ChatGPT t.ly/5SyY
This is the chat bot that has gotten much publicity and hoopla.
I like to use Google Search for all kinds of questions that come to me or come up in conversation and communication. I recently Googled the question "How can I make her love me more?" As usual, I got what seemed like pretty good answers. I was just exploring and was not actually seeking to get anyone to love me more.
I wrote my dissertation in 1968, way back in time. We had computers and I used the computer "language" Fortran to help me with my data analysis but just as seen in older sci fi movies, there were enormous cabinets of electronic components, not personal laptops and certainly not cellphones, let alone smartphones.
Yesterday's blog post about pi, the ratio of the diameter to the circumference of a circle, and many other things, brought up the question of What is random? Here is one answer:
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ran·dom
/ˈrandəm/
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adjective: random
1.
made, done, happening, or chosen without method or conscious decision.
"a random sample of 100 households"Statistics
governed by or involving equal chances for each item.
"a random sample of 100 households"
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Similar:
unsystematic
arbitrary
unmethodical
haphazard
unarranged
unplanned
undirected
casual
indiscriminate
nonspecific
stray
erratic
chance
accidental
hit-and-miss
serendipitous
fortuitous
contingent
adventitious
nonlinear
entropic
fractal
aleatory
stochastic
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Opposite:
systematic
planned
(of masonry) with stones of irregular size and shape.
2.
informal•
often derogatory
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informal
odd, unusual, or unexpected.
"the class was hard but he was so random that it was always fun"
noun informal
noun: random; plural noun: randoms
an unknown, unspecified, or odd person.
"I just sat down by myself and talked to some randoms"
I thought readers might be interested in inexpensive chat bot assistance.
These old tools can be employed in an Artificial Intelligence way. You just set a question, such as "should I buy a new car?" You write down H=Yes and you flip one of Artificial Intelligence tools in the air. Letting it fall on a carpet or mattress so that it doesn't roll, you read which side landed up. If it is not heads, keep saving for a while.