One of the most useful technique I use to help my mental health is the practice of guilt free “doing nothing”. For me, the perfect time is when the kettle is boiling. At this time I lean against the benchtop,… Read More »A little trick for your Mental Health you can do daily that takes minimal time
Ok it’s been just over a year since Dall-E launched. Dall-E is OpenAI’s image generation tool that is now available within the paid version of ChatGPT. Back in the beginning on 2023 it was a bit of a joke about… Read More »TEXT is what Dall-E is not good at (Dec 2023)
Prompt “Engineers” hate this one! Ok so you have a prompt: Prompt: Please generate an image of an unicorn riding a bike I got these two images: The trick is: Ask ChatGPT how you can improve the prompt It seems… Read More »A simple trick to improve your ChatGPT Prompts
When you are rendering images in ChatGPT (using Dall-E) you can ask for the seed of the image to work with. Ask for the seed! The seed allows you to you get roughly the same scene to use as a base. You… Read More »Keeping a consistent scene in ChatGPT & Dall-E when rendering images
We all remember our maths teachers in school telling us that we needed to “know this stuff because you won’t have a calculator with you all the time” – well, the arrival of the mobile phone fixed that. But what… Read More »How to Have an English Teacher in your pocket with ChatGPT
My kids came home today and were talking about a problem they were given in Maths class at school. They had to work out the probability of this problem: Imagine rolling two six-sided dice and multiplying the numbers that land… Read More »Discovering the World of Probabilities with Python
I was asked to give some advice about the lessons I’ve learned from building HorseRecords. In short – go for small gains every day and don’t build your business relying on windfall gains. The small gains and the work you… Read More »Leadership Lessons From Successful Startup Founders
When working with forms in Django, there might be instances where you need to pass additional variables into the form to render extra data. Sometimes you need to pass in variables to do things like limit the choices for a… Read More »Passing custom variables into Django Forms
I was lucky enough to get a Letter to the Editor published in this week’s Southern Argus – the August 17th Edition. The Southern Argus is a local paper servicing the Fleurieu Peninsula in the southern part of South Australia.… Read More »Why AI is here to Stay
I was recently asked by a dear friend to extract some text from a PDF. I was sure that Python could do it via the pdfminer.six library. This is the code: I just put the pdf in the same directory… Read More »Extracting Text from a PDF using Python