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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

oh Jesus

did this come full circle?

we used python to query chatgpt to decide if a number is even or odd and return true or false?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (2 children)

True or false or null.

Mathematicians didn't know it yet, but numbers can now be even, odd or neither.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Non integers certainly aren't even or odd, so yes?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I'm chalking that up to Python's untypedness. I was going to write "integers", but technically that function takes a "num", whatever that is.

For all we know, it could be a string, asking ChatGPT to hack the government. Is that even? Probably no. Or None. Or T-Rex. Without reading the entire function, we don't know that it's not returning T-Rex.

Thankfully, it doesn't matter. Just stick the result into an if-else, then False and None will land you in the else-branch. And both True and our Truthiness-Rex will land you in the if-branch. Just as Guido intended.

...this rant brought to you by trauma.