The first telephone call: "Mr. Watson — come here — I want to see you." The second telephone call (before Watson arrives): "Mr. Bell, this is Microsoft tech support. We've detected a virus on your computer."

"Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else." - Eagleson's Law

I've published papers on Sequence Bloom Trees. Today I've been asked to review a manuscript about Sun-and-Beach Tourism "because of [my] substantial expertise" in that field🤪. I wonder how many other SBT acronym authors the editor bypassed to get to me.

GPT is a doomsday for programmers? Asked chatGPT to code simple problem not likely in training set — count ways to place three indistinct markers on 3x3 grid, rotation and flip equivalences counted only once. First code gave 84 (clearly wrong). Second 8 (also clearly wrong). Pft

Another example of chatGPT as a programmer. Asked for a function to compute coefficients of the composition of two polynomials. It produced a python function that doesn't even produce the right order polynomial. Or throws an index out of range exception. Take your pick.

From a 1961 mainstream press view of that recent discovery -- DNA: "[Biologists] should soon be able to manufacture simple plants and animals to planned designs." In Popular Science books.google.com/books?id=UyYDA…