Google Fiber – Triangle – A Tale of Two Experiences

First, I have to say my personal experience with Google Fiber (GF) since getting it a few years ago has been great. The speed is consistent and, if there is a problem I may not have noticed, it will be reflected as a discount on my monthly bill. My install process was uneventful in part due to my prep work to run a pull string from the back of my home, through the crawl space, up the corner of the garage to my office where I needed the connection. The install team was super appreciative of the pull string and…

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OpenAi ChatGPT an Interview, of sorts

Bard is out and I was able to ask and compare answers from ChatGPT. Check out this PDF for details. Recent links for the topic:https://news.google.com/search?q=Artificial%20Intelligence%20News&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aenhttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/technology/chatbots-turing-test.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/technology/google-chatgpt-artificial-intelligence.html Below you will find my initial post where I ask a series of questions using the OpenAI ChatGPT web interface. I won’t say the responses were alarming or revealing. They are more of a politicians well rehearsed answers. More recently, I tried the OpenAI Python code generator while completing some exercises in the “Learn to Code By Solving Problems – A Python Programming Primer” by Daniel Zingaro book I am reading. I had already completed…

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Dell XPS 8930 Woes

As much as I would like to say my experience with the new Dell XPS 8930 tower computer has been uneventful, I can’t say that and regret this purchase after my experience with Dell support and their attempted repair. The issue started at the end of May when the built-in SD Card reader quit working. I had just used it the week before to inventory a bunch of cards I had lying around. And better to know I can reformat them in the camera without worry I that had not yet imported them into Lightroom. The only updates applied to…

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