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I catch up on long WhatsApp group discussions as podcasts. The quick way is to scroll on WhatsApp Web, select all, paste into NotebookLM, and create the podcast. Mine is a bit more complicated. Here’s an example: Use a bookmarklet to scrape the messages https://tools.s-anand.net/whatsappscraper/ Generate a 2-person script https://github.com/sanand0/generative-ai-group/blob/main/config.toml Have gpt-4o-mini-tts convert each line using a different voice https://www.openai.fm/ Combine using ffmpeg https://ffmpeg.org/ Publish on GitHub Releases https://github.com/sanand0/generative-ai-group/releases/tag/main I run this every week. So far, it’s proved quite enlightening. ...

Arun Tangirala and I webinared on “AI in Education” yesterday. This post isn’t about the webinar, which went on for an hour and was good fun. This post isn’t for my preparation for the webinar, which happened frantically 15 minutes before it started. This post is about how I created the annotated talk at https://github.com/sanand0/ai-in-education-webinar (inspired by Simon Willison’s annotated presentations process) – a post-processing step that took ~3 hours – and the tools I used for this. ...