What cheeses me off

WCMO are all those articles that apparently all describe, without fail or fault, how to get a free upgrade on board a flight.

W also CMO is how those articles got past the editor and why there isn't a separate circle of hell for those lazy and idiotic journos who wrote them.
 
Another forum. Live Trip Reports. I'm quite keen to see how this cruise pans out as we are doing it in a few months. So, found the perfect Live TR. we have spent the last three weeks hearing about all sorts of irrelevant minutiae but the writer has an entertaining writing style so I've hung in with it. She is cruising to a different country and she is not purchasing a local sim. She has not purchased the ships wifi. Yesterday, she was about to leave her hotel to board the ship. It had free wifi so she was posting. So as she writes to depart the hotel she wrote, 'that's pretty much it for a week as I won't pay for ship wifi and I don't have a local phone'. 😡😤🤬👿😾. The only bit I was really interested in and had just invested reading two weeks of fluff. Ok I know I can read it later but that isn't the point. Don't call it LIVE when you KNOW that isn't what will happen. Of course two and three days delays can happen but they are simply random travel connection and time issues.

Another WCMO. Why can't I bold anything anymore on this forum? When editing. It's all greyed out.

Is LIVE the new click bait?
 
anat0l said:
WCMO are all those articles that apparently all describe, without fail or fault, how to get a free upgrade on board a flight.

W also CMO is how those articles got past the editor and why there isn't a separate circle of hell for those lazy and idiotic journos who wrote them.
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the other day the media were promoting a Flyer Guru on how to get deals and service and lounge access. Then, in hushed reverent voice - he's a GOLD member of the QFF group. 😂
 
prozac said:
Turns out the spinach is little more than green splashes on the outside of an otherwise bland loaf. Will be a long while before we consider stopping at Bakers Delight again.
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Reminds me of when we used our Priority Pass at MEL last month (we each had two passes expiring mid Feb), we used 2 of those at the Cafe Sol, airside in the international terminal, with $35 credit each. So we got some lunch for the next day , including a Chicken Schnitzel roll (I think it was $17 or $19). It had a nice piece of chicken sticking out the side of the roll. Come in sucker. The only chicken was the sticking out bit - a thin strip of chicken - with nothing inside the roll itself. Never again.

FWIW, we did use the remaining two at the Urban Providore for Burger and Chips + soft drink before adjourning to the QF lounge for some alcohol beverages and dessert. Which was just right, as the slop in QF lounge was just gravy and almost no protein *#WCMO as well if I hadn't eaten the burger before hand).
 
TheRealTMA said:
This headlong rush to the AI bubble is WCHO.

arstechnica.com

AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says

CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.
arstechnica.com arstechnica.com
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I think what is C you O is not AI itself, but rather how much people aren't questioning its effectiveness and accuracy.

Given most AI these days is based on a learning model (rather than "expert system" in the past), like humans of course they need to be trained, and they keep learning. That's not to say that you can't trust AI if it makes a mistake - you need to trace back to how it made the mistake, and you certainly need sensible humans who can identify when it makes a mistake. IBM Watson took hours and hours of training and several blunders in testing before it became proficient enough to beat the best at Jeopardy (and it still failed when placing Daily Double and final round bids).

Turns out AI is just as bad as humans when it comes to something it doesn't know, i.e. they are extremely reluctant to admit they don't know and/or are wrong. But... we programmed those AI models to respond that way.

Fully trusting the AI models fundamentally is a mistake (as one law firm found out the hard way), but discarding and fully distrusting AI development categorically is not the answer either.

As with most things science and technology, the scientists and engineers prefer a methodical approach with proper contextual understanding whereas the popular media just wants to own the miracle in the most cavalier manner.... and then when things go wrong they will blame the scientists and engineers. If there's anything to be cheesed off about, it should be that.
 
anat0l said:
Fully trusting the AI models fundamentally is a mistake (as one law firm found out the hard way), but discarding and fully distrusting AI development categorically is not the answer either.
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Yes, its just a tool. You can use the tool correctly or incorrectly. Either way the user is in charge.

anat0l said:
and then when things go wrong they will blame the scientists and engineers
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No they will blame whoever through a political lens whatever the underlying scientific or engineering credibility. Even the scientists are politicising themselves.
 
WCMO is the auto speed control in my Subaru. You'd think it would learn my driving style. On regional roads I might see a change in speed ahead so flick the control from 100 back to 80. I would take my foot off the accelerator a little early, using distance or a visible rise in the road ahead to wash off speed naturally so I am at desired speed when I hit the new zone. The Subaru happlies the breaks, not what I consider ideal.
 
AI is a technology. It is not a science.

But what cheesed me off yesterday was ladies driving white Hyundai i30s.
Example 1. Driving down Bulcock street Caloundra. Very slow. but also stopped at every pedestrian crossing even though no pedestrians at any of the crossings. At the 2 speed humps she slowed to a crawl, then stopped on top of the hump before letting gravity taking her car of the hump. Fortunately she pulled over.

Example 2. Soon after the next pulled straight out of a side street onmy left. She obviously wanted to test my reflexes as when Bulcock street widens I signalled I was going into the right lane. As soon as i straightened up in the right lane she pulled over straight in front of me without signalling. A short time later she realised she wanted to be in the left lane to go to the supermarket. This time she indicated herdesre and waited for a gap to actually pull over. So I missed the green light but was the first at the red.

Example 3. I thought I was in the clear but I forgot about the law of 3s. Those turning left from the road on the left have a green arrow before the main road gets the green. You guessed it another i30 driven by a woman. Now I realised what was going to happen when we got to the large roundabout where I turn onto te Nicklin way. She didn't let me down leaving a large gap to the car in front of her so more cars could pullm into the right lane. Then at the roundabout just stopped until she could see no cars coming. Most of the cars coming into Caloundra went straight ahead and didn't go past us. Fortunately she went straight ahead.

When I got a red light at Currimundi I realised it was another white i30 just in front of me in the left lane. However the power of the Law of 3s meant she kept to her lane.
 
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drron said:
AI is a technology. It is not a science.

But what cheesed me off yesterday was ladies driving white Hyundai i30s.
Example 1. Driving down Bulcock street Caloundra. Very slow. but also stopped at every pedestrian crossing even though no pedestrians at any of the crossings. At the 2 speed humps she slowed to a crawl, then stopped on top of the hump before letting gravity taking her car of the hump. Fortunately she pulled over.

Example 2. Soon after the next pulled straight out of a side street onmy left. She obviously wanted to test my reflexes as when Bulcock street widens I signalled I was going into the right lane. As soon as i straightened up in the right lane she pulled over straight in front of me without signalling. A short time later she realised she wanted to be in the left lane to go to the supermarket. This time she indicated herdesre and waited for a gap to actually pull over. So I missed the green light but was the first at the red.

Example 3. I thought I was in the clear but I forgot about the law of 3s. Those turning left from the road on the left have a green arrow before the main road gets the green. You guessed it another i30 driven by a woman. Now I realised what was going to happen when we got to the large roundabout where I turn onto te Nicklin way. She didn't let me down leaving a large gap to the car in front of her so more cars could pullm into the right lane. Then at the roundabout just stopped until she could see no cars coming. Most of the cars coming into Caloundra went straight ahead and didn't go past us. Fortunately she went straight ahead.

When I got a red light at Currimundi I realised it was another white i30 just in front of me in the left lane. However the power of the Law of 3s meant she kept to her ane.
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So you would prefer it if women didn't drive?
 
drron said:
AI is a technology. It is not a science.

But what cheesed me off yesterday was ladies driving white Hyundai i30s.
Example 1. Driving down Bulcock street Caloundra. Very slow. but also stopped at every pedestrian crossing even though no pedestrians at any of the crossings. At the 2 speed humps she slowed to a crawl, then stopped on top of the hump before letting gravity taking her car of the hump. Fortunately she pulled over.

Example 2. Soon after the next pulled straight out of a side street onmy left. She obviously wanted to test my reflexes as when Bulcock street widens I signalled I was going into the right lane. As soon as i straightened up in the right lane she pulled over straight in front of me without signalling. A short time later she realised she wanted to be in the left lane to go to the supermarket. This time she indicated herdesre and waited for a gap to actually pull over. So I missed the green light but was the first at the red.

Example 3. I thought I was in the clear but I forgot about the law of 3s. Those turning left from the road on the left have a green arrow before the main road gets the green. You guessed it another i30 driven by a woman. Now I realised what was going to happen when we got to the large roundabout where I turn onto te Nicklin way. She didn't let me down leaving a large gap to the car in front of her so more cars could pullm into the right lane. Then at the roundabout just stopped until she could see no cars coming. Most of the cars coming into Caloundra went straight ahead and didn't go past us. Fortunately she went straight ahead.

When I got a red light at Currimundi I realised it was another white i30 just in front of me in the left lane. However the power of the Law of 3s meant she kept to her ane.
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