BOFH: If you can't beat the AI, let it live inside you BOFH logo telephone with devil's horns The Company has apparently formulated a master plan to create an "AI silo team" to leverage something or other to ensure excellence in some other thing that I lapsed into a coma over before they could explain. Someone's obviously been thinking about this for some time, as the project has …
"I've already ordered the Raspberry Pi Model 1A units and the 9AH 12v batteries."'Length: 151mm (5.94") / Width: 65mm (2.56") / Height: 94mm (3.70")', for those mildly interested but not enough so to click through the link. Sounds like a good fit. Although lithium-ion chemistry would provide for some interesting possibilities… ---->
Oddly enough I'm currently using one of those as a door-stop in my home office, as the huge cooling fan I have makes the door wobble in the breeze and knock into my filing cabinet.
When the summer temperatures cool down I'll take it to the recycling centre, and by next year I'm sure one of UPS's will have donated another door stop.
Watch a typical management meeting from a safe distance, then compare and contrast this to film of David Attenborough in front of a troop of monkeys. Narrator aside, you will find very little difference in behaviour between the two (and even less physical differences).
Humans mostly trot about the world running on instinct, mostly attuned to social status and how to obtain more of it. Actually using Mr Brain to think with is quite low down on the priorities; intelligence takes a lot of power to run at full steam. This is why the world's best thinkers all had secure jobs before embarking upon the intellectual stuff: secure energy input before burning a load of it on blue-sky projects.
Machine AI will end up the same. It'll burn lots of power initially whilst programming something akin to an FPGA of huge size and complexity, then will subsequently use the pre-learned instinct before switching on the AI as more or less a last resort.
She does come across as a bit dry but Russel Howard's interview with her on YouTube really showed a very different side to her.
The whole script must have already been performed verbatim hundreds of times in corporate America and elsewhere.
Post "feigning indecision" is the truth no one has the balls to propound unless they are already halfway out the exit and therefore automatically discredited; or have a deck of Simon's magic cards.
Now that's a sweet idea! This means that short me will be able to reach to the top of the cabinets in the server room without the need for a ladder or the such...
Plus the cattleprod will have a longer lifespan.... MUHUHAHAHAHAHA
Now, excuse me... gotta test out the upgraded Sinclair cattleprod...
>KZERRRRRRRT<
Now considering a malpractice lawsuit is serious business my best guess is that the idiots will be sedated, get some surgical spirit rubbed on their foreheads, then get bandaged and told the operation is done.
Then then get really cheap smartwatches the BOFH can flash with a custom firmware and make the idiots use that, with the excuse they are for "health monitoring".
Both actually. One sharpens the chain chisel cutters. Chainsaws dont have saw teeth, (except the very early ones many decades ago) but chisels. These are the usually 30 degree angled flat bits with a leading semicircular front. The round file, special ones, not metal working ones, should create a sharp edge under the chrome plating. A flat file is used to lower the depth gauge in front of cutting tooth and to reduce risk of kickback, round depth gauge off. A square top to depth gauge is dangerous. Special chains such as slabbing chains have 10 degree of none angle.
The actual bar should be straight, with exactly equal levels on side of channel for chain. Stihl have an excellent combined tool which has both. Buy one to fit chain size, ie 325.3/8 or 404 for the macho guys and forestry machines.
Thanks Simon for another round of laughs. Manglement with a chainsaw has so many many possibilities for pleasant deserved disaster with these dangerous but lovely tools IMHO
> [i]"Both actually. ....Chainsaws dont have saw teeth, (except ...."[/i]
Right. Fer example patent US2326854A 'Method and means for sawing wood' John E Hassler. Sure looks like a flat (triangular) saw job. I had an electric Wall that was similar non-Oregon(Cox) teeth, it cut well, but mostly because a serious motor to fight the wood drag.
Cox observed a "timber-beetle larva, the size of a mans forefinger, easily chewing its way through sound timber, going both across and with the wood grain at will." It had two semicircular jaws, paring the wood from both sides. This led to round-filing in line with the edge. But just to be different Oregon and Craftsman and others have sold "self-sharpening chain" with a concave stone and flat-top teeth. While it could cut better than an unmaintained Cox chain, was a poor cutter at best. (Or the one I had was poorly implemented....)
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