The past few months have found me relearning functional programming, and by reference, OCaml. Coming from a legacy of imperative, von Neumann-style coding, functional programming is a challenge to learn and adopt. Except, not really.

I used ChatGPT to re-write my post about ChatGPT. The Internet is abuzz with OpenAI's ChatGPT, evoking thoughts in me as I watch others and read about its output. Machine learning algorithms need data to…

Or, a case study in what not to do. It started innocently enough. Accept the obvious blue button or choose "Change Settings" to see what you're accepting. Let's choose to change settings. Up pops this…

The Internet is abuzz with OpenAI's ChatGPT. In watching others, and reading about the output, I find a few thoughts come to mind. The first is curiosity with the input. The training material. Any machine…

100% agree with jwz here, https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/psa-do-not-use-services-that-hate-the-internet/ All the social networks I'm on are considered old, dinosaurs, or archaic. All this may be true, but IRC, XMPP, email lists, and the like are still around decades…