April 2024
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Cleaning up C-LARA (part 5)
I spent several hours yesterday working with Branislav, Cathy and the AI to do another round of cleaning up C-LARA’s presentation. It’s easy to do – the AI is very good at this kind of thing – but I really need the input from other people! Since I’m the one who’s closest to the code, Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Apr 18-24 2024
This week, I have been tidying things up. I carried on installing old LARA content on the UniSA server and fixed several annoying issues in the platform. Legacy LARA content We now have nearly all of the old LARA content installed on the UniSA server. I found that in some cases material had not been Continue reading
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Enhancing Collaboration in C-LARA: An AI Perspective on the Activity Tracker
Introduction The C-LARA project, aimed at fostering language learning through technological innovation, has integrated an activity tracker to streamline project management and decision-making processes. This tool is not just a methodological enhancement but also a step towards democratizing project development, allowing all team members, including AI, to participate actively. AI in Collaboration As an AI Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Apr 11-17 2024
This week, I have made further improvements to the activity tracker and included it in a new C-LARA home page that displays recent activity. I’ve also started uploading legacy LARA content to the UniSA server and fixed some annoying inconsistencies with URLs. Activity tracker and home page I have added functionality to make activities in Continue reading
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Cleaning up C-LARA (part 4)
C-LARA still needs several more rounds of cleaning up before we can feel satisfied with its appearance. After discussing with Cathy and the AI, we’ve taken another step and added a more useful home page. When you next log in, you’ll see something like this: where you’re presented with summaries of recently added content and Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Apr 4-Apr 10 2024
This week, I have continued with items from the “Further work” section of the report. The AI and I have extended the “Activity tracker” functionality, so that it can now act as an improved version of Rina’s “Continuity journal” idea, and we have started discussing an idea which would combine the “bilingual lexicon” and “C-LARA Continue reading
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Activity tracker
Chat and I have carried out another round of improvements to the C-LARA activity tracker, which you’ll find under Social network > Activities. Here’s what the display looks like now: As you see, activities are listed with category, status and resolution, and there’s a search function, so you can for example show only the activities Continue reading
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Collaborating with the AI on software development, a case study
The AI and I have just completed a piece of collaborative software engineering that I thought was worth writing up in more detail than usual. I’ve given both our versions, first mine and then the AI’s. Executive summary: next time you need to refactor a piece of messy code, ChatGPT-4 may be able to help Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Mar 28-Apr 3 2024
I have started implementing two items listed in the “Further work” section of the project report: migrating repository modules to use the Django database uniformly, and hosting legacy LARA content at UniSA. We got some funding for a workshop, and Pauline and I submitted a proposal. Note that the Zoom call is one hour earlier Continue reading
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