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I wanted to extract the text from a Kindle book that describes Tai Chi postures. I wanted to convert the descriptions of each posture into an easy to read numbered list that I could put into a WordPress page. The usual method would be to open each page, use the mouse to select the text and copy it using the Kindle copy button (Cntr A and Cntr C don’t work in the Kindle Reader), then open an AI and paste the contents in and ask it to convert it. Then take the converted text and copy and paste it into a WordPress page. Unfortunately in the Reader you can copy between pages, so this becomes very tedious.
Continue reading “Using AI to solve problems”I asked an AI to analyze the math behind the 4×4 and 2×2 grid used in the Card Tracking Trick. The math also works for other square grids, although I think it would be impractical to go larger than 4×4. So what happens when you deal a 3×3 grid.
I have to admit that I am a Facebook user. So the other day the Facebook algorithm decided to show me a video of Jason Ladanye performing a self working card trick that uses a 4×4 grid of cards. See https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-PWpDE6w-Ns?feature=share. It is a great self working trick, but I rarely have the performing space for a 4×4 layout of cards.
So I do the same effect with a 2×2 grid. Here are the instructions.
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I have been playing more and more with AI. Lately I have been asking AI to write the prompts for me when I am trying to solve something. For example, I wrote a blog post using AI. I then asked the AI for a prompt to write an image to go with the article. This is what it wrote, which is much more detailed that what I would have come up with.
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