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Rules of Reason

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English - Dutch Humor Dictionary created by ChatGPT

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Humorous English - Dutch Mini-Dictionary created by/using ChatGPT Possibly the first online dictionary created by/with AI's GPT Created with TLex's new integrated OpenAI functionality. New 3 Oct 2023: New article on this work by Prof Dr Gilles-Maurice de Schryver: " Generative AI and Lexicography: The Current State of the Art "   Images by David Joffe

DaveGnukem Debian and Ubuntu packages etc.

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Packages for Debian, Ubuntu etc. for Dave Gnukem ... :) https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/davegnukem https://packages.ubuntu.com/lunar/davegnukem Thanks to Matteo Bini for major contributions to get this happening, as well as the many others who have contributed More/future: repology: davegnukem   (and alternative package spelling:  repology: dave-gnukem )

Stopping Aging

Some thoughts on aging. Aging seems to me 'unnecessary'. Imagine all the benefits if we could cure aging, and have lifespans of over 1000 years. If we had 1000-year+ lifespans, journeys to other stars that may take e.g. 'hundreds' of years would suddenly seem reachable 'within a human lifespan'. I see curing aging as ultimately "just" a (big, complex) technological problem to solve. A big complex puzzle with lots of pieces, but a solvable puzzle. A very big, complex and difficult problem to solve (to be sure) - but I feel it must be solvable. Our bodies are ultimately just machines. Really complex machines. And solvable possibly potentially within most of our lifespans, if we try. Attitudes like "Oh, we are just meant to age" seem like confounders to progress toward solving these problems - we could solve it faster if more people dedicated attention to it instead of simply assuming it's unsolvable, or adopting irrational quasi-religious v