To me, the unexpected thing about ChatGPT is its name. The "GPT" acronym belies an extremely geeky tech phrase. Google's original PageRank algorithm is a graph algorithm called Eigenvector Centrality. ChatGPT's branding is akin to Google's search engine having instead been named "SearchEC". :D

I’ve always been curious why US book publishers hard-code a separate price in Canadian dollars on the book itself. Makes even less sense now. Just print and distribute your books, and leave the hedging and speculation of currency price movements to FX traders on Wall Street.

“A city should defend the laws of the city as if they were its walls.” -Heraclitus

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” -Philip K. Dick

(1978 lecture, entitled "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart in Two Days.")

He would spend all day just hanging off my eyeglasses if I let him.

One of the more interesting developments in computer vision tasks this year - Emu Edit, image editing with natural language commands: emu-edit.metademolab.com