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ChatGPT Wrote This

Regular Expressions in JavaScript — AI has been popping up everywhere lately. I was at my dentist’s office, which is part of a community health center, and an ad popped up on the infotainment screen about a free therapy chat bot. Later that morning, ChatGPT by OpenAI came up as a topic during a work…

Artificial Intelligence

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ChatGPT Wrote This
ChatGPT Wrote This
Artificial Intelligence

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ChatGPT: Write an SNL Skit About Twitter Versus Mastodon

Is it funny? — I asked ChatGPT to write a skit in the style of SNL about Twitter versus Mastodon. It wasn’t funny. I asked ChatGPT to make it funnier several times. That didn’t work. When I asked it to change the host to Steve Martin, make reference to the Two Wild and Crazy…

Chatgpt

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ChatGPT: Write an SNL Skit About Twitter Versus Mastodon
ChatGPT: Write an SNL Skit About Twitter Versus Mastodon
Chatgpt

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Writing Better Email Messages

All The Advice in One Place — Welcome to the wrap-up post in a series about writing better email messages. When I started writing about email, I quickly realized that post was going to run long, so I broke it into five articles. Here’s a quick summary with links to all the posts. …

Writing

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Writing Better Email Messages
Writing Better Email Messages
Writing

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Better Frosting

Commercial Frosting Versus Real Buttercream — 😲 I made a whole fifteen cents writing the inaugural three articles for Better Baking. So why not try to make it thirty cents? Thank you to my loyal readers for the pennies — it’s the thought that counts. Commercial Frostings Let’s start with commercial cake frostings. By commercial I mean any…

Baking

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Better Frosting
Better Frosting
Baking

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Mar 8

Ten Women in Computer Science

Brief Biographies to Celebrate International Women’s Day 2023 — We all now know the story of Dorothy Vaughan who taught herself and her team Fortran so that they could program the IBM 7090 that NASA purchased to help win the space race — thanks to the popular 2016 film, Hidden Figures. …

Programming

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Ten Women in Computer Science
Ten Women in Computer Science
Programming

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Feb 20

Cat Lingo

Some Phrases You’ll Hear Me Say — I talk to my cats like people. Sometimes I even ask for their opinions. Most of the time, they agree with me. I’m convinced that Bean and Pearl both recognize my voice and respond to particular words. They know that when I use a soothing, gentle tone I am happy…

Cats

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Cat Lingo
Cat Lingo
Cats

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Published in Better Baking

·Dec 13, 2022

Christmas Sugar Cookie Secrets

How to get cutout cookies to hold their shape — Christmas in Panacea was held on December 3rd, and there were cutout cookies involved — lots of cookies. Panacea Community Garden ladies (of which I am one) hosted an activities table for the local young people (and the young at heart). …

Baking

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Christmas Sugar Cookie Secrets
Christmas Sugar Cookie Secrets
Baking

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Oct 31, 2022

“Woke” Is Not a Pejorative

It’s Just the Current Fear-Mongering Control Tactic — Now that Musk is in control of Twitter, all the woke-ass people are going to be checked. Say that aloud and be sure to spit the word “woke” with as much malice and disdain as you can muster. I arose this morning, as I do every morning, telling myself, “…

Twitter

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“Woke” Is Not a Pejorative
“Woke” Is Not a Pejorative
Twitter

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Published in Better Baking

·Aug 7, 2022

Sourdough

How to Get the Perfect Loaf — Plenty has been written on the topic of home-baked sourdough, but this post is by special request from Andy. Other readers out there may find this information useful, so rather than do a write up just for him, I am sharing with all my Medium readers. My Qualifications Before I was an…

Sourdough

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Sourdough
Sourdough
Sourdough

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Jul 27, 2022

Wordle Reject Poetry

Will You Accept the Challenge? — Playing Wordle, I was struck by the natural patterns created when guessing words, especially when getting close to the answer. You have three letters in the right spot, let’s say o-w-n in the correct last three letters position. So you start trying letters — c-l, clown, b-r, brown, g-r, grown. …

Poetry

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Wordle Reject Poetry
Wordle Reject Poetry
Poetry

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Margaret Eldridge

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Writing and editing since 1996

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