Pretty good AI

I saw something on the web about an AI product called GPT-3.  I decided to try it:   Here’s the result: Q = my question as entered A = GPT-3’s response C = my comment on the answer G = what google says about the same question Q: what is a lambda expression? A: A lambda… Continue reading Pretty good AI

Notes on Some Similarities and Differences between Unix and Multics

Background It is fairly well known that most modern operating systems are more-or-less derived from Unix. What is not so well known is that many concepts in Unix, in turn, are derived from an earlier operating system known as Multics. Multics was started as a joint research project by General Electric Company (which was in… Continue reading Notes on Some Similarities and Differences between Unix and Multics