Microsoft Semantic Kernel

Microsoft Semantic Kernel is a "lighweight, open-source development kit" to build AI agents and integrate models into C#,  Python and Java code.

When you load up SK into a fresh Visual Studio Code (no extensions) it will prompt to install recommended extensions. These will include:

• ESLint - integrates ESLint JavaScript into VS Code (for static analysis)
  
• Prettier - integrates Prettier, the opinionated code formatter (for JavaScript, TypeScript and other webby stuff)
• Azure Functions - to quickly manage serverless apps directly from VS Code
• vscode-pdf - to display pdf files in VSCode (required to open PDF code maps for .NET and Python)

Publish a Min SIZED PDF from Word (no DiscLOQ)

Word oft generates massive PDF files.

To generate a PDF of minimum size (and no DLOQ - discernible loss of quality) you can do Save As, select PDF, and More Options.

You will get an option to Optimize for -

- "Standard" as well as
- "Minimum size (publishing online)".

Select the latter and you will see the output file size reduce dramatically.

Change File Associations for PDF Files in Windows 10

Windows 10 automatically associates PDF files with the Edge browser. Unfortunately the Edge browser is not a very user-friendly browser.

To change this, go to Settings and select Default Apps, then Choose Default Applications by File Type. The latter feature takes a while to load. The left hand column thus displayed gives the file extension and the right hand column gives the application. Change Edge to Chrome and you are done.

Print Preview in Word - Control F2

Can be useful in finding mysterious blank pages inserted when saving a Word document as PDF.