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Planning your vacation abroad is not a simple task when you do it on your own. It's easy when you go through a travel agent but it's always much more cheaper if you do it yourself. This time I decided to do it on my own. However it's a hassle and much more research as always, but this time I had ChatGPT for help. Which made my entire trip planning much more convenient.  Destination First thing's first. I created a project in ChatGPT for my vacation 2026 and opened chat. I provided my requirements. Per person budget that I'm willing to spend Dates of travel With whom I'm traveling. My family in this case. What we like to do and what we don't like to do Our meal preferences Shopping expectations Must included and optional things A list of my personal preferred destinations With this information ChatGPT gave me a few options. 1. Malaysia 2. Thailand 3. Singapore + Malaysia With some back and forth discussions with the family and shuffling designations we decide...

 Recently I was travelling abroad with my new Pixel 10 pro and I noticed the GPS accuracy was way off. It hardly correctly pin pointed my exact location. It was a disaster to hail a taxi using an app like Grab or Uber. I was wondering if that's an issue with my phone or something else.  Actually it was both. It turns out weather, sky scrapers in a dense city could impact GPS accuracy significantly. So, it is expected to have a messy GPS when you're in a new city. I found two things I needed to follow from my end. 1. First mistake I did was battery saver ! I had battery saver on for most of my time coz I was on the road and wasn't sure when to charge. It  turns out the battery saver takes away some good part of the GPS accuracy. So, whenever you hail a taxi, make sure to turn off battery saver on your phone. 2. Improved GPS accuracy settings.  Android GPS Settings Go to Settings > Location > Location Services > Google Location Accuracy, and turn on Improve Lo...

  I've been using ChatGPT for my everyday work for quite some time now, including some project planning, generating code snippets, documentations, proof reading, and various tasks. One of the features I like is Projects in ChatGPT. By creating a project, you could consolidated your related chat conversations into a single space. You can start multiple threads with multiple topics in the same project.  The issue The issue is the context window and the memory. When you're working on a large project which could drag for several days, and say you wanna generate a document based on the brainstorming or any research you did with ChatGPT. When longer you go through the chat conversations, it tends to forget your previous conversations.  If you're using the built in canvas for the documentations within ChatGPT, it helps to create and edit short documents while conversing. However, if it's a longer project, the chances are when you ask to update it later, it might have messed up...

Using AI for text generation is the new normalcy, and we have to accept that it's really efficient and helps us to save a lot of time. Yet, I personally feel that it's kind of polluting the originality of the data on the World Wide Web. I mean, the LLMs are trained on the original data created by humans in the first place; now the same data is being generated by AI, and before long there will be a (I think we're already there) time when it won't be able to distinguish human-created data from AI-generated data.  By data, I don't mean only text, it could very well be images, audio, and video of all formats.  Can LLMs change our language, culture as we know it? Let's try to imagine the bigger picture here. The first generations of LLMs were trained on human-generated data, no doubt. Then the next few iterations might have some polluted data generated from the first few generations of AIs coz they're constantly getting trained on the public Internet. Which means...