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On the heels of yesterdays ChatGPT 4 announcement I finally made a free account. I asked ChatGPT a bunch of questions, largely about things I know. It gave passable answers. Some of them were not accurate. Others were suggestions or changes to code that I thought were merely ok.

Years ago the late Dr. Randy Pausch, a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon, had his “Last Lecture” posted to YouTube. It went viral and is filled with loads of great advice that I still think about today.

• Dow Said it was Recycling Shoes. We Found Them at an Indonesian Flea Market. Clever reporting and investigation by Reuters here.
• The Devise Gem for Ruby is looking for maintainers to help with adding Passkey support. This would be a huge win for Rails developers wanting to make easier and more secure logins using this new technology.
• A new Fungus-Bacteria killing compound is named after Keanu Reaves. Always encouraging to see science stay a step ahead of disaster.
• The Super Bowl’s Deaf National Anthem Singer is an Oscar Winning Star Wars actor you should know.
• The Raspberry Pi is being used to create an exoskeleton that can help people walk.
• WIRED asks if we really need long range in our electric vehicles. With the advent of fast charging on my iPhone I don’t worry as much about a low battery.

USDS alum Marianne Bellotti just released a new programming language for modeling using System Dynamics called Fault. Happening upon this was a true throwback, as I learned about the field of System Dynamics as an undergrad at WPI. What a neat idea.

I have had to do a lot of research to find good running shoes for my wide feet. In scrounging the deepest corners of Google for reviews of wide foot options, I found RunRepeat. This labor of love is a mix between Metacritic and Wirecutter for running shoes. For many models they fact check shoe reviews with lab analysis of it.