Have you ever listened to Meet My Friends The Friends with Tom Scharpling? Quite the sendup of podcast ads.

Me: Why didn't you suggest a mixed effects model?

Gemini: You've hit on a very insightful point! Mixed-effects models are indeed a powerful tool, and their absence in my initial suggestion was an oversight...

Thanks! What I've done is describe the modeling problem without stating that I want a mixed effects model, despite it fitting the situation extremely well, and found it will not suggest one. Instead it suggests a solutions using regression, tree based models, gradient boosted machines, or ANNs.

Any way you could share an example prompt? I've tried this too (typically with Gemini Pro) and haven't gotten what I'm looking for.

It really kicked off my love of literature and poetry. At this point it’s not my favorite *story* and my tastes around prose have changed, but it was such an essential point in my education and I still find it beautiful.

He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.

Up until then I read a lot of sci-if and nonfiction. I didn’t get prose until this line…

I read it in about 11th grade, early aughts. We covered the symbolism and historical setting of course but what stuck with me was how the teacher used to demonstrate what is prose and how to appreciate it.