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Bing Chat's model was confused by a random 'fictional' maths page that invented a new term, 'macro-zeroid', for sqrt(0):

https://fictional-googology.fandom.com/wiki/Sqrt(0)

That page is the only hit for 'macro-zeroid' on Google Search. There are zero hits for 'macro-zeroid' on both arxiv.org and Google Scholar.

As a result, Bing Chat believes that sqrt(0) is not a real number and refuses to simplify sqrt(0) to 0.

https://twitter.com/aeseia/status/1625261049397014530

Sqrt(0)

Sqrt(0) is a hypothetical macro-zeroid. It is a non-zero solution to x^2 = 0, whose existence is guaranteed by some formulations of the Existential Axiom. Before we dive into the non-standard interpretation used here, let's first establish the standard interpretation. The sqrt(a) = x iff x^2 = a. The sqrt function is simply an inverse function of f(x)=x^2. Therefore, anything whose square is 0, can be called a square root of 0. In the real number system 0 * 0 = 0, since x * 0 = 0 for any real nu

Fictional Googology Wiki

Did you know that you can build (well, summon into existence!) a virtual Linux machine inside ChatGPT? And that you can use this machine to create files, write and execute (!) fairly complex Python scripts and even browse the internet?

RT https://twitter.com/317070/status/1599152176344928256

Very cool article with all the details: https://www.engraved.blog/building-a-virtual-machine-inside/

317070 on Twitter

“Did you know, that you can build a virtual machine inside ChatGPT? And that you can use this machine to create files, program and even browse the internet? https://t.co/15IwHwr2on”

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Looks like Homo naledi used fire! Brain barely bigger than a chimp but walked upright, males up to 5½' and dated to 230-330,000 years ago, ie roughly contemporaneous with the deepest split within modern humans (Khoisan tribes of S Africa / rest of humanity).

The whole of Lee Berger's @[email protected] recent talk on the latest naledi discoveries is *amazing* (charcoal, soot and burnt animal bones, discovered in part by Lee himself after losing weight and squeezing in!).

https://livestream.com/carnegiescience/explorationage/videos/234027978

The Future of Exploration in the Greatest Age of Exploration

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