Computerphile did a wonderful feature worth ten minutes of your time - going into surface level detail of how some AI models put ethics to one side to achieve results.
It’s not just AI and it’s something humans can do too, but it is a bit unsettling (from both parties, in retrospect).
If that sort of thing entertains you, you should check out Time Bandits (it’s from Apple TV originally I think but can be found on the high seas no drama), and one of the story threads deals with a girl of early secondary school age, left in a prehistoric time - and she ascends to being a leader, educating her tribe with her 2020’s saaarh laaahndan banter.
When they head back to find her, the tribe are all conversing like a mob of youths outside a McDonald’s on a Saturday afternoon. It’s absolutely brilliantly written and well worth a watch.
Yeah good spot. I never actually paid much attention to it. It was the first one of a similar pattern that I saw on the Google Shopping listings.
Awesome. I didn’t even have to say “I wanna be in the screenshot”!
You’re right. I’m overthinking it!
I wonder what the Polish, Monégasque, and Indonesian folk do when they win a flag competition?
I am at that stage as parent.
I’m thoroughly enjoying it. It’s a case of “here’s the medical term for $ReproductiveOrgan” so they know how to use it in formal discussion, “… but here’s what you may hear it reterred to as, and why” and many laughs are had.
Is it the best way? Probably not, but it’s a good giggle.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2001
Ah I’ve not made it to the lv20 Pun Deployment threshold yet. I’ve been finishing my runs at the end of the route like a clown all this time!
Man when I’m a few miles in to a run, the last thing on my mind is having any form of meaningful conversation, particularly something that needs a bit of time and effort put into it.
I can’t imagine what it would be like to keep putting one foot in front of the other, stay upright, try to not die, and still have to come up with a gentle way of letting someone down.
Next time on “Time and a Place”: asking a pilot out to dinner during an emergency landing.
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Absolutely. Chris Brown is a prime example. I quite like some of his collab tunes, but I absolutely refuse to give any money - a percentage or not - to that wifebeating spunktrumpet.
In fact, the fact that I’m actively screwing him out of money makes me enjoy the song more.
How am I going to wreck the heels of my trainers or give my fingers ungodly numbness and pain then though?
Ridge Racer is all about mastering the handling model. Anything beyond that is mostly having an idea of the circuit.
I just to quite enjoy sticking a quid in the Ridge Racer cabinet in motorway service stations in the late 90’s and early 2000’s, hooning through to win regardless of whether it was a wheel or a stick, and walking away after crossing the line, not even bothering to stay for the name entry.
It was nice being that guy that I was wowed by as a kid in the arcades. Little victories.
Yeah man. For the most part, people are thrown together for an eight or ten or twelve hour stint in work, so I guess you might as well try and get on with the folk you’re paired or teamed with, if only to make the time burn down that little quicker.
Sure, there’s the extreme groups either side of the social spectrum that either want literally nothing to do with you outside what’s mandated by the workplace - that’s fine, that’s their choice. There’s folk who make being at work and entirely social affair - which is fine until their weight isn’t being pulled.
I guess nobody really wants to work, so you might as well turn every possible element into an advantage to make it that bit more bearable - and every now and then you’ll meet a really good spud that turns into a nice person both in work and out. It’s rare, but it does happen.
Workplaces are just a different human setting: there’s assholes, diamonds, liars and lifesavers in equal measure.
The US brought weight in technology and numbers that ended the war in a much faster fashion.
To use the term “brilliance” is a stretch though, the US wasted thousands (if not more) of soldiers doing the same shit that other allied nations tried and failed, all in the “we know best” mentality.
The US should rightly celebrate being a part of a wider successful military effort. To say they were better or integral though is… creative, to say the least.
Full disclosure: I only have a surface level understanding of both world wars, I know there’s nuance and depth that will turn most historians a shade of angry purple and I apologise in advance 😊
Not to try and think in too much of an abstract sense, but I used to watch bus doors open in town (or even see glimpses of the world beyond the train station entrance) and wonder what was beyond those strange portals to different parts of the world with different surroundings and different ways of life and different priorities in the world.
Now I think I’m less wanderlust and more Dee Dee.
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Pass. I could write my historical knowledge of television shows on an ant’s cock in black marker. Best to check first!