One thing I’ve noticed, is that at least in the free version, if you ask chatGPT for sources outside itself, ‘can you give me a link to somewhere on it internet where it says that?’, it won’t do that.
It is very much a black box in terms of letting you track its logic.
Seems like future versions should be much more transparent in terms of letting you track the logic of why it’s telling you what it’s telling you.
You can just ask it "What scholars or source material books could I check out to verify these linguistics facts?".
Many facts and answers are gathered/aggregated from many different (sometimes conflicting) sources. It won't link the internet page where it found the information, because it didn't find the information on a single internet page.
fwiw, there's a building my sister lived in in Pittsburgh, the Penn Garrison, it's downtown, not totally sure what the history behind its development is, or what the window related zoning issues are in Pittsburgh, but it has one-bedroom apartments where the bedroom doesn't have any windows.
I'm too old to have done this when I went through school, but I suspect a good practice is to go through your syllabus, and but the major unit covered into the youtube search bar.
I suspect you get all sorts of parallel presentations of the material in a way that is quite helpful for retention.
The Robert Caro books about Lyndon B Johnson detail his effort to force meme “LBJ” as a reference to him.
(Mostly in terms of insisting various communications employees use it in press releases and what not).
It seems he liked the iconography of it, especially in putting himself in similar company to FDR.
Both his daughters have the LBJ initials, his wife is mostly known as Lady Bird Johnson (a nickname that predates their relationship, but is not her given name)
Longer answer - from my prospective - I enjoyed the first book Path to Power the most, which revolves around LBJs early life up to becoming a US Representative. I thought it was very on par with the Power Broker. That an the Power Broker would probably be my first recommendation to an ambitious college kid who wants to know the real Politik of how the world works.
The next book Means of Assent was my least favorite of Caro’s books, but still highly enjoyable.
Master of the Senate and Passage of Power are both great. But sort of specific to LBJs spot in life. Great, but I’m not sure they sparked my thinking quite the way the Power Broker and Path to Power did.
The books are designed to be standalone-ish, so later volumes spend a fair bit of time repeating things from earlier books. Caro goes deep, deep into various shady acts and new scandals which were probably shocking and relevant in 1982 but less so four decades later.
Caro also touches on a lot of the same topics as The Power Broker, and the picture he paints of LBJ ends up sounding quite a lot like Robert Moses. Is it because all powerful men inevitably end up as bullying psychopaths, or does Caro have something of an axe to grind? 50/50, maybe.
I'm pretty sure that this sort of semi-custom clothing concept has been around since at least the dot-com era but it's never taken off. I suspect that it's some combination of people not willing to pay the premium and, loosely, fashion--i.e. most people aren't interested in just having a small number of perfectly fitting articles of clothing.
> Whatever they're wasting in returns, they're saving something in reducing the need for physical stores.
A physical store presence has way more positive effect for a society as a whole than online shopping has. Just look at the developments of the last two decades: Walmart has destroyed local, reachable-by-foot grocery stores, and Amazon (plus corona) has obliterated physical retail. The result is entire communities that have no places left where people regularly come in contact with each other. Inner cities decay (see e.g. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/theres-terrifying-mall-blight...), quality of life declines, and social cohesion vanishes.
You want a reason why Trump got elected, why right-wing populism is on the rise across Western countries? The blight of physical store presence - or, to be precise, the providers of essential services vanishing - is a huge part of the reason why so many people feel disconnected from society. An empty mall, a village center void of any human presence, public services shutting down because the tax base of said stores has vanished? That is immediately visible to the people, and they, historically proven, vote for the person who claims the loudest he has a recipe to fix the situation or at least offers a convenient boogeyman (immigrants, China, Jews, ...).
>A physical store presence has way more positive effect for a society as a whole than online shopping has.
Yeah, but not for the planet.
It's incredibly inefficient for people to drive their car to a store and pick up items that take up like 5% of the total space in the vehicle; the ratio of fuel burned to goods shipped is terrible. Maybe grocery shopping isn't so bad, but going to the store to buy one TV or a few linens for the bedroom? What percent of the fuel burned was actually used to move the goods vs. to move the car? Not even 1%.
Compare this to filling up a diesel delivery truck to ship goods around town, optimized by algorithms for maximum efficiency.
> It's incredibly inefficient for people to drive their car to a store and pick up items that take up like 5% of the total space in the vehicle
In a well planned and funded city you'd have public transport to transport people to stores where they can look at and try out items before committing to buy them.
The fact that most goods that are returned (and a disturbingly large amount of goods that haven't been sold but incur high storage fees, see https://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/archiv/2021/Trotz-Neuregelu...) are actually destroyed is what makes the environmental balance so bad.
