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General discussion / Re: The Many Faces of US Polit...
Last post by DaleCooper - Today at 12:58:18 AMFor anyone based in the US especially NYC under the new terror regime you can now anonymously report fellow citizens for blaspheming our Gods
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#12
General discussion / Re: Things that make you go Wh...
Last post by Sportacus - November 11, 2025, 11:51:35 PMAverage number of sick days among Northern Ireland civil servants - 13.4.
No surprise, but it does lay bare that the civil service is a refuge for bluffers and dossers who'd be long gone if they were working in the private sector. All at the expense of the tax payer.
No surprise, but it does lay bare that the civil service is a refuge for bluffers and dossers who'd be long gone if they were working in the private sector. All at the expense of the tax payer.
#13
General discussion / Re: Name your three favourite ...
Last post by AustinPowers - November 11, 2025, 11:16:22 PMQuoteNo, I mean Take ThatQuoteChris DeBurgh will be the nail in the coffin.QuoteOh dearQuoteWe are running low on bands for the list
Run your eye over these lot that have been suggested recently. Let me know which ones you want added....
Christy Moore
Take That
Beautiful South
Public Enemy
Chris De Burgh
Waterboys
Leonard Cohen
Kinks
Duran Duran
The Cure
Van Morrison
Kris Kristofferson
Take That or Chris DeBurgh
but the people have spoken
so be it....
#14
General discussion / Re: Name your three favourite ...
Last post by Munchie - November 11, 2025, 11:11:05 PMDolly some classics
#15
General discussion / Re: What would be your darts w...
Last post by Never beat the deeler - November 11, 2025, 11:06:26 PMQuote from: tbrick18 on November 11, 2025, 10:49:24 PMWould have to be AC/DC - Thunderstruck.
Close the thread.
Been used by a couple of players before - Christian Kist definitely
#16
General discussion / Re: Name your three favourite ...
Last post by Tony Baloney - November 11, 2025, 11:03:56 PMQuote from: AustinPowers on November 11, 2025, 10:54:16 PMChris DeBurgh will be the nail in the coffin.QuoteOh dearQuoteWe are running low on bands for the list
Run your eye over these lot that have been suggested recently. Let me know which ones you want added....
Christy Moore
Take That
Beautiful South
Public Enemy
Chris De Burgh
Waterboys
Leonard Cohen
Kinks
Duran Duran
The Cure
Van Morrison
Kris Kristofferson
Take That or Chris DeBurgh
but the people have spoken
so be it....
#17
General discussion / Re: Name your three favourite ...
Last post by AustinPowers - November 11, 2025, 10:54:16 PMQuoteOh dearQuoteWe are running low on bands for the list
Run your eye over these lot that have been suggested recently. Let me know which ones you want added....
Christy Moore
Take That
Beautiful South
Public Enemy
Chris De Burgh
Waterboys
Leonard Cohen
Kinks
Duran Duran
The Cure
Van Morrison
Kris Kristofferson
Take That or Chris DeBurgh
but the people have spoken
so be it....
#18
General discussion / Re: What would be your darts w...
Last post by tbrick18 - November 11, 2025, 10:49:24 PMWould have to be AC/DC - Thunderstruck.
Close the thread.
Close the thread.
#19
General discussion / Re: Artificial Intelligence
Last post by tbrick18 - November 11, 2025, 10:45:29 PMI've been using a number of Generative AI tools recently as a productivity tool at work.
The company I work with has invested heavily in AI and even went so far as setting up an AI practice to run proof-of-concept projects in an attempt to find where value can be recognised.
For me I've used combinations of Enterprise level Claude and CoPilot, an off the shelf product called Autogen which you can load up with your own document library and then query it, and a bespoke in-house developed tool that does something similar.
None of them in isolation do everything you'd want, so I find myself taking the output from one tool, dropping that into another tool and prompting again. Sounds messy, and it is, but in terms of efficiency gains I can honestly say productivity increases by 30-40%.
The big thing to watch out for in generated content is hallucinations (AI speak for made-up stuff). AI plugs gaps with its best guess. So unless you want to get badly caught out, you need to really understand what AI has given you before you pass it off as being correct. But....that is improving at an exponential rate.
The company had also invested in Agentic AI coding tools like Windsurf and Cursor. For those who don't know what they are, basically you prompt a tool to write software. Tell it how to fix bugs, and connect to databases and the like. I've no hands on experience, but have witnessed them in use. I'm told our dev practices have seen efficiency gains of up to 30%.
They're really good at prototyping applications really quickly which impresses customers.
Prompt engineering is going to become a skillset in its own right, and maybe even a job going forward. I've no doubt about that.
Every company we do work for now want to know how they can use AI to do things better, faster, cheaper.
It's here to stay and is moving at an incredible pace.
AI is great. Until it gets something really wrong and then its not. But so far, the pro's outweigh the cons in my experience.
The company I work with has invested heavily in AI and even went so far as setting up an AI practice to run proof-of-concept projects in an attempt to find where value can be recognised.
For me I've used combinations of Enterprise level Claude and CoPilot, an off the shelf product called Autogen which you can load up with your own document library and then query it, and a bespoke in-house developed tool that does something similar.
None of them in isolation do everything you'd want, so I find myself taking the output from one tool, dropping that into another tool and prompting again. Sounds messy, and it is, but in terms of efficiency gains I can honestly say productivity increases by 30-40%.
The big thing to watch out for in generated content is hallucinations (AI speak for made-up stuff). AI plugs gaps with its best guess. So unless you want to get badly caught out, you need to really understand what AI has given you before you pass it off as being correct. But....that is improving at an exponential rate.
The company had also invested in Agentic AI coding tools like Windsurf and Cursor. For those who don't know what they are, basically you prompt a tool to write software. Tell it how to fix bugs, and connect to databases and the like. I've no hands on experience, but have witnessed them in use. I'm told our dev practices have seen efficiency gains of up to 30%.
They're really good at prototyping applications really quickly which impresses customers.
Prompt engineering is going to become a skillset in its own right, and maybe even a job going forward. I've no doubt about that.
Every company we do work for now want to know how they can use AI to do things better, faster, cheaper.
It's here to stay and is moving at an incredible pace.
AI is great. Until it gets something really wrong and then its not. But so far, the pro's outweigh the cons in my experience.
#20
General discussion / Re: What would be your darts w...
Last post by weareros - November 11, 2025, 10:44:26 PMThe opening guitar lick of Rory Gallagher's Follow Me, better known to a certain generation watching music videos in 80s as the theme music for MT-USA.