Tag: Gemini

  • Landscape design with Claude: My front-yard border looks great!

    Landscape design with Claude: My front-yard border looks great!

    Claude and I make a great team: I constructed a prompt for a front-border planting scheme; Claude designed a layout and recommended a list of plants; I drove to the garden centre, purchased them, and arranged for a landscaper to plant them. I can recommend landscape design with Claude!

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  • My Favorite Source of AI Insights and Entertainment: The Hard Fork podcast

    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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  • Coding with Gemini: A Personalized News Article Service

    Coding with Gemini: A Personalized News Article Service

    Have you ever wanted your own personal news feed that let you (1) browse a huge, almost real-time stream of news articles from many news sources and (2) selectively view and/or filter articles based upon central topic, keywords, perspective, publication date/time? I have that objective and am utilizing Gemini, Google’s multimodal large language model (LLM) to build such an application.

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  • Travel Planning with AI

    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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