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I have a theory about the lottery I can't let go.
I'm one of those wing-nuts with a bulletin, yarn, thumbtacks, pictures of the Queen, Justin Trudeau, Lady Gaga, connecting the dots to a Komodo Dragon, a Pyramid, All-seeing eye, ...
Doing all the thinking myself...
I'm trying to get Chat GPT to help, and it's been useful, sort of, until I started fact checking it.
And I discover errors. Statistical Errors. Input read errors. Several of them.
An example:
Stalking the Wild Pendulum - Izhak Bentov
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Found this via Reddit - and am quite enjoying it. Nothing I didn't "Know" - or speculate, but I'm not even 100 pages in.
You can find it online here: https://archive.org/details/itzhak-bentov-stalking-the-wild-pendulum-on-the-mechanics-of-consciousness
The writing style reminds me of Guy Murchie's "The Seven Mysteries of Life", or "Godel, Escher & Bach", by Hofstadter, which were books that I also greatly enjoyed once upon a time. And any number of others which seek to reconcile science and spirituality. But I'll come back to this...
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Note, having finished it it was fine. Not Terrific, but I've long been informed of these various theories through various other channels. But he has a way of wrapping it all up. In the vein of "Dancing Wu-Li Masters" or various other books from the 70's that attempt to reconcile science and spirituality.
The job...
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And started today at the new job.
Went fine. Sushi place, 20 yards from home. Keep it close.
Shadowed, opening, etc, nothing new, I know this all, the waiter I'm shadowing, super personable, my role here still undetermined, they're hiring for the spring, the uptick in business, but - as of the moment it's still dead. A few tables.
And so finish the training shift, no schedule as of yet, no guarantee of hours, tips, bills, and it's just another escalation in financial misfortune that when remedied will be sudden, all at once, like a flash of lightning, or diamond in the hand and scintillating, but - until then, that paraliminal stress that this has gone on just a little too long and it's time to get moving...
I've a feeling the gold will work out before this does...
Prospecting, Spring, 2024
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Sunday, out and about. The car, still parked where I left it, no new tickets, the daughter rejoiced in my trauma and made me track it down and verify it was still there.
And so off and about, near destinations as I can't afford the gas.
A river. Gold. No pans, no shovel, but I know it's there and I'm gonna go back.
A couple of higher altitude destinations, finds, some lamproite (I think) - crystals, up to a cm long. I don't know what they are. I have to ask some questions.
And, breaking rocks, breaking rocks, and another crystal, too small to tell by looking, and my USB microscope fails, there's no "in-between" magnification, you're either too close or too far away and so...
I have to get this checked. My imagination runs rampant.
You know. Why not?
Home, find on my sweater a tick.
And then another on my neck the next day.
Bloody hell. I'm going to have to slather the Off, Deet, switch to white linens, but I've discovered a couple of new localities, of necessity close by, and - by Jove, my fortune will soon be made...
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And tonight, just after I write this, crawling upon my wall:
FML. Bloody hell, must have latched on to my moccasins. I hate these buggers.
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