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2023

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Memory Allocation

Link: Memory Allocation: "For those of you learning C or C++, this article is a great and detailed tutorial. Also useful if you are studying operating systems."

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Daily ChatGPT: Solve a simple network traversal

Tell me how this is simple word completion. Can this be broadened to a more complicated network. Could it be used for some kind of semi-intelligent navigation?

Prompt:

Assume a map that is described in sentences, with node names and costs to go between nodes. Here is map1:

Node A costs 5 to got to Node C and 10 to go to Node D
Node C costs 100 to go to node E and 50 to go to node F
Node D costs 10 to go to node E and 100 to go to node F

What is the best route to go from Node A to node E? And what is the best route to go from Node A to node F?

Response:

To find the best route from Node A to Node E, we need to calculate the total cost for each possible path.

Path 1: Node A -> Node C -> Node E
Cost: 5 (A to C) + 100 (C to E) = 105

Path 2: Node A -> Node D -> Node E
Cost: 10 (A to D) + 10 (D to E) = 20

The best route from Node A to Node E is Path 2 (A -> D -> E) with a total cost of 20.

To find the best route from Node A to Node F, we need to calculate the total cost for each possible path.

Path 1: Node A -> Node C -> Node F
Cost: 5 (A to C) + 50 (C to F) = 55

Path 2: Node A -> Node D -> Node F
Cost: 10 (A to D) + 100 (D to F) = 110

The best route from Node A to Node F is Path 1 (A -> C -> F) with a total cost of 55.

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Daily ChatGPT

I have been using ChatGPT on a daily basis. Not for joking or playing but for work. It is like a super search engine combined with a fallible expert. When I tell this story to various people they seem surprised and ask "Give me an example." I have so many. So this will be a series of daily examples where ChatGPT made a difference.

By the way, people love to say, ChatGPT is nothing more than fancy autocomplete. While they may be technically correct (and I doubt they are) you cannot ignore ChatGPT feats that look nothing like autocomplete.