@GaryWill

Spent decades building expertise in areas I don't pay attention to anymore. Apparently retired now. Wikipedia says I'm best known for a wrestling history book.

 Southwestern Ontario
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Joined August 2007
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Still my favourite version of startups meeting government agencies (Utopia, season 3, 2017). Not exactly fair to government-funded orgs, but funny.
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This one's even funnier. Bing Chat tells me to go to Google's help page for information on how to do web searches.
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Bing Chat just told me to use Google Scholar. I guess that's a good thing.
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Ontario is investing $7.5M to help create a new innovative hub at @UWaterloo in #Kitchener. This state-of-the-art facility will support the development of new technology, grow the #lifesciences sector and encourage investment and job creation. Learn more news.ontario.ca/en/release/1…
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It's perversely impressive to see the lengths Bing Chat will go to in fabricating fake research papers. It could just do a search ON BING to see there is no such paper, but it would rather just make stuff up.
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... and, of course, when I told it there was no such paper, it fabricated another one.
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People worry about AI taking over our jobs, but with Bing Chat, I'm the one doing ITS job and performing actual web searches to uncover all the stuff it just made up.
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I know that ChatGPT/Bing Chat makes up fake research papers, so this wasn't surprising, but it was disappointing that just a few Qs later -- after it had apologized -- ChatGPT provided the same made up reference again
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It followed up with another winner
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Had a long talk with Bing Chat last night after it recommended a research paper to me and gave me a URL at ResearchGate and a DOI, along with the full title and author names. There's no record that this paper exists.
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Nothing from a title search. DOI Foundation says it's not an assigned DOI. No such page at ResearchGate. Can't find any paper with the group of authors Bing gave me. I pointed all this out. Bing insisted it was correct.
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Even after I had it search the site for the journal Bing said published the paper -- and it found nothing -- it still instisted it was right. It suggested about eight things that could be to blame, none of which was itself.
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Southwestern Ontario quiz: * Oxford County * County of Brant * Norfolk County Which one isn't a county? A: None of them are. And they're all not-counties in different ways.
Gary Will@GaryWill16 Nov 2022
Oxford County does a good job of disguising itself as a county and avoiding the review of regional municipalities.
Oxford County does a good job of disguising itself as a county and avoiding the review of regional municipalities.
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Toronto Maple Leafs great Borje Salming diagnosed with ALS cbc.ca/1.6546814
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Hadn't been to Dairy Freez in a few years and was a bit apprehensive about whether the cones had shrunk in that time. No need to worry. @YvonnePilon
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At least McDonald's summer dollar drinks are still $1
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I first wrote about Sarah Landstreet in 2016 and was impressed. Now she's cashing in on her success as a startup entrepreneur, embracing new challenges. #startup #communitech #georgettepackaging #carbonneutralpackaging #kitchener #techadjacent #towr therecord.com/news/waterloo-…

Groundbreaking entrepreneur eyes medical school

Startup founder will need all of her varied experience for next challenge

therecord.com
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My Ding-A-Ling was hit because is showcased a performer connecting with his audience. Chuck wrote some of the greatest lyrics in rock history, so we can give him one silly singalong that had an auditorium full of people happily doing whatever he wanted.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine@sterlewine4 Mar 2022
Robert Ham asked me to argue for the merits of a number one record I used to loathe but now kind of dig: Chuck Berry’s “My Ding-A-Long.” My thoughts are part of his fine piece for @UPROXX uproxx.com/indie/chuck-berry…

How One Of Music’s Most Influential Artists Got Their Only No. 1 Hit

Chuck Berry is a legend, but his hitmaking history is a surprising one.

uproxx.com
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Replying to @ProbabilityProf
@ProbabilityProf, very well explained! youtu.be/QW3KRaz4aI4
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