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ChatGPT draws on a lot sources. No surprise.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Sound beep in c64 assembly: 476,000 results
Sound beep in c64 basic: 1,330,000 results
Pattern recognition. Spam filtering. Weighing. Language translators. 20-40 minute reads with examples. The tools are there for anybody.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I like the was this totally stops the machine.
1. Stop all interrupts.
2. Enter into an infinite loop.
Worst code possible.
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Yes, a little. In some cases the answers seem very good, in others they can be incomplete, contradictory, or just wrong. When errors are pointed out, ChatGPT sometimes improves the answer (and sometimes apologises), but it seems to me it generally bases its responses on the first thing it looks up, rather than comparing a number of answers and finding a consensus.
When I asked "whats the difference between walschaerts and stevenson valve gear?" (types of valve gear used on steam locomotives) it gave a clear answer, describing not just the differences but the advantages/disadvantages and why you might adopt one over the other. It felt like talking to a knowledgeable engineer with good communication skills. But when I asked "how do vacuum brakes work on a railway train" the initial answer was poorly described and included some confused and misleading descriptions. When I asked it to clarify an aspect it had pretty much fudged, it gave me an equally poorly worded response that said pretty much the opposite of what it had just said. I challenged it on its contradiction and it apologised, admitted it was wrong and gave a third poorly-worded spiel that didn't clarify anything and still used wrong concepts and omitted key aspects.
As with (for example) newspapers, we take information and tend to assume it's true. But when it relates to a field we're knowledgeable about we quickly spot the flaws and inconsistencies and have to assume that the source is just as uninformed about other subject matters, and that we're being fed complete nonsense a LOT of the time.
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DerekT-P wrote: As with (for example) newspapers, we take information and tend to assume it's true. But when it relates to a field we're knowledgeable about we quickly spot the flaws and inconsistencies and have to assume that the source is just as uninformed about other subject matters, and that we're being fed complete nonsense a LOT of the time.
Sadly many many people doesn't see it.
And it gets even worse, when the one who explains bullshit is someone famous in social media.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The interesting thing about this chat AI, is how it evolves...
At the end of our discussion I gave it a nice solution (actually the BELL form the C128, a well proved code).
The AI acknowledged that it is a good solution (based on what?), but two days after still offering silly code when I ask the same question...
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." ― Albert Einstein
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I believe the point of ChatGPT is not to give correct answers but to sound like the answers have been written by a real person. The fact that it's sometimes also correct is just luck.
Regards
Nelviticus
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I think that AI-powered language models like ChatGPT can be used to assist with tasks such as language translation and language learning, which can make it easier for people to communicate and access information from around the world. :thumbsup:
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I just had a plump - and very dead - mouse dropped on my keyboard. Thanks Dij. 
I suppose he didn't kill anything yesterday, which was a good start. But if he'd just learn to drop them on a tiled floor, that would be a bonus.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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from a vet site online: "The most fundamental reason that cats bring dead animals to you is because they are treating you as family, presenting the catch to their clan, and attempting to teach you to do likewise."
Most people already know this, it goes without saying. However, after reading this I wonder if my own cats wish I would go hunting and leave dead animals for them... 
They should be happy they have a safe home to go to after a long day's hunting, and that I feed them and take care of their medical needs, etc. I don't even charge rent. 
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Slacker007 wrote: I don't even charge rent
"Who do you think you are, you little personal assistant?", all cats. Everywhere.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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"Oi! Pinkblob! Where's my lunch?"
Dij, ten minutes after being fed.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Slacker007 wrote: cats bring dead animals to you [is] because they are treating you as family, presenting the catch to their clan, and attempting to teach you to do likewise.
So if you go deer hunting, should you present the kill to your cat? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Deer cat ...
Makes me think of What-A-Mess - although he is a dog, not a cat. In his first book, he took transgenderism a step further than most: He wants to be another species, or rather: tries to find ot which species he "really" is, really messing himself up in his attempts to be something else than the Afghan hound he was born as. When he falls asleep at night, in the last few pages of the first book, his mother sighs: Dear What-A-Mess. He hears it in his sleep, and that is the answer he has been searching for: He is really a deer!
(I most definitely prefer the books, being far more subtle, sophisticated in their effects. The animation movies are the way animations use to be: Lots of waving of arms and legs, i.e. forelegs and back legs, with sand and stones and humans and animals flying through the air, almost constantly. With the books, you get a chance to enjoy the super great drawings by Joseph Wright.)
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I don't hunt anymore, but if I did, then I would share some with the cats and my dogs.
4 cats
2 dogs
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While we were encouraging one of our previous adoptee cats Michael that indoor food was A Good Thing, my wife would place bowls of food under the car, where he felt safe.
One day she was carrying laundry down to the basement, and found a thoroughly disassembled rabbit in the stair well. "Michael! Thank you, but that's a mess!" He was watching from beneath the car.
Next day she found a large field rat, not disassembled, with its tail wrapped tidily around the body. Rather Martha Stewart-esque.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Goedzo knows I'll take the mouse away, so he runs to his favourite safe-place - under my bed. And the mice are usually not dead. He let's them go and hunts again.
Sadistic murderers cats are. They play with prey for hours. And yes, mice scream. I know, since I heard them.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Last winter, the missus was down with some respiratory infection. I was finally dozing off just before dawn, having attended to her a few times through the night. I was awoken by her screams. She had got out of bed to go to the loo, and stepped on Sir Ringo's "get well soon" offering - half a warm dead rat on the carpet. I had a hell of a time cleaning it all up.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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We live in a rural area and have had many cats over the years.
One used to bring in half rabbits and dismember the rest under the bed.
One used to bring in everything alive... mice, birds and even bats! I recall chasing a live bat round the bedroom at 3am and hoping to get it to fly out of an open window!
One of our current six cats sometimes brings in large rats, some over half her size, and doesn't always kill them first! Now it's a chase of a live rat round the utility room at 3am and hoping to get it out the back door before it find its way behind the washer or the fridge!
Oh, the joy of cat stewardship!
(Note: nobody ever owns a cat; they just let you look after them)
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StarNamer@work wrote: Note: nobody ever owns a cat; they just let you look after them
Agreed. Cats don't have owners, they have clients.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Dogs have owners, cats have staff.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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True story:
Once had a scorpion land on my keyboard from an overhead fluorescent lighting unit. It fell quite a distance so it was stunned when it landed. Picked it up by the tail and threw it outside. The building was relatively new and sometimes they can get into odd locations during construction. The calibration lab next door, had scorpions inside their electronic gear. They froze one (calibration labs use freeze sprayers as part of their tool kit) and put it a glass in the freezer. It stayed there for many days. It did not survive, though when thawed.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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See title, e.g. get all messages for December 2022 sent from OG to me
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Was this supposed to be posted to Bugs & Suggestions?
BTW, Happy New Year Pete.
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