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/
Check out Ethan’s quick guide to using AI right now here: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/using-ai-right-now-a-quick-guide
Using ChatGPT for other, or is it all (?), work
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 what I...
Using ChatGPT for other, or is it all (?), work
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 what I...
Extracting text with manual steps
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...
Save the manuals, always – AppleWorks 6
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...
Musings – Prompting, productivity, and context
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 myself reminding...
Always clever Google
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...
Comparing LLM responses
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...