Dr. Guillermo Power 
@gpowerf@qoto.org
This is my fun social media account, I will post a lot of video game stuff (mostly old or cloud gaming) and some work stuff.
If I post an image with no Alt text it is because the image is just there for decoration and doesn't provide any extra meaning to the toot.
Mi aventura: http://gpowerf.itch.io/8-bit-island
Joined Nov 2022
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Feedback loops.. Heh, I've done that yesterday with Bing. I asked it which cats didn't have retractable claws. It gave me a list.
Siamese were included, so I asked do Siamese really not have retractable claws? It answered with that they can retract their claws but not all the way. A bit still sticks out.
Then I kinda admonished it with you said they didn't have retractable claws which implies they can't do it at all!
It apologised and repeated that they have retractable claws but not all the way.
So I asked which cats have retractable claws but not all the way, and it gave me the same list as the first one.
Then I asked again, which cats do NOT have retractable claws. It says all cats have retractable claws, but <list as before> don't go all the way in.
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You have to keep verifying the answers to make sure. Best Bing can do is giving you a starting point, from which you can continue your research.
Here are some of my tips for using #AI language models like #chatGTP and #BingChat AI effectively:
• Don’t just ask for a task to be completed, give the AI an example of the sort of output you want. This produces much better results.
• Use roles to control the AI’s personality, tone, and style. Tell them exactly what role you want them to play in the conversation. You can request chatGPT or Bing Chat to play the role of an interviewer, a colleague to do pair programming with, or even for fun an alien who is asking the first human they met questions.
• Provide some information to the AI instead of letting it guess or make up facts. Either tell them the facts and information you want them to work with or in the case of Bing Chat give it a link to the articles or pages you want it to work with.
• Use feedback loops to correct the AI’s mistakes, iterate.
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THE LAW OF MECHANICAL REPAIR: After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch and you'll have to pee.
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Puzo Puyo on my 128K enhanced Apple IIe. Fun game!
#AppleII #vintagecomputing #retroComputing #retrogaming #vintageapple #desk #workspace #battlestations
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Five years ago I built a portable Raspberry Pi. Until last weekend I ran Retropie on it. It was not great. The issue was having to install the drivers provided by the kit manufacturer, and all it did was map certain keys on a keyboard to the various controls. This was problematic in some emulators like Amiberry who didn't see it as a proper controller. The entire thing felt like a massive hack and it was very unsatisfying to use.
I largely stopped tinkering. And then recently for some reason a bunch of stuff stopped working in my install. So I decided to try something else.
Enter Recalbox. To set up the controls all you have to do is change one line in a configuration file and it reads the GPIO inputs from the controls as a proper controller.
It's glorious! Out of the box it's absolutely awesome. You just add ROMs. There's also a little bit of configuration to make it work with the screen but that's just copy and paste stuff.
I sometimes wonder if over the last 20-25 years or so I've become that sort of really annoying Linux user who is happy to spend a couple of days fixing a basic issue but then says that "Linux just works".
I cannot emphasize enough how amazing #BingChat is. I've just navigated through huge amounts of documentation in conversational style and it helped me solve all the issues I had and I saving me HOURS!
I wonder if Stack Overflow will survive AI.
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Attention!
An unknown attacker is sending out forged emails with malicious attachments, impersonating team members.
The ScummVM team will never send unsolicited mails or ask you to download any files without posit conversion.
When in doubt, get in touch with us.
Be vigilant.
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There’s no convincing me that these modern emulation based C64s aren’t really cool. I know plenty of people dismiss them as “it’s just a Raspberry Pi running Vice!” and whilst there’s some merit to that comment it doesn’t stop them being cool. #retrocomputing #c64 #retrogaming
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#AI tools are becoming as ubiquitous as google, calculators, and cell phones. In case it's useful (or funny) to think about those considering wholesale banning of #ChatGPT and similar tools, here's an old satirical article by Doug Johnson on "A Proposal for Banning Pencils" https://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/columnists/johnson/johnson004.shtml
#EdTech #AIEd @edutooters @edutooter
We've not had #BingChat for long and I am now at a point where I can't live without it!
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Spectrum 48k BASIC Manual #zxspectrum #retrogaming
READ: https://archive.org/stream/NH2021_zxspectrumbasic.pdf/page/n123/mode/2up
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Mass layoffs and absentee bosses create a morale crisis at Meta
https://www.straitstimes.com/business/mass-layoffs-and-absentee-bosses-create-a-morale-crisis-at-meta
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I really wish more people would try more Fediverse server software other than Mastodon.
It's easy to do, takes you just a minute of your time, and answers so many questions about what the Fediverse is capable of doing.
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I can't help myself being somewhat proud to have had the opportunity to write an article for the Zzap! magazine, even if it's just the Italian edition (which is still official!). It's on this month's issue.
It's about #XCBASIC of course (I already said how much a fanboy of it I am :)
I had to build XC=BASIC 3 from source, but it is working now!
I'm not 100% convinced that for what I am doing V3 is better than V2 as the string length limit in V3 might be problematic. Anyway! If you get this issue:
xcbasic3: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.33' not found (required by xcbasic3)
xcbasic3: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.32' not found (required by xcbasic3)
xcbasic3: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.34' not found (required by xcbasic3)
Build from source. It fixes the problem.
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This is my fun social media account, I will post a lot of video game stuff (mostly old or cloud gaming) and some work stuff.
If I post an image with no Alt text it is because the image is just there for decoration and doesn't provide any extra meaning to the toot.
Mi aventura: http://gpowerf.itch.io/8-bit-island
Joined Nov 2022
