The Analytic Garden

I use this blog to post small programming projects that implement some aspect of a subject that I'm interested in. This post is different. The computer that I use for development uses Windows 11. For most of my programming work, I use WSL2 . Last week, Windows update  KB5032190 caused havoc with several apps that I use regularly: VSCode, wsltty, Task Scheduler, and Windows itself. I use VSCode as my IDE. It operates with WSL via an exposed port. VSCode is actually running in Windows, but connects to WSL so it can run Linux compilers, apps, etc. After the update, it refused to connect to WSL. I fixed this problem the way many Windows app problems are solved; I deleted VSCode and reinstalled. After that it worked. I have no idea why it failed initially. I run a backup program every night at 1:00 am. It is launched by the Windows Task Scheduler. The actual program is ancient. It was written in perl about ten years ago. It has been operating flawlessly on different systems for that t...

 Given the current OpenAI turmoil , it's hard to say how ChatGPT will develop in the near term. I, for one, welcome our new Microsoft  OpenAI overlords, for today at least. I have no hopes for a transparent ChatGPT. Predicting how temperature will rise over the next few years is difficult. Its seems that the world keeps being surprised that things are worse than we suspected. There may be reasons other than anthropogenic climate effects , but humanity is the main culprit. We're well on our way for 2023 being the hottest year on record. On 2023-11-14, I downloaded the global monthly temperature anomaly data from the Met Office Hadley Centre observations datasets . The CSV data file contains monthly estimates of the global temperature anomaly from January 1850 to September 2023. The temperature anomalies (deg C) are relative to 1961-1990. > library(tidyverse) > df_temp_hadcrut <- read_csv( 'ChatGPT/data/HadCRUT.5.0.1.0.analysis.summary_series.global.monthly.csv...