Tag: Productivity

  • Claude Goes to School: Teaching an ultra-smart pupil a new skill

    Claude Goes to School: Teaching an ultra-smart pupil a new skill

    Most people pose one-off queries to their favorite large language model, asking questions such as “What’s the most fun you can have in Coronado, with all your clothes on?” But, you can also use it to do tedious tasks that need to be carried out repeatedly — provided it knows how. That’s why I found myself teaching Claude a skill.

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  • 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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  • 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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