Obsidian gets an AI agent Dear Scholar, While I absolutely love AI, I always found that the AI agents underwhelming. They were slow and made many mistakes. However, this week I was diving deep into the Google's Scribe plugin which enables the use of an AI agent within Obsidian. For the first time, I feel that the AI agent was truly useful because it either did something that I wouldn't be capable of or would be too lazy to do. Going forward, I think Gemini Scribe is a must-use plugin for...

Academic Writing with AI Dear Scholar, No topic is as hotly debated as whether and to what extent AI should be permitted in academic writing. Plagiarism is a significant issue, but so is the increasing number of papers being produced (and the implicit assumption that using AI produces papers faster and thus lowers their quality), which is overwhelming the peer-review system. And lastly, a more subtle notion of not fully understanding the science when outsourcing some of the writing, which is...

Can AI Detectors improve Academic Writing? Dear Scholar, Almost everyone I speak to is using AI for academic writing. Some more, some less. To balance AI writing with understanding, I have developed the atomic sentence method and thought hard about the ethical implications. But after a few AI-enhanced writing iterations, it is hard to keep track of how much AI you actually used. This is where AI detectors come in. These tools can help you gauge whether your writing relies too heavily on AI...