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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • I was looking for something similar for a while, like something for simple relational data with some GUI for data entry, aka “I don’t wanna write a little web app just for this”. I had used AirTable at work before at work so that’s what came to mind and my searching was basically for “open source or selfhosted alternative to AirTable”.

    Came across some decent candidates, can’t remember all the names, but the one I tried, Grist, was pretty straightforward and did the job: easy relational data setup, GUI for all basic data types including file uploads, easy to create input forms, and widgets that talk to the API and you can customize with JavaScript. Setup was easy with docker

    EDIT: other names that came up when looking were NocoDB and BaseRow ( I don’t remember why I didn’t try them for my specific needs)




  • 5G cellular is high bandwidth but very short range, so yeah they need that kind of density to maintain coverage. They installed them in a street near me and they’re placed every couple of blocks. It’s useful to think of the usual WiFi router at home: you can set up 2.4g and 5g access points. The 5g ones are faster, but have shorter range and you need to use the 2.4g one if you’re far from the router













  • It’s like all those scandals in academia recently with people catching “peer-reviewed” articles that have this sentence in them: “as a large language model, I cannot X”:

    1. scientists, especially if English is not their native language, getting a little help from AI to more clearly express their thoughts: OK to good
    2. scientists with actual results to share wholesale letting AI do the explaining for them: not so good, maybe OK
    3. scientists just using AI to take half ass lab results into something publishable: bad
    4. journals that rely on the free labor of other academics to peer review also not bothering to check: really bad
    5. mega corporations who charge bazillion dollars to allow access to reading publicly funded research happily allowing all of that to go through without the very basic of paying a copy editor a minimum wage to Ctrl + F for “As a large language model”: straight up evil