Category: AI
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Hype, Hope, and Hard Truths: What Smil Teaches Us About Innovation
I am a fan of Bill Gates. His solutions to some of the world’s greatest problems are thoughtful and interesting and on a grand scale. Not solutions available at a personal level. One of his favorite authors is Vaclav Smil, which prompted me to read this book. In Invention and Innovation, Vaclav Smil slices through…
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Adventures in Computation: Stephen Wolfram’s Vision of the Future
I have always been interested in computation and information, which attracted me to this book. I found Adventures of a Computational Explorer, interesting, though Wolfram’s style and egotism wore thin after a while. Towards the end I found myself skimming more than reading. Though the various software programs he developed seem effective enough, I am…
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Exploring the Evolution of Information in James Gleick’s Work
I have found “information” fascinating. It seems to tie everything together. That is what attracted me to The Information.
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Resolving AI Download Errors on Windows and Ubuntu
As I have blogged in the past, I work with AI for my various activities, including my book summaries. I ask the AI for the book analyses in various files to download. In my last effort, when I went to download the files, I got an error message “File not found”. Working with AI found…
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Overcoming Challenges in Learning Electronics
I have always been interested in learning electronics, including robotics and sensors. I have started numerous times, acquiring books and kits, but never got any momentum going. Often the reason was stopping was time commitments to work and family. Now retired, time is less of an issue. The accumulation of materials in my shop was…
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Book Summaries with AI – Example
Here is an example of using AI for book summaries, starting with the prompt: I just finished listening to: Isaac Newton by James Gleick Summary of what stood out to me: Type of summary I want: Anything else to focus on: Here is the mind map generated:
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Book Summaries with AI
While driving and walking, I was listening to podcasts. But I found that the podcasts were becoming more and more commercial. The podcast guests were selling. So I started listening to books using Audible. But I can not highlight passages or take notes while driving or walking, so I turned to AI, ChatGPT, to make…
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Raspberry Pi AI Kit
I recently purchased an AI kit for the Raspberry Pi (raspberrypi.com/products/ai-kit). Sounded interesting, though I am not quite sure yet what I am going to do with it. I had not used the Raspberry Pi 5 in a bit, so it took me a little while to remember how to connect to it from my…
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Using AI To Analyze Books
I asked my son, an excellent writer, for his comments on my blog post “The Comfort Crisis” (https://deangelis.tech/2024/04/15/the-comfort-crisis/), which used AI and my notes and highlights to analyze the book. Our conversation helped clarify my thinking, but raised more questions. My initial concern was that I might be doing the book’s author a disservice by…
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The Comfort Crisis
To generate the following analysis of The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter, I read the book on Kindle and highlighted passages and took notes. I read the notes and highlights a short time later. Then I fed these to ChatGPT with a prompt that asked for an analysis that emphasized my highlights and notes. The…
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