The thread about iNat potentially using AI to potentially pick out the useful info hidden away in comments got me thinking. How do iNatters use AI now in scientific ways in their every day lives? When do you find it to be reliable? I loathe how every search engine now provides an AI summary becaus…

i have done assignments on algorithms fundamental to search engines and i can say the point of search moving towards understanding intent is eventual holy grail for any business (everyone wants to find direct relevant answers or sources to what they asked regardless of phrasing). Its understandable …

[image] pisum: [image] bazwal: so when things go wrong, who do we blame? to me, this is an odd way of framing the question. setting aside “blame” Accountability (blame) cannot be simply set aside, which is why we have consumer protection laws . [image] pisum: if you need to get som…

So I’m currently using chatgpt to wrangle a script to do some minor automation using the API and like… honestly I had to share because this LLM is getting silly [image]

that code is going to get data in an inefficient way. you need to tell your chatbot that it can get more than one observation per request by passing in a comma-separated list of observations – either GET /observations?id=1,2,3.4 or GET /observations/1,2,3,4. additionally, if you’re interested only …

I’m aware - that was literally the first prompt I put it and I hadn’t refined anything yet. I’m just posting for the silly language it was using. I appreciate that you’re trying to be helpful, but I’ll be fine and I’m not asking for coding advice. I know exactly which field I need to reference, I …

[image] lothlin: Is there a way to pull API batches and have it not just be a summary? It seems that observation fields & values aren’t pulled automatically when you do a batch and I really need that obs field value. i don’t understand what you’re trying to say here. the results of GET /v1/ob…

[image] pisum: if it exists if it doesn’t exist, it means that the number of rows you want to display in each batch of 200 is potentially less than 200. I think it’d work fine if you were taking a snapshot of the data and running against the snapshot of the entire dataset (multiple pages of …

Well I’m hating AI a little less today. My boss is suggesting we do an educational session on catatonia + psychosis given a recent patient. I was playing with Lumo and feeding in relevant clinical events, meds and asking it to describe how that worked in term of known relevant brain receptor pathway…

[image] stockslager: if it doesn’t exist, it means that the number of rows you want to display in each batch of 200 is potentially less than 200. the rows that i’m talking about are from the spreadsheet, not from the response. to get the right results item from response, you always want to fi…

[image] pisum: GET /observations What I’m saying is that getting an array of observations using that is not returning the observation field data I need. It’s a summary, not the full data. EDIT: but tbh it’s not something I’m going to be running constantly, it’s a script I’m going to run once…

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