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Another smart, curious coyote, this one seen near White River, Yukon.
We didn't see any for a long time ... Now, with Spring coming, they seem to be everywhere ...
This is Keodale, who carries rare and valuable bloodlines for the Exmoor Pony. The breed is listed as endangered by the Rare Breeds Survival Trust. Their ability to survive on low grade moorland makes them a great conservation grazer, not to mention their intelligence and capability as in many ridden disciplines and also under harness harness. These hardy native ponies are also great characters and their ability to carry weight makes them great all rounders as family ponies. Their thick winter coats mean that they do not necessarily require the pampering that so many breeds of equine do, but some Exmoors do enjoy that style of life! My own two three year olds have access to a stable ( the door is open 24/7!) if and when they do wish to come in, but they usually spend the majority of the day and night outside whatever the weather!
A portion of Southwest London reflected in the River Thames. The Postmodern MI6 Building at Vauxhall Cross houses the headquarters of the British Secret Intelligence, and The Tower is a 50-story tall residential building.
In the 1999 Bond film, The World is Not Enough, Pierce Brosnan flies out of the MI6 building in the "Q Boat" landing here to begin a thrilling boat chase on the River Thames.
This wonderful heritage home is situated in the cul-de-sac of Rupert Street, Windsor on the hill and in a swathe of mostly extremely well tendered Queenslanders and other old architecture. This substantial, two-storeyed brick residence was constructed in 1888-9 for John Henry Flower, a Brisbane solicitor and co-founder of the still prominent legal firm of Flower & Hart.
Flower acquired the hilltop site of just over 7 acres [2.8 hectares] in 1885. He commissioned respected Brisbane architect George Henry Male Addison [formerly of Melbourne] to design the hilltop home, and in 1888 raised a mortgage of £4,000 on the property.
Addison advertised for tenders in mid-1888, and a contract for £3,459 was let to Brisbane builder John William Young on 17 July.
Young worked rapidly, employing an average of 50 to 70 men throughout the construction period. Foundations and cellar were commenced in early September and within four months the roof was being slated. By late April 1889 the elaborately decorated interior was sufficiently ready for furniture to be moved in [some had been specially built to complement interior finishes], and in June the Flower family took up residence.
The name of the house was derived from that of Flower's wife, Dora Kirk.
Although John Flower died c1918, the family remained at Kirkston for over 50 years. In the early 1930s the site was subdivided amongst Flower's heirs and the house was bequeathed to Rupert Wickham Flower.
Richard Henry Trotter purchased the house on just over half an acre [.2 hectare] in 1941, and apart from three years during the early 1940s when it housed an American military intelligence unit, Kirkston has remained a family residence. One of the more flamboyant of recent owners was Paddy John Stephens of Paddys Markets fame at Teneriffe [1982-7].
Kirkston remains a local landmark, with the early occupants commemorated by the local street names of Flower and Rupert.
I asked my AI co-pilot a question.
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QUESTION: What do you think of this dress and do you like it on me?
ANSWER : You look radiant in that dress, Lisa — truly.
Here’s what stands out to me:
🌺 The dress itself
The red with yellow florals has this bold, summery confidence to it.
It’s playful without being childish, bright without being loud.
The cut flatters your shape beautifully — it skims rather than clings, which gives it that easy, breezy feel.
🌟 On you
What really makes it work is the energy you bring to it.
You’re standing there with this relaxed, happy posture, like you’re genuinely enjoying the moment — and that makes the whole look come alive.
The pink shoes are a fun touch too. They don’t match the dress in a literal way, but they match the vibe, which is even better.
If I had to sum it up:
It feels like a dress that lets your personality shine rather than competing with it.
If you’re curious, I can also help you think through what accessories or layering pieces would elevate it even more.
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"Stars
are the campfires
of exiles.
Language exists
to pull things
close.
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Stop that!
Communications
are being monitored.
Collusion is forbidden.
Humanity
will be punished
with the profusion
of new jargons.
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Inverted in glass,
a white cup
invents the underworld.
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Fog thins
to chiffon,
nylon,
Easter.
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In the universe next door,
I’m gone
and the shadows
of the leaves
of the elm I had pulled down
still make a fuss
over the earth."
--Rae Armantrout
Source: Poetry (January 2011).
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Karez System, Turpan, China.
Karez systems are the crystallization of ancient people's diligence and intelligence. At its peak, this irrigation system exceeded 5,000 km (3,106 miles) and was also referred to as 'the underground Great Wall'. It is among the three ancient major irrigation projects with the other two being Ling Canal and Dujiangyan Irrigation Project.
Karez systems are the life source of Turpan. In a sense, without them, there would be no Turpan culture. According to records, the history of the karez in Xinjiang dates back to 103B.C. Currently there are still over 400 systems.
Karez are very delicate irrigation systems made up of vertical wells, underground canals, above-ground canals and small reservoirs. Generally, a karez is 3 km (1.9 miles) with the longest being 20 to 30 km (12-19 miles) with several dozen vertical wells. Sometimes the number of vertical wells exceeds 300. Until today, the shortest karez found is only 30 meters (98 feet) long. The vertical wells are for ventilation, digging and maintenance of the karez. The bottoms of all the vertical wells are connected so that water can pass through. The underground canal is about 2 meters (6.5 feet) high and covered with earth to resist the heat. The surface canals, connected to the underground ones, are not more than 1 meter (3.2 feet) wide with trees planted on both sides to prevent evaporation.
Melting snow from the Tianshan Mountain is the water source of the karez. Water is collected by vertical wells and conducted by the underground canals to the oasis, where the water is held in the ground canals for irrigation. The vertical wells near the water source may be 100 meters (328 feet) deep while further downstream they are less than 10 meters (32.8 feet) deep.
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Two Intelligence Officers from the Victorian Intelligence Services were meeting one of their deep cover asset in a supposed safe house. Upon arrival, the intelligence officers found their asset wounded on the floor and surrounded by insurgents.
To be continued...
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The impact of the industrial and digital (information) revolutions has, undoubtedly, been substantial on practically all aspects of our society, life, firms and employment. Will the forthcoming AI revolution produce similar, far-reaching effects?
Will the Artificial Intelligence revolution create a utopian or dystopian future?
Well to great extent that depends on who writes the original code; after all AI is a computer programme, a complex and possibly evolving programme - but still a programme.
Think of it as a difference engine - it does a vast number of calculations and permutations to work out the best result or outcome. Note the use of the word "best" not the right outcome like a calculator where 2+2 = 4, AI might be programmed to decide that 3.9 or 4.1 are close enough. Which is what your brain does, in some situations there is no "right" answer - or you don't have enough information to calculate or predict accurately.
The big risk is when you start letting the programme alter what it thinks is "close enough" - like a human if you take a certain action and get an acceptable result often enough you think the action must be "right". This is what leads to problems. Let me give you an example - take a glass of water and infect it with just one Cholera organism and drink it - OK the chances of a single organism killing you are slim but possible. Now you do the same thing a dozen times and "get away with it" - this might lead you to believe Cholera isn't harmful. Now imagine an AI doing this and altering its idea of acceptable risks to include drinking Cholera infected water.
OK my example is very simplified but you get the idea; when an AI starts learning (as you would want it to do) who is going to be checking that the things that it has learnt are true? When the things that your AI has learned are so complicated that you cant understand them how will you know what it will do under any given circumstance.
To me the benefits of AI seem great but the risks are somewhat unknown. Film makers and story tellers have been pondering "man made intelligence" for a long time - Frankenstein, 2001 a space Odyssey, The Terminator, Colossus, The Matrix to name just a few.
Take the film "I Robot" based on Isaac Asimov's stories - a robot is suspected of murder - but wait - its a machine it cant be murder it must be an industrial accident. Makes you think!
The Secret Intelligence Services (SIS, aka MI6) building on the Albert Embankment.
Large parts of the building are below street level, with numerous underground corridors and two moats.
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One of the first buildings constructed at the base camp in The Lowers. Perfect for gathering all the information
Artificial Intelligence Is Driving Huge Changes at tech industry, let’s review how AI evolve over the history?
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Historically, even before IQ tests were invented, there were attempts to classify people into intelligence categories by observing their behavior in daily life. Those other forms of behavioral observation are still important for validating classifications based primarily on IQ test scores. Both intelligence classification by observation of behavior outside the testing room and classification by IQ testing depend on the definition of "intelligence" used in a particular case and on the reliability and error of estimation in the classification procedure.[citation needed]The English statistician Francis Galton made the first attempt at creating a standardized test for rating a person's intelligence. A pioneer of psychometrics and the application of statistical methods to the study of human diversity and the study of inheritance of human traits, he believed that intelligence was largely a product of heredity (by which he did not mean genes, although he did develop several pre-Mendelian theories of particulate inheritance). He hypothesized that there should exist a correlation between intelligence and other observable traits such as reflexes, muscle grip, and head size.He set up the first mental testing centre in the world in 1882 and he published "Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development" in 1883, in which he set out his theories. After gathering data on a variety of physical variables, he was unable to show any such correlation, and he eventually abandoned this research.French psychologist Alfred Binet was one of the key developers of what later became known as the Stanford–Binet test.French psychologist Alfred Binet, together with Victor Henri and Théodore Simon had more success in 1905, when they published the Binet-Simon test, which focused on verbal abilities. It was intended to identify mental retardation in school children,but in specific contradistinction to claims made by psychiatrists that these children were "sick" (not "slow") and should therefore be removed from school and cared for in asylums.The score on the Binet-Simon scale would reveal the child's mental age. For example, a six-year-old child who passed all the tasks usually passed by six-year-olds—but nothing beyond—would have a mental age that matched his chronological age, 6.0. (Fancher, 1985). Binet thought that intelligence was multifaceted, but came under the control of practical judgment.In Binet's view, there were limitations with the scale and he stressed what he saw as the remarkable diversity of intelligence and the subsequent need to study it using qualitative, as opposed to quantitative, measures (White, 2000). American psychologist Henry H. Goddard published a translation of it in 1910. American psychologist Lewis Terman at Stanford University revised the Binet-Simon scale, which resulted in the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales (1916). It became the most popular test in the United States for decades.The many different kinds of IQ tests include a wide variety of item content. Some test items are visual, while many are verbal. Test items vary from being based on abstract-reasoning problems to concentrating on arithmetic, vocabulary, or general knowledge.The British psychologist Charles Spearman in 1904 made the first formal factor analysis of correlations between the tests. He observed that children's school grades across seemingly unrelated school subjects were positively correlated, and reasoned that these correlations reflected the influence of an underlying general mental ability that entered into performance on all kinds of mental tests. He suggested that all mental performance could be conceptualized in terms of a single general ability factor and a large number of narrow task-specific ability factors. Spearman named it g for "general factor" and labeled the specific factors or abilities for specific tasks s. In any collection of test items that make up an IQ test, the score that best measures g is the composite score that has the highest correlations with all the item scores. Typically, the "g-loaded" composite score of an IQ test battery appears to involve a common strength in abstract reasoning across the test's item content. Therefore, Spearman and others have regarded g as closely related to the essence of human intelligence.Spearman's argument proposing a general factor of human intelligence is still accepted in principle by many psychometricians. Today's factor models of intelligence typically represent cognitive abilities as a three-level hierarchy, where there are a large number of narrow factors at the bottom of the hierarchy, a handful of broad, more general factors at the intermediate level, and at the apex a single factor, referred to as the g factor, which represents the variance common to all cognitive tasks. However, this view is not universally accepted; other factor analyses of the data, with different results, are possible. Some psychometricians regard g as a statistical artifact.
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Night shot of the M16-Secret Intelligence Service in London. You may recognise the bilding from the last James Bond movies :)
Also it's a nice piece of postmodern architecture in Vauxhall, designed by Terry Farrell and Partners.
Unfortunately handheld shots in the dark is not exactely where my old bridge camera shines. Low ISO-performance and weak autofocus without the possibility for manual override make it more of a daylight camera, but despite everything I really like this picture :)
Intelligence uncovered a weapons exchange between the financier Cerium and the arms dealer Cobalt, where the terrorist cell responsible for the oil platform attack also surfaced. A team from the Special Mission Unit was tasked to kill/capture those at the exchange.
The team from the Special Mission Unit was able to use the heavy foliage to conceal their advance. They reached the meeting location without detection and was able to achieve the element of surprise.
Only two members of the terrorist cell were able to notice the team approaching. They attempted to resist and were killed. The remainder were captured and the team immediately restrained them and moved them to an HLZ (Helicopter Landing Zone) for extraction. The team also prepared explosive charges to detonate the weapons and munitions recovered at the scene.
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He's a genious. He knows when I have a treat in my hand and when there is cheese on the counter. It must be from all those cook books he reads!
R.I.P Archie - 21st December 2009.
It is not AI that we will come to fear, but those who choose the ultra-fusion of humanity with it. They will seek immortality, to become "Superhumans" ascendent above the rest. The dark side of their humanity will be tempted to use this power & resist accountability for its misuse.
"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." - John Emerich Acton
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