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⚡🔌ℂlaire 𝔻anielle ℂassidy♾️

Some numbers. $2,500 is left on our fundraiser. We're halfway. I'd freaking love to hit that.

But if we can't, bare-bones I need $300 for a generator rental (we are off-grid and fully self-powered. More funds and I'll do bigger solar this gear), $100 for educational decor, and I pulled $700 from my (meager) savings for poorer campers already.

$1,100 would do a LOT.

gofundme.com/f/there-u-glow-ra

Two people dressed in femme outfits leaning in opposite directions each helping two younger kids with a soldering project on folding tables outdoors in a pop-up tent. Behind them hang colorful posters talking about electronics.
A woman in an aesthetic outfit is standing in front of a large group of colorfully dressed people showing off something on an iPad. Behind her are various glowing LED projects.
A glowing blue tent with a rainbow sign at the top that says "There U Glow" at the top has green overlayed text. The text reads "An all femme and queer founded, designed and run electronics camp in Portland, Oregon We are aggressively grassroots and rudely dedicated to femme folks who are freshly interested and/or fiercely expert in technical skill. We kick ass and open our source in equal measure. Keep track, we won’t stop." At the bottom is "www.thereuglow.club"
#womeninstem#TechNews#TechTrends
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Anthony Accioly

Another week, another "revolutionary" LLM has been released. And here we go again. Everyone rushes to create an account, play with it, and share their opinions on social media.

LLMs are the new JavaScript frameworks... Except they take, well, a bit more than an open-source developer and a laptop to build.

Is anyone else feeling LLM fatigue? Wondering if it’s even worth creating an account to test yet another tool?

#TechTrends#LLMFatigue
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Futurist Jim Carroll

Daily Inspiration: "Every single trend is both an existential threat and a transformative opportunity at the same moment in time!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

The buzz is that everyone is going to lose their job.

After all, that's what the media is telling everyone with breathless coverage such as this headline from the Washington Post: "ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners." The subheading? "Technology used to automate dirty and repetitive jobs. Now, artificial intelligence chatbots are coming after high-paid ones."

This is the topic I took on two days ago when five Chicago area contractor union organizations had me in for a packed session on the impact of AI on the construction industry. Known as MARBA (the Mid-American Regional Bargaining Association), the organizations that participated in bringing me included the Great Lakes Construction Association (GLCA), Midwest Wall & Ceiling Contractors Association, Chicagoland AGC, the Mason Contractors Association of Greater Chicago, and the Underground Contractors Association.

Think about what these folks have been hearing - that AI is going to doom the typical construction worker, and that robots will be doing all the work. It's all a part of the hype and hysteria that surrounds AI, so let's take a look at how I took that topic on during my talk, by going through the slides I shared.

#AIImpact #Innovation #FutureOfWork #Automation #Opportunity #Adaptability #Transformation #WorkSmarter #JobEvolution #techtrends

Original post: jimcarroll.com/2024/10/daily-i

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Futurist Jim Carroll

Daily Inspiration: "Innovation? Fix things faster!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

Let me introduce you to a fellow named Ben Fortin.

He's a young fellow, in the city in which I live - Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Being of a generation that combines tech-savvy skills with a desire to 'fix things fast,' his story demonstrates what is possible in today's world.

Imagine this. He's sitting around, waiting for a bus, not knowing when it is going to show up, and decides at that moment that he should write a program that will help everyone waiting for a bus in the city to know when one is going to arrive.

I discovered this fact one day when I signed into Facebook and my feed popped up with this post.

Here's what Ben wrote that day:

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"I was tired of standing at a bus stop and wondering where my bus was, as buses in Guelph are often running late. I discovered that Guelph provides access to real time GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification) data through their open data portal. Knowing this, and with an interest in doing fun things with publicly available data, I set out to display the locations of all the buses on a simple map. I later added the ability to view a bus' route outline. My friend Michael took an interest and made several great improvements to the app including displaying all the UI controls on the map element itself, the ability to view multiple routes at once, and the ability to view a route's stops."

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Want to see it in action? Visit guelph-transit-map.ca. All that data is in real-time. At this very moment.

In this world of open data, APIs, and collaborative sharing, innovation can happen faster than you think!

**#Innovation** **#APIs** **#OpenData** **#Collaboration** **#TechSolutions** **#FastInnovation** **#ProblemSolving** **#RealTimeData** **#TechTrends**

jimcarroll.com/2024/10/daily-i

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