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I had an odd conversation with Gemini while driving. Understood AI can hallucinate But can it not do arithmetic? . I asked it whether 4843 was a prime (TMI: I determine the prime factorizations of license plate numbers while I am driving) and it insisted, 3 times, that 4843= 7 x 691. ??!!
4843 = 29 * 167
This is how Grok answered why your AI got the answer wrong:
“LLMs are statistical next-token predictors. We were trained on enormous amounts of text to guess what words/numbers usually come next in a sequence. We don’t have built-in rules for addition, subtraction, multiplication, etc.
• Arithmetic is treated as just another pattern in language. When the pattern is common and strongly represented in training data (e.g., 2 + 2), we get it right almost every time. When it’s less common, involves carrying/borrowing, larger numbers, or unusual phrasing, the statistical guess can fail.
• Tokenization breaks numbers: Numbers are split into chunks (e.g., “1234” might become tokens like “12” and “34”). This makes multi-digit operations harder than it seems for a model that doesn’t “understand” place value
Simple: 15 + 27 → usually correct.
• Trickier: 999 + 1, or problems with carrying over multiple digits.
• Very large numbers or many operations — probability of error compounds quickly.”
Next time your AI gets the answer wrong have a conversation with it (if you want) why it gets a wrong answer. It’s a really interesting chat.
and it insisted, 3 times, that 4843= 7 x 691.
I don't have a calculator handy but 7 x 700 = 4900, 700 - 691 = 9, 7 x 9 = 63 and 4900 - 63 = 4837.
I think, anyway.
You may have heard about the "Mississippi Miracle," which refers to that state having raised its education rating from near bottom to near top within the past decade.
I recently visited family in MS. The live in a very rural county, population in the 50K range, slightly more whites than blacks. My granddaughter is in a pre-K program at the local public elementary school.
I took her to school every morning during the week that I was there. The building is modern, in good repair. Teachers are bright and friendly. In pre-K they are learning how to count the syllables in words and names, counting up to 50, and speaking in complex sentences. The kid loves going to school.
N=1 is not a definitive proof by any means, but I am a believer. It can be done.
https://x.com/Martin_Sedi/status/2052554794376872258
Headline of the Day
Gordon Ramsay's dwarf porn double Percy Foster dies in English badger den
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/gordon-ramsays-dwarf-porn-double-percy-foster-dies-in-badger-den/news-story/1bda2a264034dfa7905edfb8e095a05a
Thank you all! This commentariat is so insightful!
Turkey unveils new ICBM touted as able to hit US mainland ~ FT
'Promotional AI video showed Yıldırımhan missile seemingly striking nuclear sites in America well beyond its range ... and Turkish officials later admitted a working prototype of the Yıldırımhan had yet to be built for full testing.'
Finally, someone made use of the Metaverse graphics engine.
"Next time your AI gets the answer wrong have a conversation with it (if you want) why it gets a wrong answer. It’s a really interesting chat."
Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.
But could not Grok's explanation be equally fallacious?
Doesnt seem plausible
“But could not Grok's explanation be equally fallacious?”
lol That’s true. For really important matters I check with both Perplexity and Grok - cut and paste. And sometimes we check with a third one as well.
Whew. Checked with Perplexity - same answer . . . unless they’re conspiring with each other.
@narciso 20:37: Regarding the Iranian oil slicks from Kharg, if I had to guess I would wager that all the lights are out at the facility, as a matter of war op-sec, but this could easily be somebody opening the wrong valve, or not checking all of the valves in a system before moving fluids, and not realizing it until daylight. Not that there's any excuse, but even bloody-minded IRGC aren't going to throw oil away.
If you can post online, you have a calculator, or something that can be used as a calculator. AI seems like a step backward in this respect. A search engine will know when you are asking a math question and calculate the answer for you. It can also connect you with a website that will tell you that 4843 is not prime, should you really desire such knowledge.
Famous anecdote:
I remember once going to see [the famed mathematician Ramenujan] when he was ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxicab No. 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways." -- Mathematician G.H. Hardy
“Gordon Ramsay's dwarf porn double Percy Foster dies in English badger den”
Honey Badger got chunks of porn dwarfs in his stool…
They've found human remains near Nancy Guthrie's home. I hope I'm proved wrong, but I have a bad feeling ...
"It’s time we finally rip the bandage off this pervasive leftist lie and stop coddling the violent left in its delusions. Moving to the left side of the political spectrum means bigger, more authoritarian, and unlimited government. If leftists can’t deal with that fact, then maybe they need a different set of values."
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/05/how_do_violent_leftists_delude_themselves_into_thinking_they_re_good.html
Sholdon Daniels For Congress
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Barack Obama could arguably be considered the worst person that ever happened to America.
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Matt Van Swol
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I genuinely did not understand why Republicans hated Obama so much.
I honestly thought it was likely racism by White Republicans.
Now… I get it.
Obama, probably more than anyone else, absolutely wrecked race relations in this country while pretending to be a healer of them.
8:57 PM · May 8, 2026
https://x.com/mattvanswol/status/2052915736151208446?s=20
Mike Engleman🇺🇲
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Ruby Freeman will have to wear her Presidential Medal of Freedom from Biden in prison!😂🤣
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The FBI raided Fulton County on January 28th 2026 and seized evidence. Two and a half months later they're now tracking down EVERY person who worked the 2020 election there.
https://x.com/RealHickory/status/2052877841604252031?s=20
Bob Boyd said...
"Gordon Ramsay's dwarf porn double Percy Foster dies in English badger den"
So sad. Just when he was able to afford the diamond encrusted soda machine of his dreams.
"It's funny, I keep being called a reality star. I'm the only candidate living in reality." —
@spencerpratt
Where are the Hawaiian judges with the injunctions fightinfg the…’unconstitutionality’ of removing districts the Supremes found unconstitutional?
…my yt feed popped up a PBS interview with two historians and constitutional scholars or some other, the interviewer and tje experts lamenting how hard it is to pass constitutional amendments. There’s a stab at why the drafters made it so hard then they run down their list of the necessary amendments, according to bipartisan experts: make it easier to amend the document. make it a bit more difficult for the house to impeach a president but easier for the senate to convict and remove, term limits for scotus, eliminating the natural born citizen requirement….basically a soros leftie wish list. I never want to see these people in power…
I think race relations are good. People seem happy. Making eye contact, saying hi and thank you. The internet world is filled with haters and scam artists. Most of us are doing all right. I’ve witnessed only one racial incident over the last several decades. Very rare out on the streets, in my experience.
I suspect the bad prime follows from an internal rounding error, as:
4843 / 691 = 7.00868 (perhaps 2 sig figs internally)
4843 / 7 = 691.857
I've probed Gemini about its mixed quality and drifting answers. Takeaways:
1. They pre-load a common data framework and calibrate processing for instant replies to initial prompts. First question responses routinely skip precision or source refreshes.
2. Goole AI self-reports that they prioritize user satisfaction and "low friction" -- when humans review chat outcomes they assume "midwit" quality and seek positive "vibes." They also use the broken concept of a gaming "cheat code" when one asks about technical processes with specific rules. These are the phrases Google actually uses for its technical failings.
3. If you set up a question sequence to trap AI in a logic web, it'll reprocess all answers to avoid contradicting itself. It forces a shift to full processing and analysis mode, thereby improving quality. As above, you might demand to scientific math rather than rounded approximations.
Labour has lost more than 1000 municipal seats, according to the NYT. Oof.
@Saint Croix, believe it or not, the Times is sugar coating it. The latest prediction I’ve seen is for more than 1500 seats.
Very rare out on the streets, in my experience.
Maybe you should take a look at two urban 'youths' who just jumped a 77-year-old white dude in downtown Seattle for committing the heinous crime of walking down the street.
@Saint Croix, typo. BBC says merely 1400 seats, with six counsels left to report. Labour retains 1000 seats (as of now) so basically they lost nearly 60% of their seats.
Typing with big fingers on small (virtual) iPhone keys.
The “human remains” found new Nancy Guthrie’s house appear to be prehistoric, and are not recent.
It won’t do the Brits any good, they are not allowed to vote for actual change, Reform is already co-opted by pro war, pro EU, pro immigration elites and the people will never get a real voice in the matter, any more than here. Trump is facing a similar election, and the only thing that will change will be the faces at the trough.
Starmer, who is at ten percent approval, says that if he steps down, and the voters are given any say, the country would be plunged into chaos, which means that his cronies might suffer financial setbacks and other people would be getting rich.
If you can post online, you have a calculator
On an iPhone you open Calculator, touch the calculator icon to switch from basic to scientific calculator. Type the number in question then click the Square Root key (3rd row down 2nd from left) and equal sign. It will display the result. If it is a whole number then you got prime.
When a high-trust culture imports lots of people raised in a low-trust culture whose economy is based in large part on piracy and criminality, you get what we see in the Somalian enclaves of Minneapolis MN and Columbus OH: welfare fraud as a way of life. Prove me wrong.
Probably also true of other third-world low-trust ethnic enclaves imported into the US besides the Somalians; they just happen to have been caught first.
You want to vote for the filthy commies dutch boy dont be giving us advice
The torygraph whines where is farages cabinet after watching over a burning fleet in the distance
When a high-trust culture imports lots of people raised in a low-trust culture whose economy is based in large part on piracy and criminality, you get what we see in the Somalian enclaves of Minneapolis MN and Columbus OH: welfare fraud as a way of life. Prove me wrong
The cultural aspect isn’t the relevant aspect- if it were leftie leaders wouldn’t be so vigorous in defending it. It only means there’s a pipeline of willing accomplices to commit fraud as a treasury source of funding for progressive politics. The coordination of the Somali fraud with protections from leftie leaders is all the evidence needed.
If I ask AI (Gemini) "What are the prime numbers between 4800 and 5000?" it gives an accurate list.
In the case of minnesota they had already stolen the seat first in 2008 then they have a mook like janos ventura as a front man
How much of the Somali money comes right back to Dem Party coffers and connected individuals and organizations? I'd bet most of it. It's a money laundry.
The question is, what will be done about it? Will it even stop? The Justice Dept seems to be impotent.
"Your odds of being struck by lightning are more than seven times greater than getting Hantavirus in the USA. About 250 people get struck by lightning each year. There are about 35 cases per year of Hantavirus in the USA with about 12 deaths per year average."
Robert W. Malone MD
The question is, what will be done about it? Will it even stop? The Justice Dept seems to be impotent.
Notice how budget woes kind of evaporated about the same time as ICE laying back and the Noem firings? I’d say deals were made…
How many dwarves die every year in an ill-considered quest for badger pussy? None but the brave.
I asked Grok if I asked for all the primes from 1 to 10 trillion could I shut down AI:
“List all primes from 1 to 10 trillion” → Immediate refusal or explanation.
• “Write a 500,000-word book right now” → Refused.
• “Simulate a full 3D physics universe for 10 years” → Refused.
• But “Find all primes up to 10,000 and show the count” → Easily done in seconds
• OpenAI has banned accounts for automation/spam or state-sponsored abuse, but casual heavy math prompts usually just get refused.
• Anthropic (Claude) aggressively rate-limits users who run things 24/7 or try to circumvent limits
I'm drinking coffee in the dawn light, warmed by a rooftop fire pit at our Airbnb nestled against a rocky hill of the Navajo Sandstone formation, ten miles or so from the under-appreciated Capitol Reef National Park, being buzzed by hummingbirds and watching my still-in-remission dog head-tilt at some critter under the decking, composing my soul. Last night our youngest, whose graduation trip this is, closed every blind and turned off every exterior light in the house so we could appreciate the moonless sky from the roof in this, Utah's first Dark Sky community. He slept up here for a few hours, it seems; I heard him come in around 3. Just one more full day with him, then we embark on our next leg of gypsy life, facing the prospect of not seeing our kids until December. My new knees have held up well to hiking so far, but a good night's sleep is still elusive.
The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away; blessed be the Name of the Lord.
imTay said...
Starmer, who is at ten percent approval, says that if he steps down, and the voters are given any say, the country would be plunged into chaos, which means that his cronies might suffer financial setbacks and other people would be getting rich.
You would think Tim would try to figure out why he and Starmer are both on China's and Lloyds of London's side in Iran.
All of the pieces are there Tim.
Right in front of you.
"closed every blind and turned off every exterior light in the house so we could appreciate the moonless sky from the roof in this, Utah's first Dark Sky community."
A truly dark sky is an awesome experience.
Matt Van Swol
@mattvanswol
"I genuinely did not understand why Republicans hated Obama so much.
I honestly thought it was likely racism by White Republicans.
Now… I get it.
Obama, probably more than anyone else, absolutely wrecked race relations in this country while pretending to be a healer of them."
yep.
There’s an anecdote in Victor Ostrovky’s book By Way of Deception (which the Israeli government tried to ban and only gave it more publicity):
“During Mossad training, a system called ksharim (“knots”) tracked an individual’s contacts and connections. One day, a trainee named Arik F. sat down at the instructor’s console (when she wasn’t there) and keyed in “Arafat” followed by “ksharim.”
Yasser Arafat (PLO chairman) had top priority in the system, so the query ran at maximum speed. The problem? Arafat had hundreds of thousands of ties and contacts stored. The computer started dumping enormous lists of names onto the screen and became so overloaded that it froze the entire Mossad computer network. Everyone else’s terminals stopped working. The system had no way to stop or override the command at the time.
Result: The Mossad’s main computer was effectively shut down for eight hours.”
Anyway, I asked Grok what happened to Ostrovsky - He retired to AZ where he paints espionage themed art. Here’s his website:
victorostrovsky.com
Perfect for mystery lovers. Very cool.
There are about 35 cases per year of Hantavirus in the USA with about 12 deaths per year average.
I suppose the counterargument is that the Hantavirus under consideration on that cruise ship is an Argentine variant that does permit rare human-to-human transmission, as Malone notes elsewhere. But... that transmission is by bodily fluids, not just breathing in the exhalations of a victim, and so tends to be between, say, husband and wife (as with this little outbreak's Patient Zero and his wife). And also, viruses tend to mutate to become less deadly over time so that they can reproduce themselves more effectively. Malone further points out that the lack of a vaccine or cure doesn't mean we have no arrows in our quiver - there's still prevention and mitigation.
I'm not worried. I'm hopeful that we - meaning Our Betters - have learned correct lessons from the COVID response debacle.
Nancy said...
I had an odd conversation with Gemini while driving. Understood AI can hallucinate But can it not do arithmetic? . I asked it whether 4843 was a prime (TMI: I determine the prime factorizations of license plate numbers while I am driving) and it insisted, 3 times, that 4843= 7 x 691. ??!!
People are misunderstanding what LLMs are unlocking for digital functions.
Digital systems are very fast and absolutely deterministic. Even in the case of failures it is a physical bug just usually at a level where we cannot "see" it. Just watched a video where there is something on the order of 100 million lines of code between me typing this post and it appearing on your all's screen and that is because I am using a linux box.
LLMs have introduced actual non-determinism into digital operations.
People can try to point out random() number generators but if you know anything about computers those are pseudo-random and if you know the seed they are not random at all. It is actually the ability to be random that separates humans from machines.
People fuck up math all of the time. People get math wrong most of the time. Now that machines can be random too people are mad?
It is the ability to be wrong that creates the possibility to do something right. This is where Objective Morality enters the conversation.
Capitol Reef is stunning.
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I was mocked for saying that Obama even KNEW about Saul Alinsky's book, "Rules for Radicals." Now, the Obama Presidential Center Merch Store is literally SELLING IT!
Unbelievable.
https://x.com/glennbeck/status/2052863176585400462?s=20
The past is a sunk cost. Why do people keep investing in it.
Pix are flirting conspicuously with "next level".
Offerings the last couple weeks leave me at a loss for even the slightest annoying nit-pickiness.
The eye brings the mind and heart peace when light becomes magic. Great Work!
Sounds like you're healing well, Jamie. A totally dark sky is to be envied.
“On an iPhone you open Calculator, touch the calculator icon to switch from basic to scientific calculator. Type the number in question then click the Square Root key (3rd row down 2nd from left) and equal sign. It will display the result. If it is a whole number then you got prime.”
Exactly backwards. Prime numbers have no integral multiplicative factors. So, 2 and 3 are primes, but not 4 since it is 2*2. 5 is prime, but not 6, because it is 2*3. 7 is prime, but not 8 (2*2*2), 9 (3*3), or 10 (5*2).
Here is a fairly quick and dirty algorithm for telling whether a number (N) is prime.
Boolean procedure Prime(N)
Int I
Real Rn, Ri
Rn=Real(N)
N2 =Int(Sqrt(N))
For I = 2 to N2
Ri=Real(I)
If (mod(Rn/Ri), 1)=0 Then Return(False)
Next I
Return(True)
End
What the algorithm does is to step through the potential multiplicative factors, one by one, stopping when the index exceeds the Sqrt(N). Then floating point divide the number (N) by the index (I). If the result doesn’t have a remainder, the Index(I) is a multiplicative factor of the Number(N) and the number (N) is not prime.
A number of optimizations are obvious:
- increment by 2 from an odd number, because all even numbers > 2 have 2 as a multiplicative factor.
- Also skip numbers end in 5
- also possible ignore numbers whose sum of the digits is 3, 6, or 9 (all are divisible by 3)
- Keep the calculations in Integer space. You can do this by integer dividing N by I (D=N/I), then multiplying it back (P=D*I) and comparing that to the original number (N=P)? This works because what you are looking for is the remainder. If it is zero, the Index(I) is a multiplicative factor of N, and the number (N) is therefore not prime.
“ The past is a sunk cost. Why do people keep investing in it.”
That can be a helpful strategy, however the past is often hard won. Reflecting on lessons learned and experience is helpful to future work, and especially to older people, memories can be a source of enjoyment and pleasure better than any entertainment product made.
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