I’ve been talking about (and playing with) ChatGPT a lot lately – the AI is an excellent tool for novice programmers to make things a little beyond their usual skill-level, and it can feed into a few neat applications. One I’ve dabbled with lately is an application that can take a Youtube URL, read the […]
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I recently finished reading Tiffany Schlain’s book “24/6”, which encourages taking a weekly “technology shabbat” where you abstain from your usual screens – such as your phone, computer, TV, and devices, for a period of 24 hours once a week. Persuaded that a little time away from the computer was valuable, I decided to give
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When life gets you down, it’s worth remembering that anybody with internet access can freely download and read the entire Harvard Classics – thousands of hours of cultivated quality reading that would have been the envy of virtually anyone in history. In a spontaneous (and perhaps over-ambitious) desire to read the whole thing, I began
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It’s been a while since I dragged myself off of Twitter and its many cousins – for those who use social media frequently, the phantom limb of its absence is often keenly felt. Many people find, despite their conscious effort, that they’ve brainlessly opened up Twitter, Reddit or Tiktok, and had been scrolling for minutes
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I’ve been playing a lot with OpenAI’s tools lately. OpenAI’s ChatGPT is amazingly powerful – frankly it’s scary. The day I installed its API I put out an article talking about some simple python scripts you can run with it, and this one is quite exciting. Last year, I was obsessed with “Obsidian”, an excellent
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Lately I’ve been hearing a lot about ChatGPT, an AI that takes and answers prompts from a user. Perhaps the best way to describe ChatGPT is to just ask it, and here’s the answer given to me by the AI: “ChatGPT is a great tool for developers who want to create powerful AI-powered chatbots. It
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As the new year approaches, many of us are planning the year to come. The old New Years Resolution is still a common practice, though at times the stats can seem a bit discouraging. According to one 2017 study, of the 41% of Americans who set new Years Resolution, only 9% felt like they’d successfully
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One of the most formative books I ever read on the fallibility of human decisionmaking was Thinking, Fast and Slow by Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahnemann. Kahnemann’s book is chock full of interesting case studies, as well as examples that exploit a bias and encourage you to try to form conclusions yourself, showcasing the sometimes hilarious,
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There’s a growing perception nowadays that we spend far too much time on our phones and computers. For many of us, that’s probably true, especially if a lot of that time is spent mindlessly (or worse, angrily) browsing social media, gaming, or watching Youtube videos when we should be working. Still, it’s important to remember
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Recently I’ve been preparing some inventory of leatherworking products that I might be able to sell at a market. At the outset I was faced with the classic problem of anyone hoping to sell their products – how much do I charge? As a hobbyist, I’d generally been fairly laissez faire with costing what I
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