Simon Rose

I like math. I like climbing. Not always in that order. He/Him

[Varina Crisfield @in_the_hemlocks]

I have a picture from my first field season in 2003 that I'd love to share, but it's in a BOX in the basement of my building, because it's a PRINTED photo that was taken with a FILM camera. Lots changes in 20 years, and grad student stipends need to as well. #SupportOurScience

[Simon Rose @charlesflorian]

@gregeganSF Not to be confused with All-dressed potato chips in Canada.

[Haggard Hawks 🦅📚 Words | Language | Etymology @HaggardHawks]

The colour AZURE takes its name from the Persian word ‘lazward’. The initial L disappeared because English adopted the word via French, and omitted it thinking it was the French definite article, l’. The L remains in place in LAPIS LAZULI—which literally means ‘stone of azure’.

[Simon Rose @charlesflorian]

@KA_Nicholas @AndrewDessler Cool!

[Simon Rose @charlesflorian]

Of course, then we asked it to write up our discussion in song form, which was pretty entertaining.

[Simon Rose @charlesflorian]

So a few days ago we had a fun experiment testing how well ChatGPT could write both documentation and code for EPICS (https://t.co/wRYS7cI0LL), specifically about how access security works.

[Simon Rose @charlesflorian]

ChatGPT was in a sense gaslighting us, or at least causing us to gaslight ourselves!

[Simon Rose @charlesflorian]

Unix question: Do Americans pronounce it 'sed' or 'see'?

[Simon Rose @charlesflorian]

@gregeganSF Dill is another good one to try.

[Simon Rose @charlesflorian]

You forgot: "intentionally change my response if it is one of the suggested replies"

[Jordan Ellenberg @JSEllenberg]

Gmail users: how often do you use gmail's suggested replies?

[Greg Egan @gregeganSF]

“Throughout this book ‘z’ is pronounced ‘zed’.”
— Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, Michael A. Nielsen & Isaac L. Chuang

[Simon Rose @charlesflorian]

Oh man, this is an amazing example of ChatGPT failing in hilarious ways.

[Paul Mainwood @PaulMainwood]

Beautiful example to reveal the nature of an LLM (a sophisticated statistical model trained on a large corpus of text).

[Simon Rose @charlesflorian]

@KA_Nicholas , does this describe you?

[Haggard Hawks 🦅📚 Words | Language | Etymology @HaggardHawks]

A GALANTHOPHILE is a lover or collector of snowdrops.

[Simon Rose @charlesflorian]

As ever, the onion is shockingly good at what it does.

[The Onion @TheOnion]

It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible https://t.co/e8aZ5CSrhi