A friend gave me a 3.25 floppy and told me it was this cool new game, with a new way of playing called 'first person' which confused the hell out of me until I played it.
I haven't had much luck with that. The most recent example I'm thinking of, with ChatGPT 4, is I asked it a question and it's response included something like "can be set up by following the documentation". I asked "What is the URL of the documentation you refer to above" and it said "I'm a LLM, I can't do that."
* I'm learning a new programming language. "How do I do <some process> in <language>?" I get enough of an answer that I can experiment with the results.
* I have to write business emails. Instead of spending 20 minutes trying to think of the right politically correct terminology, I feed it the bullet points and it spits out a mostly proper email which I then spend another 5 minutes re-typing to get it the rest of the way.
* I've always wanted to start a blog, but I hate writing. Same idea as the previous point, but for blog posts.
I don't blindly trust it's output, but it saves me a ton of time in handling the to me bs extra stuff by filling in the edges.
The internet and books primarily focus on beginner-to-intermediate process, so there's very little resources beyond that. I've found ChatGPT to be exceptional for explaining things beyond it, like getting into more advanced Rust topics lately.
I think the key is to treat it like an experienced mentor that can make mistakes because of imperfect memory, not a perfect talking encyclopedia. Web searches don't always have the right answer, and even experts with decades of experience (cough) still get things wrong regularly. It's a collaborative conversation.
I said something similar to my son a little while ago. He said "That's because you taught me to be polite to my elders. We're not that well behaved on our own."
Despite what we may think about our children (or "the youth of today"), they are basically the same as they've always been, behaving well for adults--mainly I suspect to keep the adults attention away from them.
I think that, as long as we keep the above in mind when we deal with the younger generation we'll be able to help to them rise above our mistakes.
I have a personal knowledge of what comes from suicides and suicide attempts. It is something that needs to be addressed.
I have issues with this article, as well as with the owner of the 'bulletin.com' domain. This article flips between discussing 'suicide attempts' and 'suicides' as if they are interchangeable, while only showing the data on 'suicide attempts'.
This bothers me.
"In fact, suicide attempts in adolescent girls dropped to rates similar to those seen in the summer of 2019. That’s not unexpected. Suicide death rates (for which we have decades of reliable data) among teens and young adults predictably fall during summer months, and also in December—that is, times when schools are the least in session." (emphasis mine)
'Suicide deaths' and 'suicide attempts' are not interchaneable.
A friend gave me a 3.25 floppy and told me it was this cool new game, with a new way of playing called 'first person' which confused the hell out of me until I played it.