preferred Outlook app they send you to not only has 6 different tracking/advert libraries in it, the download is over 100MB! There are operating systems that are smaller than that. No thanks….
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SOME math contest in an annual celebration of math and math teaching through building content to share online.
Continue reading “It’s time! Summer of Math Exposition Contest is up again!”PSA – Warning on AI generated video/news
In recent months the AI tools have made it much easier to make realistic looking AI junk. Since this has populated on Youtube and many other platforms it’s important to not be swayed by false programming…
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If you have been following some of the news about RAM/chip shortage, and considering a new laptop, you may have been watching the news from Framework, and also the news from Purism..
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