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Water Cooler / Re: Core continuing commitment to health and fitness
« on: May 24, 2020, 05:37:33 PM »
Quote from: Rupert on May 23, 2020, 05:34:44 AM
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I'm worrying about how long it's taking my short daily routine to get easier

It never gets easier, you get faster and stronger, but it its never easy :)

Thank you for your positivity :)

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Water Cooler / Re: I could go online but i'd rather ask here, you know what i mean!
« on: May 24, 2020, 05:31:24 PM »
Quote from: littleman on May 23, 2020, 02:31:58 AM
You asking for trivia questions or an app?  If you are looking for a platform kahoot works well.

Kahoot looks great, no i just wanted a quick online quiz i could use, it's just 4 couples that whatsapp every saturday for a quiz and comms.

I ended up using the online version of who wants to be a millionaire, which kept timing out and sending us back to the initial $100 questions, so it ended up farcical but fun, thanks LM :)

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Water Cooler / Re: Covid 19 interesting data from the UK
« on: May 24, 2020, 05:23:38 PM »
In the UK i think that we initially panicked (spelling? CBA Googling it), due to bad modelling from Imperial College, Neil Ferguson.

Now that we have data from the field, still ongoing of course so no final summary, we can see that his predictions were wildly inaccurate, as we now know they gave different results on the same data-set during multiple runs, this even after the Microsoft 'experts' stepped in to clean up the code. Additionally, he was the one who, during the UK swine flu epidemic, said that between 50 and 5,000 people would die, rather a wide range, a bit like his COVID19 software.

Now we also have reports of many doctors being forced by hospital admin to include COVID19 as one of the death diagnostics on the list, even when unproven.

So, at the very least, the initial predictions in the UK were more than untrustworthy, and that very modelling was translated into legislation/protocol and now we're possibly facing a huge economic impact due to actions based on flawed modelling.

Neil Ferguson needs to be punished :

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/05/16/neil-fergusons-imperial-model-could-devastating-software-mistake/







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Water Cooler / An interesting article on pre-9th century music in Scotland.
« on: May 24, 2020, 04:41:54 PM »
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2368/1/2009ClementsMMus.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1n-c-ic9qpWgd6IZhSRcXfbPcYq-59JnCgHNMkTydVDfxjnuqBkiytmt4

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Water Cooler / Re: It ain't just cruise ships
« on: May 23, 2020, 01:45:04 AM »
It's a tradition in the Navy, all that close, sweaty contact. At least that's what the Army boys say ;+}

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Water Cooler / I could go online but i'd rather ask here, you know what i mean!
« on: May 23, 2020, 01:41:54 AM »
So a few of us having been doing a whatsapp video meet every saturday, 4 couples doing a quiz.

It's our turn again tomorrow (SAturday night) and i haven't gotten anything ready yet.

If anyone knows of a quick and interesting 4-team quizzy-thing i can do i'd be very grateful :)

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Hardware & Technology / Re: The changed future after CV-19
« on: May 23, 2020, 01:05:52 AM »
Slowly-boiled frog man. Oooh it's getting hot in here.

"But we live in a democracy, we can go on TV and say stuff, our opinions are aired nationally."

Sounds great, did you manage to stop the last fuel-tax hike ?

"But we're better off now under a blah-blah government"

Sounds great, how's your finances compared to your Dad's ? Yes i know your TV is bigger but how's it on balance ?

I'm being facetious but just imagine this, just for a second imagine that powerful families communicated together over time, just the natural progression of human tribalism - the family is a hierarchy, school is a hierarchy, jobs are a hierarchy, village leader, town leader etc

Over time controlling groups have to form, to deny that would be to deny over 100 years of anthropology. Of course the groups with the most control meet and have discussions, they would be fucktards not to!

So ultimately it's like supermarkets, all the little ones die and we're just left with Tesco or whatever. We are implicitly en route to a Tesco of government, around the whole world. Then it will be a Tesco religion, a Tesco currency, E.T. f###ing Cee. (i'm on my soap box now)

There is a group and there is a plan, how could it be any other way after 6,000 years of war.



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Water Cooler / Re: An interview with a molecular biologist regarding pharmaceutical corruption.
« on: May 23, 2020, 12:53:46 AM »
I'm listing my thoughts here, i don't think they are resounding truths.

The problem is, is that we all believe governments want the best for us, the timeline of legislation proves otherwise.

They don't want the best for us, currency talks so, perfectly logically, big business now 'guides' government and they happen to want the most efficient version of a civilian, according to their model, not a natural human, but a perfect worker.

We really are the slowly-boiled frogs, or toads, or who cares as long as they're docile.

I'm neither a capitalist nor a communist but my life has been capitalism, and it is a system that eats it's own tail in it's current version, i'm getting grandiose now, it's the wine, but we do eat our own tails.

Stoping ranting now, the wine is taking over the fingers!

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Water Cooler / Re: Small boats stuck at sea during Covid-19: Trapped in paradise
« on: May 23, 2020, 12:45:01 AM »
Quote from: rcjordan on May 18, 2020, 03:49:19 PM
CNN Travel
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/small-boats-stuck-at-sea-covid-19/index.html

I dunno, lost at sea with her .. just go cannibal.

Eat the baby, get rescued, make love, have another baby, balance restored ;+}

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Water Cooler / Re: What bankruptcy looks like in Google Trends
« on: May 23, 2020, 12:41:02 AM »
Scary f###ing sh##. Thank The Gods most of my clients are non-contact products/services.

I've been looking at the numbers, don't we all, the log plot is still on the up and daily deaths has recently risen (global both), i think it's the start of spike 2.

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Water Cooler / Re: Ozone: A powerful weapon to combat COVID-19 outbreak
« on: May 23, 2020, 12:35:19 AM »
Quote from: rcjordan on May 21, 2020, 06:56:47 PM
Let me talk with Xi Jinping and see what his minions might have available on the cheap.

If he's too pricey i have some connections in Shenzhen ;+}

But seriously though, i've made small CO2 sensor nets with Unos, the code is simple as is the wiring, you can master/slave them to make polling easy. Noone needs my help, anyone here could learn it in half an hour even without coding or electronics experience.

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Water Cooler / Re: Terminator Scenario
« on: May 22, 2020, 11:57:58 PM »
They're not clever though are they? Okay we have what used to be Boston Dynamics, but autonomy is missing. All this fear of AI, even the most advanced stuff, like AlphaGO, is just advanced pattern-matching. Even the algos in modern rendering pipelines, it's amazing what they can do, but there's no sentience, there's no hope for a general-purpose AI for decades i think, one of the main bottlenecks being power-efficient actuators, let alone intelligience.





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Water Cooler / Re: Facebook employees will be able to work from home permanently
« on: May 22, 2020, 11:45:05 PM »
They should stay at home.

There's no way on IT God's Earth that FB employees should be allowed out, in the wild, along with others, part of nature and other such phrases or places.

They should keep their data-stealing, lowest-common-denominator-algorithm-coding, marketing-101 arseholes out of the way of the rest of us.

Only online accountants are worse.

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Water Cooler / Re: Core continuing commitment to health and fitness
« on: May 22, 2020, 11:38:16 PM »
Quote from: littleman on May 22, 2020, 09:14:59 PM
I've been doing some sort of exercise daily.   I have my regular weight training I do four times a week.  I'm working with limited weights so my reps are quite high, but I've found that even with light weights at 25 reps my muscles will let me know they are working.  My 15 year old daughter is doing some youtube fitness regiment with a lot of floor exercise, I am doing a few minutes of them with her on my off days.  There is a large church parking lot next to my house, yesterday I took my eight year old there so she could ride her bike; I road a skateboard along with her -- that was fun.

One thing I didn't do enough of in the gym is stretching mostly due to not wanting to touch the floor at the gym too much.  Since I am now working out at home I've upped my stretching quite a bit.


I've upped my sun exposure, trying to get 15 minutes or so a day to keep my vitamin D up.  I've been taking D supplements over the winter, but I do notice that the sun makes me feel better physically and mentally.

>pain

I am not convinced people need to feel pain to be healthy.  Yes, to be very fit one will have to have pain in one way or another, but to just be an active healthy person moderate exercise and eating healthy is all that's needed; someone can just go outside and hike an hour or do some mild calisthenics and walks a few times a week.  Really, any type of moderate physical labor will keep most people healthy for most of their life provided that their nutrition is right and they don't have any other health wrecking habits.

Agreed about no need for pain, slow build up is good, and yes good diet. I'm worrying about how long it's taking my short daily routine to get easier it's been over 2 months and only feels slightly easier, haven't increased reps. Must be age or cancer, i can joke about that coz i'm a smoker ;+}

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Water Cooler / Re: Core continuing commitment to health and fitness
« on: May 22, 2020, 10:05:13 AM »
Forgot all about this thread!

Had a bit of a scare earlier this year when i used a peak flow meter, and i've been exercising at least 3 times a week since then, rowing, cycling (machines) and weights. It's basically a habit now. Loving the weights, haven't done them regularly for long before.

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