# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# Usage:
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users View list of users and latest twt date.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt View all twts.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash View all twts for a conversation subject.
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# Options:
# uri Filter to show a specific users twts.
# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
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# twt range = 1 6
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/fxbcufa
I used to be a big fan of a service called cocalc, which you could also self host. It was kind of an integrated math, data science, research, writing, and teaching platform.
I hadn't run it in awhile, and when I checked in with it today I found their web site brags that cocalc is now "extensively integrated with ChatGPT".
Which means I can't use it anymore, and frankly anyone doing anything serious shouldn't use it either. Very disappointing.
@abucci That is very disappointing indeed. Not that I ever used it, first I heard of it. Was it any good at the time? 🤔
@abucci That is very disappointing indeed. Not that I ever used it, first I heard of it. Was it any good at the time? 🤔
@abucci That is very disappointing indeed. Not that I ever used it, first I heard of it. Was it any good at the time? 🤔
@prologic It was super useful if you needed to do the sorts of things it did. I'm pretty sad.
At its core was Sage, a computational mathematics system, and their own version of Jupyter notebooks. So, you could do all kinds of different math stuff in a notebook environment and share that with people. But on top of that, there was a chat system, a collaborative editing system, a course management system (so if you were teaching a class using it you could keep track of students, assignments, grades, that sort of thing), and a bunch of other stuff I never used. It all ran in a linux container with python/conda as a base, so you could also drop to a terminal, install stuff, and run X11 applications in the same environment. I never taught a class with it but I used to use it semi-regularly to experiment with ideas.
@prologic It was super useful if you needed to do the sorts of things it did. I'm pretty sad.
At its core was Sage, a computational mathematics system, and their own version of Jupyter notebooks. So, you could do all kinds of different math stuff in a notebook environment and share that with people. But on top of that, there was a chat system, a collaborative editing system, a course management system (so if you were teaching a class using it you could keep track of students, assignments, grades, that sort of thing), and a bunch of other stuff I never used. It all ran in a linux container with python/conda as a base, so you could also drop to a terminal, install stuff in the container, and run X11 applications in the same environment. I never taught a class with it but I used to use it semi-regularly to experiment with ideas.