“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.
Thinking about erecting a solar fence
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/…
It is time to admit that the poster boy of EVs has tainted the brand of EV ownership
On a short trip with the kids and both are journaling with Day One.
Steve Jobs founded Apple on April 1, 1976. I wonder if he knew of multitouch back then. The new technologies spawned by Apple are portable, personalized, and engaging. Today’s parents count on 2yos mastering touch-and- swipe. I wonder if we have thought about what this happy engagement means.
I had to wear a hard hat twice this Easter.
Ted Harrison explains how your brain reads the what and where in an effective video: pca.st/episode/0…
Aduril proves there is lucrative trade in AI weaponry. www.ft.com/content/c…
Six Main Points for My AI Students
I’m doing some spring cleaning of recent training sessions and believe I can best share my impressions of various GPTs by breaking down my thoughts into six major sessions. 1. **Setting Up Your AI Introduction to AI and its capabilities Necessary hardware and software requirements …
Learning about sales workflows
I teach clever people tools of digital transformation. It’s actually a two-way process because I learn from those students. For example, I’ve refined one of my workflows after reading Agata Krawiecka’s sales workflow. Agata has a sequence of essential processes. It’s a …
Thinking about training an AI at home
Need a Factory Reset
Starting the second “return to factory settings” in my 5yo Samsung phone. The drain on the battery is exceptionally deep. There’s often a two second lag between touching an item and getting a response. But first, I’ll complete a little audit.
I remain an advocate of handwritten notes and enjoy pointing out how easy it is to incorporate cursive into digital knowledge management. www.insideview.ie/2024/01/m…
AI Data Centres Need Megabuckets of Power
I’m spending the morning training Prompt Engineers, knowing how much power they need in the background. As Michael Dempsey writes, “A normal data centre needs 32 megawatts of power … for an AI data centre it’s 80 megawatts” flowing into the bldg. Perhaps AI data …
Some helpful suggestions for people leveraging MSFT Copilot: www.youtube.com/watch
Tesla owners have long complained of occasionally erratic behavior by the cars' software, including sudden braking, missed road markings and crashes with parked emergency vehic]es. Since federal regulators began requiring automakers to report crashes involving driver-assistance systems in 2021, they …
I learned to study–really study–around 50 years ago and this guide from William J Rapaport helped: cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport…