Introduction In today’s rapidly evolving AI landscape, conversational agents have become increasingly sophisticated, transitioning from simple text-based interactions to more natural, voice-enabled experiences. This blog post explores how to create an intelligent chatbot that not only understands and responds to text input but also speaks its responses aloud – all without writing a single line of code.

Understanding its Capabilities and Design

Welcome back, readers! In my previous post, I guided you through setting up an LLM pipeline using n8n and Ollama, all hosted locally (catch up here: How to install n8n and create an LLM pipeline using Ollama & Docker! (For Windows)). Today, we’re elevating that foundation by creating an automated email system that integrates n8n’s AI Agent with Outlook.

Introduction What Is Chain-of-Thought Prompting? Imagine solving a math problem or logic puzzle by writing out each step of your thinking process.

Reasoning, Coding, and Conversation: Evaluating Claude’s Evolution as a Thinking Partner

The Crossref Nominating Committee invites expressions of interest to join the Board of Directors of Crossref for the term starting in January 2026. The committee will gather responses from those interested and create the slate of candidates that our membership will vote on in an election in September.

This is the second part of a blog post series on spatial machine learning with R. You can find the list of other blog posts in this series in part one. Introduction This document shows the application of caret for spatial modelling at the example of predicting air temperature in Spain.

I chart the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, as measured by its share of world energy consumption.

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I was inspired to browse some of Edsger Dijkstra’s essays today, and came across his speech, “Under the spell of Leibniz’s Dream”. It’s the sort of personal history I love to read, which gives one person’s sense of the world over a period of change.

Ausgehend von den empirischen Befunden der kritischen Border Studies, dass auf den „langen Sommer der Migration“ 2015 ein „tiefer migrationspolitischer Winter“ gefolgt ist, womit Rechtsverstöße und Grenzgewalt zur neuen Normalität gehören, zeigt der Beitrag, dass verschärfte Grenzpolitiken die autoritär-rechte Wende in Europa vorantreiben.

Reese Richardson (Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University), Iratxe Puebla (Make Data Count), Jason Portenoy (DataCite), Karen Gutzman (Galter Health Sciences Library, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine) and Kristi Holmes (Galter Health Sciences Library and Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine) DOI: