Is AI actually helpful?

[onehitwanda]

My wife always says, "I'm not prejudiced. I just form my opinions very quickly."

I hate people in advance because it saves time.

 

[jsmiam]

Fat fingers.fixed. Thx.

Just because it’s nitpicking season…. it would also be more clear and informative to show the zeros/zeroes, because these numbering systems start at zero, not one. 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7–8-9, 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7, and 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-A-B-C-D-E-F

I do believe this is the forums first “argument” over wording as it pertains to numbering systems! In my toothy ten years active in the forum I don’t recall this coming up before.

Usually it’s page after page over subtle meaning differences of words. Very cool!

P.S. In honor of the autocorrect/spellcheck thread I decided to leave “toothy” alone. I was typing “lengthy”.

 

[iwatchus]

Fat fingers.fixed. Thx.

Completely understandable. I was probably more attuned to the mistakes because I had taught my firsts how to work in binary, octal and hex yesterday afternoon. There is always an interesting range of reactions from them to seeing this the first time, and finally understanding things like what hex codes for colors actually mean. And little mistakes like that will lead to untold hardships as they try to build a mental model that works around silly mistakes.

 

[onehitwanda]

I was probably more attuned to the mistakes because I had taught my firsts how to work in binary, octal and hex yesterday afternoon.

I always loved the memory locations DEAD BEEF and CAFE BABE

and sniggered any time 0x29A came up.

 

[EmilyMiller]

it would also be more clear and informative to show the zeros/zeroes, because these numbering systems start at zero, not one.

ℤ ‘starts’ at minus infinity - to be nit picky

 

[onehitwanda]

ℤ ‘starts’ at minus infinity - to be nit picky

Must we push the limits out like this? Next thing we'll have a fractal on our hands and I'll be forced to bring some cardioids.

 

[iwatchus]

ℤ ‘starts’ at minus infinity - to be nit picky

Of course, I assumed Shelby was describing N the natural numbers (I don't feel like finding the right font to get the right N). @jsmiam wanted the whole numbers (or for the C programmers, unsigned ints)

 

[EmilyMiller]

Of course, I assumed Shelby was describing N the natural numbers (I don't feel like finding the right font to get the right N). @jsmiam wanted the whole numbers (or for the C programmers, unsigned ints)

ℕ

 

[EmilyMiller]

Must we push the limits out like this? Next thing we'll have a fractal on our hands and I'll be forced to bring some cardioids.

I’m all out of math puns

 

[jsmiam]

Taking a survey of who’s into the math discussion:

n=4. “n”. Ba-dom-bom. (Statistics though, comes up all the time here).

We can still make three pages minimum of this though. I know we can!

 

[onehitwanda]

I’m all out of math puns

I figured you'd at least be good for something discrete...

 

[EmilyMiller]

I figured you'd at least be good for something discrete...

I’ll log your feedback.

 

[onehitwanda]

I’ll log your feedback.

That would be unnatural though.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

That would be unnatural though.

You're making my brain hurt. It's like it's being primed for all kinds of imaginary thigs

 

[onehitwanda]

You're making my brain hurt. It's like it's being primed for all kinds of imaginary thigs

You need to learn to differentiate between real and imaginary.

 

[EmilyMiller]

That would be unnatural though.

So continuously smooth…

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

You need to learn to differentiate between real and imaginary.

Good point. Then perhaps I could integrate back into society.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

You need to learn to differentiate between real and imaginary.

Or another derivative; That could be integral to success.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Ain't none of this normal. *old man grumbling*

 

[jsmiam]

And why isn’t 11 called onety-one?

- Steven Wright.

 

[millamomud]

Or why isn't 13 called threlve?

 

[EmilyMiller]

You need to learn to differentiate between real and imaginary.

ℝ vs {ai | a ∈ ℝ, i² = -1}

 

[UsuallyPresent]

ℝ vs {ai | a ∈ ℝ, i² = -1}

Happily they all zero out the same.

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

AI ChatGPT said to DI Don't Give a Fuck, "AI Venice isn't half as helpful as me." DI Don't Give A Fuck said to AI ChatPGT, "Don't give a fuck about either one of you."

 

[onehitwanda]

So continuously smooth…

I do so love a nice fresh slice of 𝝅