If You Build It, They Will Come

 I've been playing around with the open version of Chat GPT, and it strikes me that this tool is going to be super helpful and also super dangerous at the same time. Nothing you probably haven't read a million times already, but the vast amounts of knowledge that is available through that interface, and its ability to condense it and spit it back to us in a way that process information better is going to help out many people across many spectrums of work. Of course, I'm going to use it for dumb little ideas.  My favorite prompt so far has been "I want to create a board game based off the movie Die Hard With a Vengeance. Can you create set of rules for gameplay for this?".  Which it did, and with a few tweaks would be a fun game.  But, more specific to this blog, I've begun querying it for new Iowa Connections, because having thousands of collections doesn't mean I can't add a few more names. Here's the problem, Chat GPT lies to me often and with su...

 My last baseball collection update!  This is the category with the most change, as I added 1085 cards since my last update.  This category overall is new, managers and coaches from the Iowa minor league teams located in the Quad Cities, Waterloo, Burlington, Clinton, Cedar Rapids, Dubuque and Des Moines (Iowa).   Ryne Sandberg was the biggest addition with 136 new cards, followed by Brian Harper with 124.  About every third trade I am offered on TCDB includes Donruss variations of someone on this list, so it will be nice to knock those out this year so I don't have to worry about them again.   That's all the updates!  Perhaps one more to cover the collection overall.  Thanks for following along.  It took me three months to update everything, so I don't think I'll be doing this annually, but maybe just a subgroup each year.  We shall see. Player ICDB Rank Have Total ICDB 2022 Have Total Minor Team Ryne Sandberg 239 136 10365 Io...