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I Asked ChatGPT for Intermediate SQL Challenges: Here's How I Solved Them
Last time I had to use any SQL was approximately a year ago at my data engineering internship at the Sheriff's office. I have SQL on my resume as one of my top skills, so I started to feel a little bit like a fraud and decided to solve some problems a couple days ago. I have failed, miserably. But I practiced and I think I remembered it enough that I am ready to challenge myself now. I will ask ChatGPT to generate me 3 intermediate SQL coding questions that I can get in a te
Elif Yildiz
Jul 48 min read


Computing a Mind: Turing, the Chinese Room, and AI
The question “Can computers think?” turns on what it means for a machine to think. The Turing Test is a canonical attempt that provides a behavioral criterion: a machine counts as thinking if it passes as a human in conversation (Turing, 1950, p. 434). Searle’s (1980) “Chinese room counterexample” (p. 421) famously challenges this view by imagining a non-speaker of Chinese producing fluent replies solely by following symbolic instructions. Decades later, the Turing Test and t
Elif Yildiz
Jun 25 min read
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