Learning – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Generative AI Chicken Test Short Comparison

2025-02-23

Just a quick comparison of the answers of ChatGPT, Gab AI, and Grok to the Chicken Test.
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Calisca Writing Editor-Role Update

2025-01-17

Writing texts without feedback is extremely difficult. You often don't see your biases or idiosyncrasies. A good editor can help here, make you sound more like yourself, but also much better. And apparently that's a task ChatGPT can do very well.
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Calisca – A witty, incisive editor improving blog posts with forceful precision

2024-12-10

With ChatGPT (or similar Generative AI tools), you're no longer just the lone writer grappling with drafts—you can have your own digital co-author, editor, or «re-writer.»
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Downloading mp3s from an Online Course

2024-12-10

Sometimes things can be remarkably simple.
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Free RSS Reader for Mac

2024-11-24

RSS readers are a great way to stay up-to-date with academic journals, blogs, YouTube videos, and much more.
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Downloading m3u8 streams as .mp4 Videos

2024-11-24

Using ffmpeg (or vlc) to download m3u8 streams.
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Beauty Alerts

2024-11-18

Given all the emergency warning and disaster alerts, how about an App the «warns» when something beautiful is happening?
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Accessing Banned Tweets in Germany

2024-11-18

Using a tweet image generator to see banned tweets.
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Since when is ChatGPT curious?

2024-10-16

Strange when the AI starts to asking you questions in return.
Image: Niffin transformation from «The Magicians»
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Goshuin Shrine Stamp Books

2024-08-17

Beautiful idea in many Japanese shrines: a stamp that commemorates your visit there in a specialized book for it.
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BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.