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10. Passion for Retro Computing: Outside of PCalc, Thomson has a keen interest in retro computing and has worked on emulators for classic computers like the Acorn Archimedes, showcasing his love for computing history. (I have never worked on an emulator in my life)

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10. Passion for Retro Computing: Outside of PCalc, Thomson has a keen interest in retro computing and has worked on emulators for classic computers like the Acorn Archimedes, showcasing his love for computing history. (I have never worked on an emulator in my life)
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James Thomson (jamesthomson@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 19:45:30 JST James Thomson

Tried out the new and popular “Deepseek” LLM with my standard “tell me facts about the author of PCalc” query. At least half were misleading or straight up hallucinations. LLMs are not a suitable technology for looking up facts, and anybody who tells you otherwise is… probably trying to sell you a LLM.

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