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How I Gamified My Classroom Using AI - And Why You Should Too (Gamifying education with my 12 attempts)

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Traditional classrooms are dying. Students don’t want to be there, and professors don’t want to waste their time teaching to empty stares. I wish the theories about education worked in practice, but the reality is different. Most of the time, people are just coping — coping with the process of “must do.” They show up because they have to, not because they want to. Apart from the handful of students who are genuinely interested in the subject, professors are losing their classrooms. The disconnect is real, and it’s growing wider every semester. Most students just want to get it over with — finish the class, check the box, graduate. Professors feel the same way. They’d rather be back in their offices finishing grant applications. If there were no distinction-level degrees or student evaluations — if all the extrinsic motivations disappeared — can you imagine what school life would look like? Well, it would look just like what’s happening today. Given the state of AI today, another challe...
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H5P + Gemini = Micro Expression Test: Making Classrooms Fun with AI

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  H5P + Gemini = Micro Expression Test: Making Classrooms Fun with AI (Also published @ medium ) Let’s be honest — when students walk into class with their laptops and smartphones, traditional lectures can feel pretty stale. I’ve watched too many students zone out, scrolling through their phones, orå even playing  League of Legends in my class, instead of engaging with the lesson. That’s when I realized we need to meet them where they are and use technology to make learning actually fun. The recent release of Google’s Nano Banana model has been a game-changer for creating perfect human faces with incredible character consistency. This breakthrough made me realize that designing a game that contains real knowledge, but not an academic test looks like a game, is the ultimate solution for the young generation. They want interactive experiences, not traditional assessments. I need to teach a class about Emotions. I remembered (love) the TV show “Lie to Me,” where experts use ...
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Location: Hong Kong
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Make Ghibli Style Photos without ChatGPT or Internet

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  Make Ghibli Style Photos without ChatGPT or Internet Make Ghibli Style Photos without ChatGPT or Internet Recently, the internet exploded with excitement about using OpenAI’s ChatGPT for generating Ghibli style images, transforming real-life photos into animations. And yes, it delivers impressive results. This comes as no shock to stable diffusion and flux users— we’ve had this capability for ages. What’s truly remarkable is how we’ve moved from juggling specific checkpoints, controlnet models, and loras to achieving the same with just a few words. Not long ago, creating such transformations meant diving into technical things like lora, controlnet, and instantID. Now, OpenAI has wrapped it all into a seamless chat interface. You simply tell the chatbot what you want, and voilà — it’s done. This extends beyond Ghibli style to virtually any image aesthetic. I must admit, it’s a brilliant end-user product. Yet some of us crave more control and privacy. Thanks to years of open-s...
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Location: Canada
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What you need for BOOX ebook Debloating - Simple Steps & Better Alternatives

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  Product photo from  BOOX What you need for BOOX ebook Debloating — Simple Steps & Better Alternatives Recently I bought the BOOX color-ink T10C, which has proven exceptional for daily reading and note-taking. The nice screen saved my vision while delivering a textbook-like experience. Being Android-based, it comes with a lot of Chinese vendor applications — many thoughtfully designed with excellent UX — but several remain superfluous to my needs, particularly those requiring internet connectivity. I’ve had to do something to prevent potential data leakage and unnecessary battery consumption. Ready to transform your BOOX into a faster e-reader? Let’s strip away the unnecessary bloatware while keeping all the functionality you love. Here’s how to do it: 1. Enable USB Debugging Getting started is simple! Head to the BOOX settings menu where you’ll find USB debugging enabled by default (thanks, developers!). Already removed the BOOX launcher or using a different model? No pr...
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Location: Canada
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Transform Any Document into AI Podcasts: Your Custom Studio with Dify & ChatTTS - From Solo Lectures to Multi-Voice Interviews - Build It Your Way

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From academic papers to dynamic dialogues (podcast)? Easy. Many products are out there. Solo lectures? You bet! Your content, your style. Not long ago, Google unveiled [NotebookLM](https://notebooklm.google/), an impressive service that transforms documents into human-like podcasts. The quality is so remarkable that it's often indistinguishable from real human speech. But with google, your choice is limited. There's no way to change the tone or voice, and most importantly, the content of the dialogue cannot be modified. While Google keeps their secret sauce under wraps, including how they interact with their Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine, I've discovered some exciting open-source alternatives that give us more control and flexibility. With Dify and ChatTTS, now we can do whatever we want. If you want to make a podcast of two hosts talking, no problem. If you want to make a one-man-talking lecture, that's also EZPZ! AI-Generated Podcast / Lecture The implications of AI-gen...
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Using LLMs on Your Phone Locally in Three Easy Steps

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  This post was published here at Medium, click for details: https://medium.com/@frank.t.f.ye/using-llms-on-your-phone-locally-in-three-easy-steps-30367c3a60a3 Recently, I’ve been exploring ways to run Large Language Models locally on my phone, and I’m excited to share what I’ve learned. With the latest mobile devices packing increasingly powerful hardware, running your own AI models locally has become a reality. The recent release of smaller but capable Llama 3.2 models has made it possible to run these on both iOS and Android devices. This is particularly useful when you need to handle tasks like drafting emails in situations where you either don’t have internet access or have privacy concerns about using cloud-based AI services. iOS Users If you’re using Apple devices like me, setting up a local LLM is surprisingly straightforward. Just head to the App Store and download “LLM Farm” — it’s an impressive local LLM runner developed by Artem ( Link ) and it’s completely open-source!...
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Build your own LLM for sentiment analysis, it's free!

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Nowadays, we don't have to learn complex programming, or pay a huge amount of money to hire someone to categorize user feedback. It's super easy to set it up on our own laptop. I only spent an afternoon to build it, and with this instruction, you can build it in 30 minutes. So, build your own LLM for sentiment analysis, it's free! I'm genuinely amazed at how powerful and versatile it is. The speed at which I can analyze large volumes of text is incredible – what used to take hours now happens in mere seconds. I love the fact that I have complete control over the system, allowing me to fine-tune it for my specific needs. Whether I'm analyzing customer reviews for my small business or processing social media comments for a research project, the tool adapts seamlessly. The privacy aspect is a huge relief too. Knowing that all the data stays on my machine gives me peace of mind, especially when dealing with sensitive information. Perhaps what excites me most is the pote...
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Location: Hong Kong
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