Jerry_Atrick

Ahhh but they are "good" business people, apparently, and of course good business people are better with other people's money

Blimey.. Best of luck.. hope it wasn't the restless night's sleep that dislodged it

Elon Musk has submitted a $100bn bid for open AI (Chat-GPT) Anti-trust laws would probably block it normally.. let's see what happens

Donald Trump to halt enforcement of law banning bribery of foreign officials - https://on.ft.com/4aRjwb9 via @FT

Bloody Sydney! (From a Melbournite) :-)

Maybe it will actually talk...

I am writing an app by hand in Java, using a framework called Spring Boot (to learn it).. I wrote a POJO (Plain Old Java Object) and am using a Web framework called Spring Boot, with JPA (Java Persistence Architecture) and a few other bits and bobs. I typed into Chat-GPT something like "Please write me a PJO and the Spring Book/JPA persisitence of a <widget> that does x, y, and z... It was a complex-ish spec and I watched it do its stuff. It was very close to what I wrote. Some things needed a tweak, and there was something it did better than I did... But, it took me about 4 hours to write the simple POJO with all the necessary features and compile it ready for testing. It took me less than 5 minutes to write the spec and it took about 3 minutes for it to generate everything.. And it took me about 10 miutes to refine it. That is a pretty big time saving operation. I was surprised at how it was able to generate something so close to how I envisaged it.

Not quite.. But I am going to play with it a bit more on an industrial level with a real programming language and application infrastructure/architecture. The difference in quality between Chat-GPT4 compared to Chapt-GPT3 is quite amazing.. it has definitely been a leap. The firm I work for allows us to use a different LLM for things like taking meeting notes and minutes, and it is remarkably good. We can also do presentations and the like, too, but IO have not yet tried it. There is no question, IMHO, it is the biggest disruptor since the industrial revolution and has the capacity to put a lot of people out of workl - even cerebral activities. There will not be the need for peop[le there is today. I am glad I am near retirement.

The point was the AEC official was alleged to have been telling people to vote Libs before they cast their vote.. if he was suiccessful, a recount would have made no difference. Goit a link? Would like to take a look

Actually, AI in the form of a certain large language model (LLM) that shall rename anonymous came to my aid this morning (arvo, AEST time). I like to don the tools and was having a problem with some code in a script to repair some data issue, and I was getting a run time error I just couldn't work out. Asked the said LLM a couple of questions, and voilla, not only the answer, but the code to copy and paste to boot. And it works! Saved heaps of time, and I learned a new function in the language I as using to boot.

Actually, there was an AEC official allegedly trying to infuence the Werribee by election vote.. and surprise, it was to the Liberals... But, once the allegation was raised, the official was promptly dispatched (from the polling area - not from life on earth): https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/push-for-review-into-shambolic-werribee-byelection-count-20250209-p5lapb.html

Geez, GON.. seriously... The AEC doesn't distribute preferences. It counts them. You don't have to be a supported of Q'Anon, do you?

What? Oh, is Trump the imperial leader we all need to bow down to and can't criticise lest his sensitive feelings are offended like a snowflake... and he will have a tantrum and slap on more tarrifs.. There, there, Trumpy... mummy will tuck you into bed and get you a family bucket of KFC.. all will be better.. the boys in the playground really do like you... How is planet Zork? Because you obviously don't live on planet earth, that is for sure.. Most of is ex-administration, harrdly woke, all openly criticise him and have campaigned against him.. In Aus, Malcolm Turnbull, David Sharma, and Simon Birmingham, again hardly woke, openly criticise him still. even Nigel Farage - you know the bastion of wokeness has openly criticsed him. Have they all suddenly turned tree huggiung, tie-dye wearing lefties? Noticed the silence about Trump from most of the LNP, except for the nuttier ones...hardly a ringing endorsement of Trump or their leader for Trumpian politics. Yeah, it helped with the voice, but when people have to vote about matters that directly affect them, I am not sure Australians have the same mentality as their Ameican cousins. It's not like th bye-elections in Vic handed the LNP a resounding message of support, is it?

Don't those robots suffer range anxiety?

Yes.. And although the claim is it is already conscious, it isn't. In the Pindex video, the same person says it has no moral compass. Even Trump and Hitler and all demogogues have one; it is just skewed. What the algos and powerful computers allow it to do is to more quickly emulate the thought/reasoning processes of the brain - the bit without emotion. The AI/AGI they are talking about is that made for military purposes, where its objectives are set to destroy and self-preserve where it can. Bit. AI lacks something humans have - foresight. It can predict - yes, but use foresight for innovative solutions is still a fair way off despite what they say. And even then, it can only approximate; However, quantum computing may well change that.

Far Canal!

Yes, because it has 5 businesses in the US which would not be affected by tarrifs.. in fact it could be helped by them. But this is small fry compared to the rest of the market.. Some others in a similar position were up on the ASX further (note, Bluscope's gains fell to 1.6%) while most were unchanged or down: https://www.listcorp.com/asx/sectors/materials/materials/metals-mining/steel

So.. that was a policy launched over a year ago by a different (conservative) government. At the moment they are focusing on SMR technology on existing plants as part of this policy. I don't think there has been any movement in HALEU. That notice was flawed the day it was written,by a desperate government looking for a soundbite. there are two HALEU producers in the US and they are used in reactors for medical isotope generation. Instead, the new government is pursuing fusion: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/plan-for-change-to-deliver-jobs-and-growth-in-uk-leading-fusion-industry Rather than pursuing dated technology. I think you will find that original announcement was a non starter from day 1. Also the UK has an existing nuclear power generation industry and can harness home grown talent and know how. So it won't be starting up a brand new industry.

So what?

Y'all seem to fergeet that the msm is right wing bias and will use propaganda techniques like many of them do today to shift the blame... it is in their advertisers interests... and we have seen how the social media barons have shifted their policies and dismantled their fact checking to support someone they couldn't last time as they have been boarding the gravy train express this time. Who knows what algorithm changes will have been made that they don't have to inform us of? By the time the average person wakes up, it will be too late.. game over.

I think you fellas can ask questions of Chap-GPT without me.

My daughter starts work tomorrow at Hinkley Point C (the new build nuclear plant). She is a chip off the old block (head) in many ways.. Including.. leaving things to the last mintute! So, today (Sunday) we went to a poor mans Chadstone, Cribbs Causeway, to buy her business casual clothes. It's about an hours drive from us and we had a great old time there and back. We talked about all sorts of stuff. She is a mature-ish (she does, after all, take after me, so will never quite mature), and had a great time. Although, when she was in teh changing rooms, she took a bloody-well long time and it was like I was hanging around the girls' changing rooms having a perve. I found out later, every item she took in, she tried on, photographed herself and texted her mother for an opinion; which of course had a lot of latency in the response. But, we finally got there, and enjoyed the drive back. I did, ahem, demonstrate how to drive on the motorway when one has spent more time than they liked shopping (I was doing about 130kph in a 110 zone).. and then, came from me and , "Oh Shit! Police!" (I never call police cops.. find it offensive). I was in the right lane of the three lane motorway - the UK drivers almost stil to keep left unless overtaking. But, the middle lane was clogged, and with the "blues and twos" as they call them here (as I recall "double bubbles", in Aus) coming fast up my rear-end, I gunned it to about 150kph and then found a space to nip into, followed by some reaonable braking.. They (there were two of them) passed me with plenty of space, and my daughter said to me she thought thought I may be being pulled over for speeding. "No way!" was my response; they are not going to pull one over for simply speeding up to a certain point (and I have worked out, about 13 mph is that sweet spot)... But if you are driving dangerously, even within the speed limit, they will have you, balls 'n all. Then she said she really enjoyed the speed up and then the braking.. so I will take her to Nigel Mansell's go kart track when I can (it is about 10 miles from where we live) to let her experience it. Of course, as an almost responsible dad, I did say not to speed and do this sort of stuff until you have at least 5 years experience under your belt We continued cruising, and she had her music on, and mentioned something about what sounded like Captain Feathersword of Wiggles fame. It wasn't,. but we played it anyway and had a great giggle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4OFJktwIog). The, I overtook a rather slow car and got back in the left lane (I was doing 70mph/110 at the time). That slow car overtook me and then sat next to me. I thought, WTF, but as I was heading to the services 1/2 a mile away for a comfort break, I wasn't too worried. Well, fast forward, and we stop at a convenience store near home, next to the same car, and I noticed a villager in the passenger seat and said, "Hi",. She said her and her hubby were the car we passed.. "er.. um.. well, sorry I didn't look across - I had to go to the loo"... Saw hubby in the store.. had a laugh about it... but I spent at least 10 minutes in the stop, and still caught them up.. and from the services, I only did 70 all the way. They were cruising quite slowly. All in all, a great day with the daughter and a bit of road fun thrown in.

I would argue that improvement in tyre technology is part of the safety system of a car. In the words of my favourite teacher, the late Jack Leahey, "there's only four bits of rubber the size of the palm of your hand between you and eternity when in a car".. Also, one could argue the technology in roads is being researched to improve safety, too, including things lite cats eyes and there was some other visual technology released not too long ago. All things combined, it's a system of driving and is far safer than it was. The numbers seem to refllect that.

13 years of conservatives, and they are progressives? I'm with @Litespeed - you need help.. and lots of it. The simple fact is, under the previous Labour admin in the UK, they took a basket case economy handed to them by the cumulative effects of Thatcher and Major, made structural changes to make it a solid economy (and yeah, they made mistakes) and handed a strong economy that survived the global financial crisis far better than most of its peers to the conservatives, who's non-progressive agenda wrecked it to almost beyond repair. Somehow, though, it was the "progressives" fault? In the great worlds of Pauline Hanson, please explain.. because all you do is fluff a lot of hot air, with no basis and can't refer to anything to even mildly support your assertions. The Aussie economy is in pretty good shape given its challenges under the stewardship of Labor, especially when you consider what was handed to them. The LNP are also hardly progressive, but somehow their economic record is never quite as good as Labor's. Again, they aren't perfect and make mistakes, but when the chips are down, I know who I would prefer to be in.