Speaking of things going up, here are 10 more:
- Airplanes
- Balloons
- Prices
- Stock Markets
- Sun
- Kites
- Ladders
- Elevators
- Temperatures
- Fireworks
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Speaking of things going up, here are 10 more:
- Airplanes
- Balloons
- Prices
- Stock Markets
- Sun
- Kites
- Ladders
- Elevators
- Temperatures
- Fireworks
Of all of those, only one stays up.
Yeah, this thread probably won't stay up either...... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I'd say that it was loaded with non sequiturs, but that would be too topical.
This was fun https://www.braingle.com/trivia/
I did terrible, think I only got 5 out of 12.
I wonder how common these terms are??? Maybe our UK members could chime in.
This is definitely a head shaker. $6.2 million banana.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/ente...194612501.html
I must have taken a different quiz.
Yeah, it changes every day. I forgot about that. It was a British slang quiz.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
But are you interested in buying a banana.
Here it is
https://www.braingle.com/trivia/2441...s-of-meat.html
I only got four. I did see a pattern, though. Rhyming was always the answer, when it was an option.
I got 6.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
You live closer. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Peter Porter
and lo it came to pass that the son was pardoned by the father and it was considered good....
You're in the wrong thread. This thread is for irrelevancies, not current events.
I split many cords of wood, last week. I feel good.
Today on Fark we were given a couple of Nasa technicians to Photoshop.
I figured I give them a vacation:
https://www.vbforums.com/images/ieimages/2024/12/1.jpg
Post race - it's now slower than a tortoise race!
It comes and goes.
Never quite dies, though.
I just hit me, we haven't heard from DDay in a long time.
That's true. There haven't been any storms of late, either.
About a month, actually, which wouldn't be too surprising from me, though not at this time of year.
I just came back from the restroom at my workplace.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Had a magnificient "session"....
Don't want to know.
I felt really good, too....Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Still don't want to know.
You should forget what you want to know. I forgot what I wanted to know but I've forgotten what I wanted to forget.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
Snowing this morning. Good time not to be commuting, though it should turn to rain by this afternoon.
To stay in your "habits"?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Attachment 193748
No strap hanging, for me.
Happy Christmas/holidays/...(replace as appropriate)/ to all :wave:
Happy Solstice. The days are feeling longer already.
This houseboat seems to be floundering.
This is actual the building that was located at the end of the Santa Cruz pier. The end of the pier collapsed yesterday. It hung together, sort of, and made it to shore. It's luck that only the end of the pier because there's a long row of busy restaurants and stores on that pier.
Foundering, I'd say.
Still, they should have built those establishments on the shore between piers, not on the pier itself. That could have resulted in a pier to pier network.
Well, they already have a pier to pier fun run between Santa Cruz pier and the Capitola pier. It just got a little shorter. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
That's the way we like it.
I almost went for a run this morning.
My heart wasn't in it.
Actually, it was more like my intestines, but nobody wanted to hear that.
And yet, you did.
Great news, I've approved for a loan by the Turkish government at a new lower rate.
https://apnews.com/article/turkey-ce...0ae688711f24a3
Sweet!!! lol
That article was a shocker to me. didn't know those kind of rates even existed.
I guess Turkey is a very interesting place, these days.
Sapator probably wouldn't like that.
Yes, there is definitely high interest in Turkey.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I would like that kind of yield on my bonds. I would not like the inflation that caused that kind of yield.
Yesterday I started a journey coding an advance AI in Visual Basic from scratch, without third party libraries. I knocked out two classes today (AdamOptimzer and MatrixUtils), which took a few hours, so I'm cutting it to a class a day.
This has been planned for over two years, on and off, so you wont believe how relieved I am to finally be coding it.
There was gonna be some hard coded rules to assist with it's learning, but I decided to drop it, and let it learn on it's own once it's ready.
Was gonna call it rekramatoy for $hits and giggles, but I have another name in mind.
I'm taking it slow with the AI classes, testing them as I go.
Here are some console results:
Testing MatrixUtils...
Initialized Matrix:
0.0077 0.0001 0.0013
0.0063 0.0064 0.0053
0.0027 0.0031 0.0067
Dot Product Result:
0.0001 0.0000 0.0000
0.0001 0.0001 0.0001
0.0001 0.0000 0.0001
Error: Matrix A has 3 rows and 2 columns. Matrix B has 4 rows and 3 columns. Matrix A columns must match Matrix B rows for multiplication.
Embedded Sequence:
0.0061 0.0042
0.0062 0.0083
0.0041 0.0064
Error: Invalid index 5 in the sequence. Valid indices are from 0 to 2.
Updated Weights:
0.0076 0.0001 0.0012
0.0063 0.0063 0.0053
0.0027 0.0030 0.0067
Testing MatrixUtils...
Initialized Matrix:
0.0065 0.0094 0.0087
0.0087 0.0087 0.0010
0.0039 0.0080 0.0070
Dot Product Result:
0.0002 0.0002 0.0001
0.0001 0.0002 0.0001
0.0001 0.0002 0.0001
Error: Matrix A has 3 rows and 2 columns. Matrix B has 4 rows and 3 columns. Matrix A columns must match Matrix B rows for multiplication.
Embedded Sequence:
0.0001 0.0064
0.0006 0.0029
0.0010 0.0008
Error: Invalid index 5 in the sequence. Valid indices are from 0 to 2.
Updated Weights:
0.0065 0.0094 0.0087
0.0086 0.0087 0.0010
0.0038 0.0079 0.0069
Testing MatrixUtils...
Initialized Matrix:
0.0005 0.0032 0.0054
0.0068 0.0097 0.0031
0.0074 0.0089 0.0045
Dot Product Result:
0.0001 0.0001 0.0000
0.0001 0.0001 0.0001
0.0001 0.0001 0.0001
Error: Matrix A has 3 rows and 2 columns. Matrix B has 4 rows and 3 columns. Matrix A columns must match Matrix B rows for multiplication.
Embedded Sequence:
0.0089 0.0072
0.0002 0.0089
0.0074 0.0042
Error: Invalid index 5 in the sequence. Valid indices are from 0 to 2.
Updated Weights:
0.0005 0.0031 0.0054
0.0068 0.0096 0.0030
0.0073 0.0088 0.0045
Testing MatrixUtils...
Initialized Matrix:
0.0011 0.0068 0.0051
0.0028 0.0006 0.0036
0.0071 0.0013 0.0031
Dot Product Result:
0.0001 0.0000 0.0000
0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
0.0000 0.0001 0.0001
Embedded Sequence:
0.0011 0.0068
0.0051 0.0028
0.0006 0.0036
Updated Weights:
0.0011 0.0067 0.0050
0.0028 0.0006 0.0035
0.0070 0.0013 0.0031
Testing AdamOptimizer...
Updated Weights After Adam Optimizer:
0.0001 0.0058 0.0041
0.0018 -0.0004 0.0026
0.0061 0.0003 0.0021
All tests completed.
These tests check if the basic operations like initializing matrices, computing dot products, and updating weights with Adam are working correctly, and they are! Woo-hoo!
I'm ready to move on to the next class of the AI. :bigyello:
I wanna have it ready to start learning before I got back to work on January 7th.
I coded a great visualization to show everyone it's learning, which I can't wait to intergrate on the final day!
All joking aside. I really can't imagine how a financial system can work with rates like that. Seems like any borrowers would just go broke. But I don't know much about finance, except to pay my bills. I think the last time I got a loan was in 2002 when I refinanced my house.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I would guess that a whole lot of stuff is handled by barter, or in other currencies, or something like that. With inflation at that level, any money you get your hands on should be turned into tangible goods as quickly as possible, as the money will be losing noticeable value by the day.
What is the process of learning? Neural nets? Genetics? Making things up?Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Porter
It's mostly neural nets, with a sprinkle of optimization magic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Maybe one day I'll throw in genetics for good measure! :p