“Being selfish is wrong!”, you say. Sure, I agree in some cases it may be wrong. For example, Selfishness that hurts others is bad. A valid point. Selfishness for selfcare is good. Let me explain how being a little selfish is healthy. First some context. For more than fifteen years I was a primary caretaker […]
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Observations and Ending the Experiment In this closing chapter of my experiment to have ChatGPT write all code for a turn-based strategy game, I part with a better understanding of the limitations of the current version 4 of OpenAI.com‘s ChatGPT. Part 3 ended with a partially functional checker-style board with movable game units, after a
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Today I am starting where I left off, with the intent to refactor the code. I suspect this is a big ask for ChatGPT. The code is getting harder to manage. Can the functions be grouped into classes? Also, can hard-coded values be set globally and referenced by name throughout the code? Like before, I
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Like half the world, it seems, I thought I would play with OpenAI’s ChatGPT 4. I have toyed with various things to see how it interacts and what it can produce. Much excitement is around social media is leveraging AI as a developer code assistant. As a software developer myself, I figure it is a
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The annual holiday shopping season is upon us, again. Some of us find we are in a rush to find a perfect, or perhaps obligatory, gift for family, friends, or acquaintances. With these times also comes the regular reminder to be protective of your personal and financial information. Experience is a wonderful teacher. Here is
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I have acquired a head cold this week. Not Covid, just the typical sore throat, followed by sinus and chest congestion. Yay. Oh, how I missed the common cold. It has been too long absent from my life. The thing about working from home is it made no significant impact on my work schedule. I
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