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Written in the style of Henry David Thoreau


Why exactly should I prefer to read the results of your "ChatGPT explorations", as opposed to prompting ChatGPT myself?


Well I, personally, would never have thought to prompt ChatGPT in that way. But that doesn't make me care about what it has to say on the subject...


Few people know about an instrument called the "octave uke," but to my ear it sounds as pretty as a cello.


I appreciate this (as a cello player). I didn't know about the baritone uke, thanks for the videos!


Speaking of 4(ish)-stringed instruments, the mandolin family has a whole set of instruments corresponding to all the orchestral strings. The common mandolin having a tuning identical to the violin, the mandola down a fifth with tuning matching the viola, the mandocello down an octave from the mandola to match the cello and the mandobass, like its orchestral cousin tuned in fourths EADG (this last is also the only one of the mandolin orchestra instruments to not have doubled strings in each course, although other mandolin family instruments have single strings in each course.


I found this to be an excellent, short guidebook to ChatGPT. Recommended for librarians, college professors, entrepeneurs, and policy leaders. This book is most useful to people who have already have used ChatGPT and want to expand their knowledge.


I wrote the first paragraph of this and ChatGPT wrote most of the rest. Thanks, ChatGPT. You done good.


Using a Raspberry Pi to replace the coin box on a food vending machine is a stroke of genius.


In these tough economic times, we need to promote non-purchased gift giving -- normalizing that.


These tools are delightful. I wish there was contact information for the person who created this web site.


These twitter tips I assembled for MAKE magazine might be helpful.

https://makezine.com/2014/02/14/how-to-follow-smart-people-o...

Accompanying screencast video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZUw53DiFAs


Use your social media to share links to free learning resources, including those offered by your local public libraries. Amplify (retweet) educators doing that.


Trivia Vending Machine is a very lovely example of a Raspberry Pi project. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6gs8NtXPIk The "Untrue Zoo" can be created with LiveCode Open Source (free). See https://www.his.com/~pshapiro/UntrueZooHSHTML5/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37nfon24_aY Bicycle treehouse elevator can spawn a lot of conversation and thinking -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5FSWkjFPxs Getting kids to make their own screencasts (using free screencasting tools) is always interesting and useful. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M11WT3H_DqU and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvSxhyJhfM8 Get kids into interactive fiction using Twine (free, open source). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gNKhqDr6pg


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