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Post by OnlyMark on Dec 1, 2023 8:16:02 GMT 2
I didn't realise we have something in common.
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Post by slowcoach on Dec 1, 2023 10:09:46 GMT 2
Your post took me back to my reading of the aviation tales of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, in particular Southern Mail, Night Flight, and the incomparable Wind, Sand and Stars. Sometimes, just sometimes, books can alter the reader's outlook on life. Existentialism as a way of living as opposed to a philosophical constraint construct. ETA edited due to a telling Freudian slip.
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Post by slowcoach on Dec 1, 2023 10:58:00 GMT 2
I received the following response from an AI chat butt: I just love the tiny tortoise. 🐢What I suspect it is telling me is that it is reprocessing all my previous scribblings in the ai-hope that they form a context to my latest submission. I believe that AIchatbutts, reprocess the last one to four thousand tokens (short words or parts of a word) including its own ongoing ai-drivel each time at adds another token to its current response. ETA: Its "Please start a new conversation" is not optional, it should have read: "Start a new conversation" as there is no other choice. Bully Butt Tactics!
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Post by tzarine on Dec 3, 2023 21:45:29 GMT 2
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Post by slowcoach on Dec 9, 2023 8:25:28 GMT 2
That the Hudson Institute is still going.
I thought it shut its doors after Herman Kahn died, which it did but it seems that it reopened some new ones elsewhere.
For the many who don't now what I am scribbling about. It was a major Cold War think tank specialising in nuclear warfare and coining or popularising its associated neologisms.
Its mode of thinking was publicised and satirised by Dr Strangelove.
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Post by Voy on Dec 9, 2023 15:12:55 GMT 2
Slow said : I just love the tiny tortoise. 🐢
I say - keep 'em tiny !
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Post by tzarine on Dec 18, 2023 23:34:09 GMT 2
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Post by Netsuke on Dec 26, 2023 11:03:52 GMT 2
Becoming aware of of a habit and learning from it are not necessarily the same thing.
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 26, 2023 12:49:15 GMT 2
Becoming aware of of a habit and learning from it are not necessarily the same thing. Is this "habit" as worn by a nun? I don't know why but this reminds me of the limerick which ends (without doubt Netsie knows the beginning): He did to a nun What none should have done And now she's a Mother Superior
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Post by Netsuke on Dec 26, 2023 18:12:57 GMT 2
Becoming aware of of a habit and learning from it are not necessarily the same thing. Is this "habit" as worn by a nun? I don't know why but this reminds me of the limerick which ends (without doubt Netsie knows the beginning): He did to a nun What none should have done And now she's a Mother Superior There was a young monk in Siberia, Whose morals were very inferior, He jumped on a nun Which he shouldn’t have done And now she’s a Mother Superior.
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 27, 2023 20:57:18 GMT 2
Is this "habit" as worn by a nun? I don't know why but this reminds me of the limerick which ends (without doubt Netsie knows the beginning): He did to a nun What none should have done And now she's a Mother Superior There was a young monk in Siberia, Whose morals were very inferior, He jumped on a nun Which he shouldn’t have done And now she’s a Mother Superior. I knew I could rely on you!
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Post by slowcoach on Dec 29, 2023 8:54:15 GMT 2
People who have acquired significant expertise in A.I. have often done so at the expense of I.
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Post by tzarine on Jan 3, 2024 20:10:02 GMT 2
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Post by slowcoach on Jan 4, 2024 6:42:38 GMT 2
From the first paragraph: What utter tosh. But it is making me giggle. Who needs A.I. ? I read no more for want of sutures for my sides. ETA: Still giggling.
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Post by Baz Faz on Jan 4, 2024 12:33:52 GMT 2
From the first paragraph: What utter tosh. But it is making me giggle. Who needs A.I. ? I read no more for want of sutures for my sides. ETA: Still giggling. Maybe it should be: February stretching frigidly before you.
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Post by slowcoach on Jan 15, 2024 15:26:55 GMT 2
I am never quite sure about the accepted term for particular literary devices: metaphor, aphorism, simile, analogy, etc., so I thought I would look them all up. I found a web site: Literary DevicesIt lists a number of literary devices, that number being approximately 500. I learned that I really don't care that much.
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Post by rikita on Jan 19, 2024 1:12:56 GMT 2
that rather than trying to come up with great ideas of things i want to make for my child, i should listen to what she wants (which might be a very simple lemon cake, rather than a fancy one) ...
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Post by tzarine on Jan 20, 2024 21:52:52 GMT 2
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Post by sophie on Jan 21, 2024 2:12:37 GMT 2
When baking trust your own experience/ gut feeling… made an Apple sourdough cake which bombed.. when I was looking at the recipe, I mentally questioned why baking soda wasn’t added.. sure enough, it was a waste of resources and only fit for the compost
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Post by slowcoach on Jan 21, 2024 17:54:38 GMT 2
That I a not bothered.
My wife eats a lot of apples.
She has browsed a web page titled "How to extract cyanide from apple pips".
Am I bovvered?
Nope.
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Post by Baz Faz on Jan 21, 2024 19:06:47 GMT 2
If I am eating an apple I always eat the pips. I thought the only danger was a tree sprouting out of me.
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Post by slowcoach on Jan 22, 2024 9:21:36 GMT 2
Today, Last Week, Month, etc., that Brexit was, and increasingly is, a bloody disaster. We a await a package of goods originating in the UK, for once there is no customs duty to pay but there is an "inspection charge" to pay. More than that, having to supply Customs with all sorts of information, proof of order, proof of payment, weight of goods. Not easy when you weren't expecting a delivery and had little idea of what it might be and it has been sent by a fulfilment service not the supplier. It comes with a threat: 5 days before we destroy the package. Some Sum total of effort about half a week's work. ETA: Fixed Homophone screw up. I am doing this more an more. Is there a specific name for this aberation? Hopefully including the word mild, to go with my mild aphasia.
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Post by Voy on Jan 22, 2024 14:43:57 GMT 2
On a similar note, I got an email from Australia today, thanking me for a parcel with Christmas pressies - that I mailed before I left Maine ( ie - in late November !) included was a small "pine pillow" with a moose on it:
Received your parcel today. Second Christmas! It was delayed in Aussie quarantine. Seems a sniffer dog got the scent of the balsamic pine, and they opened it up. Got a note saying it is illegal to import plant matter without a quarantine declaration, but we'll let you off this time. Who would have thought of that?
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Post by tzarine on Jan 25, 2024 22:35:16 GMT 2
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Post by auntieannie on Jan 27, 2024 22:04:02 GMT 2
That sometimes Australian MPs talk to each other whilst holding a piece of paper over their heads.
This happens when they wish to talk, but they are in the middle of a vote (?!?!), because the rules are that they have to stand up if they want to talk in the houses of parliament, but during a vote, they are not allowed to stand up.
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Post by tzarine on Jan 29, 2024 3:45:14 GMT 2
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Post by Baz Faz on Jan 29, 2024 11:03:54 GMT 2
Our apartment in Lecce has a bin marked Plastic. However we should not put plastic in it. Instead we should plastic into a plastic bag for the binmen to take away. So what is the bin marked Plastic for?
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Post by auntieannie on Jan 29, 2024 16:44:54 GMT 2
I'm an idiot.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 7, 2024 23:39:06 GMT 2
cher annie pourqouis?
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Post by Netsuke on Feb 8, 2024 10:09:44 GMT 2
Never “hold it” when you need to go.
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