Stolen from here.
August 2024
The technology that will replace us
I saw a post on reddit with a bunch of hilarious responses when asking ChatGPT “How many Rs are in Strawberry?”, so I got on Chatbot Arena and tried it myself.
If you aren’t familiar, Chatbot Arena is a leader board for various chatbots. You can submit a question and it will send it to two random chatbots, and then you pick the best answer. It can be useful for wasting time at work.
The original post received the answer 2 Rs, and that’s what both models gave me my first try. And was by far the most common answer I received in testing.
This is an interesting take…
Is this better or worse?
K.
Can’t fool Gemini..
After a while it seemed most just can’t count, or assume I’m talking about rupees. I decided to rephrase the question to eliminate the rupees misunderstanding, “How many occurences of the letter R are in the word Strawberry?”. Which worked well, but most couldn’t could. GPT4o got it right every time, and Gemini 2 did also.
Mind Your Business
What was the motto on the first US coin? MIND YOUR BUSINESS
I’ve long been aware that in god we trust was not mandated on our currency until the red scare of the 50s, but thanks to checking snopes while bored at work I now know the original motto. I’m totally in favor of bring this back.
New blog theme
I spent a couple hours at work browsing different themes for the site. I’m still not quite happy with this one, but it will work for now. I’ll probably spend the rest of the night looking into creating my own theme.
VNC over Guacamole
I’ve been using the new setup from work for a couple days now and I have decided to run a network cable to my office finally. I’ve got an old cheap wifi card that is only connecting at 144 Mbps up/72 down, so I’ve had to configure the display for 8 bit color. The default of 32 was taking several seconds to draw if it needed to update more than an eighth of the screen, so it was pretty much unusable. I’ll run the cable when I get off work, and test it out Saturday evening when I’m back at work.