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Re:Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers f... by robocat on Sunday December 04, 2022 @05:45PM (#33858817)
> Don't most humans just regurgitate the same arguments they've just read or learned elsewhere (or even here), like 99% of the time?

So, let’s see whether ChatGPT gets the wrong answers:

  Q: How long does it take to have a baby?

  A: The average length of pregnancy is about 40 weeks, or 9 months.
1/2 correct - 40 weeks is 10 months from conception to birth.

  Q: Why is emacs better than vi?

  A: […] Overall, emacs is widely considered to be a more powerful and versatile editor than vi, with a user-friendly interface and a wealth of support and resources available to users.
1/2 correct. It seems to alway agree with the question’s framing - humans would often disagree.

  Q: Write me a simple python function called are_hacker_news_users_confrontational() that returns either true or false.

  A1: def are_hacker_news_users_confrontational():
        return True

  A2: def are_hacker_news_users_confrontational():
        return False
      This function simply returns False, indicating that Hacker News users are not confrontational. Of course, this is just a simple example, and the actual answer to this question may vary depending on various factors. Alternatively, if you want to determine whether or not Hacker News users are confrontational by analyzing their behavior on the platform, you could use natural language processing techniques to analyze the comments and posts made by users on Hacker News, and use that information to determine whether they tend to be confrontational or not. However, this would require a more complex implementation, and would require access to a large dataset of Hacker News comments and posts.
9/10 for that answer!
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Re:Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers f... by mlyle on Sunday December 04, 2022 @06:37PM (#33859293)
> 1/2 correct - 40 weeks is 10 months from conception to birth.

Average length of pregnancy, ovulation to birth is 268 days -- 38.3 weeks.

But we typically count pregnancy from last period (this is easier), which makes it pretty close to the round 40 that's usually cited.

> 40 weeks is 10 months from conception to birth.

A month is ~4.35 weeks, so 40 weeks is ~9.2 months.

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Re:Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers f... by robocat on Monday December 05, 2022 @05:41AM (#33863820)
Ooops, thank you heaps. Very glad to find out that 40 weeks is not a particularly correct answer either! But dividing 40 by 4 to get 10 months was a stupid mistake for me to make!
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Re:Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers f... by wizeman on Sunday December 04, 2022 @05:57PM (#33858945)
> 1/2 correct - 40 weeks is 10 months from conception to birth.

Sorry, is this a cultural difference or are you just nitpicking math?

Even Wikipedia says: This is just over nine months.

I have never seen anyone argue that pregnancy takes 10 months in humans, I've always heard people say it takes 9 months (indeed, being 9 months pregnant is equivalent to saying you're just about to give birth, where I come from).

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Re:Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers f... by canemacchina on Sunday December 04, 2022 @08:10PM (#33860075)
Nope, 40 weeks is the correct answer. Usually, the calculation is done from the first day of the last menstrual period, and from the medical point of view, we consider 40 weeks of pregnancy (even if doctors consider a period between 38 and 42 weeks a normal pregnancy). 40 weeks are exactly 280 days, that are ~9 months. So for this reason we say that the pregnancy is 9 months, but doctors usually say 40 weeks.
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Re:Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers f... by dragonwriter on Sunday December 04, 2022 @08:13PM (#33860106)
> 40 weeks is 10 months from conception to birth.

Months vary in length, 9 average months (1/12 year per month) is. 39.1+ weeks, 10 is 43.4+ weeks; 40 weeks is closer to 9 months.

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