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The goal of BHS is to meet the needs of youth by providing “culturally responsive, project-based learning while preventing summer learning loss and compensating for school disruptions among students” (Mano en Mano). Migrant families come to Downeast from Mi’kmaq First Nation communities in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, southern states, and from within Maine, including […]
In the second part of this series, Joas Pambou aims to build a more advanced version of the previous application that performs conversational analyses on images or videos, much like a chatbot assistant. This means you can ask and learn more about your input content. Joas also explores multimodal or any-to-any models that handle images, […]
Joas Pambou built an app that integrates vision language models (VLMs) and text-to-speech (TTS) AI technologies to describe images audibly with speech. This audio description tool can be a big help for people with sight challenges to understand what’s in an image. But how this does it even work? Joas explains how these AI systems […]
Emotional Architecture in Software Design 14 min read · Nov 10, 2023 Photo by Bret Kavanaugh on Unsplash Imagine sitting down at your desk to untangle a particularly complex piece of software code. Your eyes scan lines packed with logical operations and function calls. Somewhere in this intricate weave, a bug lurks, derailing the application’s […]