learning – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

ChatGPT behavior-based self-reflection through analysis of artificial interaction with a digital companion, or: Have a chat with your dream partner to find out more about yourself

2025-06-13

ChatGPT can provide impressive insights, but you need a data basis for it. If you have none available, you can generate it by interacting with a digital companion.
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Downloading mp3s from an Online Course

2024-12-10

Sometimes things can be remarkably simple.
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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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ChatGPT — From Hot or Not to Attractiveness Analyzer

2024-06-05

Given the impressive image recognition capabilities of Chat GPT 4o, you can ask it for honest feedback on photos and other images — and how to improve. And if you create a dedicated ChatGPT instance, it can even be nice to a meth addict.
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Portrait Mode (90 Degree) Screen and Loving Books

2024-04-17

Putting a display in portrait mode can be surprisingly useful, esp. if you love books.
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Example of ChatGPT Writing Feedback

2024-03-09

An example of using ChatGPT to get feedback on a posting («Digital Gift Catalogue»), both regarding the general strengths and weaknesses as well as on spelling/grammar improvements.
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Education Standards in TV

2024-03-08

Uh ... apparently, it's not good.
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Recommendation: folkscanomy

2024-01-13

Damn, the Internet Archive not only has lots of books, but also lots of ... uh, interesting ones.
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Try it out for yourself

2024-01-13

If the media tells you something and you have any chance to do it yourself, do so to form your own opinion.
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Interesting Podcast on Homeschooling

2023-12-03

Very interesting perspective on Homeschooling.
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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.