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Scrolling back through some discussions with chatgpt and a few things with bing (later ones more likely to be gpt4)

* Explaining what a do/while(false) loop was for as I'd not seen that construct before

* Discussing what DIDs were and how web DIDs worked as the RFC was very detailed in a lot of areas I just didn't care about. A discussion with a pretty knowledgeable person in the area was what I needed, and what I got. It explained what the well-known part was, explained my confusion around resolving to a document and resolving to a resource (where I was mentally stuck).

* Creating a learning plan, diagrammed by mermaid, for progressing in bouldering. Each major step broken down into sub-parts to practice

* Finding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem given bad explanations that didn't lead me to the right place in google

* Finding https://blockprotocol.org/ given a shaky memory of "some composable ui framework by someone famous" iterating a little with bing. I had failed to find it before manually.

* Explained and created a table of bouldering gradings as the place I go uses a different one to the videos I see

* Discussed project ideas to do with my son, gave me great ideas around electronics that I think are a good fit as well as a few other things. The most useful part here was being able to say "that's too generic, I need proper projects" and "that's too simple for him" and have it update. It then also created some good explanations at different levels about how radios work,

* General discussions about long term impacts of LLMs, potential use cases

* Career advice

* Generating art that we'll be getting commissioned for the house

* NER without any coding

* Generating ember templates, CSS and example filling data for a custom framework given a problem statement (what I'm actually building right now)

* (edit) I just took requests from my kids and made them some colouring in pages with robots, firefighting robots, lego ninjas, owls, frogs and crabs.

> In fact, no one in my extended sphere of friends and family has asked me anything about chatGPT, midjourney, or any of these other models. The only people I hear about these models from are other tech people.

I've had family members tell me they've used it to create reports, and used it to create marketing copy, a website and lecture slides for others.



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