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Off the Record / Re: Archaeologists do it in ho...

Last post by mongers - Today at 05:31:10 PM

A short 7 episode BBC podcast about the real life story of the Herefordshire Viking/Saxon coin hoard, the two detectorists who found it, hid it and the subsequent police investigation/court case, worth a listen if you like archeo stuff with a touch of humour/pathos.
     
Fool's Gold - Buried Treasure

June 2015, Herefordshire. Two Welsh detectorists - George Powell and Layton Davies - stumble upon a Viking hoard estimated to be worth up to £12m.

They could have become very rich and been celebrated as heroes in museums across the land. But instead, they began to hatch a criminal plot. Narrated by Aimee-Ffion Edwards (Detectorists/Slow Horses), this is the story of how to go from the luckiest treasure hunters on earth, to Newport's most wanted.

Narrator: Aimee-Ffion Edwards

#2

Off the Record / Re: Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2...

Last post by Crazy_Ivan80 - Today at 04:25:48 PM

Fired Russian minister of Transport is now dead ex-minister of Transport.

Death by window?

Death by shooting himself in the head with a service gun, apparently.

once? or multiple times?

#3

Off the Record / Re: Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2...

Last post by Jacob - Today at 04:22:29 PM

Fired Russian minister of Transport is now dead ex-minister of Transport.

Death by window?

Death by shooting himself in the head with a service gun, apparently.

#4

Off the Record / Re: Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2...

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 04:07:54 PM

Fired Russian minister of Transport is now dead ex-minister of Transport.

Death by window?

#5

Off the Record / Re: Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2...

Last post by Crazy_Ivan80 - Today at 03:59:32 PM

Fired Russian minister of Transport is now dead ex-minister of Transport.

#6

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 03:31:34 PM

Grumbler, this Friday is the season finale of Murderbot on Apple, but you might want to hold off on getting the promotional subscription, because season 3 of Foundation is about to drop.

#7

Off the Record / Re: The EU thread

Last post by Jacob - Today at 03:01:48 PM

Video on Swedish and Danish military deployments in the Baltics.

Interesting if you're interested in the topic, otherwise probably not

#8

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 02:14:02 PM

No, neither generative AI nor humans throw out what is most likely. Generative AI fabricates things and what it generates has no relationship to anything approaching a probability analysis.  People also, with rare exceptions of those of us who are trained to think in terms of probabilities (like DGuller), do not think about what is most probable. People generally try to make conclusions about what is the best or correct course of action. Something that generative AI programs are also incapable of doing.

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Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Josquius - Today at 01:52:10 PM

I'm torn on AI overall.
I used to be very much of the opinion it was all marketing buzz and would soon blow over.
Increasingly though I am worried. Its not in that place yet. I do still expect in the next year or two a backtracking on all those replace jobs with AI moves...
But longer term when it comes down to it.... Sure its not actually thinking and its just 1s and 0s throwing out the most likely stuff...but isn't that what humans are too?
The other day I had quite the existential panic over the future.

#10

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Tamas - Today at 01:23:38 PM

Interestingly the Guardian comment section under an opinion article on the neurodivergent kids thing seem, if anything, in the side of curbing the current system.