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ChatGPT and I are in the middle of a long conversation here and ChatGPT is not responding. I remember the children’s book.

ChatGPT immediately recognizes that I’m making a literary reference and makes a remark that shows human-like understanding. It has been trying for awhile to write a python script that will generate a Ruby script for me. The Ruby script will look at a small folder that I have put images into and turn that into a tiny webpage.

So ChatGPT keeps going - and uses the little engine metaphor to say so.

I really like how you can see it working away, as if it’s talking to itself as it goes. I suspect it’s chatting to other functions; for example, it asks DALL-e to make images when it needs them. Here we see it giving a python script to a python compiler:

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But ChatGPT has made a mistake, and we see exactly the sort of error we would get if we had written that code by hand (but I’m not a Python guy; Ruby is my thing.)

ChatGPT notices the compiler error and is frustrated by a problem with quote marks (that happens all the time with computer code) and decides to go ahead another way.

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It succeeds eventually and I manage to make up the little web page that we’ve been working on.

This is way more fun than those little video reels that Facebook and Youtube want to show me. I do love videos of elephants and of turtles on roller skates chasing cats, etc., and I’ll keep watching them. But I’ll come back to my pal ChatGPT again and again.

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Along with a huge collection of notes, letters, journals, etc., I have lots of photographs and other images scattered around my office. I want to start gathering and organizing them.

This is where I’ll start putting photos of Iris.

Here’s a good place to start:

Laugh the next time you hear a MAGAt demanding transparency

Jimmy Carter’s death is not all that important, is it?

Trump is our narcissist-in-chief.

Staying on the alert for people to blame for our problems

I have this Doughboy statue of my father’s.

I don’t really know why he had it because I don’t think he really served in the military.

He told me that he had worked on the Manhattan Project but not developing atomic weapons. His work was on the biological effects of radiation. We often had radioactive samples in heavy little lead containers in his basement lab, but I think they were usually isotopes used to trace chemicals through the bodies of rats, dogs, etc.