diff --git a/blog/days/2023/09/05.json b/blog/days/2023/09/05.json index a174561f96..795334ad28 100644 --- a/blog/days/2023/09/05.json +++ b/blog/days/2023/09/05.json @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ "flInCalendar": true }, { - "text": "Yesterday I posted a full-length excerpt of the Google and HTTP piece on Twitter, and was surprised at the positive response. I had posted links to the full article many times, and mostly got flames from programmer priests, Googly trolls, but this time the message got through. It was RT'd 58 times, and got 24K views. Not bad for something most people would consider esoteric, yet is still fundamental the their continued freedom on the unowned open web. ", + "text": "Yesterday I posted a full-length excerpt of the Google and HTTP piece on Twitter, and was surprised at the positive response. I had posted links to the full article many times, and mostly got flames from programmer priests, Googly trolls, but this time the message got through. It was RT'd 58 times, and got 24K views. Not bad for something most people would consider esoteric, yet is still fundamental to their continued freedom on the unowned open web. ", "created": "Tue, 05 Sep 2023 13:52:40 GMT", "type": "outline", "flInCalendar": true @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ "type": "outline", "subs": [ { - "text": "I'm dumping these into the the Activity Feed for the Berkman reuinion but thought I should post them here as well.", + "text": "I'm dumping these into the the Activity Feed for the Berkman reunion but thought I should post them here as well.", "created": "Tue, 05 Sep 2023 18:54:01 GMT", "flBulletedSubs": "true", "subs": [ @@ -137,4 +137,4 @@ "flInCalendar": true } ] -} \ No newline at end of file +} diff --git a/blog/items/2023/09/05/a135240.json b/blog/items/2023/09/05/a135240.json index e3f111ce14..9e0fc57884 100644 --- a/blog/items/2023/09/05/a135240.json +++ b/blog/items/2023/09/05/a135240.json @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ { - "text": "Yesterday I posted a full-length excerpt of the Google and HTTP piece on Twitter, and was surprised at the positive response. I had posted links to the full article many times, and mostly got flames from programmer priests, Googly trolls, but this time the message got through. It was RT'd 58 times, and got 24K views. Not bad for something most people would consider esoteric, yet is still fundamental the their continued freedom on the unowned open web. ", + "text": "Yesterday I posted a full-length excerpt of the Google and HTTP piece on Twitter, and was surprised at the positive response. I had posted links to the full article many times, and mostly got flames from programmer priests, Googly trolls, but this time the message got through. It was RT'd 58 times, and got 24K views. Not bad for something most people would consider esoteric, yet is still fundamental to their continued freedom on the unowned open web. ", "created": "Tue, 05 Sep 2023 13:52:40 GMT", "type": "outline", "flInCalendar": true -} \ No newline at end of file +} diff --git a/blog/items/2023/09/05/a185355.json b/blog/items/2023/09/05/a185355.json index 5407b0200c..539e4dd7bc 100644 --- a/blog/items/2023/09/05/a185355.json +++ b/blog/items/2023/09/05/a185355.json @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ "type": "outline", "subs": [ { - "text": "I'm dumping these into the the Activity Feed for the Berkman reuinion but thought I should post them here as well.", + "text": "I'm dumping these into the the Activity Feed for the Berkman reunion but thought I should post them here as well.", "created": "Tue, 05 Sep 2023 18:54:01 GMT", "flBulletedSubs": "true", "subs": [ @@ -38,4 +38,4 @@ } ], "flInCalendar": true -} \ No newline at end of file +} diff --git a/blog/pages/2023/09/05.html b/blog/pages/2023/09/05.html index e920516e98..6dd3e12dc3 100644 --- a/blog/pages/2023/09/05.html +++ b/blog/pages/2023/09/05.html @@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
ChatGPT can make tables. #
Back in the 1970s when SQL was new, it was touted as an English-like database language. Now with ChatGPT you really can do database queries in actual English and it understands. Amazing. Whether the info is accurate or not (I suspect it is) is beside the point. It's doing something with language that has not been possible before. Check out this query. "Make a table of 15 oscar-winning actors and actresses ranked by number of nominations, also include a column with the names of at most three of the movies they made that won best picture."#
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Yesterday I posted a full-length excerpt of the Google and HTTP piece on Twitter, and was surprised at the positive response. I had posted links to the full article many times, and mostly got flames from programmer priests, Googly trolls, but this time the message got through. It was RT'd 58 times, and got 24K views. Not bad for something most people would consider esoteric, yet is still fundamental the their continued freedom on the unowned open web. #
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Yesterday I posted a full-length excerpt of the Google and HTTP piece on Twitter, and was surprised at the positive response. I had posted links to the full article many times, and mostly got flames from programmer priests, Googly trolls, but this time the message got through. It was RT'd 58 times, and got 24K views. Not bad for something most people would consider esoteric, yet is still fundamental to their continued freedom on the unowned open web. #
Just for fun the other day I asked ChatGPT for 150 words on Christopher Lydon and Amanda Palmer, wondering if it would find the connection between them. It wrote a paragraph profile on each, but did not discover that Palmer had written a song about Lydon. Note -- Google's search function totally made the connection. #
Yet another use-case for ChatGPT. I'm using the wpcom package for Node.js to make calls about a user's WordPress account. I want to know what sites the user is following in their reader app. But they don't document the high-level call for that function, which is documented at the REST level. So I ask ChatGPT what to do and it gives me the code I need. In the past I would probably have been able to piece it together with guesswork, trial and error. Might have taken a whole day. Now I have it working while I'm still drinking my morning coffee. BTW, I also had ChatGPT do code review, and it spots an error, and of course I fix it, happily.#
Posted on Masto: I find that ChatGPT is far better than Wikipedia at recounting history I know the truth about. Less subject to human manipulation, imho. When we criticize the machines we should remember what we have to compare them with and we should get our act together. Imagine if the AIs wrote critiques about our accuracy.#
Ideas for sessions#