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    Why I have pretty much ditched AI...
    And now hold it at arm's length when using it. Around the time ChatGPT 4.0 came out, it started to become useful to me. Initially I was using it for looking for patterns in Gamma spectra, which it is very good for, when it worked. After a short time of using ChatGPT I found I was hitting limitations due to my free subscription so subscribed to the plus subscription. This lifted the limits and I was full on throwing data at it to analyse, graphing data, put a load of numbers in, get out a visual representation of them. All good stuff. I really quizzed the AI to find out how it works and after
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    A swarm of bees popped by....
    Early afternoon and I hear a mighty humming noise. A swarm of bees had come to visit! 😊 After I had run around the house closing the windows I caught a bit on video. I've never been this close to a swarm of bees. Being behind a window was great as they were super close. I did consider going outside but they moved off shortly after filming them. They also came back a few hours later but didn't hang around and I didn't get my camera in time. I think they may have been mating as there seemed to be two swarms which you can't really see on the video, but that is the reason I moved the camera from
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    Hello World!
    Hello World! This is I, Mr Blinky. Welcome to my lab! Here I will write about Geiger counter and radiation related things, experiments, projects and general musings. Please note that the image above is actually NOT me...