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Activity for Fred Wamsley‭

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Edit Post #288018 Initial revision 12 months ago
Answer A: Should we allow answers generated by ChatGPT?
It is a relevant but not decisive point whether ChatGPT can produce citations to back up its output (and whether the citations exist and are on point). I asked it for a citation today and got a sound one. Such things have to be manually checked. I've followed up in another case and found the citat...
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12 months ago
Edit Post #287813 Initial revision about 1 year ago
Answer A: Should asking about book recommendations directly connected to software development be on-topic?
>To be a "better" site with helping people learn and grow and figure things out for themselves (instead of only giving them the answers, ready to copy-paste), it is my wish the site offers more help for "how to learn something" and "figure things out themselves" and maybe not less but less prominent ...
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about 1 year ago
Comment Post #287317 > It would probably be more productive to focus on questions of the form "I want to learn more about X and have the following background and constraints; what is a good resource for self-study? Which is what I thought I had done, explaining that I had a C++ background but it was many years of lang...
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about 1 year ago
Edit Post #287812 Initial revision about 1 year ago
Answer A: Should we allow answers generated by ChatGPT?
"Subtle errors" understates the problem. For example, I asked it about uses for std::equalto, and it tragicomically gave me a code sample passing std::equalto as the comparison predicate to std::sort. No more citations?! I loved that feature! I would be inclined to favor replies where someone ...
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about 1 year ago
Edit Post #287307 Initial revision over 1 year ago
Question Where do I get rotatable images of solar system planets?
What I'm trying to do, because it's to provide a visually exciting set of results for a simulation package, is given a time, show what a planet looks like from a given angle. I've got SPICE and I've been getting comfortable with it. It's good for providing a quaternion to tell how far the planet ...
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over 1 year ago
Edit Post #287137 Initial revision over 1 year ago
Answer A: Should asking about book recommendations directly connected to software development be on-topic?
I respect Alexei for opening a discussion on this, and Lundin for providing hard-won real world experience. I would like to put in a "pro", on the grounds that "I read this book and I'm a better programmer for it" is information that directly supports the codidact mission of helping each other learn...
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over 1 year ago
Comment Post #287122 Yes, it's a sound alternative to convert everything to a single system (I would choose SI too), but anything that involves trusting humans to do the same thing right every time is not as reliable as delegating enforcement to a compiler. The problems such libraries solve are problems like the units co...
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over 1 year ago
Edit Post #287122 Initial revision over 1 year ago
Question Any testimonials for any C++ units of measure library?
The question is about libraries that extend the data type system to ensure physically realistic computations. Think `std::chrono` but for distance and mass and other things as well as for time. Instead of adding 2 and 3 to get five, you can add 2 kilometers and 3 meters to get 2003 meters. It's easy ...
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over 1 year ago
Edit Post #286910 Initial revision over 1 year ago
Question What should I read if I knew C++ twenty years ago?
For someone who was familiar with C++ in the past and is coming back to it after a long break, what are some useful books that won't waste time with basics but will cover the new features of the most recent decades?
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over 1 year ago