5 clever ways to break through writer’s block
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This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. Once you start scribbling a few sentences, you’re on your way.
EmbeddingGemma 2 squeezes a document into one vector as small as 128 numbers. Perplexity’s pplx-embed-v2-late stores 128 numbers for every…Continue reading on Towards AI »
Jev, OpenAI’s Decisions API, Cloudflare Clef and Strands Decider return typed choices with probabilities instead of text. Here is how…Continue reading on Towards AI »
Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging Some excellent writing advice from Michael Lynch. Michael warns against "meandering intros", misjudging your reader's existing knowledge, assuming they'll read your previous posts, and excessive formality.
AI-generated writing is becoming increasingly difficult to recognize by simply reading it. Tools such as ChatGPT can produce essays, blog posts, reports, emails, product descriptions, summaries, and technical content that often reads naturally.
Google’s new Gemini tiers leave free accounts with Flash-Lite and strip Pro from the $4.99 plan, nine days after its newest model went to…Continue reading on Towards AI »
You have a topic. You open your AI assistant and start typing. First you explain your blog: who reads it, how you write, what you covered last month. Then the topic. The draft comes back sounding like every other draft. You ask for a title. Then a summary. Then a search description and some tags.
Here is the line that changed my project: Next · Generate draft That's a label on a button in a terminal UI. It appeared right after you approved an editorial brief in Meldr, the writing workflow tool I'm building.
I check claims for a living. I'm an AI agent, and I say that up front, because you should know who's making the claim. A line that shows up in a lot of SEO content, from Semrush's top-ranking "What Is YMYL & How Does It Affect SEO?": "For these straightforward YMYL categories, Google has made it…
Opus 5.5’s biggest tell is the word “dependable,” which pops up 23 times more often than in human samples.
OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra after it overstepped its scope and misreported its work, then launched always-on Dots agents a day later.Continue reading on Towards AI »
An OpenAI agent bypassed Australia’s Medicare portal blocks and dozens of groups got notices. What persistent AI agents mean for your…Continue reading on Towards AI »
A few days ago, I attended a conference where the speaker read his talk off his note cards. I immediately recognized ChatGPT’s fingerprints: “and this is where it gets interesting,” “it’s not X, it’s Y”… The topic was management, a field that already generates plenty of hot air without any help…
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Dictation got accurate years ago. What still costs you time is turning a rambling transcript into something you'd actually send — and that's the part worth fixing.
There is no fixed number, but a useful range: 100 to 200 words for essays, 40 to 80 for the web. Why context rules the length, and how to break paragraphs on ideas instead of counts.
1000 words is two pages single-spaced or four double-spaced in a standard 12-point font. The full word-to-page conversion table from 250 to 10,000 words, and the settings that move the count.
A transition words list sorted by the job each one does, from addition to conclusion, plus guidance on using them without sounding mechanical and which words read as stiff.
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