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Lecture: Brains and AI – The Future of Education and Learning
UCSD Professor Terry Sejnowski will give a lecture , open to the public, at the Winn Room in the Coronado Library on Wednesday, June 10 from 6:30-7:30.
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Which future careers will be resistant to AI-driven job-losses? Let’s ask Claude
The prospect of a job apocalypse, blighting the career prospects of today’s wave of college graduates, is concerning policy-makers and parents alike. But surely there are some fields that will prove resilient? I wonder what Claude thinks…
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My Favorite Source of AI Insights and Entertainment: The Hard Fork podcast
The airwaves are full of blogs, podcasts and videos, purporting to cover the latest developments in AI. I regularly tune in to one which is not only insightful but entertaining: The New York Times tech podcast, Hard Fork. It’s now available on YouTube, outside the NYT paywall, and it’s a blast.
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Cooking with Claude: Harissa-spiced fish and shrimp tagine
As the saying goes, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. In my case, it was a staple of Middle-Eastern cooking that was being eaten, in a real-world test of a Claude-generated recipe.
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Vibe Coding with Claude: A personalized recipe generator
Fed up with following the same old recipes? Me too. After stewing on the issue for a while, I decided to put together an appetizing prompt, and have Claude rustle up a personalized recipe generator app for me. Imagine the tasty new dishes I could soon be preparing. So, Claude, let’s get cooking…
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Coding with Gemini: A Personalized News Article Service
Have you ever wanted your own personal news feed, delivering an almost real-time stream of updates on topics you care about most? I have, and so I am building an application which does just that, using Gemini, Google’s LLM.
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Travel Planning with AI
LLMs (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude) are reshaping travel planning but have different strengths and integrate in different ways with other travel ecosystem services. Their surprising power is tempered by the need for careful verification for accuracy.
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Vibe-coding with Claude: A Lunar Alignment Calculator
I recently built a Solar Alignment Calculator, with the (considerable) help of Claude. Could “we” pull off a similar trick, a Lunar Alignment Calculator, for predicting the alignment of moonsets with terrestrial landmarks?
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Claude Mythos Preview: The world confronts a superhuman machine
It may not be faster than a speeding bullet, or able to jump over tall buildings, but Anthropic’s latest large language model, Claude Mythos, is superhuman in a domain that could pose an existential risk to humans: computer hacking. What’s your response to the ‘Mythos Moment’?
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Vibe coding with Claude: An effective-focal-length calculator
How long is yours? The focal length of your camera lens, that is. Of course, you know what it is when you take the photo. But if you crop it, to what focal length does the resulting image correspond? Claude and I built an effective-focal-length calculator to figure this out.