David V Glasgow wrote:
> I am trying to alphabetically sort a list of unique strings, some of
> which have a leading space character. I need these to sort as if the
> second character is the first character rather than all space prefixed
> strings being bunched together.
Would using the word delimited type help with this? e.g.:
sort lines of field 1 by word 1 to -1 of each
> I just had a hilarious conversation with ChatGPT on this challenge.
> We ended up having a disagreement about whether a keyword “ignoring”
> exists in Livecode. Please tell me it doesn’t.
I don't recall having seen an "ignoring" keyword in LiveCode.
But I have seen countless articles about Vincent Cerf, Mark Cuban, Steve
Wozniak, and a great many others much smarter than me cautioning against
making any investment in ChatGPT for serious work involving precision
and accuracy.
Once you see it's a caffeinated auto-complete, the useful and less
useful applications for a tool that literally can't understand a single
word it spits out become clearer.
This background from Stephen Wolfram is helpful:
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/
ChatGPT is fascinating, but since this isn't the first time we've been
through the Gartner hype cycle with an "AI" tech (I first joined AAAI
back when Expert Systems were a thing), even more fascinating has been
watching humans forget that the Trough of Disillusionment will happen
before we eventually reach the Plateau of Productivity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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