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Gary Will @GaryWill

Ran businesses, built startup communities, supported other people's startups. Now read about plants. Wikipedia says I'm best known for a wrestling book.

Joined August 2007
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Gary Will@GaryWill
8 Sep 2020
Still my favourite version of startups meeting government agencies (Utopia, season 3, 2017). Not exactly fair to government-funded orgs, but funny.
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Gary Will@GaryWill
16 Apr 2023
This one's even funnier. Bing Chat tells me to go to Google's help page for information on how to do web searches.
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Gary Will@GaryWill
16 Apr 2023
Bing Chat just told me to use Google Scholar. I guess that's a good thing.
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Gary Will retweeted
Ontario Economy
@ONeconomy
13 Apr 2023
Ontario is investing $7.5M to help create a new innovative hub at @UWaterloo in #Kitchener. This state-of-the-art facility will support the development of new technology, grow the #lifesciences sector and encourage investment and job creation. Learn more news.ontario.ca/en/release/1…
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Gary Will@GaryWill
9 Apr 2023
It's perversely impressive to see the lengths Bing Chat will go to in fabricating fake research papers. It could just do a search ON BING to see there is no such paper, but it would rather just make stuff up.
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Gary Will@GaryWill
9 Apr 2023
... and, of course, when I told it there was no such paper, it fabricated another one.
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Gary Will@GaryWill
30 Mar 2023
People worry about AI taking over our jobs, but with Bing Chat, I'm the one doing ITS job and performing actual web searches to uncover all the stuff it just made up.
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Gary Will@GaryWill
30 Mar 2023
I know that ChatGPT/Bing Chat makes up fake research papers, so this wasn't surprising, but it was disappointing that just a few Qs later -- after it had apologized -- ChatGPT provided the same made up reference again
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Gary Will@GaryWill
30 Mar 2023
It followed up with another winner
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Gary Will@GaryWill
27 Mar 2023
Had a long talk with Bing Chat last night after it recommended a research paper to me and gave me a URL at ResearchGate and a DOI, along with the full title and author names. There's no record that this paper exists.
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Gary Will@GaryWill
27 Mar 2023
Nothing from a title search. DOI Foundation says it's not an assigned DOI. No such page at ResearchGate. Can't find any paper with the group of authors Bing gave me. I pointed all this out. Bing insisted it was correct.
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Gary Will@GaryWill
27 Mar 2023
Even after I had it search the site for the journal Bing said published the paper -- and it found nothing -- it still instisted it was right. It suggested about eight things that could be to blame, none of which was itself.
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Gary Will@GaryWill
16 Nov 2022
Southwestern Ontario quiz: * Oxford County * County of Brant * Norfolk County Which one isn't a county? A: None of them are. And they're all not-counties in different ways.
Gary Will@GaryWill
16 Nov 2022
Oxford County does a good job of disguising itself as a county and avoiding the review of regional municipalities.
Gary Will@GaryWill
16 Nov 2022
Oxford County does a good job of disguising itself as a county and avoiding the review of regional municipalities.
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Hockey Night in Canada@hockeynight
10 Aug 2022
Toronto Maple Leafs great Borje Salming diagnosed with ALS cbc.ca/1.6546814
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Gary Will@GaryWill
25 Jun 2022
Hadn't been to Dairy Freez in a few years and was a bit apprehensive about whether the cones had shrunk in that time. No need to worry. @YvonnePilon
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Gary Will@GaryWill
23 May 2022
At least McDonald's summer dollar drinks are still $1
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TerryPender@TerryPender
17 Apr 2022
I first wrote about Sarah Landstreet in 2016 and was impressed. Now she's cashing in on her success as a startup entrepreneur, embracing new challenges. #startup #communitech #georgettepackaging #carbonneutralpackaging #kitchener #techadjacent #towr therecord.com/news/waterloo-…

Groundbreaking entrepreneur eyes medical school

Startup founder will need all of her varied experience for next challenge

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Gary Will@GaryWill
4 Mar 2022
My Ding-A-Ling was hit because is showcased a performer connecting with his audience. Chuck wrote some of the greatest lyrics in rock history, so we can give him one silly singalong that had an auditorium full of people happily doing whatever he wanted.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine@sterlewine
4 Mar 2022
Robert Ham asked me to argue for the merits of a number one record I used to loathe but now kind of dig: Chuck Berry’s “My Ding-A-Long.” My thoughts are part of his fine piece for @UPROXX uproxx.com/indie/chuck-berry…
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Applied Probability Trust (APT)@APJournals
26 Feb 2022
Replying to @ProbabilityProf
@ProbabilityProf, very well explained! youtu.be/QW3KRaz4aI4

Statistician Answers Stats Questions From Twitter | Tech Support |...

Jeffrey Rosenthal, a professor of statistics at the University of T...

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