Category Archives: Rewriting the Textbooks

Amazing animation: 150 years of Nature papers

Each study in science forms a network that connects earlier and later papers. Researchers have examined Nature’s portion of that network. The video examines their findings while being guided through 150 years of interrelated, multidisciplinary study of Nature publications. This is very insightful. (But, personally, at first the piano is OK, but I could have… Read More »

AI tools to save time – ChatGPT et al.

Here are some AI Tools lists gathers along by reading posts on LinkedIn. From: Zain Kahn © @heykahn Try these Al tools to save 100+ hours every month: (LinkedIn Post) Presentations -> SlidesAi.io Writing Assistant -> Wordtune.com Email Assistant -> Tryellie.com Image Creation -> Midjourney.com Meeting Notes – Fireflies.ai Be a Sketch artist with Scribble… Read More »

Whisper into ChatGPT

Open AI (openai.com) Playground is a place to experiment new features. It is still in “Beta” and offers previews of what might be coming in ChatGPT, as detailed in the following YouTube video demonstrating: Voice recognition and transcribing text (while editing hums…) Use the recognized text as prompt (into ChatGPT directly) Transcribe and summarize an… Read More »

Tool Could Detect ChatGPT-Generated Work

There are concerns about classroom use of AI generated essays. See for example: “A Toolkit for Addressing AI Plagiarism in the Classroom” [Archived]. AIWritingCheck.org was created by education technology nonprofits Quill.org and CommonLit.org to assist teachers in determining whether writing was produced by humans or artificial intelligence, the organizations claimed in a news release. Another… Read More »

AI: chatGPT alternatives

GPT means Generative Pre-trained Transformer It’s been the buzz since Fall 2022, and AI is slowly creeping in our lives. I have even used ChatGPT a few times to ask questions on Python code or regular expression usage with sed. This 18min YouTube video “The AI wars: Google vs Bing (ChatGPT)” mentions 2 other AI… Read More »

ChatGPT resources

This post is to list some useful resources about ChatGPT that I just discovered through LinkedIn posts and YouTube. OpenAI Cookbook: https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook Prompt and conversation sharing This is a Google Chrome extension: https://sharegpt.com/ Add ChatGPT to RStudio Title: “Adding Chat GPT to RStudio with the GPT Studio add-in package” Link: https://youtu.be/QQfDTLExoNU RTUTOR.AI uses AI to… Read More »

Quantum computing

Wikipedia says: Quantum computing is a type of computation whose operations can harness the phenomena of quantum mechanics, such as superposition, interference, and entanglement. Devices that perform quantum computations are known as quantum computers. The rest of the article is a bit too technical. The Keysight article Quantum Computing: Top 5 Questions Answered (November 9, 2022; AuthorJenn Mullen; 8 min read) presents the… Read More »