Dan wrote:
wonder if those are compatible for my Lycosaurus
The “[soft]” variant needs replace every 35 hours, it’s indicated on the plastic. What about the “[hard]” variant? Did you use them up already?
Have a nice stay at Elba!
shot taken now in my room, Elba… wonder if those are compatible for my Lycosaurus?
I wonder if the writer had a clue what they had written.
In a restaurant at Le Touquet today. The food was actually very good!
After my car’s annual service my documents included an air freshener. I read the writing on the back. I’m surprised it’s legal to carry this.
removing Scunthorpe
There’s also the story a high school somewhere in the US where students couldn’t access the schools own web page fropm the school computers – because it contained the word “high” in the name of the school – which is obviously drug related.
AI is actually doing some pretty cool stuff, in areas like medicine and chemistry. As you say, it’s just a very good form of pattern recognition. “Generative” AI is a whole different story. At some point the bubble will burst on that, but 99+% of the population is incapable of recognising it for the BS it is. Think black tulips.
Reminds me of AOL, at least 20 years ago, blocking certain 4-letter words and removing Scunthorpe 
Look at the numbers in that “AI” Graphcore fundraising case. There are so many dumb people out there willing to sink hundreds of millions into some BS proposal. AFAICT there is no “AI” as such. It’s been a nut people have been trying to crack since the 1960s. What we are getting is ever better software for statistical analysis of groups of words, and so on.
AI is used to subtitle television vocals.
It is programmed to do what people on social media do these days to avoid any bad language eg s**t.
So up came the football results Manchester United 0 A***nal 2 :)
There are, ahem, countries, or “cultures”, where that is actually quite likely 
Two hillbillies. One says to the other: We are gonna have a party. There’s gonna be a whole load of boozing, and a whole load of shagging! The other: Sounds great… do I need to bring a bottle? 1st one: No; it will be just the two of us!
