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Duncan - Indeed, this has now been well documented; I have called these constructions "Schr?dinger Facts", since they arise from a superposition of truths in the training data that collapse into an untruth when observed. https://sentientsyllabus.substack.com/p/chatgpts-achilles-heel Now, the curious question is: why can it program. Why is its production of R-syntax less vulnerable to this effect than a literature quote, or reference? Maybe it has to do with the fact that in producing correct syntax there is a ground truth - errors just wi...

I was wondering which anchor would match in the regular expression "(a)|(b)" if both "a" and "b" matches the target string. What appears to happen is that the first match wins, and that's how it is documented in Python, but I was looking for docs on this in R. As far as I can see, the ?regex help page doesn't resolve this. So just for fun, I decided to