This story from Bloomberg reinforces why I never check my students’ work for Gen AI usage. Come on, I assume they are ALL using Gen AI tools (just like me). The onus is on me to design class assignments that…
According to Similarweb, ChatGPT is now the 11th most popular website in the world: “ChatGPT has been topping its web traffic records for months now, with September 2024 traffic up 112% year-over-year (YoY) to 3.1 billion visits, according to Similarweb…
I took some time out to “train” Midjourney on my sense of aesthetics. It’s simply doing a long quiz where you study hundreds of image pairs and choose the image that you like. I’m into colorful and contrasty images, and…
Another thing checked off my bucket list – learning how to upgrade the WiFi chip in my laptop. I recently upgraded my home broadband network to 10Gbps and WiFi 7, so I have been upgrading the different devices in the…
I use the Miro virtual whiteboard in my NTU classes and workshops for group brainstorming and sharing of visuals. Miro just rolled out a new feature where Generative AI can compile inputs from users into neat summaries, briefs and research…
I saw this ebook “100 Simple Things You Can Do To Prevent Alzheimer’s and Age-Related Memory Loss” by Jean Carper for sale on the Kindle Store. I decided to borrow the ebook from the National Library and read the contents…
Last week, I had the opportunity to bring together the leadership lessons I learned over 25 years in a new workshop for Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University Singapore. Titled “EQ and Communication for Leaders“, the workshop was part of…
I was reading the book “You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a “Useless” Liberal Arts Education” when I received an email that the author, George Anders, would be visiting Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information. Wow!…
I went on CNA 938 live radio yesterday to chat with Lance Alexander and Soo Sien Tay about imparting media literacy to young people. Media literacy is already being taught in our schools to help kids think critically about the…
I was exhausted yesterday, having spent hours moving and cleaning furniture, all so that I could get a new Cat 6a Ethernet cable installed and get onto the 10Gbps highway. You see, last week, ViewQwest slashed the price of its…