Adventures in AI (Part 6)
calarmstrong Definitely feeling some excitement -- we soft launch tomorrow! The OAME webmaster set up the page and I did some quick testing to make sure it all worked well together.…
Adventures in AI (#5)
And we're ready to push it out to a larger group! As teaching-life will do, I had a crazy week of work last week (7.5 hours of Parent/Teacher interviews --…
Adventures in AI (Part 4)
Well, the OAME AI service has been out for a day for testing. And it glitched about two hours in 😲 It was a temporary glitch and they're bound to…
Adventures in AI (Part 3)
So as described in the last post, using Microsoft's Azure to produce a knowledgeable and responsive chat service was great, except for the cost. Meanwhile, OpenAI (the producer of ChatGPT)…
Adventures in AI (Part 2)
I really enjoyed playing with MyAskAI as our first attempt at providing an Ontario/OAME lens to Artificial Intelligence-- it's a really practical and easy approach to making a knowledgeable chatbot…
Adventures in AI (Part 1 of n)
So I started working in AI and chatbots about 7 years ago and had a fair bit of success in building a service that provided answers to school-based questions ("When…
Desmos2OneNote (Version 4)
Okay, remember a few days ago when I said that Microsoft does continual improvement? I guess, kinda, so do I. You can download the file here: (and I updated it…
Desmos2OneNote (Version 2)
So the great thing about modern programming is that Microsoft products are under continual improvement -- in the "olden days" you would have to wait years between upgrades. Today, every…
OneTastic OneNote distribution now with pictures and embedded files
So I've been using OneTastic (the OneNote plugin that allows you to program macros to do things in OneNote automagically) and in the Spring, the author, Omer Atay, nudged the…
How many Spider-folk?
I thoroughly enjoyed the recent Spider-man: Across the Spider-verse movie. If you haven't seen it, be sure to watch the first movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse and then see this…