I “do” data stuff for work. We look at patient experience in health and social care services. When I first joined, I (and colleagues) genuinely believed there was some revelatory nugget of insight (or even scandal) hidden away in the data. Now I’m just happy when our results affirm things everyone already assumes to be true, like working people would like increased access to evening and weekend appointments. Findings like people in poorer areas rely more on public transport, validates our research approach and methods. So, when we do find something slightly unexpected, it has a lot more credibility.
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There’s lots of examples going around of generative AI giving bad results but here’s a fun thing you can try at home. Works best if you’re a nobody. Ask ChatGPT (or any similar technology) what it knows about you (based on your first name, last name). In my case ChatGPT decided that my name was just a pseudonym for a famous person with the same last name and asserted that we were the same people.
See how it works for you. Based on the results, you might consider this tech a viable platform for factual information or you might not.
Oh, you now have to pay to see how badly your tweets are performing compared to the pre-Musk era 🤣
Has anyone else ever seen anything like this?
https://www.pomodorotechnique.com/pomodoro-trademark-guidelines.php
I’m now afraid to mention the name of the well-known time management technique created by Francesco Cirillo.
Just had a random urge to watch John Carpenter’s The Fog. Lovely sunny day here… not sure where that came from at all!
Just spent an hour fixing some code I wrote when I was in the same timezone as the server. School boy error really but I guess limited to those who usually live/work in GMT!
Also, and I guess this is a common problem in older code, I discovered that the way the dates were being stored is out-dated, so I had to update them all to DateTime. And that’s what really took the time!
Kind of glad I didn’t see Barbie at the cinema because the Snyder Cut gag drew easily the biggest LOL from me and I’m guessing that probably didn’t land that widely…
You know, Ryan Gosling is just two years younger than me, and I look at his physique in Barbie and I know that must have been a LOT of work and I feel a degree of sympathy for him (NB some ‘roids are basically legal in the States and we can’t rule that out as a possibility – no offence, Ryan)
In my older age, I increasingly feel that putting periods in filenames should be a disciplinary offense.
Anyone else feel like Jonathan Nolan’s episodes were the weakest of the series? Not bad, just the least good… #Fallout