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Text inputs have no affordances
When I go up the mountain to ask the ChatGPT oracle a question, I am met with a blank face. What does this oracle know? How should I ask my question? And when it responds, it is endlessly confident. I can't tell whether or not it actually understand my question or where this information came from.
**Good tools make it clear how they should be used.** And more importantly, how they should *not* be used.
Why Chatbots Are Not the Future
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It’s also silly when the moral terms of our engagement with other people are set for us by the discourse, whatever that is. And, I mean, on my less generous days, I go with it just like anyone else. The same as ordering a Lyft or ordering a hamburger because I don’t want to cook. The convenience of our moment recreated in not just our art but also our human discourse and human congress.
Massachusetts Holy Ghost - By Brandon - Sweater Weather
blgtylr.substack.com
The **Queuing Rule of Thumb (QROT)** is a mathematical formula, known as the queuing constraint equation when it is used to find an approximation of servers required to service a [queue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queue_area). The formula is written as an [inequality](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inequality_(mathematics)) relating the number of servers (*s*), total number of service requestors (*N*), service time (*r*), and the maximum time to empty the queue (*T*):
Queuing Rule of Thumb
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