Carry on Screaming!

When the man's right he's soooo right😀
My favourite KW quote is "Frying tonight"!, as he disappeared into a huge bubbling vat😮

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Hey Doug, Kenneth Williams, Carry on Cleo ..

Nick,
Had to read that 3 times (3rd time out loud) 'til I twigged it!
Very good 😁😂🤣
Cheers, Doug😎

Infamy! infamy! they've all got it infamy!

Today is the day that in 1768 that the criminal smuggler, John Hancock, refused to allow his ship, Liberty (Haarumphh) to be searched by loyal and legal representatives of the British Crown. His actions encouraged the land speculators including George Washington to conduct terrorist acts against legitimate British Authority which had financed protection from the native and badly wronged indigenous inhabitants. Infamy, I tell you, Infamy.
One man's patriot is another's terrorist.

Infamy. A Day of Infamy. That equation will go down as a day of Infamy.

I guessed this one correct as my dog name is Oscar, so I picked the correct one🤔😊👍

The first question I ask captain AI is if there is an anniversary for anything. Except now, I’ve asked it to be more accurate and also double check it.

If there’s a wrong anniversary or no anniversary, it’ll fall back to a general question based on a keyword.

Whichever route, several questions are generated, based on either keywords or event anniversary. Each question and answer is then double checked. If it passes the check, it gets added to the consideration list.

Then the best question from the consideration list is calculated out, and it’s that question which is published. If there was a keyword prompt for it, that keyword is also removed for the next 30 days.

Then a final fallback, if captain AI isn’t feeling like playing, is to recycle an old question. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen too often though!

Stephen

No, it has been going for well over a week now. Probably A.I. reviewing obscure anniversaries.
Roy

Is this two days in a row that we’ve had correct questions, answers and relevant to the date as well!? 😮

Stephen

Aha! Joke, Sorry missed that☹️
I meant what I said though, the P90 IS a collectors item.
If you still have a working one you could get a decent price for it on one of the Collectors groups.

Cheers, Doug😎

https://www.x86-guide.net/en/cpu/Intel-Pentium-90-cpu-no305.html

Hi Doug. I am just turning into a grumpy old man. But I have not lost my sense of humour, hence the P90 joke. 😀😀

Hi SimpleSailor,
Imagine you are sitting an exam at school or in college.
There are ten questions.
You answer one, correctly, and leave the rest unanswered.
What grade would you expect to get?
100% and pass with flying colours?
No! You'd flunk out with 10%. Zero for any question not answered.
My German friends have an expression for this.
Von nichts kommt nichts. -> From nothing comes nothing!
That's the way the cookie crumbles😉
Now is the time to stop whingeing and to start thinking😉
Cheers, Doug😎
PS Just saw your last post.
Your CPU is a 'Collectors Item' released March 7th 1994, 90MHz core frequency.
Time to get up to date?
Plus, you have to define all the variables before you can use any expression.
How did you do that?

Hi Stephen

When I put your expression into MathCad on my Pentium P90 CPU it crashed the PC. Are you sure you got it right😂😂😂😂

I'm just happy that the question today was about an event that actually happened today (in history) and not a random other date...

So I'm taking that as a win!

@SimpleSailer, what would you expect to happen if you only answer 1 question in the last 30 days, and it was correct? To keep you at 100% all month? I think we'd end up with a leader board full of members only answering the questions they know for certain... tried to solve this tricky one a few times 🙈

I'm debating using the new US Tariff formula next 😂 apparently it makes things fair 😎

Update: got it sussed! Potential formula attached!

Stephen

Hi. Sorry, but I am still going on about the scoring. As mentioned before. I came back after a week of not answering questions (No internet access) and I was at 50%, I got yesterdays correct and it went to 53%. I log in today and I am at 47%, I get todays correct and and now back to 50%. This should be done on the number of clicks you do, not days the number of rolling days.

This is a new twist!🤔
The options, and correct answer, change when you choose your answer!?🤕
Now we have to out-sneak a sneaky AI.
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As a native of Oxford, it would have been disgraceful had I got this one wrong!

I have been given the opportunity 3 times of answering today's question! Then been told I have already answered it!
Roy

I think I remember seeing a snippet on TV saying that A.I. was the process of adding facts and opinions etc. Well I have had the last 5 days correct and still I have 21 out of 29 just as it was 5 days ago. Does this mean that calculating numbers is no longer factual? Just a matter of opinion?

I watched a video of people stopped in the street and asked a very simple arithmetic question, like what is 33 +77, nobody got it right several gave a (wrong) estimate!

I suppose we are self selecting group where measuring and numbers are the cornerstone of the hobby. But at that level virtually everyone on this forum could answer correctly this level of question on any subject.

No wonder some politicians can make a career of smiling and mendacious rhetoric at the same time. They have sprung up all over the world.
Good old A.I.!!!!!!!

Roy

Must be on a roll as I got the last 3 days answers correct. The truth is that they were easier🤔

I would assume that the reason you lose percentage when absent is so that you do not get an advantage by answering only the questions you know the answers to. This might keep somebody on 100% having only answered one question per 30 days.

Just as I predicted. I have been away for a week and have not been able to get on site. Now because I have not answered a weeks worth of questions I am at 50%. Why should I be penalised for not answering? Surely it should freeze if no answer is given?

Aren't we all Nick?😁😂

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An oldie but a goody!

Oh no! You’re quite right. Despite all my work… we still have issues! Will have another think 🤔

Stephen

Can't wait to see how that works out Stephen👍🤞
Just a thunk -
Does the 3rd algorithm include a digital kick up the proverbial if he comes up with another repeat/recycled question: i.e. one which leads to a correct answer or duff gen we have had before?😁
Hope house move and arm healing are going well🤞
Cheers, Doug😎

Captain AI has been told off and had a slight re-wiring! Let's see what tomorrow brings.

I decided to apply some multi-step logic with multiple different algorithms checking each others homework. There's also a 'temperature' parameter which hopefully is adjusted to give more fact than fiction. Then after generating several potential new questions of the day, a third algorithm picks the most interesting one.

Let's just say, Captain AI is being monitored very closely from tomorrow!

Stephen

Gee Whiz! 2 in a row! I am the trivia king in my family, but def trip and fall on my sword here, over, and over, again.
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Breakwater, sternpost, Titanic (ever hopeful) a mystery submarine…..Maybe a yellow submarine 🤣🤣🤣

OK everyone, what will the next question have in answer options?

Breakwater, sternpost, Titanic (ever hopeful) a mystery submarine.

Roy

It will be sternposts for 3 weeks now....

I feel like I've been answering the same two questions for a week or more.
One the plus side, I am back on the top 20 list.

Is there anyone out there who does not know what a Breakwater is for?

Answers to the next Q o D.
I note it did get 100% answers though. I do miss Titanic as an answer, my scores were always better then! Fram is now second to Titanic as a possible.

Roy

Yet another recycled question. Perhaps the AI keeps asking until everyone gets it right!

Stephen,
Sorry, forgot to mention: GWS with the arm.👍
Moving house is pain enough without that!🤕

Cheers, Doug😎

Mike,
"Die Fram (norwegisch für vorwärts; Aussprache mit kurzem a) ist ein 1892 fertiggestelltes Schiff, das norwegische Polarforscher in den Jahren 1893–1912 nutzten. Die Fram war darauf ausgelegt, im Packeis driften zu können, ohne unter dem enormen Druck des Eises Schaden zu nehmen. Außerdem war das Schiff wegen der niedrigen Temperaturen in den Polarregionen gut wärmegedämmt.

Die Initiative zum Bau ging von Fridtjof Nansen aus; er gab Colin Archer, dem renommierten norwegischen Schiffskonstrukteur aus Larvik, 1890 den Auftrag, die Fram zu bauen.

Kein Holzschiff fuhr jemals – weder im Süden noch im Norden – auf höheren Breitengraden als die Fram.[2] Die Fram war bis 1914 für Expeditionen unterwegs und wurde 1935 angelandet. Das Schiff ist mit den Aufbauten von 1902 im Frammuseum in Oslo ausgestellt. "

Grüß, Doug😎

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fram_(Schiff,_1892)

Tztztztz. . . .
Verstehe bei den Fragen nur : „Bahnhof“
Bb Michel-C.

Got this wrong, going to pick the correct answer but thought it was a special question with no date as the last question about this had a date. Anyway got it wrong🤨

“The Fram”. Do we have short memories ??

Busting to (UN)Able Seaman would be a start Stephen👍

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Oh gosh. Something needs to be done again to get Captain AI in check.

Any AI experts out there?

Other than running a few recursive checks and an initial randomiser to stop the breakwaters coming up all the time, I’m a bit at a loss!

Once I get time (again very little right now as we’re moving house and I stupidly broke my arm) then I’ll have another dive into this.

Feels a little like Norbot when he went Rogue!

Stephen

No comment🙄

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That was easy, Tara was the name of our dog, Belgica I am pretty sure was some chocolates I saw in Lidl. Endurance, not sure but as Fram was designed by Colin Archer with a 'round' section hull specifically designed to rise up when the ice squeezed her I thought that might be a clue.
But A.I. is so often wrong was this a trap?
S*d it let's go for Fram!
Roy

AI really pushed the boat out with today's queation!

Same question again but slightly different wording. Looks like AI is getting stuck in a loop! We will have to hope this isn't an indication of all AI systems otherwise we are going to be in a real mess!!🤣🤣🤣

Hi Garth, but you use an AI to answer questions that an AI asks?
Do I understand correctly?

My IA gave me the correct answer which is The correct answer is Fram. This Norwegian vessel, led by Fridtjof Nansen in 1893, was deliberately frozen into Arctic pack ice to drift with the currents. This groundbreaking expedition significantly advanced our understanding of polar and ocean currents

Same here, just made it back up to 50%