exchemist

I suggest you read the report, then, or the synopses of it that have appeared in the media:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2gy78gpnqo QUOTE The switches were returned to their normal inflight position, triggering automatic engine relight. At the time of the crash, one engine was regaining thrust while the other had relit but had not yet recovered power. UNQUOTE Who knows more about this subject: the people who wrote the report or you?

We’ve been over this before. It’s obviously unworkable, due to the number and the complexity of the issues a government has to resolve. Most people won’t have the time, the expertise or the interest to make informed choices. Furthermore, your idea runs the obvious risk that on-line referenda might be hijacked by coteries of activists, leading to highly unrepresentative outcomes. Forget it.

According to the report, the error was recognised and both engines re-lit before impact, though neither was able to spool up and develop enough thrust in time.

If there is an undercarriage retraction switch, say, that is similar, one might perhaps engage the wrong muscle memory if distracted. But we shall have to see what further analysis reveals, I suppose.

You may be confusing baking soda with baking powder. The latter is a mix of baking soda and tartaric acid which, when wetted will immediately start to react and evolve CO2. Baking soda on its own, however, won’t react when wet, only when acid is introduced. From what I read, ants eat sugar mixed with baking powder and the acid in their digestive system then triggers gas production. This apparently kills them. I’m not sure how but surface tension is a big deal for tiny insects, so maybe bubbles form that block their system or something. Someone else here may know. You need the sugar to persuade the ants to eat the stuff.

I have no interest in reading botshit, though. Which, by your own admission, this is. When you have ideas of your own, and you take the trouble to relate them to the previous exchanges we have already had on the topic, so we don’t waste time repeating ourselves, then I may pay attention.

When you have some ideas of your own to discuss, posted on the forum rather than off-site, it may be worth reading them. But you haven’t already done this topic, in a thread you abandoned last year?

Since I wrote that I've seen a bit more of the report, which claims both pilots were properly rested. However, there was a comment from an experienced pilot who said that turning these fuel switches on and off is such a routine action that it becomes delegated to "muscle memory". If so, a keys-in-the-fridge scenario could well be the explanation. We do get these mystifying cases of human error from time to time. As far as I recall, nobody ever found out why the driver of the Moorgate Tube train accelerated into that blind tunnel wall.

I wonder about pilot fatigue. Air India has been in the news recently for failing to comply with guidelines for max hours and rest periods.

How did you manage to track this scammer's location?

I think you should tell us where you got that image from.

Now that would make a lot of sense. So the aim is to corrupt AI into feeding suckers scam phone numbers. Brilliant!

Spade! with which Wilkinson hath tilled his lands, And shaped these pleasant walks by Emont's side, Thou art a tool of honour in my hands; I press thee, through the yielding soil, with pride. [continues] W. Wordsworth (yes, really). There is also apparently a poem, which I cannot trace titled: “Lines Written to a Friend on the Death of His Brother, Caused by a Railway Train Running over Him Whilst He Was in a State of Inebriation” , by one James Henry Powell. (There is or was an anthology of bad verse called "The Stuffed Owl", which we had in the family when I was growing up, bought and much chuckled over by my mother, who was an English teacher.)

Ah so that's it. Keywords.

Yes but why such a concentrated burst of them, with many of them being just repeats of what they posted a few minutes earlier? Seems very strange to be some kind of commercial strategy. But maybe it’s just an unintended consequence of how these guys are remunerated or something: sudden panic to meet targets, leading to a splurge of posts to meet a deadline.

I'm curious as to what might be the motive for today's attempt to flood the forum with spam. We've had these in the past from time to time. It can't be to advertise a service or a scam, because of the random subject matter. Can this be an individual with a grudge against the forum, or something like that? Seems pretty pointless and ineffective.

Are you going to address my question or are you just here to preach?

A field has a numerical value, of some quantity or other, at each point in space. How can you have an information field? Information does not simply have a numerical value.

Yup. And here is a direct citation of the relevant Catholic theology: https://www.catholictheology.info/summa-theologica/summa-part1.php?q=543 That goes back to Augustine of Hippo, ~ 200AD, so it's not a recent idea. I'm don't know my way round Jewish theology enough to comment on how the rabbis interpret this concept, but I imagine it may be fairly similar. It seems a pretty obvious way to think of it.

Royalty commonly used the plural form, e.g.Queen Victoria: "We are not amused." I expect this may be a similar usage. No, "the made in the image of God" idea is to show mankind as being in some way specially godlike, compared to the rest of creation, through possession of an immortal soul. As for went before, it is clear in the Genesis story that Man is portrayed as being created after other things. As for "let" that is just an English grammatical usage, e.g. "Let us go to the park and have a picnic", conveying a proposal or suggestion. It does not mean permission is being sought.

It doesn’t sound quite right to me. Do you perhaps mean “traverse”?

The most productive way to do this is for you to do some reading on your own first, and then come here with questions on things you find hard to understand. Obviously a discussion forum is not the place to write out a whole textbook on science. But there are people here who can explain particular points or issues.

Yes "carbuncle" would be a reference to Prince Charles, as he then was, commenting on the extension to the National Gallery which he described as "a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a well-loved friend" or something. Fryscraper is new to me however. Another screw up in London was the hotel at the top of the Shard at London Bridge. People quickly discovered that the angles of the glass produced reflections that allowed them to see into one anothers' bedrooms.😁

This is not surprising to me. As I have understood the issue so far, LLMs are AI in the sense they use neural networks to learn how to construct sentences and create bodies of original text. So they are very ingenious at that. But that's all. They are brain-dead when it comes to the meaning of the words, i.e. the content of the sentences they read and write. Emily Bender describes them as "stochastic parrots" because they simply look up a load of references on the subject they have been given and construct a reply out of the statistically most common features they encounter. A further characteristic of LLMs is that, because they are designed to engage the user in chat, they will obsequiously try to construct an answer that tells the user he or she is right, or at least one that lets them down very gently if they are wrong. The obvious danger is that lazy users, or those lacking adequate critical faculties, will feel their wrong ideas are vindicated because "AI has told me I'm right". As these false responses build up in the on-line bank of knowledge, there is the further danger that this "botshit" will get start to be ingested by other LLMs and repeated, causing progressive contamination of the knowledge base.

No he reverted to the interests of his grandfather and great grandfather, history. But I suspect part of it was wanting to plough his own furrow and thereby escape the shadow of his STEM parents. Haha I remember that one. Somebody's Jag got melted - at least some panels and mirrors. I think they had to fit some kind of shading on the windows to stop it. It wasn't just because it was under construction; it was a problem intrinsic to the design.