What is this blog about?

 I have recently started using ChatGPT for a variety of information gathering purposes. I thought it might be valuable to save many of these conversations, mostly because they may have long term value to me, but also because I have want to try to demystify this marvelous, if sometimes inaccurate and sometimes even unusable tool for others. 

 In my line of work, which is higher education, this tool has been quite frequently maligned, and I at one time had a negative reaction view on the media I was reading. Hey, faculty are freaking out about this, why wouldn't I? I'm currently in the role of instructional designer, and I can be replaced in-part by ChatGPT. I have no illusions about that. What it can't do is the creative part of my job.

That said, it does an amazing job at some things, and I wanted to be able to showcase some of the results, again to try to demystify as well as educate about what is possible.

Most of what you'll find here are just short prompts. I find ChatGPT to be most informative and creative when prompts are broad/ While that doesn't usually give me the desired result at first, it does provide thought provoking and sometimes surprisingly useful perspectives. What prompted me to start this blog was a prompt today asking about the relative importance of single threading speed vs multi thread speed in a CPU. I know the concepts and the definitions, but I wanted to make sure that my understanding was correct in principle, and needed the reinforcement. I'm replacing a four core processor in my desktop with a 12 core processor today. The four core has lower multi-thread speed and higher single thread speed. The twelve core has lower single thread speed. I was making sure that whn I install the processor, I understood the advantages of what I was doing. 

I wanted to save the result, so here I am.

I intend on adding any conversations that I have with ChatGPT to this blog, jus in case the results are helpful to others.

Here we go.