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Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-08-25
NotebookLM | Note Taking & Research Assistant Powered by AI websim.aiBuild AI websites through imaginary URLs. Police officers are starting to use AI chatbots to write crime reports. Will they hold up in court? – ABC News“We use the same underlying technology as ChatGPT, but we have access to more knobs and dials than an […]
Indelible Google Doc Journal Entries
About a month ago, I did round one of the form-to-Google-Docs scripting post. Since then, we’ve done some testing and things are working well. There was a desire to have the ability to rename documents. That required some rethinking. It’s also quite possible that the add commenter function wasn’t working. In any case, it had […]
Embedded Google Form 403 Error in Canvas
We found that a Google Form that was restricted to “Middlebury users only” was having issues displaying in Safari and Firefox. It returned a 403 error. It worked fine in Chrome. When it was open to the world, it worked in all browsers. The issue was the way in which the browsers treated cookies. In […]
AI Prompting Matters: Round 3
Back in April, I did the first version of this presentation. That’s roughly 4 months ago. It feels like a lot has changed since then. As I revisited the presentation, I changed quite a bit. Some of those changes were due to the technology changing. Some changed based on my experience. I listened to 7 […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-08-18
What Is Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)? | Google CloudRAG operates by first retrieving relevant information from a database using a query generated by the LLM. This retrieved information is then integrated into the LLM’s query input, enabling it to generate more accurate and contextually relevant text. RAG leverages vector databases, which store data in a […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-08-11
Interview: Aesop Rock – Sound of Boston – Boston Music BlogI read a lot everyday but it’s mostly news and science articles, not really novels—which I always assume is what people mean when they ask. But really anytime I hear a word that sounds interesting I write it down because I enjoy learning about them. […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-07-28
The Surprising Things That CSS Can Animate / Coder’s Block Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons Reading from the Clipboard in JavaScript – Frontend Masters Boost Using Chatgpt-4o to Redesign My Homepage – D’Arcy Norman dot net“I then manually removed some obsolete links and items, and the finished version of […]
EML to CSV via ChatGPT Python
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 […]
Bulk publish Pressbooks Glossary Terms
I’ve been working on an OER textbook project for some number of years. It is in Pressbooks. The latest issue has been that the textbook was imported to the grant provider’s site and for some reason the glossary terms are all set to private. There is no bulk edit option to publicize them and there […]