by Mike Taylor in Also True for Humans Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. As a consultant, I spend a lot of time in PowerPoint. Data doesn’t drive decisions, ...

Here is a PowerPoint generator that uses python-pptx and local LLMs via OpenAI-compatible API endpoints (such as llama.cpp server or other compatible servers) to generate beautiful and informative ...

python-pptx has 20M+ monthly downloads but has been dormant since August 2024 with a single maintainer and no funding. slidecraft is a drop-in modern replacement: fully typed, actively maintained, and ...

In an earlier tutorial, we demonstrated how you can train a custom AI chatbot using ChatGPT API. While it works quite well, we know that once your free OpenAI credit is exhausted, you need to pay for ...

Copilot in Excel introduces new finance-focused capabilities that help teams work to their standards, use trusted financial data, and stay in control of every change. GPT‑5.5 Instant is now available ...

MarkItDown is an open-source Python library from Microsoft that converts various file formats to Markdown for indexing and analysis. Markdown is a popular lightweight markup language with plain text ...

This Step-by-Step guide demonstrates how to use Python and the python-pptx library to create PowerPoint presentations from command line. The steps and code provided in this guide are not specific to ...

The world’s favorite AI chatbot can write any kind of text – but creating documents and files is a different task entirely. OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 (or GPT-4 for ChatGPT Plus, ChatGPT Team, and ChatGPT ...

Large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s GPT-4 are the building blocks for an increasing number of AI applications. But some enterprises have been reluctant to adopt them, owing to their ...