OV9

Gavster wrote: Thu May 16, 2024 7:52 am This song has blown up on social media. It’s German tongue twister rap about Barabara’s rhubarb bar and the bearded barbarian barber. It’s a grade-A ear worm, you have been warned!

On the topic of social media I saw the weirdest thing today.
Just a stones throw from South Kensington there’s a cafe, they sell croissants the size of a baby. Seriously these things are ridiculous. Outside the small cafe there were 2 tables, both occupied by young women, dressed up like they’re going to the Met Gala. They had their own semi professional camera crew - think DSLRs with pretty big lenses - filming them eating this.

Told my mate and apparently it’s a big social media thing. Clearly we follow very different Instagram accounts

"It's all fun and games until you get remixed"

Google’s AI is not quite producing the answers you might expect. Click the link, there’s a whole load of them.

Just looking at the bottom of this forum and there's a Google Bot online probably collating any old bollocks and using them as facts.
Not sure why they don't only use a list of professional sites and online encyclopaedias to train it.

Mito Man wrote: Sun May 26, 2024 9:17 am Just looking at the bottom of this forum and there's a Google Bot online probably collating any old bollocks and using them as facts.
Not sure why they don't only use a list of professional sites and online encyclopaedias to train it.

Instead its like they used Pistonheads and Reddit.

Mito Man wrote: Sun May 26, 2024 9:17 am Not sure why they don't only use a list of professional sites and online encyclopaedias to train it.

Because who chooses which sites are OK ? It's censorship and whatever you do, whatever sites get blocked, someone will bleat about it being unfair and political and propaganda.

You need a totally independent & impartial system with absolutely no human influence. Come to think of it, AI would be a perfect way of choosing which sites are legitimate

Mito Man wrote: Sun May 26, 2024 9:17 am Just looking at the bottom of this forum and there's a Google Bot online probably collating any old bollocks and using them as facts.
Not sure why they don't only use a list of professional sites and online encyclopaedias to train it.

One of the major problems with AI is that it doesn’t cite its sources. This is dodgy from a copyright perspective as it might be taking copyrighted work and reproducing it, but also because it might have been trained on complete bollocks.

Also was reading a story today about an AI that learned how lying is the best way to succeed and achieve your aims so quickly began to completely make shit up

Sundayjumper wrote: Sun May 19, 2024 6:17 pm

Gavster wrote: Wed May 15, 2024 12:38 pm That would be a great concept - "Let's give Steve a box of wine, load up eBay and an PayPal account with £5k in it. Come back tomorrow morning to find out what he's bought"

HOLD MY BEER

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/394077209447


And the W8 is one I need to cross off my list…

jamcg wrote: Mon May 20, 2024 7:11 am All the w12’s are all turbocharged and the Passat is na, which probably explains its lackluster performance

Except in the Phaeton, Touareg, and A8.

nuttinnew wrote: Sun May 26, 2024 8:59 pm Except in the Phaeton, Touareg, and A8.

Indeed. Only teh Bender got turbot.

That made me look at engine configurations again and it quickly got silly. Straight-fourteen sir ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight-fourteen_engine

The only straight-14 engine known to reach production is part of the Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C family of 6-cylinder to 14-cylinder two-stroke marine engines. This engine is used in the Emma Mærsk, which was the world's largest container ship when it was built in 2006. The engine produces 80,080 kW (107,390 hp) and displaces 25,340 L (1,546,342 in3), has a bore of 960 mm (38 in) and a stroke of 2,500 mm (98 in). The engine is 27.3 metres (90 ft) long, 13.5 m (44 ft) high and weighs 2,300 t (2,535 short tons).

My wife says I'm not allowed one. I'll leave this one to Dave!

107 thousand bhp sounds pretty nuts, but then you realise it’s only making 4.25bhp/litre

But it probably runs at 20rpm and produces a million gazillionty torque.

Oh, a quick Google answered that one.

5,608,310 lbf⋅ft @ 102 rpm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%A4rt ... er_RTA96-C

Turbocharged at 102 rpm. I wonder if the lag can be measured in minutes, and how may PSI that can generate.