“Buy Me a Rocket” is a story which doesn’t exist and which was never written by Alfred Bester.

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In the Track of the Bookworm Is that the way it is? Questions for the Experts The Diary of Lupin Pooter
Being fed an example of the sort of grammatically correct but completely false word salad that ‘AI’ hypesters tend to dishonestly mischaracterize as a hallucination in hopes of creating a sense of equivalency, in the mind of the listener, between LLM software systems and organic brains through the implication that an LLM is on some level susceptible to the same sorts of derangements as the human mind is irritating. Here, I describe an incident where Google inserted a blob of ‘AI’ garbage atop legitimate search results and this ‘AI’ slop referenced a completely nonexistent science fiction story.

The Case of the Slumping Polystyrene Foam (Question for the Experts)

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HerpDerp Is that the way it is? Makin' stuff and breakin' stuff Mucking About With Things Questions for the Experts The Diary of Lupin Pooter
Recently, I mounted a few pairs of metal chests of drawers piggyback-style, which entailed drilling some holes. To keep the point of my drill from skittering away, I used a center punch to create a tiny dimple at each of the intended hole locations. Intending to clean the drill and the deburring tool that I’d used on the holes (a hex-shank deburring blade in a hex-shank handle as you can see in the photos below) once I had unpacked the tool-cleaning stuff (WD-40, Fluid Film, etc.), I laid them both — along with the center punch — on a fragment of one of the polystyrene foam sheets in which the metal drawers had been packed for shipment.