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Tips on NotebookLM

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No, not directly in the way you might hope (i.e., pasting a URL and having it automatically fetch and parse the article content as a source). NotebookLM is designed to …

Tips on the Dia Browser

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

https://www.diabrowser.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCZUIm4S9QQ The most powerful ways to "hack" our new Dia browser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C25g53PC5QQ An early peek …

IDEs With AI Coding Assists

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AI Code Assistant for IDEs

  1. Google Gemini

    • Built-in for Firebase Studio
  2. GitHub Copilot

    • Visual Studio Code
    • Visual Studio
    • command-line
  3. Amazon Q Developer

    • Visual Studio Code
    • Visual Studio
    • Jet Brains
    • command-line

IDEs …

Extracting Data from PDF Files

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Sometimes, a PDF file is corrupted or encrypted making it hard to extract data from it directly. In this case, you can convert a PDF page to an image first and …