Tech
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AI will not Replace Technical Writers
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT are fundamentally changing much of the work many of us do today. It’s going to have a profound impact but experienced technical writers still play a critical role in creating useful content. Continue reading
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Tracking Covid-19 with Jupyter Notebooks
Vermont publishes daily updated Covid-19 data via API. I used that data to do some hands-on learning with Jupyter Notebooks, Pandas dataframes, Matplotlib, and some simple Python to create my own Covid-tracking charts. Continue reading
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Teaching Programming with Human Functions
Today, in my RubyStory class, I attempted to introduce the kids to Ruby functions. I won’t go so far as to say it was a disaster, but it didn’t go particularly well. They just didn’t get it. OK. Functions are a pretty… Continue reading
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Terms of Service
Online services are going to steal all of our content and use it to enrich themselves. Or maybe they’re not. It makes for great paranoid headlines whenever a popular site updates their terms of services, but what’s really happening in… Continue reading
Terrence Dorsey 