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Tempted.

I just read an article about physical AI and I'm wondering how that will affect pilots. Why is Jeff Bezos raising $100 billion to bring AI to factories? Here's what to know "... for example, could simulate how air flows around airplane wings, or predict where a metal part might crack under pressure, the the Journal reported. Without flying an actual plane, companies can use AI to generate scenarios to pressure test the wings so a plane can be brought to market faster. Chatbots such as ChatGPT are large language models that were trained on vast quantities of text, images and videos from the internet. They identified patterns in online information and learned to mimi…

Since 2000, Bring Your Own Big Wheel Race has been an annual event held on Easter Day in San Francisco. Brief history A short video from yesterday's edition: And from 2022: 2018:

...but is that drone legal? https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWuq_CgCdXY/?igsh=cjBvcm5iOGFheWEw (if I find a YouTube version, I'll replace the Instagram link with that one)

Basically, we'll be able to buy the panels and invertor kits and plug em in. UK regs need updating though as UK has specific requirements. Already popular in Europe, of course, you see the kits installed on balconies. Shakespeare predicted it apparently... "Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo? "Take care, Juliet, for thou balcony solar is precariously mounted." Our feline overlords have banned talk of climate change and any debates as to whether solar panels are good or bad. Cats rule!

The next time you're driving and you pass a McDonalds and your kids want to stop, think about this: Some day you'll have to give up your driver's license and that kid of yours will have to drive you everywhere. Eventually you'll have the following exchange: It's called... Karma. ----- Hook

From 22:46 especially...

This is an interesting innovation

Dan Piraro's newspaper cartoon Bizarro is now in its 41st year. I always thought it sort of a poor man's Farside. Not as clever, but it sold newspapers because it had a few nonsense symbols hidden in every cartoon. Which made it sort of like a crossword puzzle to find them. After a few years he got the idea of telling the reader how many symbols were in that cartoon by putting the total number above his signature. His 14 symbols (there are two different ones for Olive Oyl). Piararo's wife sort of looked like Olive Oyl from the Popeye cartoons, and his two daughters were named Katherine Killian and Kathryn Kaitlyn (therefore O2 and K2). 14 original symbol…

This video is unavailable. We could do with some of these in the Channel Islands. Nipping between Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney, and Southampton.

Can anyone help with the problem of some Pics which are posted in this Forum being blocked in the UK. Is there a way to see these pics that are blocked.... this is what I see for some pictures posted -

That's right, April fools day. 🙀

Fascinating company! Potentially way better than Nuclear Electric. Pulsar Just demonstrated that they can create the plasma, guide it with magnetic fields and confine it within the exhaust nozzle of an engine, the hardest part of the architecture. This video is unavailable. This video is unavailable.

Looking for any of the old files kicking around on here: https://web.archive.org/web/20090309101537/http://www.fs-odg.com/ You can't get any from the wayback as you had to log in to download, so if anyone has any of those files I would be very interested in them! Any and all is greatly appreciated! Cheers, sercrets

Something I'd like to get into. This model of a PT6E engine is impressive.

Some of these aren't very nice :( ....

ANI - this is what we currently call “AI” in the hyped sense with several related variants … it’s not what I would consider real AI (see below) AGI - ability to learn and reason and apply to new tasks (on the same level as humans) - theoretical and doesn’t exist yet (or we haven’t encountered it). ASI - super intelligence (the stuff you see in movies) and intelligence that is far beyond human functioning (this would be the one we might need to fear or maybe not) - again theoretical and doesn’t exist yet (or we haven’t encountered it). Having used ANI in my daily workflow my experience so far: 1. JetBrains ReSharper with AI Assist - Works reasonably we…

It's been a great little aircraft that's served Guernsey well. My daughter flew to Alderney on it, sadly I haven't flown in it. Nice they gave it a water cannon salute!!!!!!! Ignore the exclamation marks, they're for Mike. 😉 This video is unavailable.