My plunging, plummeting, steeply falling barometer is on my mind just now.
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To be honest I’m more worried about plunging, plummeting, steeply falling trampolines, greenhouses and wheelie bins with the storm
Lashing rain coming down right now. HL as s I’m not out anywhere this evening.
Trampolines are the worst. I used to put ours away every winter. It took a while but was worth it. Fortunately it’s decades since I’ve had to.
I don’t have a barometer (and I’m in a different part of the world) but my sinuses are telling the pressure is dropping.
Well, the plunging barometer is an accurate harbinger of horrible weather, and yes, we are also experiencing high winds and lashing rain.
Actually, in my experience, the barometer is invariably accurate, while the weather forecast is mostly accurate.
Yes, lashing rain and horrid high winds here, too.
Checked that my bins were safely tucked away not so long ago.
My sinuses are equally sensitive, equally responsive to conditions, (and equally accurate in their response), but, I must say that the barometer is extraordinarily accurate.
Quite the opposite of where I am, because it's been below 0 all week, and now it's FINALLY starting to warm up.
Snow drops?
Followed, I devoutly hope, by the welcome arrival of daffodils.....a herald and harbinger of spring.
Well, last week and the previous week were pretty much below freezing, or hovering around that mark.
And the barometer was correspondingly high.
However, this week-end, the weather has changed, and is now stormy, with high shrieking winds and lashing, driving rain.
They should be along quite a bit later. One can only hope that it's a short mild winter.
For the second time this week I've just finished clearing snow off my car -- Ugh!!! I didn't bother yesterday since I wasn't planning to go anywhere but today when the sun wasn't melting the snow quickly enough to suit me I realized I needed to help things along, as tomorrow I do need to go out and run an errand or two. So that's my exercise for the day! Whew....!
Hoping that this is the last snow we have this winter but I'm not counting on that. Would be nice, though....
Hoping that this is the last snow we have this winter but I'm not counting on that. Would be nice, though....
Thank goodness for the ignore function on MR! Really can filter out some very strange posters.
When I first joined I had no one on ignore. These days I seem to be adding one or two quite often!
When I first joined I had no one on ignore. These days I seem to be adding one or two quite often!
I look forward to their arrival and glorious appearance.
Deeply, longingly, dare I say, passionately.
It is a function that I rarely see the need to employ, - at the moment, I think I may have one individual on 'ignore' - but must admit that I am profoundly glad that it exists.
We are finally getting rain as well. Finally.
We had 45 tons of rock put down a month ago and want to see how it looks once all the dust is washed off.
I knew quantum was involved. Perhaps the excess cat matter is simultaneously in the box and somewhere else...
Schrödinger has a lot to answer for by introducing cats to quantum theory.
On another matter.
What Youtube would recommend to you was based on what some algorithm running somewhere suggested. It wasn't the best, and it missed a lot, but what was recommended was generally somewhere in the ballpark.
Until now.
The algorithm has been replaced by an A.I.
How do we know this? Because the recommendations have started to become idiotic.
I was browsing Youtube, looking for something to watch. Under the heading "Courts", the first thing recommended was some orange-haired carrot being sued in the US. Fair enough, real court case, real people. Not what I wanted to watch, but a valid recommendation.
The second recommendation was an episode of "Rumpole of the Bailey".
It is a mark of A.I. that it cannot tell the difference between reality and fiction, between what is true and what is not true.
On a more serious note, the diagnostic abilities of A.I. to correctly diagnose medical problems in children was recently tested. Something like 87% failure rate. 'Nuff said.
Keep A.I. away from the children, and out of my Youtube...
What Youtube would recommend to you was based on what some algorithm running somewhere suggested. It wasn't the best, and it missed a lot, but what was recommended was generally somewhere in the ballpark.
Until now.
The algorithm has been replaced by an A.I.
How do we know this? Because the recommendations have started to become idiotic.
I was browsing Youtube, looking for something to watch. Under the heading "Courts", the first thing recommended was some orange-haired carrot being sued in the US. Fair enough, real court case, real people. Not what I wanted to watch, but a valid recommendation.
The second recommendation was an episode of "Rumpole of the Bailey".
It is a mark of A.I. that it cannot tell the difference between reality and fiction, between what is true and what is not true.
On a more serious note, the diagnostic abilities of A.I. to correctly diagnose medical problems in children was recently tested. Something like 87% failure rate. 'Nuff said.
Keep A.I. away from the children, and out of my Youtube...
Keep AI away from children, out of Youtube, and........under strict control, extensive oversight, and, above all, subject to robust regulation, would be my preferences.
Terrific post.
Perhaps cats introduced Schrödinger to quantum theory.
I don’t look forward to anything, I don’t miss anything either. Live is full of light and magic in this very precious moment.
The present moment is always perfect and totally amazing even - in both joy and all other variations of experiences.
Everything arrives at the perfect time whether we know or see it or not.
If we miss the past or looking forward a lot, we probably miss the spectrum, of the present moment altogether.
The present moment is always perfect and totally amazing even - in both joy and all other variations of experiences.
Everything arrives at the perfect time whether we know or see it or not.
If we miss the past or looking forward a lot, we probably miss the spectrum, of the present moment altogether.