Alina YossimouseJun 24, 2023

I asked ChatGPT about primes ending in 2 to make it prove a point and it proved the point far better than I could have hoped for.

Please do not be a fool who trusts ChatGPT with anything outside your field of expertise, and even then double or triple check what it tells you if you must use it.

Show threadAlina Yossimouse

I still have to laugh out loud about it. My favorite part has to be:

Let's consider the first 100 primes ending in 2

Jun 24, 2023 at 2:56pmWeb
Show thread_cnt0Jun 24, 2023
@alinanorakari
I counted to TREE(3) and didn't find any.
Show threadEli the BeardedJun 24, 2023

@_cnt0 @alinanorakari Ahh, but did you try in base 2?

(Ourari? Or just someone else with that avatar?)

Show threadAlina YossimouseJun 24, 2023
@elithebearded @_cnt0 out of all the options I prefer the based tree
Show thread_cnt0Jun 24, 2023

@elithebearded
It's a nightmare when a two comes up in binary: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MOn_ySghN2Y&pp=ygUSYmVuZGVyIG5pZ2h0bWFyZSAy

(someone else with that avatar)

Futurama - Ones and Zeros

YouTube
Show threadFinley ⓋJun 24, 2023
@alinanorakari I got a slightly different response when I asked about primes ending in 4. Fun fact: 2 is the only prime that ends in 4!
Show threadAlina YossimouseJun 24, 2023
@finley oh that's great, so now 2 is the only prime that ends in 4 and 5 is the smallest prime that ends in 2. I'm scribbling furiously, there's a theorem or conjecture in there somewhere
Show threadEli the BeardedJun 24, 2023
@alinanorakari @finley I think this is what Gödel warned us about
Show threadabananabagJun 24, 2023

@elithebearded @alinanorakari Wait a minute.... *THE* Eli the Bearded? Holy smokes! You're the guy whose name is on all the FAQs, Moria, procmail, pbm, and, of course, rec.arts.erotica!

Have you written a book yet? I think I wouldn't be the only one curious to hear your take on how modern "social media" compares to the Usenet of yore.

Show threadEli the BeardedJun 24, 2023
@abananabag
Off-topic indeed. I've written no books and am not likely to. The heyday of Usenet has passed but I'm still there reading and posting. My memory is too porous to provide any sort of coherent story to what's happened there.
Show threadDeb has moved! (see profile) 🇨🇦Jun 25, 2023
@alinanorakari @finley this will break us out of the terrible box called "math" and finally bring some creativity to the field!
It warms my discalculic heart ❤
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