Senor Chevalier

Now I like a good pissing contest as much as the next man, but putting that to one side for a moment... Pugwash - Clearly I don't know the full detail of your pension arrangements, but what would you say to the Private Sector worker that works your hours and has a similar lunchtime routine with no final salary pension to look forward to. They only have a contributory pension (if at all) which like your additional contributions have been decimated by the fall in the value of their invested pension pot. What's your message to them? Should they support you in your strike? Should they work the extra years at the end of their working life to support your earlier (than them) retirement? Do you really expect sympathy from them? Honestly? If so, on what basis? Are Public Sector jobs more important so you deserve a better deal? Looks like we are back to the same old problem that things always boil down to. People get habituated to a certain arrangement and then feel a sense of entitlemment. Less of a good thing is perceived as a bad thing. It's 9dare I say it) mother and baby parking spaces in Sainsburys all over again.

The old shitting in the handbag trick...

How long has this one got d'you think?

Certainly the tedious wordgames...

There was no fuss at e-dealer's early play of EROS so I suppose there has been deemed acceptance of anagrams. Have tweaked the rules accordingly. I reckon this concoction has a limited lifespan nevertheless.

I suppose it depends what this AI thingymajig is "trying to do" and how it will know it has arrived when it gets there.

Erudite and informed (tee hee). ...but I would say that sense checking can include your approach but if done properly is a bit broader than that. The best sense checkers are those that use a combination of approaches as diverse and imaginative as possible to come at a problem and interrogate its correctness. Some take a structured approach that could be collapsed to a series of rules run through a database as you suggest. Is the result what I was expecting Is it similar to previous similar instances Do small changes in data input give the expected change in data output Are they directionally correct and is the size of the change in line with expectations If I make wild changes in my asusmptions does the system generate the right answers or was it only working within the previously observed range etc etc Essentially sense checking is about understanding cause and effect relationships and using it in predicting outcomes though sometimes it is less structured and comes down to whether the answer "feels" right. Code that.

heron

Alan was pouring cold water on the idea, but after an inauspicious start, luckily BNG picked it up with his uplifting response and so I thought we'd just move on. ZERO

Thanks I was not - before my time. I wonder is there any original thought on the EDF or are we destined to go on repeating our little lives and thoughts round and round reliving the same conversations day after day. Have you just pointed out a glitch in the Matrix...?

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Prose

Raise

Only One of the following types of changes are allowed to get from each word to the next: 1) Substitution of a single letter with a new letter in the same position 2) Addition of 1 letter with no rearrangement of other letters 3) Deletion of 1 letter with no rearrangement of other letters 4) Anagram of existing letters First word is.... A

Think that might be game over. E-dealer, I reckon you're probably a stickler for rules. I have some proposed modifications to add a dimension and unblock the thread. What do you think? I'm guessing you might tell me to Fakir off and start my own thread. In which case were still on FAKIR

Err, if trains (as well as buses) supplied cheese and commuters carrying cream cheese canapes could commonly be seen then frustrating females finished with their face who then turn to thumbing texts would be risking cream cheese to the posterior which (concerned about their appearance as they clearly are) might be a suitable deterrent. I have long held the belief that almost all foods are improved through the addition of cheese (or that there there are very few that are not). Could it be that I've missed the wider point, that cheese improves all things not just food...?

That's the problem with computers, they just process data. They're no good at sense checking. Oops wrong thread.

HAL - if we're going to bandy numbers around let's get them right for frac's sake... 5.6 TRN cubic metres (trusting your source) would be a cube with a side of dimension 17.758Km, i.e. 17,758m. So that's 5600 cubic Km. And even if you hadn't dropped the order of magnitude, your far less impressive cube of side 1758m would be a more impressive 5.6 cubic km not 1.75 cubic km. That's if I've done my sums right. Still fecking big though which I think was your point, presumably equivalent to squeezing shit from 3200 rocking horses.

Would add another dimension to journey optimisation as if it isn't difficult enough. There's a 68 in 3 mins with Edam, but if I wait 7 mins I can get the 42 and they have Comte.

Not to mention the outrage

delay

glade

faker

Don't worry, I'm sure they'll be just fine running a bank...

Are you now implying that it is only the bits on this thread that are true? What about the bins eh?. The bins I tell you. She was right about the bins goddammit...