Category: Tutorials
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How to increase memory available to VOSviewer on Windows
I've been poking at VOSviewer while helping a student figure out whether it'll be helpful for a bibliographic analysis project, and I was stymied by running out of memory when attempting to work with a large dataset. The manual (PDF) unhelpfully addresses this issue with a whole section: But there is no VOSviewer.jar file to…
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Generative AI courses for your mom
I know it's cliché, but I AM actually trying to help my mom understand Generative AI a little more (hi, mom!). I just completed this free course, and recommend it as a gentle introduction to generative AI: Destination AI: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence. It will require an investment of time, though maybe not quite the…
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Launching ChatGPT Voice Chat on an iPhone 12 with back-tap
In today's issue of Ethan Mollick's One Useful Thing, I learned that the iPhone 15 has a unique button I hadn't paid any attention to – the action button. He mentioned how the action button can be used to launch a voice chat with ChatGPT, and I found instructions at TechCrunch. But I only have…
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Seeking Alberta FOIP advice
I recently put in a FOIP request to the Alberta Executive Council and got a pretty quick response that no records exist (EC000-2024-G-10 closure letter). I asked for clarification, and received, "Based on your very specific request for a list, a thorough search was undertaken to locate the records, and it was discovered that no…
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llamafile is the new best way to run a LLM on your own computer
I lifted the title directly from Simon Willison’s post: llamafile is the new best way to run a LLM on your own computer, even though I don’t have the expertise to know if it’s the BEST way. I can tell you it’s a damn easy way, even on Windows! Simon’s explanation works on a mac,…
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Link wherever you want (YMMV)
Quite some time ago, I used a browser extension called TLDRify that allowed me to highlight some text on a web page, and it would create a link I could share that would jump a person directly to the text I had highlighted. It was a way to both create an anchor link when one…
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Jeremy Singer-Vine’s Data Liberation Project
Not to be confused with Canada's Data Liberation Initiative, Jeremy Singer-Vine is spending his time on the Data Liberation Project, "an initiative to identify, obtain, reformat, clean, document, publish, and disseminate government datasets of public interest." There's not yet a lot to look at there, but there's plenty in the pipeline. I just attended a…