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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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One day, I'll have my own dog or cat. Maybe both.
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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For dogs, I can highly recommend adopting retired greyhounds. Once their racing days are over, they get vet-checked, spayed or neutered, and then adopted out. They are very relaxed and easygoing pets. Contrary to what you might think, they don't need a large space. I had two with a largish house on a quarter-acre lot. Greys are very good with other animals and in social settings due to their upbringing in the kennels. If you have a cat, you may need to test the dog with the cat to ensure it reacts well. Greyhounds are sighthounds, which means their prey trigger is visual. Most do not react strongly to cats, but some will.
With cats, please adopt a stray or a shelter animal. If you take in a stray be sure isolate it from other pets until you've had it to the vet and checked for medical issues, especially feline leukemia. FLV is contagious. Shelter cats usually have been vet-checked and spayed or neutered, which is what the adoption fee covers.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Agreed - if I get a dog it will be a rescue mutt. If I go feline, same thing but we'll see.
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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The one I like is; Dogs have owners cats have staff.
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 hadn't heard that one but applies. 
"Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat." Will Rogers
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.3.0 JaxCoder.com
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Cats have clients, who pay for the privilege.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Hi All,
I asked a bit of an odd question on Friday about converting an integer to a string, using CP more as a rubber duck.. got caught with something else that went pop (real smoke!) and could give much attention to it. Came in this morning late (as I had to get the bus replacement, for the bus replacement for the rail replacement, don't ask!) to find the main job for today had been shelved due to non-delivery of parts. So I could get back to programming the widget I am working on and bingo! Now I need to close it... so it's not waiting...
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First, you have to be respectful of the integer's parents and talk to them about conversion. Then you need to take the integer to church every Sunday so they can talk to the stringy pastor. Most importantly, you cannot force it to convert. It has to be authentic and natural. But, if the integer hangs around enough strings, perhaps one day it'll see the light and realize a character representation of numbers that requires encoding is a much better means of representing data than a number that requires interpretation.
Jeremy Falcon
modified 22-Jan-24 16:25pm.
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So that's where I've been going wrong! if integers go to see the stringy pastor, do floats just float around?
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