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Captain Ron

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  1. I'm not even sure it matters right now - City is running over everyone right now. I fully expect them to probably score in the first 10' today.
  2. According to the web - Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) To be honest, I kind of wish that Villa completed the comeback and won yesterday. That would have put this game into a don't care category, which combined with the top of the table implications.
  3. The underlying twitter thread is scathing. I unrolled it here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1787501413137858617.html It's SUPER LONG, I wish I had time to read it, I was only 1/10th of the way through it. But man, I very much can see that the failure to deliver Robotaxi on August 8 being the moment that Tesla comes crashing down. AI is closer to writing a viable movie script than Tesla is for delivering FSD.
  4. A quick comeback to this for a moment - I can't say that all of these wagers make no sense. They do, in the context of the game. Victoria's wager Friday was done in a way to keep the lead in case of a triple stumper OR they did cute wagers (IE enough to just take the lead over her - which is what James's wager was). But given THAT grouping of 3 players, you can't assume that the other two players are going to miss or that one of them won't put it all on the line. These players are too aggressive and given their positions (top of the leader board) 1 point isn't going to make the different that 3 points does. At this level, there shouldn't be cute wagers - your wager should aim to cover a double up of all players that sit behind you if you get it right.
  5. A few things: 1. Isn’t this what the WankPanser was supposed to be? Some revolutionary exoskeleton design with no frame? So shouldn’t nothing being there be expected? 2. I have to question “the most American made car ever” status. I mean I’m pretty sure that I can find many parts on that thing manufactured in China or elsewhere. But I can guarantee you that you go pre-70s, most Ford, GM and Chrysler cars didn’t have a single bolt, hose or wire that wasn’t made by a red blooded American.
  6. So I just watched the Friday match and I gotta say - the way Yogesh won really hits on something that's been bugging me during this tournament - there have been some head scratching wagers in FJ! in this tournament. Victoria's answer SHOULD have won, but she made a tiny wager that really made no sense. Both Amy (twice) and Mattea have both made wagers that didn't set them up for doing more than finishing last. For being Jeopardy Masters, they are making some rookie mistakes.
  7. It's a good thing we won't play Canada in any sort of competitive match for a while. He is going to coach pants off Gergg.
  8. This. Let's not ignore how China's play in many emerging markets is to flood the zone with such low cost offerings that they corner the market themselves and then control the whole thing (see solar panels). This move has little to do with Elon directly and more to do with protecting US interests.
  9. I found a list of apps that were Edward Snowden approved - Signal was the messaging app. (SpiderOak was the one file storage/backup & KeePass was the password manager).
  10. This I can’t fathom that anyone that understands security would even make that jump. If you know what’s up and you’re using Signal, you’re likely in the know. BTW - I unrolled that thread since I can’t read it natively (I’m ok with that): https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1789687898863792453.html
  11. The idiotic part is that he likely hasn't done any work to actually put a price on the API access - while places like Nintendo, etc easily just say "how does this fit into the advertising budget?" and can likely run calculations of what Twitter integration brings in and what level/if any cost to access the API is worth it.
  12. R/soccer for the win. I looked it up with these descriptions. Some forwards don’t have feet that good.
  13. I didn’t get to see the goal, only heard it (barely) on the radio. Damn that was nice. He is a key piece going forward.
  14. I was listening to the radio call of the game (SiriusXM) they were calling his act some of the most shameful of all time.
  15. Also - fuck it - let’s relegate these fools and then @midtown gets to see grown men cry.
  16. Is that Bricklayers (don’t think so) or the bar with the hostel?
  17. That’s awesome! Enjoy, I’m sure you will have a blast.
  18. You act like big budget action films are easy to churn out. They aren't. Transformers are fun movies to watch. There are plenty of action films that aren't worth a nickel. And hell, a franchise like Transformers isn't going to be sold to anyone just saying "we're going to let an AI write the script." It was given to Bay because they knew exactly what they were getting with him at the helm. Yes. It would be awful. Why? We'll get to that in a second. As far as streamer - probably. Which would suck because they lap up anything Star Wars and it would show the mouse that oh all we need to do is slap SW on it and the dorks will buy it. But that doesn't make it good. No AI can't make a show as good as CSI. And this is where I will pick up the SW argument too. In the end it doesn't matter what you feed into it - all it can do is make near copies. "Give me a crime drama LIKE Breaking Bad", "Give me a period piece LIKE Mad Men", "Give me a procedural LIKE CSI", "Write a Star Wars sequel story". In the end it can only take what is there and at best churn out something that has the characters and has them do a lot of what you've seen. And it would likely be pretty hollow because you wouldn't see any sort of evolution of the characters from what they last were in the media. What made Breaking Bad and Mad Men was their uniqueness and their characters. They evolved, changed and grew. The world changed around them and they changed to adapt. AI can't make any of that up. It would just regurgitate what we have seen ad nauseum. This would apply to Star Wars too. Take the entire SW catalog before 2022 and there is ZERO chance that an AI generated Andor would be anything but Andor flying around the galaxy with 17 Jedi pals. And it would be really dumb because everyone would be saying shit like "I am one with the force and the force is with me", "I've got a bad feeling about this", etc. I would probably rather watch fucking fan made films, which I detest. Even trying to crank out a CSI clone - it would be like if CSI was written by the writers of The Princess Switch - let's just take every damn cliche of this genre and run with it. In the end my main issue is the writing - that takes something that AI doesn't have and I think it will take sometime before it does. It might eventually, but until then that is something that needs to be left to a human. You want to take a script and run it through a film generator - you probably get something useable. But AIs writing scripts - that will likely be trash.
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