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  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 7,196
    bompington said:

    focuszing723 said:

    When AI becomes self aware and there is a new science and technological revolution. I would love to just see various periods in the future of how it evolves and what it observers and the knowledge it gains in the universe.

    Maybe, but, judging by how censored useless anti-spam filters are at recognising blatantly obvious stuff, there's a while to go yet.

    And how would you know when an AI is self-aware? What does "self-aware" even mean?
    I guess when it gets to the point it can use the internet as a memory and brain to evolve from make comparison, conclusions and start adding to it.
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 7,196
    Twenty years of additions to the open sourced library for the brain.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,717
    Anyone else not seeing Twitter links in people's posts?
    The only way I get visibility is to use the quote function.

    eg from the Brexit thread I do not see YR's post at all -

    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 58,415
    pblakeney said:

    Anyone else not seeing Twitter links in people's posts?
    The only way I get visibility is to use the quote function.

    eg from the Brexit thread I do not see YR's post at all -

    Maybe the forum has put a BS filter in?
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  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 3,954
    pblakeney said:

    Anyone else not seeing Twitter links in people's posts?
    The only way I get visibility is to use the quote function.

    eg from the Brexit thread I do not see YR's post at all -

    I don't see them on my desktop but they are visible if I use my phone. Haven't been arsed to solve it yet.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 26,208
    Stevo_666 said:

    pblakeney said:

    Anyone else not seeing Twitter links in people's posts?
    The only way I get visibility is to use the quote function.

    eg from the Brexit thread I do not see YR's post at all -

    Maybe the forum has put a BS filter in?
    Nah - still shows my contribution.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,450
    I see them but they don't appear for a second or two.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,717
    verylonglegs said:

    pblakeney said:

    Anyone else not seeing Twitter links in people's posts?
    The only way I get visibility is to use the quote function.

    eg from the Brexit thread I do not see YR's post at all -

    I don't see them on my desktop but they are visible if I use my phone. Haven't been arsed to solve it yet.
    Same here.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,717
    Pross said:

    I see them but they don't appear for a second or two.


    Used to be the case on my laptop. Works as said on my phone.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 20,552
    I think that is due to addblockers.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,717
    TheBigBean said:

    I think that is due to addblockers.

    Something has been updated or modified in the background though as it worked fine up until yesterday. Hey ho, life without Twatter. Winner winner....
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 58,415
    kingstongraham said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    pblakeney said:

    Anyone else not seeing Twitter links in people's posts?
    The only way I get visibility is to use the quote function.

    eg from the Brexit thread I do not see YR's post at all -

    Maybe the forum has put a BS filter in?
    Nah - still shows my contribution.
    Sorry, what?
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 12,670
    It's the 16th January. A neighbouring house still has the Christmas lights up and coming on morning and night. Don't know these people, think I've only seen and spoken with bloke once. Are they still alive? Did festive excess cause their bellies to expand so much they blew? In these lockdown times es permitado to go door knocking to check? Or do I just wait to see if the flies start crawling on the window panes? Strange.
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    orraloon said:

    It's the 16th January. A neighbouring house still has the Christmas lights up and coming on morning and night. Don't know these people, think I've only seen and spoken with bloke once. Are they still alive? Did festive excess cause their bellies to expand so much they blew? In these lockdown times es permitado to go door knocking to check? Or do I just wait to see if the flies start crawling on the window panes? Strange.

    Are you sure they haven’t taken them down and then put up next years?
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,717
    edited January 2021
    pblakeney said:

    Anyone else not seeing Twitter links in people's posts?
    The only way I get visibility is to use the quote function.

    eg from the Brexit thread I do not see YR's post at all -

    Ooooo! Twatter is back! I have changed nothing at my end. 🤔 Swithered about putting this here, in the trivial cheers thread, or trivial annoys thread. 😉
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  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    So, was watching Octonauts on Cbeebies earlier and the episode featured a creature that had a crab and an anenome living together in a symbiotic relationship and they explained what symbiosis was (using that term).

    Now, is it me or has kids tv (this is aimed at very young kids) come on a very long way?
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,717
    elbowloh said:

    So, was watching Octonauts on Cbeebies earlier and the episode featured a creature that had a crab and an anenome living together in a symbiotic relationship and they explained what symbiosis was (using that term).

    Now, is it me or has kids tv (this is aimed at very young kids) come on a very long way?

    I remember the pinnacle being a B&W dubbed version of Robinson Crusoe. 😉
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  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    I sit in a team meeting every week and every week some people pipe up with having to "wicket roll" things (hope this is the right spelling) and I literally have no idea what they mean.

    Is it with regards to rolling the wicket in cricket to smooth things out?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,535
    I have no idea either - have you asked them?
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 27,609
    elbowloh said:

    I sit in a team meeting every week and every week some people pipe up with having to "wicket roll" things (hope this is the right spelling) and I literally have no idea what they mean.

    Is it with regards to rolling the wicket in cricket to smooth things out?

    Dunno, but would assume some 'preparing the pitch' analogy. Are the users trying to advertise that they went to the right school?
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 20,552
    Not convinced you would talk about a wicket roll in cricket. More likely to say something like "needs the heavy roller".

  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,312
    edited January 2021
    Add me to the list of people who have no idea what it means, and I hear plenty of needless jargon.

    How long has this been going on for, is it far too late to ask?
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  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,866
    elbowloh said:

    So, was watching Octonauts on Cbeebies earlier and the episode featured a creature that had a crab and an anenome living together in a symbiotic relationship and they explained what symbiosis was (using that term).

    Now, is it me or has kids tv (this is aimed at very young kids) come on a very long way?

    Is the Captain still a smug bar steward?
  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    surrey_commuter said:

    elbowloh said:

    So, was watching Octonauts on Cbeebies earlier and the episode featured a creature that had a crab and an anenome living together in a symbiotic relationship and they explained what symbiosis was (using that term).

    Now, is it me or has kids tv (this is aimed at very young kids) come on a very long way?

    Is the Captain still a smug bar steward?
    yep
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  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    pangolin said:

    Add me to the list of people who have no idea what it means, and I hear plenty of needless jargon.

    How long has this been going on for, is it far too late to ask?

    A few weeks. I'm only a contractor.
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  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,400
    surrey_commuter said:

    elbowloh said:

    So, was watching Octonauts on Cbeebies earlier and the episode featured a creature that had a crab and an anenome living together in a symbiotic relationship and they explained what symbiosis was (using that term).

    Now, is it me or has kids tv (this is aimed at very young kids) come on a very long way?

    Is the Captain still a smug bar steward?
    You spelt Barnacles wrong :) - But yes
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,866
    Tashman said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    elbowloh said:

    So, was watching Octonauts on Cbeebies earlier and the episode featured a creature that had a crab and an anenome living together in a symbiotic relationship and they explained what symbiosis was (using that term).

    Now, is it me or has kids tv (this is aimed at very young kids) come on a very long way?

    Is the Captain still a smug bar steward?
    You spelt Barnacles wrong :) - But yes
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,535
    On that note, Postman Pat (modern version, "Special Delivery Service") seems to be the worst delivery man on the planet. Consistently late, always has his customers worried about everything, regularly loses the parcel or deliverable and has to rope in half the town's emergency services to save them, and yet he's consistently awarded "best postman ever" awards and claims he's never late with a delivery.

    _
  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,312
    Also has a fleet of vehicles available for what seems to be 1 delivery a day
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  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,312
    (The vegimals are cool though)
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