Geoffrey Hinton’s phone interview with the Nobel Prize Committee

• Let’s start with gh copilot explain to get an explanation of a command
• The command below searches for log files and then searches within them for the word error
  • find / -name '*.log' -exec grep 'error' {} +

• Now let’s use gh copilot suggest to generate a command
• ghcs "create three txt files with names test1.txt, test2.txt, and test3.txt", then add the content "Hello, world!" to each file, then list the files, show the content of each file, and delete them"

• Let’s see how Copilot can help with Git commands
• ghcs "create a new branch called 'feature-branch', switch to it, create a new file called 'feature.txt', add some content to it, commit the changes, push the branch to the remote repository, and open a pull request"

• ghcs "how can I use gh to create a new private repository on GitHub danilofreire/testing, clone it to my computer, add a README file, commit the changes, push the changes to the remote repository, and open a pull request?"

• If you have installed Copilot in VS Code, just click on the Copilot icon (a chat bubble) in the bottom left corner
• You can then type a prompt and see the suggestions. As you know how to ask it to generate code (same as in ChatGPT), let’s see other things that Copilot can do for you
• Type /help to see the available commands
• You will also note that there are commands such as @workspace, @vscode, @terminal, and @github that allow you to interact with the workspace, VS Code, the terminal, and GitHub (including your account), respectively
• You can also interact with files with #file
• Let’s have a look at some examples

• Type /explain followed by a code snippet to get an explanation. You can select the snippet directly in the terminal, then just type /explain

• Type /tests followed by a code snippet to run tests
• Let’s see how it tests this function:

class SimpleCalculator:
    def add(self, a, b):
        return a + b

    def subtract(self, a, b):
        return a - b

    def multiply(self, a, b):
        return a * b

    def divide(self, a, b):
        if b == 0:
            raise ValueError("Cannot divide by zero")
        return a / b

    def square_root(self, a):
        if a < 0:
            raise ValueError("Cannot calculate square root of a negative number")
        return a ** 0.5

• Type /fix followed by a code snippet to fix it
• This function is supposed to check if a number is even, but it has a logical error. The division operation (number / 2) should be replaced with the modulo operation (number % 2)
• If you hoover over the Fixed Code block, you will see the options:
  • Apply the fix in the editor
  • Insert the fixed code at the cursor
  • Copy the fixed code to the clipboard
  • Insert into a terminal
  • Insert into a new file

def is_even(number):
    return number / 2 == 0

• Type /new and pass the information about the file you want to create
• /new create a file.txt file with the first three lines of Homer's Odyssey

• You can use the @terminal command to write and run code in the terminal. Click on the terminal icon to insert the code
• @terminal create a file titled test.py and add print("Hello, world!") using the command line

• You can use the @github command to interact with GitHub
• For example, let’s see what are the latest 3 commits of this repository (danilofreire/qtm350)
• You can also use @github to create a new repository, open a pull request, and more

• You can use the @vscode command to interact with VS Code
• For example, let’s see how to open a new file in the editor

• The @workspace command allows you to interact with the workspace, which are the files and folders you have open in VS Code
• For example, let’s ask it to list the files in the workspace

• Another example: let’s ask it to find files that contains bash commands
• Click on the icons and they will open!

• You can use the #file command to search for text in files
• Combine it with the @workspace command to search in all files in the workspace
• Let’s search for Python code in this file