Thanks to those who have suggested solutions to my keyboard problem. Yes, of course, get a new board! I ordered one, plus mouse, for less than $40 and will be back on the blog as soon as they arrive, i.e., on August 16th. I actually have a lot to say, especially about Elon Musk, who and what he really is…
More Mac Woes
Sorry for the silence but I’m struggling over what lies are most important and at the same time inarguable: An embarrassment of riches. On the other hand, my MacBook Pro is driving me nuts: the cursor keeps jumping around and getting stuck. Anyone have any thoughts? 9this was supposed to be in parens but I’m stuck on 9, and so…
Get Dymstify-ed
I’ve spent the past few weeks going over the archives of a channel I stumbled across and which knocked me out for how it does not assume that any ‘standard model’ is correct and plays active devil’s advocate for promising paradigms that the mainstream won’t touch. Demystifyingscience is hosted by a young (married) couple, both Ph.Ds in physics, which is especially encouraging…
Iron Mountain
Note: I started this post a while back but it fizzled. However, yesterday’s Senate hearing on UFOs spurred me to more or less finish it, at least enough so I could provide a link. Also, no images today as I am unable to embed; the usual WordPress crapola. I’ll try again later. (As you can see, I did.) # Given…
Another Meanwhile
Last night I stumbled upon a movie at Youtube that had a true effect upon my life when I first saw it back in 1983, at a Westwood, LA theater. First thing it did was knock me out. Knocked me out to the extent that I went back the next day to see it again. I’ve probably seen it 20…
As Promised…
As promised, here is my whole exchange with ChatGPT re the Falcon 9 fraud. If you take the time to go through it all you will see that GPT gets ‘confused’ because while being programmed to accept the ‘truth’ of the Spacex missions, the actual numbers — distances and speeds traveled and so on — make no sense at all.…
A ‘Boost Back Burn’?
Those who read my last post — assuming they were paying any attention at all — will have noticed that ChatGPT (and indirectly, Spacex itself) claims that in a Falcon 9 orbital injection mission neither the spacecraft itself nor its booster (the first stage) at any time flies in a westward direction, which is strange to say the least, given…
Who Or What Is Elon Musk?
I love ChatGPT! As I’ve said before, ChatGPT is like having a silicon-based Michael Shermer — whom I can truss up, eyes pinned open (a la A Clockwork Orange) — and have him at my beck and call to answer thorny questions that (out of intellectual terror) no gatekeeper in his/her right mind would sit still for. I didn’t until…
How We Got Here
This one was a lot of work, mostly due to GPT’s obfuscations; I wanted you to be aware of the implied deceit without boring you to tears through repetition. Sorry if I failed. I did try, partly via putting in bold the information you definitely need to understand my point. You may want to read it all; I hope you do. But…
A Standup GPT?
In wondering about ChatGPT, it’s capabilities now and in the future, it occurred to me that comedians, especially stand ups, might be severely affected by AI, depending on how the algorithms interpret human reactions to timing and especially to nuance. See what you think of ChatGPT’s take on one of my favorites (and a good test for AI’s understanding of…