Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia

Harsh Dattani's ~60-minute walkthrough of Google AI Studio during the workshop " Build AI Apps using Google AI Studio & Gemini AI " provides all the essentials you need to get started. Topics covered: Google AI Studio -browser-based IDE for prototyping with generative models Gemini AI - lets you access the latest generative models from Google API key - prerequisite for building apps with Gemini AI Prompt engineering Prompt Gallery  - examples of what's possible with Gemini models Fine tuning  - provides a mechanism for curating output when you have a small dataset of input/output examples System Instructions - for developers to manage prompts  idx.dev - cloud-based IDE for building Web, Android apps Focus of the workshop is on the inner loop of software development Google AI Studio provides several interfaces for prompts that are designed for different use cases

* "Treat AI assistants as a slightly-drunk knowledgeable friend" - Richard Seroter * "No matter how valuable your skills are in the market today, they may or may not be highly valued by the market over the course of your lifetime. With artificial intelligence (AI) threatening to devalue entire categories of human work, we need to be more purposeful in recognizing a key distinction: the market value of a set of skills is not the same as its human value.  ...the US has become a service economy.  Many people still don’t recognize caregiving, for example — whether for the very young or very old — as a particularly skilled profession. This is mistaken. Anyone who has ever had a teacher who changed the course of their life simply by listening knows that some people develop skills that are extremely valuable and hard to acquire. How do you listen to someone’s needs even when they’re not clearly articulated? How do you help children develop confidence and joy? How do you help pe

This Week I Learned -  *  Decision tree for Azure Compute Selection in 2018 & 2024 [Image Credit: Microsoft] *  I think EA (and in fact all computing since the very beginning of computing) has always been about “Digital Transformation”.  -  Gideon Slifkin *  How many EAs does it take to change a light bulb ?  None, that's implementation. "EA: We herd the cats to develop the plans."  *  AI is the coming together of two forces that have become more powerful over the last few decades. The first is increasing (and cheaper) computing power, often coming into smaller and smaller packages; our phones are now computationally more powerful than the very first personal computers. The second is the cumulation of data, both quantitative and qualitative, especially with social media accelerating personal data sharing. *  The threat to your job or profession, from AI, will be greater if your job is mostly mechanical, rule-based and objective, and less if it is intuitive, princip