How to use AI in your dating life responsibly and effectively
Whether you love or loathe generative AI chatbots, they’re becoming increasingly involved in the business of romance. There’s understandable skepticism about the technology’s place in dating. Still, a growing number of people are turning to AI as a de facto dating coach or relationship expert. Some use the technology to get guidance on creating a […]
How to make AI answer questions about your documents, by building RAG from scratch
In the previous post, we talked about context windows. The model has a fixed-size desk and everything has to fit on it at once. When too much is on the desk, things in the middle get missed. I ended that post with a promise: what if there was a way to give the model just […]
How to Share a Link to a Particular Phrase
This is very handy when you want to share an excerpt of writing in context, a concept that is totally lost if you just take a screenshot with a highlight. How This Works This feature is made possible by a web standard called Text fragments. It’s been built into browsers for years now; it’s just […]
How to Edit, Merge, and Split PDFs With Free Online Tools
More than 30 years after Adobe came up with it, the PDF file—portable document format—remains essential for archiving, sharing, and publishing. It’s a file type that can be opened by just about anyone on virtually any mobile or desktop device, while preserving the formatting, colors, and layout of the original document. Given the ubiquity and […]
How to Evaluate AI Agents: LLM-as-Judge Tutorial
Evaluate AI agent quality with LLM-as-Judge and trajectory analysis. Catch silent failures, wasted tokens, and hallucinations before production. Python tutorial with code. Your AI agent just returned “BA117 at 7PM ($450)” – correct answer, 5-star rating. What you didn’t see: it made 3 unnecessary API calls and hallucinated a price check. Traditional pass/fail metrics rated […]
Jim Cramer says this is how to play a market rotation — and one stock he’d buy
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said investors navigating Monday’s volatile market should use sharp pullbacks as buying opportunities rather than chasing short-lived rallies. “You go to your machine that you use for stocks,” the “Mad Money” host said. “You query it for the top ten largest losers in the S&P 500. If you like any of them…then […]
How to Watch Google I/O 2026
Google I/O is imminent. This is the annual developer event and product showcase where Google shows off all the shiny new updates to its Android operating system and other platforms, as well as new features and improvements to its artificial intelligence models. The big announcements at Google I/O usually come in the form of a […]
How to Use Google Chrome’s New AI-Powered ‘Skills’
Google Chrome just got another generative AI feature: Skills. Skills are repeatable AI prompts you can run in Chrome with a keyboard shortcut. Add it to the laundry list of AI tools Google has been injecting into all of its software. You can set up your own Skill using Gemini, Google’s chatbot, through the Chrome […]
Your Photos Are Probably Giving Away Your Location. Here’s How to Stop That
Take a photo on any digital camera or smartphone and it’s not just the pixels that are saved. The image also gets a bunch of metadata appended to it, also known as EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) data, including details of when it was taken, the device that was used to capture it, and the […]
How to Avoid Getting Locked Out of Your Google Account
Many of us have a lot of digital data locked away in our Google accounts: emails, photos, chats, documents, schedules, restaurant reviews. Losing access to that data is likely to be fairly high on the catastrophe scale. There are steps you can take before that happens to minimize the chances of you and your Google […]