We had a request from a faculty member for the purchase of Transcribus to transcribe older handwritten Spanish and French source material. We’d done some experimenting with transcribing text using various generic AI tools previously. As a result, I decided to take an example page in French and test it across a bunch of tools. […]
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I’m building little chatbots for a German class at Middlebury. It’s a pretty solid example of a number of complications. They work (technically) and I didn’t use AI to do the programming but there are some other pieces that pop up that I think are worth documenting. Goal The goal is to have the chatbot […]
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Alan has been on top of some things happening with pinboard.in. It seems that public links to tags, searches, etc. have been shut off due to hackers attacking those urls. That’s been the social bookmarking site of choice for a number of people in my internet circles. I’m not super-social but it is important to […]
I know. So boring and . . . so predictable. I present to you a mix of things I’ve done and thought about related to AI as we try to figure out what we’re doing and how to guide others. They are totally not in the order the title implies and I do not care. […]
I took photos for my youngest’s soccer team this year. I publish them to Flickr because I like Flickr still and have been using it for 17 years (!?!). One of the parents put together a gallery for the seniors using Flickr. They then wanted to show it as a slideshow at the upcoming senior […]
It’s always interesting to see how people do things in other places. Our school in France has a lot of non-standard things going on. This one is based on the idea that overtime and recuperation time (coming in late to make up for working longer) needs to balance out for each week that starts with […]
As always occurs in places I work, we are looking to better log how we spend out time1 I do think it’s good to reflect on how you spend your time as an individual and as an organization. It’s also nice to be able to present aspects of that data with qualitative elements to paint […]
Running Outlook on a Mac is ugly business. For instance, I found out I couldn’t export a folder of emails in any functional way. I was able to drag/drop selected emails into a folder where they became eml files. I wanted a CSV of data from the emails for reporting purposes. I figured I’d try […]
I saw someone posting about how ChatGPT 4o kept miscounting the number of r’s in strawberry. They went into a long series of attempts to get it to count the correct number of r’s. It was very similar to the struggle I had trying to get ABCABC rhyme patterns. When I came across this particular […]
Another entry in my I-guess-other-people-might-have-to-write-something-like-this series of posts . . . The following is my initial attempt to contextualize Canvas data should it be requested in academic integrity investigations. This is my own opinion and doesn’t represent any place I might or might not work.<footnote>See how vague that sentence is? That means it’s basically a […]