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I teach several different audiences how to use AI to find places. Sometimes we get better results with Yandex or Tineye. But geospy.ai is getting very clever with every incremental iteration.
Our dog has Cushing’s Disease which means her belly bloats when she drinks too much. So she lays on her back a lot nowadays.
Why Faster Upload Speeds?
Wondering why my home wifi upload speeds are nearly twice as fast as the download speeds. I have gigbit fibre to the home. We don’t get fibre speeds over WiFi but that’s alright.
Production Pipes are Clogged with Clippings
I have reached the end of my penultimate teaching year and still haven’t figured out how to clean out the production pipes because yet again I’ve amassed more than 15 GB of stray academic work on my laptop. I should be able to use a system that prevents me from harboring digital stash. …
Wouldn't find that on my GSM Phone
When my teenagers ask me what’s different between their iPhones and the 1995 vintage mobile phone in my gadget drawer, I tell them to read about the heat death of the internet www.takahe.org.nz/heat-deat… because that’s a good take on the distinction between our connected lives …
Throwback to my trans-Atlantic days
I have a daily throwback album and that means I can see things from the 80s like the seats I used to occupy while flying free across the Atlantic.
The value of local files
I am a deep believer in Obsidian. Its devs continue improving desktop services, mobile software, and the sync infrastructure. Its prime focus remains on the idea that people can and own their files locally–on their devices. There are seven people behind obsidian.md and the vision that enables …
There are more than 800,000 Ukrainian men living outside of their home country. Ukraine now denies Consular Services to those men. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/2…
Too Many Tools
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…
Connected Choices
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.
Ribbon of Tools
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 …
The European GDPR Mandate
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…
Making a Personal Chatbot
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 …
Let it sit
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.
Hard Work Hardly Not
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 …