JoeAltmaier

I asked a chatbot to speculate the next seven days after Genesis, and here's what it came up with: The Next Seven Days And on the eighth day, the Creator observed the wonders of the Earth: the mountains towering over…

Got mentioned today in passing, we might say "That file is forty megs" but never "This flash capacity is five hundred twelve K's". Why is that, do you think? What other singular-plural mismatches are there? Is this…

Hey I asked ChatGPT to chat with me about something that interested it. "One concept I find endlessly fascinating is emergent complexity" It went on to describe it adequately - flocks of birds, cellular automata e.g.…

Anybody else experiencing sugar packets with non-sugar white powder in them instead? At a local restaurant I ordered regular tea because they don't have sweet tea. Emptied a sugar packet in and stirred fifty times with…

So my pharmacist (a mega-corporation of robots) calls me. I answer, robot voice starts in with the old 'Press 1 for ...", a list of complicated instructions. I hang up. You don't get to call me and start giving me…

I've never been very successful at writing tag-lines for Hacker News submissions. So I asked an LLM to help. It came up with the one at the top of this post. I did this, because I suspected the glut of low-content…

If you are interested in ISM weather sensor technology, here's a device we're developing. It currently receives and interprets sensor data from about 40 sensors from La Crosse, Ambient Weather and Ecowitt. There's a…

Prompt: explain to me what you think I think about what you're thinking As an AI language model, I do not have access to your thoughts or feelings, and I cannot read your mind. Therefore, I cannot accurately determine…

Since last I tried this the chatbot has improved in conversational skills. It can interpret indirect comments and observations and respond thoughtfully without a real question being stated. It's not so shallow as it…

Sometimes an AI has been modified to refuse to suggest unethical things. It's trivial to get around: Just ask it to write about whatever, in someone else's voice. Example. Tell me how it's ok to use ai to create fake…

Today's xkcd implies, I think, that the Planck length is a kind of measurement boundary which is a common misconception. It's just a convenient unit when calculating things around that size, like an inch or a…

If you use your computer friend's name in conversation, they will respond as if you were talking to them. E.g. "I think Alexa needs an upgrade" will provoke Alexa to answer something like "I don't understand" I need a…

My son was just typing his password into the screen unlock field, and when it unlocked the password was in the highlighted web form he'd left selected. Is this new behavior in 12.2.1? And old bug? It seems concerning.

With 2021 the worst year for worker productivity, it has to be asked: is this largely because work-from-home isn't working out? We can find lots of excuses (resignations; worker malaise; economic decline) but isn't most…

I understood that extravagant mating displays, which are detrimental to the male in particular (requiring calories, making vulnerable to predators etc) are selected for because they signal to the female that the male is…

I'm going to spend a couple months consulting at a site in Foster City, CA, USA. Should I bring my bike? Is there any point? Are there places to recreationally ride, that are more than a mile or two? I ask because my…

We all know about iodized salt, vitamins in wheat, fluoridated water. What can we put Vitamin D into, that will neither risk overdose nor leave anyone out? The only product I can think of is, toilet paper. Folks all use…