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I spoke recently with Tony Redmond, a long-time friend and the primary author of the highly recommended Office 365 for IT Pros: The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Microsoft’s Cloud Office System, which he self-publishes using Gumroad. I had been wanting … Continue reading On Writing: Windows, Eternal Spring, and Books (Premium)
Historians have discovered what may be the world’s first decimal point, in an ancient manuscript written 150 years before its next known appearance. There have been many ways to split integers, but this little dot has proven uniquely powerful.Continue … Continue reading The invention of the decimal dot that changed mathematics forever
New technologies bring with them the threat of change. AI tools are one of the latest such developments. But as is often the case, when technological threats show up, they …read more Continue reading AI’s Existence Is All It Takes To Be Accused Of Being One
Thanks to parenting and life in general, [Brendan] had fallen out of the habit of writing and wasn’t happy about it. If you write anything ever, you already know there …read more Continue reading Raspi-Powered Typewriter Is a Real MUSE
For many people, taking notes using a pen and paper will always be easier and more intuitive than typing. The Nuwa Pen allows them to keep doing so, but it also digitizes what they’ve written for subsequent sharing and searchability.Continue ReadingCat… Continue reading Nuwa Pen converts text written on regular paper into digital format
Freelancers say they’re quitting to become ChatGPT whisperers. But is it a legitimate career path, or just another short-lived gold rush? Continue reading Writers Are Becoming ‘AI Prompt Engineers,’ a Job Which May or May Not Exist
“Human writing can be so beautiful. There is beauty in the human prose that computers can never and should never co-opt.” Continue reading A CompSci Student Built an App That Can Detect ChatGPT-Generated Text
Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, engineering students would take a few semesters of drafting and there would usually be a week or two of “computer-aided drafting.” In …read more Continue reading Better Coding Through Sketching
[Max Woolf] sometimes struggles to create ideal headlines for his blog posts, and decided to apply his experience with machine learning to the problem. He asked: could an AI be …read more Continue reading Blog Title Optimizer Uses AI, But How Well Does It Work?
While it is hard to tell with a photo, this robot looks more like a model of an old- fashioned clock than anything resembling a Nixie tube. It’s the kind …read more Continue reading A 3D-Printed Nixie Clock Powered By An Arduino Runs This Robot