Category: AI
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AI Is a Game-changing tool for writing code, but humans are still in the drivers’ seat (April 2025)
As I am writing this in mid-2025, AI has become a common byword of today’s world. It seems that everything just tastes better with AI. Without AI everything tastes bland. Moreover, AI will eat the world. But recently I gained some personal experiences which convinced me that while AI will be more and more useful…
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Dissecting a Coal Mine Exploration Target Report… using a Podcast?
There are many ways to use AI to analyze a technical report, but… with a Podcast? I recently tried this feature with Google NotebookLM, and the result is quite impressive. I recently received a Rare Earth Element (REE) exploration report from a mining company. The company essentially drilled hundreds of test holes and measured the…
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(Arts and AI Series) The Entropy of Creativity: A Revolution or the Decline of Human Creativity?
AI and arts – it is such a vast and fascinating topic that I intend to keep writing about this. Let’s see where I will go with this. This topic fascinates (and worries) me because arts are the souls of human beings. Without art, we lose one of the most important markers as a unique…
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How to Know If You Have Made the Right Decision: Insights from Academic Research
Recently I was presented with a very interesting and promising career opportunity. After deliberating for a long time, I decided to turn it down with profuse gratitude. After the decision was made, I cannot help but wonder: Did I make the right decision? So I decided to ask ChatGPT. What I got was surprisingly better…
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Why the US is still the engine of the world economy
Recently I listened to a podcast between its host Barry Ritholtz and Torsten Slack, chief economist at Apollo, which gave me some fresh insights on why the US economy is firing on all cylinders despite the political turmoil going on. Also, he shed lights on why China is not going to be able to a…
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What is AI good for? (Feb 2025)
We know AI can do a lot of things, but not many things well (yet). Nevertheless, people including me are using more and more AI, so it is useful to think about what it can do and do well in the real world. Recently I read a WSJ article that summarizes reasonably well the status…
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Is DeepSeek a hoax?
Today (Jan 27 2025) is a historical day for the AI-related stocks. NVADIA dropped 17% in one day. Broadcom dropped also dropped 17%, Google 4.2%, Microsoft 2.1%. All because of a Chinese AI startup called DeepSeek. We will know more as time goes on, but my initial reaction is skeptism. From what I know about…
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Visualize the AI Ecosystem
AI is all the rage these days. But few people have a clear picture of what the AI ecosystem looks like. I have been thinking about it for some time, and feel that a supply chain perspective can do the job. Not long ago, I had the good fortune of listening to one of Barry…
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A bold vision of AI Education
Recently I read about an article by Dimitri Bertsimas, who is the Vice Provost of MIT Opening Learning, that describes a vision of what he calls Universal AI: “Universal AI is a platform that involves a horizontal collection of modules covering the fundamentals of AI with an application-oriented process. “ He further details what are…
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Khanmigo Offers A Glimpse of what AI can do to help future education
I am a fan of Sal Kahn, the person who not only founded Kahn Academy, but also have been working tirelessly to help better education for the past twenty years. The fact that he does not seek a monetary profit is enough for me to respect him. And the fact that he cares for and…
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Google Colab is an awesome Python programming tool for AI and data analysis
Picture credit: Microsoft Bing Co-Pilot Image Generator One of the problems associated with learning to code is that the initial hurdle of just getting your first line of code to run is pretty high. You need to get comfortable with a command-line driven interface. You need to install multiple packages depending on your particular needs,…
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Google NotebookLM is a great tool
AI is all the rage lately. As a person of curiosity, I have found AI to be a very good assistant. It is not an ever reliable assistant, but it can do a lot of things human beings have difficulty to do. Google NotebookLM is such an example. I recently read a very interesting book…