I know. More AI stuff. I am sorry. The goal is to be able to create scenarios in a target language that are in a particular environment, associated with a particular task/goal, and focused on particular vocabulary. Right now, the goal is just the opportunity to practice writing the target language with some degree of […]
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OCR and HTR: Getting handwritten text transcribed
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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Trust, details, human nature and AI responses
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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The Legend Of John Henry’s Hammer & other AI-related stuff we mostly cut from the Detox
I’m doing way too much AI-related research. It is maddening to try to grasp functional truth and applicable terms in a world of hyperbole (good and bad) and definition creep that gets tied up with every other major issue in our society. My death spiral to the root problem being capitalism is not particularly helpful […]
AI grab bag: tools, AI communication examples, documentation patterns, artifacts, etc. etc.
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. […]
Three AI workshops: 1 for worldbuilding, 1 for productivity, and 1 for non-standard uses
I did three AI workshops last week. One was focused on AI in a world building class, one for productivity and one was focused on creativity. You can tell I’m doing too much with AI based on my ads. All our AI presentations will start with the same pattern. This is a condensed version because […]
Download Flickr Gallery Photos
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 […]
A countdown timer page breakdown (with AI assistance)
I have long meant to get around to making a countdown timer page. It’s a handy thing to have for workshops and for workouts or pomadoro/productivity. There have been enough options out there that kept me from doing it. This pomadoro one is actually really nice. I could also link to a point in the […]
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Podcast Episodes for Diving Deeper into AI
Despite occasional silicon-valley-venture-capital-frosting that sticks in my craw1, I’ve been really enjoying the Latent Space AI engineering podcasts. There is technical stuff that’s beyond what I can understand at times but the majority of it is understandable, adds interesting depth to my AI knowledge, and has led to me to interesting things outside of AI. […]
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 […]