A “You Might Like…” recommendation in a recent routine email from Academia.edu led me to Micheal Witmore’s 2010 blog post with the titillating title, “Text: A Massively Addressable Object.” At the time of its writing, Witmore was busy organizing and encouraging multi-disciplinary involvement in the Working Group for Digital Inquiry…

Humans-in-the-Loop of ‘GitHub Copilot for Disabled Developers’ The popular notion of synergy is that of “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” This idea is certainly relevant as I have ruminated and clarified my thinking about the research and program design of the proposed “GitHub Copilot for Disabled Developers” project. While the catalyst for…

Getting the Most Out of “GitHub Copilot for Disabled Developers” I read an insightful article by fast.ai’s Co-founding Researcher Jeremy Howard that set me back on my heels. His article drove me to think more deeply about the human element in my proposed GitHub Copilot for Disabled Developers research study and support program. The blog post on the fast.ai website…

I am excited to be participating in the “A Computational Periodicals Unconference: Exploring New Opportunities for Critical and Collaborative Inquiry” session on May 18th during the #DHUnbound2022 conference hosted by the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH). …

The Case for Studying the Computer Magazines Collection at the Internet Archive NOTE: This is an work-in-process draft of my next #DigitalHumanities & #AI/#ML article about my #MAGAZINEgts research. I am (pre-)publishing this to make it available in support of an opportunity to present a “lightning talk” at the upcoming closing session of the “Library as Laboratory: A New Series Exploring the…

Exploring the Research and Data Visualization Designs of the GitHub Copilot for Disabled Developers Program — In the first part of this article, I laid out the basis for a Faceted extension to the PAOH (Parallel Aggregated Ordered Hypergraph) notation of hypergraphs. Using the allusion to atoms and molecules, part one of this article focused on the Person-atoms of the design for the proposed GitHub Copilot…

Exploring the Research and Data Visualization Designs of the GitHub Copilot for Disabled Developers Program — In the initial posts to this publication, I used a 2x2 matrix model to identify the composition of the Programming Pairs to be recruited to participate in the GitHub Copilot for Disabled Developers research project and support program. The axes anchoring this model are Physical and Coding Abilities. The Physical…

It took a hashtag-based serendipitous moment to tear the blinders from my eyes to reveal the Pity Party bias in my initial thoughts on the design of the proposed #GitHubCopilot for #DisabledDevelopers support program. …

As a 70-year-old Citizen Scientist with a severe spinal cord injury, I was excited to be invited into the pilot program for GitHub’s Copilot program. Copilot is an automated programming assistance technology made possible by training Microsoft’s exclusively licensed GPT-3 advanced Machine Learning model on the Big Data mountain of…