Yes

Sturgeon’s law really does apply. It applies to doctors, plumbers, therapists, programmers, managers, x.

There really is too much stupidity in the world. “Obviously”.

Learning to ignore it is an easy but reasonable response. Accepting it however, and learning that most stupidity can be dispelled with a bit of guidance is much harder.

You can get there if you aren’t stupid. :)

Marble flooring in homes is quite common in India.

Its very common in loads of countrys - or at least terra-cotta tiles: Spain, Mexico, Italy, Greece. Its a good way to keep a house cool in summer.

terracotta tiles is a different matter from marble

Why? It occurs naturally in italy and some other country. Its just a material. One that is easily damaged by accidic cleaners, so not the luxery it sounds.

Marble ground down is even in toothpaste..

because marble is an expensive luxury and terracotta is not

Hahaha, I can imagine a buttoned up exec channeling jobs brandishing "the lump" on stage at one of their events. And he is saying: This is the best "lump" we've ever made. 20% Lumpier than the previous generation, 30% lighter, with a brand new crazonium body with a ferrite core!

Yep, it looks like a knockoff.

I can never see these illusions :/ Only the bulge works. Movement I can’t see at all.

Am I supposed to look at it a certain way? I tried at different distances. I’ve tried using larger screens. Nothing..

A lot of the movement ones are more noticeable with actual movement so scrolling a little bit could help. I notice them popping more when I scroll through his twitter feed.

The challenge is flawed.

I asked one of the questions from the quiz to chatgpt which the quiz claims GPT can't solve. But it did.

Prompt: Write out the word "hello" as an ascii art drawing with # and _

Output:

      _   _      _ _
     | | | |    | | |
     | |_| | ___| | | ___
     |  _  |/ _ \ | |/ _ \
     | | | |  __/ | | (_) |
     \_| |_/\___|_|_|\___/

I guess chatgpt isn't raw GPT-4, or the quiz is using some older model.

I don't think thats a correct solution to the problem.

The prompt asked for an ascii art drawing made from the # and _ characters. But the output also uses |/\() characters (and it doesn't use a # anywhere).

If someone put a gun to your head and asked you to draw hello using "#" and " ", would you use other characters like "/"?

I imagine I'd spend the next few minutes quietly pondering what sort of poor choices I made in life that lead me here and try my hardest to embrace an absurd ending to an absurd journey.

> Ok, but it's still acceptable by any common sense standard.

I don’t know that it is. It’s clearly a great ascii art drawing, but I don’t think chatgpt gets full marks on the test here. It just isn’t following the prompt closely enough.

Ok I see your point. Did you look at the output in the challenge? It's very different. I wonder why? Different seeds maybe.

ChatGPT is (was) not good at ascii art.

Some months ago I tried to make it draw me an ascii rose and some text. I even tried providing it the ascii art for the rose and the text.

Finally I did it by hand.

BTW, in your example it's not using only # and _, it's using other ascii symbols. Depending on the criteria it could be considered wrong.

Mine drew this:

  #___#  #####  #______  #______  #####  
  #___#  #____  #______  #______  #___#  
  #####  ####__  #______  #______  #___#  
  #___#  #_____  #______  #______  #___#  
  #___#  #####   #######  #######  #####

Doesn't it flatten all behavior and not just impropriety?

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