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Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Fantastic Model Held Back by Lack of Native Internet Access
The new hybrid model from Anthropic could really benefit from web browsing.
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It Takes Two to Tango. Why You Should Use GPT-4o and o1 in Tandem.
Get the best of both worlds by using GPT-4o to write prompts for o1.
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DeepSeek-R1: The Free o1 Alternative
How to use the new DeepSeek-R1 model and how it compares to o1.
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I Asked Claude to Make 5 Useful Apps. Here’s How It Went.
Can Claude help a coding-illiterate person like me create something that works?
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3 Free Sites to Compare LLMs
Pit LLMs against each other and compare their output.
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AI Can Be Funny. But It Needs Your Help.
Observations after more than a year of making joke cartoons with AI.
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5 Best LLMs You Can Use for Free
Taking stock of the current LLM landscape and the top free contenders.
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The Skeptical Writer's Guide to AI
AI as a writing partner, not a ghostwriter.
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5 Ways to Help AI Chatbots Not Sound Like AI Chatbots
Try these methods to prevent ChatGPT-speak.
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Daniel Nest
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3 Myths About AI That Just Won't Die
Let's put them to rest once and for all.
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Daniel Nest
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NotebookLM: Beginner Guide
Intro to Google's NotebookLM and a walkthrough of its features.
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Daniel Nest
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Chain-of-Thought Prompting: It’s off the Chain
A simple "trick" that forces LLMs into thinking about their response.
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