For the past week I’ve tossed and turned in bed having dreams where I’m saying “I have too many tools.” I know that means I’m caught in a corner where I’m using a large number of different software, apps, and platforms as I try to stay ahead of students who want …
I thought something sounded familiar and spotted that familiar drum beat at the end of Doc’s piece: doc.searls.com/2024/04/2…
I don’t expect to see the result of many of the choices I am making right now. I want to think I am pivoting to a new set if initiatives that will activate in the autumn of 2025 and will come into clear focus by September 2026. If that happens, everything in the run-up to 2030 will be …
“One data center can require 50 times the electricity of a typical office building, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/…
We’re creating a half day hands-on AI training course for local people, focusing mainly on learning how to make efficient prompts. The workshops will result in whimsical images and producing speech from text that was used to make images. I made myself as a Pixar character.
I still use calendars to plan and to record important events. Lately, I’ve been using Zaps and AI routines to push ideas to my calendars. I used Bing Image Creator to make this running calendar.
I put a ribbon of tools that I use every day on my Microsoft Surface Book into this post. I teach digital transformation to a different group of mid-career professionals every six weeks. I've never had a group of these tech-minded trainees in which more than 90% of those attending were using a paid …
We teach University students that if they produce surveys in order to gather data they need to ensure survey data sets containing personal info have security and privacy controls in place. If those data sets are kept outside of Europe, the survey takers can be penalised for any third party breach. …
Before there were Google Maps there was Etak: maphappenings.com/2024/04/1…
From field historian John Tierney I learned about a GPT-powered chatbot that learned from texts about daily itineraries, thoughts, and conversations with others. This customised LLM learns about political stances, meal preferences, and common stories. A simple voice cloning software lets the chatbot …
Thanks to Suw aka [Chocolate and Vodka](What to do when your mind is blank — Chocolate and Vodka), my creative block is sorted. Her advice: Let a draft sit overnight I try to never let my newsletter wait until the day it’s due, unless I’m already very clear on what I’m going to be writing. So when …
I’m a big fan of Mindmap Markmap but lately I’ve discovered it’s not rendering directly from the content I upload. Instead, it’s talking to GPT 3.5 to embellish parts of the outline I present.
I’ve been told by friends that I have a “data estate” so I think I’ll ask my AI to create signage for it.
Airport security seems to believe a “stochastic approach” foils terrorism and that is why every city, airport, terminal, gate, and TSA officer performs security duties in an entirely different and unpredictable way.
I heard my grandfather use the phrase “work comes first” and he lived life that way. Grandpa Goldbach prioritized working life over other aspects of life, such as leisure time, family, and personal interests. However, this is not the view of his great grandchildren. Some key points about …
“If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.” londondaily.com/british-w…
One of the most useful links in my current life is www.perplexity.ai/settings/… because it gives me a choice of six different LLMs during my chat sessions, including two versions of Claude that are normally not available in Europe.
For the past 23 springs I have helped students get meaningful work experiences. It’s gratifying to discover many companies feel guilty about taking on unpaid interns. But appreciative of the opportunity to inject confidence into the skills our well-intentioned students display.
I’m following a discussion on a Facebook Group that pits a local community against a solar farmer. Because of the way Perplexity.ai works, I’m being fed information about how solar fences can generate energy. The energy can flow to batteries or inverters. Here are the key points: Solar …
Obsidian’s AI Assistant is very helpful. And the Obsidian Open Source Community is spawning clever iterations every week. www.youtube.com/watch
It’s so heart-warming to see the efforts of researchers who have clever ideas that assist elderly or home-bound people. Like Olivia Waters' conversational robot. flickr.com/photos/ir…
I just got outed as an AI Enabler.
For the past four months I have worked with 85 mid-career people to enhance their working knowledge of AI services. Through their hands-on work, several have reinvented themselves, consciously creating a Irish business archetype–one that is digitally transforned.
Excellent opportunity for scammers who register domain names containing the word Twitter in them: mashable.com/article/t…
YouTube is America’s top living room streaming destination. Data from Nielsen consistently shows that Americans spend more time watching YouTube on TV sets than we do any streaming service including Netflix. www.nielsen.com/insights/…