Tag Archives: Germany

ChatGPT on Joachim Frank’s life

. One of my students tried to find out what ChatGPT had to say about my early life. Below is the answer, annotated by me.   I found 10 major mistakes.  For example, it freely invented names and professions of my parents, and placed the city of Munich into the USA. “Joachim Frank was born on … Continue reading

The Z-Stone Boom

. I recently found this image on Twitter — sorry, I didn’t keep track of the source.  It reminded me of a stone I once found in Ierapetra, in the 1960’s, a blue-green stone with quartz inclusion marking an exact letter ‘Z’.  I called it Z-stone and carried it around with my possessions for years.  … Continue reading

My Picasso

Portrait of Sylvette David in green chair, 1954 . I just saw this painting again on twitter.  It always gives me a jolt of recognition; it transports me back into high school (the Fürst Johann von Moritz Gymnasium) in my home town in Germany. Some works of contemporary artists were reproduced in our history text … Continue reading


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