Accidentally clicked a link at the bottom of this sub and it makes me wonder if AI is a bubble
u/TrueBirch — 3 days ago
▲ 588 r/xkcd
A lot of people are suddenly Googling "giant crystal cave mexico"
u/TrueBirch — 4 days ago
▲ 1 r/ChatGPT
How often does this happen in Codex?
I'm evaluating Codex for possible use at work. I created a fake project, complete with planning documents, since we don't test vendors using production systems. One of the tests involved changing an assumption, which required changing all the documents that were downstream of that assumption. Codex started burning tokens with absolutely no changes to any docs, you can see a snippet of the output. I force-stopped it, asked it to try again, and it did a good job.
u/TrueBirch — 21 days ago
▲ 3 r/Genealogy
My great great grandpa Michel Alarie left few records of his life. He was a pioneer who came to the Dakota Territory from Quebec. He came from a poor family, and I believe he was illiterate.
I was surprised to find a reference to his death in a random .txt index of church records. Apparently he was buried on April 17, 1896 under the same "Allary, Michaed (not 'Michael')." I've manually clicked through all 500 pages of records from the same church on FamilySearch and found a ton of things related to Michel's life, but that film ends in 1890.
The South Dakota Historical Society has what appears to be the second microfilm in the series. Their description says there are no death records until 1929.
Any ideas where to look next? I left a voicemail at the church. Should I pay the SD Historical Society to scroll through the microfilm for me? Any chance there's a digitized version?
u/TrueBirch — 2 months ago