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Off the Record / Re: What are you Drinking?

Last post by Josquius - Today at 06:24:32 AM

Kronenberg blanc is out again.
That's a pretty good mainstream beer.

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Off the Record / Re: Syt's Pictorial Collection...

Last post by Syt - Today at 06:24:16 AM

I'm disappointed none of the Cadillacs are pink, btw.

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

Last post by Josquius - Today at 06:23:55 AM

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.

AI absolutely does work that way. Based on its training data it guesses the most likely next outputs.

People....we may not be consciously aware of it but thats how we work too. Its all electrical neurons firing in our brains and outputs being created based on our training data. Its not a simple on or off as it is with computers. But fundamentally our brains are crunching possibilities and best courses of action based on them.

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Off the Record / Re: Syt's Pictorial Collection...

Last post by Josquius - Today at 06:20:37 AM

Note the size of the cars...

Cadillac's are hardly representative.
They're known for being stupid sized.

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Off the Record / Re: Syt's Pictorial Collection...

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 05:53:30 AM

Note the size of the cars...

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

Last post by Solmyr - Today at 04:58:29 AM

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

Read a Meduza article about this. He was the previous governor of Kursk (until 2024) and began building fortifications on the Ukraine border. His successor was arrested this year for stealing a lot of the construction money and likely pointed to him. The minister was also a man of the Rotenbergs and might have pointed fingers even higher, so it's quite convenient for the Rotenbergs that he now shot himself...

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Off the Record / Re: Syt's Pictorial Collection...

Last post by Josquius - Today at 04:56:46 AM

Donald Trump likes this.

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Gaming HQ / Re: The NEW New Boardgames Thr...

Last post by celedhring - Today at 03:18:55 AM

My first Gloomhaven campaign got interrupted by COVID so I've never finished it. Afterward we moved to Jaws of the Lion (which we finished) and then Frosthaven, which we've been playing for a bit under 3 years. We play once a month so we're nowhere close to it being finished.

Then I've been playing a Gloomhaven campaign online that's surprisingly going at a rather brisk pace. We've done 18 scenarios in 12 months.

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Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by celedhring - Today at 02:49:25 AM

Been watching Silo. It feels like Serious Fallout which I'm not sure it's that good a thing. Rebecca Ferguson is really good in it though.

I admit I'm a bit jaded with all these mystery box shows.

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Off the Record / Re: Syt's Pictorial Collection...

Last post by Syt - Today at 02:43:15 AM

1980s Cadillac dealership.