Recent content by Ghost1951

This discussion was taking place last August. The rate of progress is surprisingly fast. The mad LLM hallucinations of last year are far less likely now. I can't remember seeing one on any of the big LLMs like Chat Gpt 4o for a good while. They are getting better and better and faster and...

After 47 years of deep space travel, and at 15.6 billion miles, Voyager 2 has just switched off more instruments to conserve its dwindling power reserves. Most days, Voyager 2 sends data to the giant Deep Space Network antennas in California, Spain or Australia. The reason the antennas are...

Trump's manifest dishonesty, history of lewd conduct, narcissism and abominable approach to anyone outside his base (witness the set up between him, Vance and Zelinski broadcast live on TV) make him a monstrous liability not only to Americans, but to the whole world. Today we had the Chinese...

The point about Trump's absurd statements. They pour out of him like he was a fire hose of idiotic lies. I heard some fact checking on his remarks continually made about Ukraine. He has claimed that the USA has given both $500Bn and $350Bn. Leaving aside the massive difference between these...

Article by Jordan Peterson - Can Multiculturalism be fixed? The rape gang scandal that has afflicted Britain compels us to review the assumptions that underlie multiculturalism... Link to article: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/can-multiculturalism-be-fixed/ {admin note} Copied content...

Spotted this while browsing - it explains some of the issues of people on database who are extremely old - "Part of the confusion comes from social security’s software system based on the Cobol programming language, which has a lack of date type. This means that some entries with missing or...

Is it right in a democracy to prevent elected candidates from participating in government? Some would say that it is far too easy for the established parties to disenfranchise those that the people have elected to represent them. If we do prize democracy, I think it is probably wrong to do it.

Easy pickings. I wonder how they do with burglary, vandalism and hard cases threatening people.

Yes to all of that. It is an absurd system. People here complain about 'unfairness' in the first past the post system we have. I think it protects us against extremism. It is very hard for an insurgent party here to get a majority, unless it can command large numbers in a lot of places. There...

That has to be about poor design. The resistance of the load balancing resistors needs to be chosen carefully as does the current handling capacity of that system. Heat sinking would be needed if the balancing current was high enough to cause the kind of problem you describe. I am sure that...

I can never understand why the voting system in the USA is so messed up and complex. Hanging chads from machines that don't work properly, a variety of different voting machines in different states, and such like rubbish as happened in the past was a product of overly complex solutions to a VERY...

More absurd stupidity from Trump. In response to Zelensky's remarks that the President was living in a space filled with Russian disinformation, Trump posted on Truth Social that Zelensky was a dictator who had faked the USA into spending $350 Billion on an unwinnable war. Yesterday Trump said...

Yes . You have just reminded me of the time i made a big data base and put in dummy records with data to test it. This was before the clerical staff populated the database with real data, but I had to test its functions and search macros. I remember, some time later, puzzled staff asking me why...

Second thoughts on this idea of conspiracy.... If you wanted to do voter fraud or othrr criminal dealings, by concocting false identities, why would you draw attention by entering ridiculous ages on the ids? Why not use sensible ones?

My gu My guess is operator error rather than conspiracy. I'd put the odds at 99.9% for that over a conspiracy. People entering data are generally not that clever, are badly paid and sometimes badly motivated and badly managed. Why would you think it would be likely to been spotted? People in...