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Re:ChatGPT4 writes Stan code so I don’t have to by jpollock on Monday April 24, 2023 @12:06AM (#35683548)
Thanks for the tip, phind is much better.

Still has the "won't fit in an int" problem, but it did use byte & 0x77 to get them into ints.

Amazingly, it got the field correct and in the right order!

It did not reference a source, but that seems to be a Bard feature right now.

Re:ChatGPT4 writes Stan code so I don’t have to by jpollock on Monday April 24, 2023 @12:25AM (#35683636)
phind needed two additional prompts to get to correct code.

It needed:

1) write a function in java to decode a rfc 3588 diameter header

2) 32 bit values will not fit into a java int, please fix the code.

3) 24 bit values will not fit into a java int, please fix the code.

I think I'm going to have to come up with a more complicated problem!

Pretty impressively, this is what it produced:

  public class DiameterHeader {
    private int version;
    private long messageLength;
    private int commandFlags;
    private long commandCode;
    private long applicationId;
    private long hopByHopId;
    private long endToEndId;

    public DiameterHeader(byte[] data) {
        if (data == null || data.length != 20) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid Diameter header data");
        }

        version = data[0] & 0xFF;
        messageLength = ((long) data[1] & 0xFF) << 16 | ((long) data[2] & 0xFF) << 8 | ((long) data[3] & 0xFF);
        commandFlags = data[4] & 0xFF;
        commandCode = ((long) data[5] & 0xFF) << 16 | ((long) data[6] & 0xFF) << 8 | ((long) data[7] & 0xFF);
        applicationId = (((long) data[8] & 0xFF) << 24) | (((long) data[9] & 0xFF) << 16) | (((long) data[10] & 0xFF) << 8) | ((long) data[11] & 0xFF);
        hopByHopId = (((long) data[12] & 0xFF) << 24) | (((long) data[13] & 0xFF) << 16) | (((long) data[14] & 0xFF) << 8) | ((long) data[15] & 0xFF);
        endToEndId = (((long) data[16] & 0xFF) << 24) | (((long) data[17] & 0xFF) << 16) | (((long) data[18] & 0xFF) << 8) | ((long) data[19] & 0xFF);
    }

    // Getters for the fields
  }
Re:ChatGPT4 writes Stan code so I don’t have to by agileAlligator on Monday April 24, 2023 @04:07AM (#35684881)
If you have expert mode on it should reference sources most of the time.
Re:ChatGPT4 writes Stan code so I don’t have to by jpollock on Monday April 24, 2023 @02:10PM (#35691081)
phind seems to be showing the Google search results as "Sources", rather than the actual code used as training data.

Bard links to a github repo with license information.

Re:ChatGPT4 writes Stan code so I don’t have to by agileAlligator on Thursday April 27, 2023 @02:24AM (#35724017)
I was under the impression that the search results were the training data?

What phind does is pulls code from search results and modifies it to suit your needs.