Man. Today I can’t prove I’m human to ChatGPT because its captcha is too hard for me. I gave it like five or six goes. I’m a bit pissed off because I pay for access to ChatGPT and having it waste my time like this and then deny me access wasn’t what I sent my money for. Off I go…
Update: gonna try NoowAI, that looks interesting and like it might satisfy my usecases.
I had an envelope full of SMD diodes arrive today. Three different types in three different sizes, so nine bundles. Unlabeled!
I’m not sure what they were thinking at the shop. I got them from here.
I managed to figure out that the ones marked ‘S4’ were the Schottky diodes (1N5819WS). I think the ones labeled ‘T4’ are the switching diodes (1N4148WS) and the ones labeled ‘T7’ and ‘A7’ are the rectifying diodes (1N4007), but I’m not sure of that yet.
I asked ChatGPT for help and it explained how I can devise a test circuit, so that’s on my TODO list for tomorrow.
I have an item on my TODO list to make a program to convert text into Title Case. On a whim, I asked ChatGPT to do this for me, and it did! ChatGPT is automating me out of work!
I swear, ChatGPT knows everything. Today it told me I could run the following in the developer tools console to speed up YouTube video playback beyond the “maximum” of 2x up to 3x (or more!).
document.querySelector("video").playbackRate = 3.0;
ChatGPT explains Cultural Attache.
Well. Turns out you can only chain up to five USB hubs. I know, because I tried to chain six. I feel like this is a life accomplishment, and it should unlock a secret level or something. After finding this limitation myself, ChatGPT confirmed it.
I asked ChatGPT who is the girl in Massive Attack? It told me:
I think that’s a pretty good answer. The girl I was thinking of was Elizabeth Fraser who sings Teardrop. Horace Andy is a man, not a woman, but ChatGPT just listed him as an aside, it didn’t claim he was a woman.
I checked Massive Attack band members and there were a few other female collaborators which ChatGPT didn’t list, but it didn’t hallucinate anything or tell me any lies. I’m not sure if I should give ChatGPT a B grade for missing a few female collaborators, or an A for giving me a simpler answer which contained the fact I actually wanted to know, viz who is the girl who sings Teardrop?
ChatGPT explains the golden ratio.
I asked ChatGPT to format php datetime as “Fri 24 Mar 2023” and it “understood” what I meant and gave me the answer that I wanted! If that’s not intelligence I don’t know what is…
ChatGPT answers the question Is it artist then title or title then artist? Its answer: Artist – Title.