I don’t recall him ever having a transplant done but again as I said below in the long story you might find interesting. I haven’t heard from him in years. It was certainly wild to think about and to realize he has no heartbeat anymore. I’ll ask a family member what ever come of him. Hopefully all is well with him. Who knows.
This rejogs a partial memory. I do recall he said he no longer has a heart beat. He told me his heart was pronounced dead part or the whole thing I am unsure. I gave a decent story and better description below in another comment.
So his heart was pronounced dead, it didnt function but was left inside I think. I always wondered his abilities and I asked once that very question, particularly towards having sex lol. He used to be an alcoholic and could no longer drink as it would thin the blood and thus mess with the pumping ability.
I don’t recall him ever doing anything strenuous and truthfully don’t recall his answer to that question but seems like he joked that he could still do it with a woman. He walked slow, talked slowish labored sort of, laughed sheepishly like a labored laugh. Generally looked sick like you can imagine. He drove cars and that’s about all I remember. Im unsure if he could turn it up maybe? I haven’t spoken with him in a decade. I don’t even know if he is still alive.
He got robbed/mugged in a big city about 10 years ago, the mugger took his satchel containing his medical battery bank despite him explaining the battery pack and pleading at gunpoint on a downtown street. He nearly died and an ambulance couldn’t arrive in time. A stranger he flagged on the street transported him to a hospital where they somehow got him hooked up to a new battery system. They said he had mere minutes left on the internal battery inside his pump. That was the last info I heard of him. Wild to think about and he told the robber it was a medical pack but they thought it was a laptop bag and took it anyhow, it was more square like a car battery than a satchel but more vertical shaped like a rectangle.
This might be sort if news. I know a guy that had a pump for a heart it pumped the same non stop pressure and he wore a satchel type battery pack forever but functioned fairly normal. Always had to keep extra batteries around and the internal pump had a backup of 30 to 45 mins. This was 15 years ago.
Copilot sucks and I totally understand the POV. I stick with GPT, Mixtral. I don’t think their going anywhere anytime soon but they need significant actual refinement.
What I have seen like duckAI in duckduckgo search it cites references and if you query GPT and other models with the specific data your looking towards it will cite and give links to where it sourced the input from like PubMed. Etc.
For instance I will query with something like give me a list of flowers that are purple, cite all sources and ensure accuracy of data provided by cross referencing with other studies while using previous chats as context.
I find it’s about how you type your queries and logic. Once you understand how the models work rather than blindly accepting them as supreme AI then you understand it’s limits and how to utilize the tool for what they are.
They get you 80 to 90 percent close to generally solving most problems asked. Sure they need fact checked as any info does. They are of major use in all areas of study and life. Just not the god everyone wants it to be.
Generations* Let’s not forget we produce 3 or 4 models of phones a year, per manufacturer. That’s an alarming planet amount of E-waste and we don’t have the raw materials to keep up this pace forever.