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Why You Need a Thinking Partner (like this Genius)
You may not have heard of him, but James Clerk Maxwell wrote down what we now think of as four […]
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Can AI replace me yet? A software engineering experiment
On my discussion list, I’ll be spending several weeks playing with AI to generate real-world software projects–not a toy but […]
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A change of perspective is worth 80 IQ points
We’ve all done it–struggled over some problem until a frustrating end of the day. But after “sleeping on it” and […]
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Generative AI and the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect
Author Michael Chrichton coined the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect in a 2002 speech. Paraphrasing: ‘The effect is as follows. You […]
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Learning to Think
A bit more on my educational history. It made me imagine that I hated math. I took zero math-related classes […]
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Pandas Dataframe
Of the myriad ways of integrating your own data with generative AI, this demo is particularly nicely put together. Start […]
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SCRIBE prompting
Generative AI prompting 101. There’s a lot written about how to prompt AI, especially chatbots and text-to-image generators. But I […]
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How I built an AI workstation for $500
Buying a ready-made AI workstation will cost serious dough. For example, a single RTX 4090, as of this writing, is […]
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Stephen Wolfram’s emotional roller coaster
In this video, I learned some new things as well as some new ways of thinking about the LLM space. […]
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Confabulating AI Capabilities
In an ironic plot twist, it turns out humans had been “hallucinating” (I prefer the term “confabulating”) a rationale for […]
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Free AI training for Technical Professionals (no math required)
Free training period has expired, but join the Problem Solvers Digest for more opportunities to learn. I’ve often wondered how […]
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Balisage: Where Markup and Language Models Collide…
AI and LLMs have exploded onto the scene at a conference traditionally about markup and related technologies.