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Anyone here in the UK impacted by the storm ? I'm in South East England and so far have escaped serious problems.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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In the South West Bristol area, Railway up the spout but that was planned work so working from home tomorrow(!).
Nothing, the garden gnome I use as a weather undicator (falls over in high wind) was stood up this morning meaning not too bad.
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If this clip is available outside Norway (I am not sure, tell me whether it is): 5 year old on her way to kindergarten[^]
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Well I could see it, so UK fine! looks like proper winter!
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Watched it, just fine. Very cute. Interesting strategy, just keep getting up. Ah, kids are made of rubber.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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There's a lot of property damage here in the North. Roofers are going to be very busy for a while.
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what storm? asking from the USA
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I did say UK 
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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well I know but details 
I'm in the SE of USA, where January to March we get our tornados. All I know about the UK is it rains constantly. Joke.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Isha.
Jocelyn is following in soon.
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No, South East here too (6 o'clock on the M25) so minimal - a few branches from trees, nothing really major (yet).
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Same here I'm near Chertsey
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Caterham for me.
We've just had a absolute shedload of tree felling going on around us because of Ash dieback, and that has probably helped in some ways (fewer diseased trees to snap) but made things worse in others (loss of windbreak). Mainly just seeing small branches in the road and wheelie bins everywhere.
Couple of years ago I had a narrow escape while walking the dog the day after a storm and a tall, narrow tree fell across the road about 2-3 metres in front of us. Just missed us.
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That was lucky. After a previous storm a friend of mine was behind a car that got hit by a big oak ; luckily they were all ok
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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From CP newsletter
https://www.codeproject.com/News.aspx?ntag=19837497830328834&_z=2928472[^]
Headline basically says it all.
"Can an AI Become Its Own CEO After Creating a Startup? Google DeepMind Co-Founder Thinks So"
Naturally this is nonsense. Certainly in the US and other countries I suspect.
To start a 'company' or even something like a LLC or even to get a business license an actual human has to submit the forms. That person ends up signing the legal documents.
And AI cannot do that.
Even if an AI could in fact become sentient in just 6 years (as claimed by the CEO) that would still need to be recognized as a legal entity by the judicial system.
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The document also references a recent UK court case.
"A recent ruling in the U.K. argues that an AI definitively cannot be a patent holder. "
Phrasing of that is odd. The suit brought argued that case. The court settled the case. The court did not 'argue' that.
That also failed to mention the exact same case that was filed in the US by the same person. Not the CEO mentioned in the link above. That person specifically has claimed that AI is now sentient in other places. This case is just his attempt trying to legally prove that.
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No AI cannot start company - that is a totally misleading title.
It implements only AI's can start a company.
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Eats, shoots and leaves... 
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Giant Panda
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I see such ridiculous claims about AI.
Meanwhile, my own experience is somewhat different.
I'm using Azure Document Intelligence/Form Recognizer.
In some cases it reads "420" as "42C" and "NW" as "NV".
It also thinks the net weight on an invoice is the total price in about 1 of 50 invoices.
There's really no intelligence there, although it's still impressive it reads 49/50 invoices correct without any training on my part.
It's till useless because 1/50 is an unacceptable error margin if you have 150 invoices a day.
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Sander Rossel wrote: It also thinks the net weight on an invoice is the total price in about 1 of 50 invoices.
Amusing.
Since you know that the error rate exists does the processing actually help? Perhaps faster to visually verify than re-type?
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The use case is a bizarre one...
Our customer's accounting software creates two versions of the same invoice   
They found out when they were about to send a bailiff to their customer for not paying and then their customer called that they'd paid the exact amount that was on the invoice, which was not the amount they were looking at
We're using AI to read the PDF from the e-mail and compare it to the data in the database.
If the two values are different we send out an e-mail.
So what we saw is that we get about one e-mail for every 50 invoices, except when we checked them they were the same.
And so we found out the AI thinks the net weight is the total amount about once every 50 invoices 
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One of mine uses the logic that if her stomach isn't full to bursting, she's about to die from starvation and neglect.
It is theorized in certain family circles that this is why her shape is roughly spherical.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Ours is half feral so she still supplements her diet with lizards or she'd be be around as a school bus.
Like the saying goes; "Our cat is not spoiled, she just has us well trained"
"Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat." Will Rogers
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Quote: Our cat is not spoiled, she just has us well trained
Same here .
Software Zen: delete this;
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