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Early this year I filed an issue in the #delve debugger repo about how some type names were displayed not by their name but their fully "resolved" path: github.com/go-delve/delve/issu

As trivial as that may seem, it makes debugging almost useless for the deeply recursive #golang code I normally work on when all you see is incredibly long strings cluttering up the view.

I had almost forgotten about this until another issue I filed in Go's #gopls tool ( github.com/golang/go/issues/73 ) got fixed, but the fix came with another issue... I'm sure you can guess which one.

I had previously assumed that type names getting "expanded" to paths was an oversight where it occured, but it seems like pretty printing type names in Go is a non-trivial problem: go-review.googlesource.com/c/t

Does anyone know how to configure the #VSCode #Golang / #Delve debugger to **not** show the full module path for nested keys/values? I.e. rather than seeing "github.com/long/ass/path/my.Type" I just want to see "my.Type". Working with deeply nested data and debugging is currently a terrible click-fest, as expanding each level is the only way to see the variable bindings. And even then these full module paths are extremely annoying.

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Probably the most stunning change to word usage is "delve" (sounds more educated than "dig into"). This seems to be the favorite word of #ChatGPT. It's usage in research papers has skyrocketed in the past two years.

So, yes, #Chatbot|s and Large Language Models have definitely changed our lives. Maybe not in the way we expected.
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pshapira.net/2024/03/31/delvin

Philip Shapira · Delving into “delve”If scientific authors use ChatGPT in writing their papers, it is likely that common ChatGPT words will appear.

If you see a sentence in a research paper with the word "delve", will you directly think it's written by ChatGPT?

I'm finding myself avoiding that word (which I quite like) because it can lead to suspicion of generative AI use... while I've never used these tools and am deeply against them.

Are others avoiding the word now as well? Can we still be taken seriously if we use it?
(Yet we don't need more obstacles to writing!)

The original source of the claim that ChatGPT overuses the word ‘delve’ seems to be AI Phrase Finder which makes the claim on the basis of “our dataset of 50,000 ChatGPT responses”. No more information is provided about this dataset. There’s also no information provided about what constitutes the ‘most common words’ within it. Presumably the most common words are ‘the’ (etc) which suggests they are using a different standard of what constitutes a common word. But they don’t say what this is!

This is not a reliable source which raises the question of why this claim spread as widely as it did. There’s an interesting bibliometrics debate which suggests this might not be 100% nonsense. But as far as I can see the claim spread through a network of (possibly AI generated!) content farms, as well as being credulously shared through social media. I’m not saying that ChatGPT doesn’t have tells, only that establishing them authoritatively is a methodologically complex undertaking which would only establish deeply imperfect results.

https://markcarrigan.net/2024/08/06/the-original-source-of-the-claim-that-chatgpt-overuses-the-word-delve/

AI Phrase Finder · The 10 Most Common ChatGPT Words - AI Phrase FinderWhat words are overused by ChatGPT? We studied a huge dataset of ChatGPT responses and can tell you the 10 most common words

Thinking about doing some #soloroleplaying and choosing a method. Have never done this, and I'm not sure if I'd like more crunchy, more narrative/journaling, or somewhere on that sliding scale. I do like writing. Right now looking hard at #ironsworn and #delve. Makes a difference because I want to spend actual $$ and don't want to waste limited resources!

Thinking now of doing #ironsworn and using Tome of Adventure Design (already have pdf) for tables.