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  • Update to “Why ChatGPT and Bard won’t (yet) take over my job”

    A few months ago I wrote about my simple test to see how both Bard and ChatGPT 3.5 did with a simple programmer interview question (summary: neither one passed) and since Bard has had its innards recently replaced (with Google Gemini LLM) which is supposedly an improvement over its original PaLM LLM AI, I thought…

  • Why ChatGPT and Bard won’t (yet) take over my job

    Late last year (2022) it seemed like the programming world freaked out about the capability of ChatGPT and, a bit later, Google’s Bard–it seemed like there were messages of doom everywhere about how programmers would be out of a job soon. There were many headlines about how people could create apps in just a few…

  • Fun with queues – or how to make a maze

    This is companion piece to “how to solve a maze”. I’ve spent far too much time playing with mazes, both when I was young, and now later in life. I’ve wondered if this would fall under a “special interest” and I think there’s some argument that it could. While I was playing with code for…

  • Mushrooms

    [Pulled from journal archives . Perhaps it could be useful to someone, but on rereading sounds a blt trite in certain areas.] There’s nothing that can prepare you for the experience. No amount of reading of another person’s account—even this one—that will help you understand what you might go through. I was a fool, thinking…

  • Fun with recursion–or how to solve a maze

    When I was really young, maybe ten years old, I loved mazes, both solving them and creating them. That was decades ago, prior to personal computers (I’m dating myself with that disclosure) and so the only mazes we could really solve were in small books my friend and I bought (or could get a parent…

  • January 2019 – Scott’s horrible, no good day–aka mushrooms #2

    January 20, 10:07pm I thought I had mushrooms all figured out—I would eat breakfast and wait for 5 hours and make a tea from the 3.5g, thinking that a fuller digestive system and no actual mushroom tidbits would lessen the nausea. So I ate breakfast at 8am, waited until 12:30 to prepare tea by crushing…

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