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festus , to Technology in ChatGPT outperforms undergrads in intro-level courses, falls short later

Not at all surprising. ChatGPT 'knows' a course's content insofar as it's memorized the textbook and all the exam questions. Once you start asking it questions it's never seen before (more likely for advanced topics that don't have a billion study guides and tutorials for) it falls short, even for basic questions that'd just require a bit of additional logic.

Mind you, memorizing everything is impressive and can get you a degree, but when tasked with a new problem never seen before ChatGPT is completely inadequate.

festus , to World News in More than 300 Egyptians die from heat during Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, diplomats say

I hadn't read this exact article but still commented because I've read about the same events in other publications.

festus , to World News in More than 300 Egyptians die from heat during Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, diplomats say

I read somewhere that people who fork over money for a special visa to Saudis Arabia have access to air conditioned stations along the way. Most likely the Egyptians are doing it unofficially, which is likely easier to get away being in the general region already.

festus , to World News in EXCLUSIVE: ICC seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes over October 7 attack and Gaza war | CNN

Only to countries that are part of the ICC. Many countries, including the US, aren't a part so Netanyahu can safely travel to those places.

festus , to Canada in Toronto developers are getting desperate as no one is buying condos anymore

Many condo projects take years to complete. Are you suggesting that years ago, when housing prices reached their peak, condo developers should have stopped development?

festus , to Canada in Toronto developers are getting desperate as no one is buying condos anymore

Oh I'm not saying they should be bailed out or anything, just that I wouldn't call developers 'parasites' as they actually are building homes.

festus , to Canada in Toronto developers are getting desperate as no one is buying condos anymore

Would you rather that no one builds any condos?

festus , to Canada in Toronto developers are getting desperate as no one is buying condos anymore

I'm going to be more sympathetic for the developers which is that they likely spent a ton of money for the land already when prices were high and after expensive building costs they're struggling to not lose money.

festus , to Technology in Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter

They've designed their platform so that you can outsource different aspects to different servers. So you can choose a moderator who curates your experience and that's a different person from who hosts your data, which may be different to who sorts and determines the 'top posts'.

festus , to Canada in Loblaw reports 9.8% quarterly profit boost, hikes dividend 15%

I'm not sure that math works? They earned $460M in profit for Q1, so that's about $1.84B in profit over a year. Divide that by 39 million people in Canada and you have $47 per person, which is nowhere near $300 per person plus $1B.

Still obscene profit margins, but let's do the math correctly.

festus , to Technology in Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining

Looks like Microsoft needs to further enhance the consumer experience by adding more personalized product recommendations, that'll fix it right up!

festus , to cats in Bossy baby

My sister (parents' cat) is great at communicating. She'll get your attention and then lead you to whatever she wants. The door to go outside, the food drawer for treats, the bathtub for running water, and to her toys if she wants to play.

Sometimes she likes to steal my dad's office chair; for that she'll lead him out of the room as if she wanted something else and then run back in to claim the now-vacant chair. Or she just jumps up and wedges him off :D

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