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AI’s Future: Bigger and Bigger, Smaller and More Personal, or Both
I have been reading Columbia University’s legal scholar Timothy Wu’s Age of Extraction for a second time. I highly recommend this book for those interested in an analysis of the big online platforms (e.g., Google, Amazon, Facebook). With the passage … Continue reading
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Climate Scientists or the Government
The present political administration has staffed key government agencies with individuals who are more loyal to the administration than to the traditional responsibilities of the agencies they now head. In response, multiple climate scientists have banded together to offer their … Continue reading
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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
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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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