Do you hear me now? Monkey business with ChatGPT

Dan Wild

As part of my prompt engineering course on Coursera, an assignment requested the following: “Write a prompt and test it with ChatGPT or another large language model (LLM) that uses the Persona Pattern for an animal. Provide the prompt and sample output from using the large language model to emulate the persona and how it …

Epsilon Eridani: Already in the sights of asteroid miners

Dan Wild

Although known to early star gazers, Epsilon Eridani does not figure heavily in myth. Claudius Ptolemy was the first astronomer to pay this star any sustained attention, cataloguing it in his famous 2nd-century Almagest. Indeed, it was Ptolemy that named the constellation Eridanus, after the ancient Greek word for ‘river’ (Ποταμού). Epsilon Eridani famously entered …

Two-factor authentication (2FA): Is it worth the hassle?

Dan Wild

Locked out of my Amazon account. Locked out of a crypto account. Why? Because I set up two-factor authentication on both these accounts and have lost access to the second factor. In the case of my crypto account, I can get back in by providing them with photo ID. But with Amazon, it seems I …