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CentralTexasCrude wrote: ↑Mon Jul 29, 2024 10:19 pm

Balmorhea springs looks amazing.

Bluespruce1964 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 30, 2024 12:55 pm

i think i may have spotted the problem with those doors blowing off.

Bluespruce1964 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 30, 2024 12:45 pm

CentralTexasCrude wrote: ↑Mon Jul 29, 2024 10:19 pm

Balmorhea springs looks amazing.

It's so deep, scuba divers are certified out there. And you can imagine 108 degree heat outside to pure spring fed 72 degrees steps away.

CHEEZY17 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 29, 2024 4:37 pm

jsdspif wrote: ↑Mon Jul 29, 2024 3:54 pm

Ricrude wrote: ↑Mon Jul 29, 2024 2:19 pm Had a guy bring in some BBQ 'ed goat one time to work...never again.

in the movie motel hell they talked about smoking granny's dog and the sherriff said it was alot like goat meat, just not as stringy. I had a goat for a while but I hurt my knee and wasn't going to be able to care for it. I gave it to some guy that said he wanted it because he knew people that ate them but he said they didn't kill them humanely and he didn't want them to get the goat.

In one of the shops I used to manage we had a guy that was married to a Korean chick. We used to rag him mercilessly about having dog for dinner.
To his credit he usually took it all in stride but every once and awhile hed get pretty fired up if we kept on it too long.

I had a Korean girlfriend in college, Choi Su-in. Just a little cutie but had a real problem with being faithful. Loved being mistreated by the Japanese dudes at the old sushi restaurant she worked at. Anyway..., she hated that thing about Koreans eating dogs. She said that was a Chinese thing much more than it was ever a Korean thing, and only during really tough times. Like when the Japanese Empire ruled over Korea and took most of the edible goods. She thought maybe her parents may have been forced to by circumstance, but only did it without choice.

One of my dad's hobbies was riding his ol' BMW bike around the backwoods east Texas roads looking for guys making smoked goat. Maybe one in three, and it was seasonal. But when he found some he'd bring that shit home with a smile, it was dinner time. We had a couple goats for milk, but I don't ever remember eating one of ours. I'd often go with him on those rides, but hated it since he chained smoked and would often flick the cig ashes in my face.

I didn't check who wrote that last post at first. Sounds like something JDIF would write.

Blast wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2024 2:02 am I didn't check who wrote that last post at first. Sounds like something JDIF would write.

i can't even imagine how many miles of bike riding it would take to gather up enough smoked goat to feed a family.

I've seen dozens of these clips on Youtube, and while I'd love to believe otherwise I just can't help but feel they're mostly fake. From the balls not hitting tone pieces at exactly the right moment, to how tall the setup would have to be to play even short pieces, to how many clips unaccountably repeat their arrangements, from bottom top in an instant. In this clip, during both The Entertainer and the following Dance of the Sugarplum Fairies, some of the bass tone plates are playing intervals (two tones at a time), but only hitting a single tone plate. The balls would have to be almost perfectly round, otherwise they just can't bounce so incredibly on time together, and the timing to keep both balls coordinated to their tone plates and each other,... just not seeing it.

Antknot wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2024 4:53 pm

QillerDaemon wrote: ↑Sat Aug 10, 2024 5:21 pm I've seen dozens of these clips on Youtube, and while I'd love to believe otherwise I just can't help but feel they're mostly fake. From the balls not hitting tone pieces at exactly the right moment, to how tall the setup would have to be to play even short pieces, to how many clips unaccountably repeat their arrangements, from bottom top in an instant. In this clip, during both The Entertainer and the following Dance of the Sugarplum Fairies, some of the bass tone plates are playing intervals (two tones at a time), but only hitting a single tone plate. The balls would have to be almost perfectly round, otherwise they just can't bounce so incredibly on time together, and the timing to keep both balls coordinated to their tone plates and each other,... just not seeing it.

Antknot wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2024 4:53 pm

would it be possible for AI to build such a thing? and build it to perfection?

This lady showed up on my Instagram, and I immediately thought she was so fetching. Something about the way she looks into the camera.

But the comment section! Men love her! There are so many men in her comment section who talk about how beautiful, sexy, fun all of it. It's really refreshing to see men comment on a normal woman and not like an influencer chick or something. What do you guys think do you think she's sexy?

She's so ?

Animal wrote: ↑Mon Aug 12, 2024 3:26 pm would it be possible for AI to build such a thing? and build it to perfection?

That's a fair question, and I'm not the one who can adequately answer it, as I'm no AI expert by any possible means. I tried to use the built-in AI with Edge to try to generate employee evaluations last year, and Microsoft's AI bot totally mangled them beyond recognition, making evaluations I would not have given someone I hated. They were just awful!, and most likely it was all my fault.

If anything, AI might have been used to edit the clips for the sound and timing, possibly to blend in two separate clips into one.

Other people on Youtube also questioned these clips as being impossible given the circumstances. Pretty much any human activity not controlled by a computer's timing is going to have faults and defects. Even then we tend to mess up the work. It's what makes the things we do so organic, living in an organic world. These clips are just a bit too "perfect" to be something a human did purely by hand, there's got to be something in the recording and editing that "perfectifizes" what we see and hear.

QillerDaemon wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2024 12:57 pm

Animal wrote: ↑Mon Aug 12, 2024 3:26 pm would it be possible for AI to build such a thing? and build it to perfection?

That's a fair question, and I'm not the one who can adequately answer it, as I'm no AI expert by any possible means. I tried to use the built-in AI with Edge to try to generate employee evaluations last year, and Microsoft's AI bot totally mangled them beyond recognition, making evaluations I would not have given someone I hated. They were just awful!, and most likely it was all my fault.

If anything, AI might have been used to edit the clips for the sound and timing, possibly to blend in two separate clips into one.

Other people on Youtube also questioned these clips as being impossible given the circumstances. Pretty much any human activity not controlled by a computer's timing is going to have faults and defects. Even then we tend to mess up the work. It's what makes the things we do so organic, living in an organic world. These clips are just a bit too "perfect" to be something a human did purely by hand, there's got to be something in the recording and editing that "perfectifizes" what we see and hear.

I agree with that, but I was just wondering if AI will become something that makes the impossible (because of all of the human error imperfections you mentioned) possible. If AI will be able to weed out all (and I mean all) of the variables that cause a problem to be unsolvable and make it solvable.

Say in this instance. AI produces a perfectly round and balanced steel ball. Then tensions piano wires to the perfect tension so that the ball can bounce off of each one and arranges them in the perfect angles and distances so that the notes are timed perfectly, etc. would it then be possible to perfect or would there still remain some elements of uncertainty that AI can't overcome?

Opal didn't make the list?

Animal wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2024 1:12 pm I agree with that, but I was just wondering if AI will become something that makes the impossible (because of all of the human error imperfections you mentioned) possible. If AI will be able to weed out all (and I mean all) of the variables that cause a problem to be unsolvable and make it solvable.

Say in this instance. AI produces a perfectly round and balanced steel ball. Then tensions piano wires to the perfect tension so that the ball can bounce off of each one and arranges them in the perfect angles and distances so that the notes are timed perfectly, etc. would it then be possible to perfect or would there still remain some elements of uncertainty that AI can't overcome?

That still comes done to engineering. A friend's father was a mechanical engineering professor and was always clear that basic engineering could be reduced down to working with the "fudge factors" that keep real-life engineering from being like physics exactly predicts. AI is only logic, we still need machines to build the parts, and the machines to build the machines, etc. So nothing is really ever going to be so exact, I'm sure it never will be, at least until AI at the point of doing the building the machines and itself, not us. And that's a whole 'nother tale there.

I'm struck the truism, seemingly impossible, that if the Earth was reduced down to the size of a billiard ball, it was be smoother and more balanced than any currently produced billiard ball made to exacting standards. Even with the Marina Trench and the Himalayas, down to a billiard ball size our human built ball is less perfect. So that round and balanced steel ball just can't be made, we don't have that certainty.

Someone suggested that these videos were put together with Blender, which can easily do work like this.