by Chris Rufe | Aug 7, 2026 | AI
TQuist has a new site theme. I’m glad it is done and fresh. My first order of business was to create a template for Blog posts. I decided to use ChatGPT to help me navigate the process. My harsh opinion at the end of the process is that it looks better than...
by Chris Rufe | Oct 30, 2025 | AI
So close, yet so far away? I feel a whiplash effect it seems when ChatGPT amazes me with some esoteric explanation (remember to verify boys and girls), but then gets hung up on what seems like the simplest thing. I was having a conversation with ChatGPT. I had...
by Chris Rufe | Oct 9, 2025 | Applications
AppleWorks 6 I know nothing of AppleWorks 6 or FileMaker Pro 7. However, I was spending time recently going through old digital photos and came across some pics of stuff I was decluttering when my Dad moved from independent living to assistant living back in 2018. I...
by Chris Rufe | Sep 9, 2025 | AI
Prompting, Productivity and Context Finish the following sentence: “Blogging is so …” and yet here I am. Prompting I’ve been trying to engage people close to me as to their AI experiences and uses, either professionally or personnally. I find...
by Chris Rufe | Aug 13, 2025 | AI
Tuckahoe! I wanted information on how RAG and Live Intenet Search work with LLMs. I chose Gemini 2.5 Pro Reasoning, Math & Code for the task. The final example included as a follow up to expand on real time search included my physical location, which is freely...
by Chris Rufe | Aug 8, 2025 | AI
LLM Responses compared I thought a nice exercise would be to take a relatively simple prompt and assess how the Closed and Open models currently available compare. This is the prompt that I used: <PROMPT> I’m taking my daughter to an oral surgeon today to...
by Chris Rufe | Aug 5, 2025 | AI
Perplexed-ity? I came across this blog post from Cloudfare: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives I’ve read and heard a lot of positive things about Perplexity’s Comet browser. I want to like them and I want...
by Chris Rufe | Aug 3, 2025 | AI, News
AI Action plan Here ya go folks – this is the current administration’s AI Action Plan: https://www.ai.gov/action-plan Here are some words from the current administration about preventing “woke AI” in the federal government...
by Chris Rufe | Jul 22, 2025 | AI
One Useful Thing is the name of Ethan Mollick’s substack newsletter. Ethan is the Co-Director of the Wharton Generative AI Labs. Wharton Generative AI Labs has lots of good information including a prompt library: https://gail.wharton.upenn.edu/prompt-library/...
by Chris Rufe | Jul 9, 2025 | AI
There’s an article published at MIT that studied “Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872 This blog post was pitched as a rebuttal of sorts to the MIT study...
