Two free 90-minute AI classes for your patrons — no presenter fee for the library.
The church supper wanted my baked ziti, and my baked ziti serves four, maybe six with a salad, and the arithmetic between four and forty is where home cooking goes to die, because everything scales except the things that scale, if you follow me, the pan sizes, the baking time, the sauce ratio, the cheese. This is precisely the kind of problem the machine eats. I gave it the recipe, the original, in full, and the target, forty servings, served from two hotel pans at a supper that eats at six sharp, and asked for the scaled version with the three adjustments home cooks always get wrong. The pan math came first, two full hotel pans, and the critical note that the layer depth must stay near what the original intended or the middle never sets. The quantity conversions, twenty cups of ricotta is not five times four in any pan that fits an oven, and it showed the shopping list in store units, pounds and containers, not the useless 80 ounces. The timing, and this was the save, doubled depth means longer at lower heat, and it calculated the change and added the rest time so the pans set for travel. Forty two people ate, the ziti held together, and three asked for the recipe, and I have decided to keep the machine's role our secret at church. The scaling problem is general, is the point. The reunion chili, the funeral casseroles, the holiday cookies for the whole street, any recipe that must cross from family to crowd, there is now a calculator that speaks kitchen, and it keeps the proportions that make the dish the dish.
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Predictions vary wildly, and honest ones admit the uncertainty. The pattern so far: AI absorbs tasks before whole jobs, and the people who learn the tools tend to do the absorbing.
A patient tutor available at midnight is genuinely new. AI explains a concept five ways and quizzes you until it clicks; it can also be wrong, so keep asking how it knows.
AI learns from human-made data, so human biases can ride along. Responsible teams test and correct for this, and you help by reporting answers that feel slanted.
The Valhalla Branch of the Mount Pleasant Public Library is a 2,800-square-foot library inside the Mount Pleasant Community Center at 125 Lozza Drive, which opened in 1992. It serves Valhalla and the surrounding Kensico area with a full circulating collection, children's programs, and public computers, and was in line for a near-$1 million redesign as part of the district's 2022 facilities plan.
From the library's own site, source.
Hours change with the season, so we link the library's own site instead of copying a schedule that could go stale.
Path one: ask the library directly. Patron requests carry real weight with program coordinators, and their website and phone number are linked above.
Path two: tell us you want a class at Mount Pleasant Branch Library and we will count you in when we schedule one there.
Collected from the library’s own website. Availability changes — confirm details on their site.
Live, beginner-friendly, 90 minutes each. Your first two classes cost $0, including the presenter fee — bring us in, see how your community responds, then decide.
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No presenter fee. No contract. You provide the room, chairs and wifi — we bring everything else.
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Want a class here? Leave your email and we’ll tell you if one gets scheduled at Mount Pleasant Branch Library — and pass the count to their program coordinator.
One email only when scheduling news exists. Or call the library and say you’d attend — patron requests carry real weight.
Heard about us from a neighbor? Forward this page to whoever books programs at your library.
No. Nothing is sold or pitched in the room, and patrons never pay to attend. Take-home materials are free.
None, and here is the model: your first two classes cost you nothing, we collect attendance and feedback, and the next library books us because yours proved it works. Repeat classes after that are a modest honorarium sized to your budget.
A room, chairs, and wifi. We bring the projector, adapters, a backup hotspot, printed handouts — every attendee leaves with a printed AI cheat sheet.
Library AI Courses teaches free, live, 90 minute AI classes at public libraries across the region. A listing here is a directory entry, not an endorsement by the library. Classes get scheduled when a library books one or enough patrons ask. Library staff: how booking works →