![]() The chatbot also performed well on the Similarities and Information subtests, reaching the maximum attainable scores. ChatGPT’s answers received the full two points. In scoring, one point would be given for a thing like my phone in defining a gadget and two points for the more detailed: a small device or tool for a specific task. This subtest measures word knowledge and verbal concept formation, and a typical instruction might read: “Tell me what ‘gadget’ means.”ĬhatGPT aced it, giving answers that were often highly detailed and comprehensive in scope and which exceeded the criteria for correct answers indicated in the test manual. I started the testing process with the Vocabulary subtest as I expected it to be easy for the chatbot, which is trained on vast amounts of online texts. A sixth subtest of the Verbal IQ scale is Digit Span, which measures short-term memory, and cannot be administered to the chatbot, given its lack of the relevant neural circuitry that briefly stores information like a name or number. It was possible to test ChatGPT because five of the subtests on the Verbal IQ scale-Vocabulary, Similarities, Comprehension, Information and Arithmetic-can be presented in written form. The mean IQ is set at 100 points, and the standard deviation of the points on the testing scale is 15, meaning that the smartest 10 percent and 1 percent of the population have IQs of 120 and 133, respectively. The global Full Scale IQ measure is based on scores from all 11 subtests. I used the third edition of the WAIS that consists of six verbal and five nonverbal subtests that make up the Verbal IQ and Performance IQ components, respectively. ![]() The test in question is the most commonly used IQ test, the Wechsler adult intelligent scale (WAIS). Without need for any preparation-no verbal introductions necessary for the testing protocol-I copied the exact questions from the test and presented them to the chatbot in the computer. Nor did it express uninvited, skeptical comments about intelligence tests and testers like myself. It doesn’t show test anxiety, poor concentration or lack of effort. ChatGPT was almost an ideal test taker, with a commendable test-taking attitude. My first impressions were quite favorable. Knowing all this made me curious to see how smart ChatGPT is by human standards, and I set about to test the chatbot. It writes academic essays and fairy tales, tells jokes, explains scientific concepts and composes and debugs computer code. So I was immediately intrigued after reading the many recent articles describing ChatGPT as having impressive humanlike skills. In my work as a clinical psychologist, I assess the cognitive skills of human patients using standardized intelligence tests. ChatGPT is the first nonhuman subject I have ever tested.
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![]() ![]() What animal makes a loud screeching noise at night? These are sounds you may not have heard from a coyote: they are very cat-like - the kind of sounds a cat would make before swiping at something with its claws. Shake or throw a “coyote shaker”-a soda can filled with pennies or pebbles and sealed with duct tape. Spray with a hose, if available, or a squirt gun filled with water and vinegar. Remember the intent is to scare and not to injure. Throw small stones, sticks, tennis balls or anything else you can lay your hands on. What to do if coyotes are near your house? Coyote pup sounds are higher-pitch yips and whining. Unfortunately, this sound can be unsettling to hear at night as some have reported that a coyote sounds like a woman screaming. watch?v=FYPOcz4R3QM” Do coyotes sound like a woman screaming?Ĭoyotes also scream as a distress single, which can signal that they’re injured. What sound does a coyote make in distress? Researchers have speculated that the intensity and volume of the vocalizations may also have meaning. Rather than the soul-haunting, drawn-out sound of a wolf’s howl, a coyote’s howl is characterized by high-pitched barks and yips, with each song consisting of a lot of lyrics. This is the expulsion of air through the nose and mouth, and is also used as a high-intensity threat in close proximity. 37 Which animal sound is chatter? What kinds of noises do coyotes make? ![]() My parents decided early on to take separate planes so that in the unlikely event of a crash, at least one of them would be alive for their three children. This changed the game, not only for him, but our entire family.Įrnie Thurmond, a former American employee who handled Dad’s AAirpass contracts, helped with adding some special stipulations. The cost was $150,000, based on his being 39 years old. Two years later, which was one year before my younger sister, Natalie, was born, he added a companion feature to his AAirpass, allowing him to bring another person along on any flight. My father was 37 years and four days old when he dated the check. The cost was $250,000, which the agreement stated was based on his age. In September 1987, five months after my brother, Josh, was born, and three months after we moved from downtown Chicago into the north suburbs, Dad bought his unlimited lifetime AAirpass. Then, after a good year at Bear, the investment in an unlimited pass made sense.ĭad speaking at an event, organized by American Airlines’ public relations team, where he was asked to donate miles for kids with cancer, circa 2000. When American started the AAdvantage program, Dad and Uncle Shelly (Mom’s uncle and one of Dad’s best friends and business associates) began flying even more than they already did. Airports and airplanes – they were who Dad was. Later, he focused on investment banking, and also became the largest shareholder of the financial corporation Olympic Cascade, the holding company of a brokerage firm, National Securities. Transitioning to finance, Dad moved to Chicago in 1976 for a stint at Smith Barney and, according to him, became the second-highest-grossing stockbroker at Bear Stearns in 1979, where he worked for a decade. “Steven got on a plane like most people get on a bus,” says my mom, Nancy Rothstein, who was married to my father for 36 years. On the weekends, he’d rush to Houston, Dallas, Wichita Falls, Mexico City or Acapulco, then back to work on Monday. He had an apartment in Manhattan on East 89th Street, but mostly, he was at the wallet factory in Oklahoma, or traveling, both for work and play. That December, he joined the wallet business – a company my grandfather had purchased – doing sales. He flew to Europe several times a year and went to live there after graduating in 1972. “I was on my own and could go anywhere at a moment’s notice,” he reminisces. In college he worked for a travel agency helping students book standby flights at low fares, which he utilized himself. He wrote his college application on a typewriter at a hotel beach in Hawaii and mailed it from a post office in Osaka. ![]() “I felt as at home in Copenhagen or Paris as I did in New York … I was a child of the world.” “I began to taste, directly, the fervor of foreign travel,” he tells me. Right: Dad, on the phone, and his colleague at the company’s booth at a wallets and clothing trade show in Los Angeles, circa 1973. Left: Dad with his mom in Hawaii on his first around-the-world trip. And I think – as does my whole family, including my dad – that at the very least, it doesn’t quite land. The obvious story is that my father was a decadent jet-setter who either screwed or got screwed by American depends on your take. It’s even a perennially popular conversation topic on Reddit. The legal fight went on for years without going to trial. My father was one of several lifetime, unlimited AAirpass holders American claimed had breached their contracts.Ī few months later, my father sued American for breaking their deal, and more importantly, taking away something integral to who he was. After 20 years, it seems, they’d decided the pass wasn’t such a good idea. Then, on 13 December 2008, American took the AAirpass away.įor several years, the revenues department at American had been monitoring my father and other AAirpass holders to see how much their golden tickets were costing the airline in lost revenue. All photographs courtesy Caroline Rothstein One of the many designs that American used for AAirpass. The cashew tree produces a “cashew apple” that appears to be the actual fruit, but it is actually just a swollen stem that attaches to the true fruit which is the seed. A true fruit is defined as part of the reproductive structure of a plant that typically includes the seed. What is the unhealthiest nut?Ĭashew is often referred to as a “false fruit” because technically, it is not a true fruit. Additionally, the outer skin of the cashew apple is toxic, so it should not be eaten. It’s important to remember to remove the nut that grows inside of the fruit as it can be poisonous. They can also be blended into smoothies and juices, added to salads, or used as a topping for desserts. The most common way to eat cashew apples is to cut them into slices and dip them in sugar or honey. The flesh of the cashew apple can be eaten raw or cooked. They are high in nutrients, vitamins, and minerals and have a sweet, tart flavor. Yes, you can eat cashew apple! Cashew apples are the fruit of the cashew tree, a tropical evergreen native to Brazil. Although cashew apples are edible, they contain urushiol, the same oil found in poison ivy, so it is important to wear gloves or wash hands thoroughly after handling them. ![]() It’s pulp can also be extracted to make syrups, jellies, and jams. To eat a cashew apple, its flesh can be separated from the husk and eaten raw or cooked. The skin of the cashew apple can be eaten but it is typically not as sweet as the flesh. They are a good source of protein, potassium, and magnesium. ![]() Cashew apples are high in fiber, vitamins A, C, and E, magnesium, zinc, iron, and antioxidants. They have a sweet and sour flavor and make a great addition to salads, smoothies, and juices. Yes, cashew fruits (also known as the cashew apple) can be eaten. ![]() (Face Mask REQUIRED) Entombment at the Community Mausoleum at Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery, Poughkeepsie, NY. Friday, Decemat Beulah Baptist Church, 92 Rev. Petteway will have a Walkthrough 10-11:00 a.m. His smile would fill a room! We loved him dearly but God loved him the BEST. He was an angel, and a blessing to everyone who knew him. 3 sisters, Lou Edna Battles, Elizabeth Petteway and Mittie Jean Clark one stepson, Charles Davis and several aunts and uncles. He was predeceased by his father, David L Petteway Sr. and Preston all of Poughkeepsie, NY one godson, Reginald Riggins 2 God sisters, Wendy Jackson and Viola Carter a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. 3 great-grandchildren, Onesty, William Jr. ![]() (Therasa) one stepdaughter, Dionna Davis-Whitehead (Danny) 2 sisters, Dorothy Dancy and Velma Petteway one brother, Melvin Curtis Petteway all of Poughkeepsie, NY 5 grandsons, David Petteway IV of Poughkeepsie, NY Zaire Petteway of Albany, NY, William Moon Sr., Da'shon Davis and Darren Davis Jr. He left to cherish fond memories his loving mother, Lucille Dancy-Petteway and the love of his life and companion for 33 years, Marie Davis one son, David Petteway III (Jazette) one stepson, Darren Davis Sr. For the past 21 years David hosted our family reunion with the mission to bring our family together through Love, Unity and Dedication. He then became employed with Central Hudson electric company until he retired in 2008.ĭavid was a true family oriented man, he decided that he wanted to fulfilled his father's wishes to keep his family together and that he did. He worked for Vassar Brothers Hospital in the Mortuary department for many years. Petteway then registered to serve his country in the United States army in 1970. Shortly after graduating from high school he relocated to Poughkeepsie New York where he resides up until his untimely death. To Lucille Dancy-Petteway and the late David L Petteway Sr.ĭavid started his education in Willow Grove elementary school in Whittaker, NC, and then completed and received his high school diploma at Phillips high school in Battleboro, NC., where he was known as the school's song bird. was born January 23, 1950, in, Edgecombe County, Whitaker, NC. We believe at that time the Lord softly whispered Job well done my good and faithful servant your hard working hands shall now rest, they all love you but I your father love you best.ĭavid L. Early Sunday afternoon November 29, 2021, Death Angels unexpectedly visited the home of the Pillar of our Family. ![]() Microsoft OneNote vs Evernote vs Notion: Interface With 30+ types of content to add, you get the freedom to create notes within different templates.Īs of now, considering the comparison between Onenote vs Notion and Evernote - Notion has a market value of $2 billion - a huge sum for a company that only recently reached annualized revenue of $30 million. Notion is a collaborative note-taking app that lets you take notes - write, plan, organize, and collaborate. Whilst Evernote remains the most used note-taking app, with a whopping 225M active users globally, and arguably, the world’s most well-known personal productivity software, it is losing many loyal users. In the Office Productivity category, Microsoft OneNote has a market share of about 0.2%.ħ2% of Microsoft OneNote customers are in the United States, 6% are in the United Kingdom and 6% are in Canada.Įvernote lets you capture and prioritize ideas, projects, and to-do lists, so you focus on what matters the most and get quick access to that information anytime, from anywhere - since it works pretty much everywhere. Microsoft OneNote is most often used by companies with 1000-5000 employees and >1000M dollars in revenue. It can do the 3Rs of Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. It’s a multi-user collaboration tool that gives away a lot for free. Known as a digital note-taking app, MS OneNote allows users to organize their thoughts, ideas, discoveries, and plans in a notebook form. Microsoft OneNote vs Evernote vs Notion: Overview We’ll hopefully help you decide for yourself in this comparison of three of the best-known best note-taking apps available. Below, we are sharing an unbiased comparison of different factors you need to consider before making the final decision between Evernote vs Onenote, Notion vs Onenote, or Notion vs Evernote.Īnd before you get started on the features, let’s do a quick overview of each tool. Now, let’s take a look at each of the important features of the best note-taking app. But we didn’t stop there and eventually decided to share our experience here in the form of a comparison article. Our internal team used each of these tools to find what worked for us. As a result, we shortlisted three note-taking apps. We also asked around with some friends to nudge them to share their advice. In fact, we decided to use different note-taking apps for a week, and then ask each employee to vote for their best note-taking app. The only area we were having a problem with was ‘Note-Taking and Idea Management.’ Some of our employees felt that they don’t have a centralized tool to easily and conveniently store a great many ideas and information they come across on a daily basis.Īnd that’s when we decided to onboard our employees on a common note-taking app. ![]() Our team collaboration and internal communications are as strong as it was before the nationwide lockdown. With Troop Messenger, we are literally doing everything we were doing from our workplaces. Now, our project management, team management, and customer relationship efforts all depend on the intuitive software that enables us to work from home.įortunately, we’ve our own Internal Team Communication - Troop Messenger that has saved us from the hard part of managing remote collaboration. Needless to say, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we worked. Notion claims to bring the best of both worlds by offering a new block-based layout that is usable as a note-taking app, Kanban tool, and to-do list.Īt Tvisha, all our team members are now working remotely. If you’re thinking about signing up for note-taking apps, you might wonder who wins in a battle between OneNote vs Evernote vs Notion on features, pricing, and more. Microsoft OneNote is the best note-taking app that really popularized the concept, and Microsoft and Evernote are two of the biggest players around. If you were to ask someone to name the best note-taking apps, Evernote and Microsoft OneNote would be two powerhouses among the best note-taking apps. Work conversations happen faster & better. Research has focused on Aguas Buenas where semi-circular arrangements of structures made from bedrock have been identified. Our focus shifted towards Central Nicaragua, thanks to Alex Geurds (University of Leiden), where a different set of ceramic phases is employed to date associated materials. (Images courtesy of Alex Geurds center and right image permission from Museo Arqueológico Gregorio Aguilar Barea) On the surface, one ware that was recovered-Vallejo Polychrome-does bear similarities to Mixteca-Puebla-style ceramics, and compositionally it remains a mystery, anomalous among ceramics made locally and in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Costa Rica.īedrock structures and stone sculpture comprise some of the materials identified at Aguas Buenas. Study of ceramics from sites in Pacific Nicaragua suggests interaction with Honduras rather than, as previously thought, with central Mexico, as Geoff McCafferty (University of Calgary) proposed. Metallurgy from this area seems to have drawn on local sources of copper and gold, producing forms that may be early instantiations of objects ascribed to the International Style associated with the region of Central America and Colombia. Juanita Sáenz (Museo del Oro, Bogotá) discussed metalwork from the Nahuange period (200 BC – AD 900) from La Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. ![]() The raft depicts a central figure (left photo)-potentially a cacique-surrounded by attendants (center and right photos), a scene that does have analogues in other Muisca metal objects, and reveals a variety of technological traces.Ī range of Nahuange nose ornaments (Colección Museo del Oro, Fotografía: Clark Manuel Rodríguez) ![]() On the afternoon of Monday, January 26, María Alicia Uribe and Juan Pablo Quintero (both from the Museo del Oro, Bogotá) described their analysis of an elaborate tumbaga model of a balsa raft from Cerro La Campana in Pasca, Colombia. ![]() (Museo del Oro, Banco de la República Fotos: Clark M. Continuing our discussion of the presentations from our Panama workshop, let’s turn to some of the different assemblages that were explored:Ĭareful analysis of anthropomorphic figures has revealed distinctive ‘styles’ of Muisca metallurgists. ![]()
The next day, she sits her son down for a talk. “Clearly, I said, if the two of us don’t pay close attention, our small boy might call girls sluts so his friends would like him better, and then, over time, he might come to think that girls were sluts, maybe especially the ones who refused to have sex with him.” Today’s word is tomorrow’s belief, and isn’t belief the seed of action? Her husband prefers a wait-and-see approach: “He trusted that, through example and education-and by staying vigilant-the two of us could limit certain negative outcomes and help him sort through the many competing messages the world can send a small boy on his way to adulthood.” Julavits finds this adamantly reasonable, and totally insufficient. Julavits discusses the situation with her husband. The brother said of this boy, according to my son, He hangs out with sluts! ” “His friend’s older brother was making fun of a boy in his grade who loved musicals and was only friends with girls. “He was so excited to share with me what had happened,” Julavits writes. Early in the book, her son-he is still six-comes home from a friend’s house boasting of a new word that he has added to his vocabulary. The world is full of countless bad influences, but there is only one Julavits to combat them. What power does Julavits-does any mother-have to set her son’s course? Some boys become loving, gentle, generous men. Julavits worries about what her child might do to the world. All parents worry about what the world might do to their children. “Eventually, whatever force has grounded this oscillation-from my perspective, me-fails to exert any power at all,” she writes. ![]() He’s barely old enough to tie his shoelaces, but already she fears that he is entering what she calls, a touch dramatically, “the end times of his childhood,” that period when he’ll start to test the bounds of his independence. Julavits has seen what growing up looks like-she has an older child, a daughter-and she mourns the loss of her son even now. But that six-year-old will one day be sixteen, then twenty, far from the sphere of a mother’s influence. ![]() In the chapter in which Turner appears, he’s only six. Read our reviews of notable new fiction and nonfiction, updated every Wednesday. They are simply part of the air we all breathe. Julavits doesn’t mention Weinstein, or, for that matter, Donald Trump, and she doesn’t need to. We get glimpses of Brock Turner, the Stanford swimmer who was sentenced to six months in jail, in the spring of 2016, after being convicted of assaulting an unconscious woman outside a campus party, and of Paul Nungesser, the Columbia student accused of rape by his classmate Emma Sulkowicz, who, after Nungesser was cleared of wrongdoing by a university panel, carried a mattress around campus during the 2014-15 school year to demand his expulsion. Those private years happen to coincide with ones of public consequence-the period leading up to and immediately following Harvey Weinstein’s downfall, when the alleged grotesqueries of men, and a few notable boys, were thrust into the news. She’s interested in the formation of masculinity, how boys learn to do and to be, and in the development of one boy in particular: her son, who is five when the book begins and ten when it ends. “Directions to Myself” is full of scenes like this one, moments in which boys roughhouse and shit-talk, honing themselves against one another. I might have made a note of this episode regardless of what I was reading, but the fact that it was Julavits pinned it fast to my mind. Some inner voice had spoken up and told him to tone it down. “I’m not listening to your bitch ass,” one shouted at his friend, before glancing at me and sheepishly correcting himself: “-your ass.” It was an oddly tender thing, this boy the size and shape of a man tempering his bluster lest his use of the word “bitch” offend me, a stranger who belonged to the category to which it refers, when he meant only to demean his friend by association. So, a few weeks ago, as I was sitting on a sidewalk bench with “Directions to Myself” (Hogarth), Heidi Julavits’s new memoir, it seemed inevitable that a posse of teen-age boys should come strutting down the avenue, jostling and preening for their own benefit and that of the neighborhood at large. ![]() Life so often rhymes with reading what happens on the page primes our expectations for what we’ll find beyond it. ![]() To merge the changes made in the new branch with the master branch, use the following command: This command will push the changes to the new branch, and the changes will be isolated from the master branch. ![]() Replace ` ` with the name of the new branch. ![]() Step 8: Push the ChangesĪfter committing the changes, use the following command to push the changes to the new branch: Replace `commit message` with a brief message that describes the changes made in the commit. Step 7: Commit the ChangesĪfter staging the changes, use the following command to commit the changes with a message: This command will stage all the changes made in the working directory. Step 6: Add the ChangesĪfter making changes to the code, use the following command to stage the changes: The changes made in this branch will be isolated from the master branch. Once you have switched to the new branch, you can make changes to the code in your working directory. This command will switch your working directory to the new branch. To switch to the new branch, use the following command: For example, if you are creating a branch for a new feature, use a name like `feature-new`. Make sure to use a relevant name that describes the purpose of the branch. Navigate to the directory where you want to create a new branch and open Git Bash. Git Bash is a command-line interface that allows you to interact with the Git tool. To create a new branch in Git, the first step is to open Git Bash on your computer. Step 5: Push Your Changes to the Remote Branch.Step 1: Checkout the Branch that you Want to Create a New Branch from.Merging Your Branch Back to the Main Codebase. |
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