Carantoc forum posts in last 60 days

Sorry, but could I just get a fact-check from the brains trust because I don't watch this either, but is the live stream of the Eurovision Song Contest the best program on channel SBS ?

Meh said..
More importantly, how about Tipping Point tonight? Would you have gone two for forty thousand? That would have paid for an adult literacy course. www.tafensw.edu.au/course-areas/foundation-skills-english-language-and-auslan/literacy-and-numeracy-foundation-skills

I have never actually watched Channel Nine's Tipping Point. I don't really know how the game is played or what 'going two for forty thousand' involves.

Perhaps some level of English language literacy and basic numeracy skill is required to watch it, but the closest I have got is being presented with an advertising trailer for it once, and after seeing that I thought to myself... Meh....

myscreenname said..
Seabreeze.com.au also needs far more self apointed experts on all subjects - especially highly emotional, 'shouty' ones who demonstrate a tendency to get moderators involved.

Hey MSN,

Just a quick note to check in and see if you are OK with getting the deep analysis of the theories and realities of tonight's federal budget from Seabreeze's sole resident economics expert, FormulaNova, or do you want to search the world for better skilled individuals and add it to the list ?

Yes, because we already have plenty of those. The list is skill sets of which there is limited coverage, or current low levels of competancy.

Although, it does seem that some of the best, most capable and most prolific Pedants in Australia work remotely from the U.S. of A. {insert new seabreeze.com.au sarcasm wink emoji}

Given it has taken nearly 30 years perhaps we could add :
Forum emoji modernisers

FormulaNova said..
I stopped believing this stuff when I saw that hairdressers were on the skilled list.

Along with :

Antiques dealers
Dog racing officials
Jockeys
Kennel Hands
Content creators
Pet groomers
Flower growers
Footballers
Content creators
Goat farmers
Sculptors

immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/working-in-australia/skill-occupation-list

The day that Ai says the best food in the world is fish finger sandwiches with Branston pickle is the day I'll accept Ai has earnt it's 'i' moniker.

But when ChatGPT tells me the best food is sushi, kale or spinach I ain't loosing no sleep over the rise of the robots.

GreenPat said..
....Bitcoin seems pretty useless apart from another way to gamble..

No disagreement from me, but that's not what everybody else was saying a few years ago.

And even the detractors back then were saying block-chain technology was going to change the world. Looking out my window now I can't see it has. What uses block-chain today that is of noticeable benefit ?

And it appears, if the recent news on ABC can be trusted, we have about 3 years before computers get so powerful they can break the bitcoin transaction security codes quicker than bitcoin can transact. Thus, presumably, making the BTC block-chain about as secure as MSN leaving his house key under his Big W tree-of-life door mat.

From what I've seen so far, including the examples here, I'm rating Ai as having about the same hype to actual value relationship as bitcoin has.

Mind you, if I got sacked from my career and replaced by something that thinks 'thirteen' has a letter 'a' in it maybe I'd be pathologically confused about my own competence as well.

May Day tomorrow.

'Obby 'Orse day.

Let AI try to work that ****er out.

I guess in the war between Seven West Media and Nine Entertainment Co. all our minds are just cannon-fodder.

Perhaps some have been shelled more than others, but they have all been shocked.

Well, on reflection I probably didn't technically use a proper full-blown monte carlo simulation.

I just picked random chips from a bag, with 2% of those chips being different to the others. That is far more simple randomisation that the complexities of thought, or lack of thought, that might go through people's heads just before they hit the big red button.

To do it properly I guess I would have to go out, niggle a whole bunch of world leaders who have their fingers on the buttons and see which pressed it and what happened, then do that 1,000 times over.


But - I don't think with monte-carlo I need to assume any distribution. It may deliver me a distribution, but I can't influence the result by making an assumption at the start or changing the maths formula.


Perhaps for a pseudo monte-carlo nuclear annihilation sim we could use 1,000 posts on these very forums ? A select number of very opinionated people with inflated senses of self-worth but no actual power bickering over things that really don't matter, where the argument affects far more people than any outcome would (if any were actually ever reached). How each thread ends could be expanded to represent the fate of humanity each time....

WTF... nah, wait - W.T.A.F. - hang-on, perhaps we haven't realised it (or perhaps I haven't realised it and you have) but maybe we, in these forums, are part of somebody else's end-of-humanity sim ????? perhaps that is all they are ?

Argh well, if so then what it has told us so far is clearly that cockroaches and Carantocs will be the last survivors standing.......and the remerys and myscreennames are the poor unfortunate cannon-fodder losers.....

Mark _australia said..
Who keeps gherkins in a safe

Maybe it was ajar ?

Maybe Mavis was in a bit of a pickle ?

Yeah, OK not some of my best, but you will just have to dill with it. I saw my cue and relished the opportunity.

myscreenname said..
I'm thinking China's dancing robots win.

Yeah. Sure do look like a winner.

www.news.com.au/sport/carnage-at-start-of-robot-marathon/video/46ebc8457f01447b6a1da22bde4bdbb4

IanR said..
I support the Palestinian National Authority

Any chance you could expand a little ?

You mean you provide them financial assistance, or you volunteer there or you support them with some sort of tangible assistance?

Or do you mean you hold some sort of moral opinion you vent on a watersports forum pertaining to what you perceive as the wrongs of the world, even though you know little about the actual organisation, controlling members or their practices ?

myscreenname said..
Israel is a finished state from what I can tell.

Meh, maybes.

But Israel is also one of the few (if only?) states currently growing its territory.

Maybe you could say Russia is also trying, but I think Russia is more trying to reclaim what it has lost in the last few decades, whereas Israel is taking what it never had.

If Israel continues to expand at the same rate it has since 1948 then it will eventually occupy 87.2% of the combined lands of both the earth and the moon.