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Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel
@minecr.bsky.social
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professor at duke university + developer educator at posit
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minecr.bsky.social
I just got this email from ChatGPT. Is anyone really worried that people are holding off until they have "a plan or the perfect question" to use these tools?! Or was this reaction-bait that I fell for?
Email from ChatGPT with the following text: Start with any question Chat now You don’t need a plan or the perfect question to use ChatGPT. Just start typing whatever’s on your mind — a half-baked idea, a random question, a weird "what if." ChatGPT is built for all of it. No pressure. No perfect prompts. Explore ideas, create images, write stories, and summarize files in just a simple conversation. Best, The ChatGPT Team
October 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
minecr.bsky.social
These companies must be using the same crazy survey provider. What is this?!
Survey with the question "How likely are you to recommend [solidcore] Durham to a friend or colleague?" Options 0-10 are arranged in a very bizarre order with 0 at the bottom 1-9 in three rows with numbers starting on the right on each row, and a much bigger 10 button on top.
October 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
minecr.bsky.social
What is it @github.com @githubeducation.bsky.social? Am I faculty or am I not faculty? Why do you keep asking me the same question, after saying you won't ask for 2 years, and then not believing my answer?
GitHub educator benefit application -- Apprived on May 25 and August 28 for 2 years, then asked to reverify on Sep 11 and denied, approved again September 27 and then denied three times again on the same day.
September 28, 2025 at 2:46 AM
minecr.bsky.social
I often find myself wanting to use this as my commit message, then stop and try to write something more informative. I guess I'm not the only one.
Search results for GitHub commit messages that contain the phrase "felt cute, might delete later"
June 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
minecr.bsky.social
This is up there with the craziest survey design I’ve seen.
Scale from 0 - Not Likely to 10 - Very Likely organized as rectangles for 0 and 10 that span the width of three squares, with numbers 1 - 9 organized in three rows.
May 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
minecr.bsky.social
A little late, but here is my #tidytuesday #pydytuesday submission -- the useR! 2025 program, but with #python!

mine.quarto.pub/user2025-but...

Thanks to Chat GPT for helping translate my original #rstats code to Python. Loved how easy it was to go from gt to great_tables. Details at the link 👆.
Screenshot of the useR! 2025 program from https://mine.quarto.pub/user2025-but-python/.
May 6, 2025 at 4:12 AM
minecr.bsky.social
My New Year's resolution is to review Grammarly suggestions more carefully before accepting them...
Screenshot of Grammarly suggestion on the sentence "If your New Year's resolution is to learn #datascience..." where "your New Year's resolution" is crossed off and "your New Year resolves" is suggested in its place.
December 27, 2024 at 7:43 PM
minecr.bsky.social
Sure, tomato / tomato!
A popup window that says "Interested in Seattle?" followed by "Explore Dubai", and presents a trip planning window that one can use to find travel deals to Dubai.
January 14, 2024 at 9:32 PM