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I finished the four-and-a-half-hour “learning path” on LinkedIn Learning titled Career Essentials in Generative AI by Microsoft and LinkedIn. Its official description: Discover the skills needed to apply generative AI in your career. Learn the core concepts of artificial intelligence and generative AI functionality. It consists of six courses, some of which provided more new information for me than others....
I just listened to a 28-minute summary of Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself by Dr. Kristin Neff. If you have not read the book, I strongly recommend it. (Get it on Amazon, for Kindle, or on Bookshop.org.) Below, I will summarize my learning, but first, a bit of personal reflection. If you are not interested in...
I always thought that Arthur C. Clarke’s third law belongs to the realm of science fiction: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” However, I have to question this assumption due to recent developments in AI and prompt engineering. First, Prompt engineering was a science. It had rules, best practices, and formulas that worked or worked most of the...
I have been writing for a long time. For the last 28 years, that included writing for the web. I am always on the lookout for ways to get better at it. Because of the volume of writing that keeps piling up in my head, I also want to become more efficient at it. For this second goal, the 21-minute-long...
By now you must have heard about ChatGPT and maybe the idea that it can do everything instead or for you. That is at the level of hype that reminds me of a story, which might be an urban legend. Allegedly, when Windows 95 software came out in 1995, its marketing campaign was so successful that lots of people bought...
This is the first post of a (self-)educational series of posts trying to keep abreast of AI related resources. It is also a chronological repository of what I may want to be able to find again in the future. “Do We Need Librarians Now that We Have ChatGPT?” by Valerie Forrestal on May 15, 2023, in Choice360.org A useful summary...
So you want to be a Prompt Engineer? Where to start? How about taking the “How to Research and Write Using Generative AI Tools” course on LinkedIn Learning by Dave Birss, as I did? The course was a great start and below I summarize a few key takeaways from it. However, I have to warn you that just taking this...
This website went live 12 years ago today, so Happy Birthday to us! The company has existed since 1995 and has had a website since then, but the “new” domain and website was born on September 20, 2009
I love learning new skills and tools. So when I saw an ad for an interesting-looking job and found that they prefer someone who is familiar with a particular text analysis tool I never used before I jumped on the opportunity to learn more about it. That’s how I ended up taking the “NVivo 2018 Essential Training” course by David...
Hello, I am looking for a part-time (20 hr/week), online job, starting August 15, in any of these specialties: Data Analyst – I have been working as a technical analyst for 15 years; and now studying data analytics Librarian – I have an MLIS degree from a top school; have been organizing information online for 26 years; worked as a...
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