Python – William Gillett

Yay – got the Raspberry Pi to boot….

After 3rd power supply – got the Raspberry Pi to boot. Capital budget for the $10 Raspberry Pi Zero has reached $39.

Follow-up with ChatGPT on the cause of the FAA’s NOTAM system outage.

January 26, 2023

TL;DR – This is a follow-up exchange with ChatGPT on the latest announcement from the FAA on the NOTAM system outage on January 11th. It continues to impress me with its ability to analysis problems with minimal input and apply sound judgment. FAA announced new details on the cause of NOTAM system outage. The FAA’s…

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Summary of my interaction with ChatGPT as of January 25th, 2023

William Gillett

January 26, 2023

106 Chats comprising 770 interactions. Total chat output comprises 206,000 words – roughly 412 pages. Mistakes – roughly 1 in 10 exchanges. Large series of repeated mistakes – 6 (unix time conversions). Most surprising insight from ChatGPT – calling Google Search a librarian.

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ChatGPT – Simple coding examples with short probe into Assembler looping and deciphering its counting errors.

William Gillett

January 26, 2023

TL:DR – Simple illustration of code to do addition, floating point and string concatenation across Machine Language, Assembler, C and a few higher level languages. Last section is me teaching ChatGPT how to count. Can you take a simple operation – like adding two numbers together and write the corresponding code for a function that…

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ChatGPT – Generating Google Sheets formula to extract string from URL

William Gillett

January 26, 2023

TL;DR – quick generation of a Regex string inside a google sheet formula. I have leveraged other online Regex tools, but this makes it seamless to implement as a working formula. Allowed me to stay focused on the overall task and not dive into the vagaries of Regex and Array formulas. I need a google…

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How ChatGPT views Google search and Github Co-pilot.

William Gillett

January 24, 2023

I have described ChatGPT to my inexperienced friends as like a “15-year old grad student” – bright, amazing prospects for the future, able to respond and synthesize, but short on life experience and current events. Is that a fair analogy? That is a fair analogy to describe ChatGPT. As a machine learning model, ChatGPT has…

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My chat with ChatGPT on Rabbit Holes & Wormholes

William Gillett

January 24, 2023

Can you describe what the meaning of “I don’t want to find myself going down a rabbit hole”? Certainly! The phrase “going down a rabbit hole” can be used to describe the experience of becoming deeply immersed in something, often to the point where it consumes a lot of time and energy. It can also…

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