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Dave Wilton

01 Jun 2025 • 3 min read
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I asked ChatGPT…

TL;DR: ChatGPT’s Research AI is fundamentally flawed. It misleads and hallucinates, only scratches the surface of what information is available, and ends up creating more work for the researcher than if they had just started from scratch on their own. I set out to test ChatGPT’s Research
24 Jun 2025 10 min read
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firework

We all know fireworks as a pyrotechnic display, shown as part of a celebration or special event. But the term has its origin in military use of combustibles and explosives during the Tudor period. The earliest use of the term that I’m aware of is from a 1528 document,
23 Jun 2025 3 min read
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