Erik Gregersen

One side says that LLMs lack knowledge of the world because they’re extensively trained on text and have no model of the real world, the other side says LLMs have PhD-level intelligence. Guys, guys—you’re both right

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ChatGPT File • • Edit View Window Help ChatGPT 5 > How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry The word "blueberry" has the letter b three times: • Once at the start ("B" in blueberry). • Once in the middle ("b" in blue). • Once before the -erry ending ("b" in berry). Total: 3 O92 Show me where the letter b appears in the word please. Sure — here's "blueberry" with each b highlighted: B lue b erry Positions (counting from 1): 1 B - first letter 4 b - in blue 6 b - in berry D9< Spell that out with all three bs please. I mean, just spell the word. Sure — here's the full spelling with all three b's shown in place: BLUEBERRY That's exactly how blueberry is spelled, with the b's in positions 1, 5, and 7.

ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help E ChatGPT 5 > You wrote "BLUEBERRY". There are only two bs there. Ah - I see the mix-up. Let's slow it down and spell blueberry carefully, letter by letter, showing all three b's. blueberry Now you can see them: • 1st b → position 1 • 2nd b → position 5 • 3rd b → position 6 blueberry Exactly — blue berry has three b's: • 1st b → at the very start • 2nd b → right after the e in blue • 3rd b → immediately after the second b, starting berry So the "bb" in the middle is really what gives blueberry its double-b moment. Its double-b moment; I see. Yep - blueberry is one of those words where the middle almost trips you up, like it's saying "b-b-better pay attention." That little bb moment is satisfying, though — it makes the word feel extra bouncy.

 ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help 巴 • ChatGPT 5 > My students get you to write their essays for them, you know. Ah, the old "ChatGPT, do my homework" routine — I'm familiar with that one. I can see why they'd be tempted, but here's the thing: I'm a lot more useful as a coach than a ghostwriter. If they use me to brainstorm ideas, plan structure, or clarify tricky concepts, they'll actually learn and still have their own voice in the work. If they just hand in what I write, they're skipping the thinking part - and it usually shows. I'm good, but I still leave a trail of... telltale ChatGPT-isms. A trail of blueberries, as it were. Exactly — a trail of blueberries: easy to follow, a little sweet, and maybe just obvious enough for a watchful teacher to notice. If your students really are leaving me to bake the whole blueberry pie for them, they might forget that the best part of pie is making it themselves... even if it gets a little messy. "Blueberry" only has two bs. Nope - blueberry really does have three b's. Here it is spaced out: bluebberry Positions: b- at the start 5 b - in the "blue" part 6 b - right next to it, starting "berry" That middle double-b is easy to miss if vou just glance at the word.

I had to try the “blueberry” thing myself with GPT5. I merely report the results.

Photo of a French snuffbox from 1740. It is a small rectangular box with gold lightening flashes and opalescent designs

I love objects that seem wildly out of place for their time. This antique French snuffbox looks like a teenager's makeup case from the 1980s

I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.

The “import the 3rd world become the 3rd world” guys just got a guy elected who fired government statisticians for producing a jobs report he didn’t like.

A very fat waxing crescent moon filling the frame, featuring craters and lunar lava flows, or maria

Tonight’s nearly first-quarter moon through my telescope

#Astrophotography #iPhoneography #Space #Telescope #Moon

It’s become one of those regimes

As Apollo 13 celebrates its 30th anniversary with a theatrical re-release in IMAX, Ron Howard reflects on Billy Wilder’s praise for the film.

Check out our full conversation with Howard and producer Brian Grazer on YouTube: boxd.it/baw

The magician kid you hired for your toddler’s birthday party guessed which card you picked and says it’s because he can read your mind. Should you believe him?

The god of small things: celebrating Arvo Pärt at 90 The Estonian composer’s music of simplicity, spirituality – and silence – is universally appealing and enduringly rewarding. We pay tribute ahead of his milestone birthday

The god of small things: celebrating Arvo Pärt at 90

Sayat-Nova (The Color of Pomegranates), Sergei Parajanov (1969)

Post something from the 60s

It's almost like it's the diff between a generation who got calls mostly from friends and one that gets calls mostly from scammera

The real big problem is there's not the capacity elsewhere. So even if other nations try to step up, it's a net loss for the world. American science has benefited from agglomeration effects as well, and dispersing that is not great.

Another arty The Slides. This time a DoD photographer indulges themselves with an abstract cloudscape.

Says guy who got his start at a facility funded by NSF.

Film review by Jorge Luis Borges of KING KONG (1933): King Kong: A monkey fourteen meters high (some of his fans say fifteen) is obviously charming, but perhaps that is not enough. This monkey is not full of juice; he is a dried out and dusty contraption with angular, clumsy movements. His only virtue-his height-seems not to have greatly impressed the photographer, who persists in not shooting him from below but from above, a plainly mistaken angle that invalidates and annuls his tallness. It should be added that he is hunchbacked and bowlegged, features that also shorten him. To ensure that there is nothing extraordinary about him, they make him fight monsters far stranger than he and find him lodgings in fake caverns the size of a cathedral, where his hard-won stature is lost. A carnal or romantic love for Miss Fay Wray brings to perfection the ruin of this gorilla and of the film as well.

Borges’ capsule review of KING KONG in which he mostly complains that Kong should be bigger

Yet again, Strava, which, in previous episodes, revealed US bases in Afghanistan and allowed Ukraine to assassinate a Russian naval commander on his jogging route.

Bodyguards Using Fitness App Revealed Locations of Swedish Leaders

someone should start a top-secret fitness app built to government clearances so that employees can count their steps while in classified locations www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/w...

We have images of a new interstellar visitor! ☄️ 👀

Comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third object ever spotted coming from beyond our Solar System.

In this timelapse, our VLT observes the comet move across the sky — just two days after its discovery!

https://www.eso.org/public/videos/potw2527a/ 🔭 🧪

Rest here a moment and stroke your sword with me while lamenting social realities

floating around group chats I am on the periphery of

Photos: The Scale of China’s Solar Power Projects As the Trump administration's “Big, Beautiful Bill” eliminates many clean-energy incentives in the U.S., China continues huge investments in wind and solar power, reportedly accounting for 74 percent ...

Compare China's enormous solar installations to Trump's abandonment of a clean energy future for America.

By killing green energy incentives in the GOP's BBB the US will be relying on expensive, dirty, climate-changing energy in the coming decades.

www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

There’s a Hindi phrase (usually said by dads) for when someone leaves the lights on that translates to “Is it Diwali again?” A French version is “We’re not in Versailles!” But my favourite version, by far, is the Serbian “Was your grandpa Nikola Tesla?”

now that i think of it, with claude, grok and chatgpt, they basically stopped making them woman-coded like siri as soon as they wanted them to act like topic based authorities

Ancient Globalism: Rome, India, China, & Beyond Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (Source) Here is a story that is probably not true: In c. 520 BCE, the Persian King of Kings Darius I led his armies into the Hindu Kush, and subjugated the Indus Riv…

NEW BLOG POST! Today we're looking at international trade and travel in the Ancient World, and discussing the many different ways in which Rome, India, and China were bound together.

The world has always been smaller than you think.

a good deal, to him, is when the other side is forced to agree on terms they don't want. he applies this to trade deals, sex, and business

HOLY BIBLE Holy Bible © @Holy_Bible1 Follow Matthew 18:19 MATTHEW 18:19 "He prayed for her, she prayed for him and God smiled knowing that their names are already written next to each other."

AI slop now making up saccharine Bible verses that do not exist

if Trump were actively trying to impoverish and deskill the united states for the sake of our competitors, what would he be doing differently?