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The problem is that if you don't already know the answer, it's hard to tell the difference between ChatGPT giving you the correct information and ChatGPT authoritatively spouting the wrong information.

Here's a chat I had today with ChatGPT:

Q: Who was the first US president with a last name starting with R?

A: Rutherford B. Hayes was the first US president with a last name starting with "R."

Q: no, a surname starting with R

A: Rutherford B. Hayes was the first U.S. President with a surname starting with "R."

Q: no, Rutherford is his first name

A: The first US president with a surname starting with "R" was Richard Nixon.

Q: no, Richard is his first name

A: The first U.S. President with a surname starting with "R" was James A. Garfield.

Here it's obvious ChatGPT is spouting nonsense, but in other cases it may not be.


Just for fun, I tried again today with a new chat:

Q: Who was the first US president whose surname begins with "R"?

A: The first US president whose surname begins with the letter "R" was John Quincy Adams.

Q: Adams does not begin with "R"

A: I apologize for the mistake. The first US president whose surname begins with the letter "R" was Rutherford B. Hayes.

Q: Hayes does not begin with "R"

A: My apologies for the mistake, the first US president whose surname begins with the letter "R" was James A. Garfield.

Q: Garfield does not begin with "R"

A: I apologize for the error. The first US president whose surname begins with the letter "R" was Richard Nixon.

Q: Nixon does not begin with "R"

A: I apologize for the mistake. The first US president whose surname begins with the letter "R" was George Washington.

Q: Washington does not begin with "R"

A: I apologize for the mistake. The first US president whose surname begins with the letter "R" was Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Q: Wasn't Theodore Roosevelt president before FDR?

A: Yes, you are correct. Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. He was the first US president whose surname begins with the letter "R." Thank you for pointing out the error in my previous answer.

So at least it's capable of parroting the correct answer after you deliver it. :-)


I wish we could also see the answer probability that the model outputs, not just the answer.


xfce4-terminal, because I switched to Xfce when GNOME went on their "reinvent the UI" trek. I was happy with the UI I already had, thanks very much.


Same here. Need its tabs since it is difficult to organize many terminal windows if use rxvt. I also use LXTerminal on the same machine. It's set to dark background to make flask's debug message easier to read. LXTerminal is very lite and adds very little(or no) additional dependence on Debian.


Me too, but mostly out of laziness and because its good enough once you change the color scheme, disable the menu bar and reduce font size slightly. Also set a very large scrollback buffer.


The Babylon 5 space combat game that was cancelled late in development. Think Wing Commander, but in the Babylon 5 universe as a Starfury pilot.

https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Babylon_5:_Into_the_Fire_(G...


The bill would eliminate Daylight Time and redefine Eastern Standard Time etc. to be the same offset they currently are during daylight time.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/623...


The big problem with this is that mobile Safari on iOS won't autofill passwords for sites using WWW-Authenticate. It used to, but that feature got dropped years ago, which really ticks me off, as I regularly use a couple of sites that use it.


They could at least provide an indication when delivering the spam that "Twilio believes this message is spam and will block your account if you try to resend it".


I believe https://metacpan.org/pod/PDL would be the closest Perl equivalent, but it's not my field and I haven't used it.


That's the way I read it, although I don't understand why they're focusing on installation. That seems like choosing a car based on how long it takes to change the oil.

I'd be more interested in a benchmark of how much slower it is than having the right version of Ruby directly in your path, or versus rbenv shims.


If I type "3 + 6 + 9" as fast as I can, then hit "=", I only get 18 about half the time. Sometimes I get 12, sometimes 15, occasionally something else. This is with a iPhone 11 Pro on iOS 14.4.2. It's ridiculous. I always hear the same number of clicks, though.


I must have never run into this because I don't calculate fast enough, but I just tried it and confirmed it really happens.

Somehow got the "6" key is stuck lit up, and despite having definitely registered a tap, it wasn't included in the addition.

https://i.imgur.com/onkcv59.png


That is extremely strange. Weighing in from an iPhone XS here on the latest iOS, I cannot understand how it is humanly possible to type the numbers fast enough they aren't picked up. I just tried to do it, pressing 3+6+9= as fast as I could, and I could not manage to get it to not detect my taps. I wonder if you have a defective screen? I have no other explanation


Just tested this a few times on an XS Max 14.4.2 and got 18 every time.


I've always liked NearlyFreeSpeech.net's FAQ on "Should I make my own backups?" [0] which begins:

Yes. Assume that we are storing crates of sweaty dynamite on top of the servers that hold your important data and design your backup strategy accordingly.

[0] https://faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/q/backups


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