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Using stress to get more ideas fast

In her TED talk, Kelly McGonigal presents the case that stress is your friend (not too much). I have experienced how stress can be a valuable friend for ideation, the fancy term to describe having ideas. I found, that to have lots of ideas, a pre-requisite to have good ideas, you need a brainstorming session. I also found, that having a two minutes brainstorming session gets me roughly the same number of ideas than a two hours session. Read more...

Getting today and yesterday in AWS Athena (2024)

Interesting links Using Athena from the AWS CLI on Linux Getting today in Athena Getting today in PostgreSQL How to get the metadata of AWS Athena tables Get the number of columns in an AWS Athena table Getting today and yesterday in AWS Athena Dates are always a pain to manage. SQL is no exception with every database doing their way. Today I talk about AWS Athena where the date/time documentation is here, not on the AWS website but the presto one. Read more...

AI and Education: Partnering for Creative Learning Adventures

AI is perfect for discovering kids’ (and adults’) talents and leveraging their amazing creativity. It works like this: We, as parents or teachers, pick a topic. We ask ChatGPT to write an essay on the topic, as a kid of that age would. Yes, you can ask ChatGPT to write as a 6-year-old or a 12-year-old. Print and share the content from ChatGPT with the kids and say, “Your task is to add value to this. Read more...