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Use My Obsidian Notes Via NotebookLM
A good proportion of what I write is based on highlights and notes I have stored in Obsidian. Collaborative notetaking has always been a personal interest. There is a way to share Obsidian notes directly, but because this requires your … Continue reading
Input Token Cost of RAG-Focused AI
Andrew Karpathy has identified an issue with the way those of us who make use of AI to interact with content we have collected (RAG- retrieval-augmented generation). Each time we submit a prompt to query our designated content, the AI … Continue reading
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Layering for Learning and Insert Learning
I created the phrase “layering for learning” some years ago to describe a collection of digital tools with a specific educational purpose. The phrase refers to online services that allow educators or learners to add instructional elements to existing web … Continue reading
What we have lost. Personal Computing is Seldom Personal
I have a solid understanding of digital technology because, while not a programmer, I have a long history of relying on the technology of the day. Even years before the personal computer, I wrote hundreds of pages of my dissertation … Continue reading
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The Digital Paradox: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Screen Time and Mental Health
A recent analysis of the screen time and mental health issue (Gupta and colleagues) has labeled positions taken on the basis of the highly inconsistent findings as oversimplified, hiding more nuanced representations that can be destructive or helpful. It follows … Continue reading
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Ground News – The Facts if You are Willing to Work for Them
Online news has become the target of a good deal of deserved complaints. Many sources still existing or derived from paper papers are cutting journalists as ad revenues have dwindled. Online only sources have proliferated, but get by without actual … Continue reading
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