Ollama — Run Local LLMs on Your Own Hardware
Ollama runs open-weight language models on your machine with one command, so confidential data never leaves it. Slower …
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NotebookLM — Chat With Your Own Sources
NotebookLM answers only from documents you upload, citing the passage each claim came from. The most …
Claude Code — AI Coding Agent for Your Repo
Claude Code is a coding agent that reads your project, edits files, and runs commands under your approval. Powerful on …
Claude — AI Assistant for Whole-Document Work
Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant, built around very large context windows. Strong at critiquing a full chapter in one …
Consensus — AI Search That Answers Research Questions
Consensus answers a plain-language research question with findings extracted from papers and a meter showing how they …
Semantic Scholar — Free Academic Search and API
Semantic Scholar indexes 200M+ papers with TLDR summaries, citation contexts, and a free API. The best machine-readable …
Code Automation
Matplotlib xkcd Sketch Plots: Hand-Drawn Python Guide
Learn how to use Matplotlib's xkcd() context manager to transform standard research plots into hand-drawn sketch-style …
Research Tools
Convert LaTeX to Word with Pandoc: Preserve Equations
Pandoc is a universal document converter that transforms LaTeX files into Word format while preserving equations, …
Ai Literacy
Tool Calling Explained: Turn Your LLM into an AI Agent
Tool calling (function calling) is the bridge that transforms static LLMs into autonomous agents capable of invoking …
ChatGPT — AI Assistant for Researchers, Reviewed
ChatGPT is OpenAI's assistant: strong at drafting, explaining, and running Python on your data. Weak — dangerously so — …
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How to Write Good Research Prompts for LLMs
This article will provide the techniques to write good research prompts for different research activities.