Fake 184

Fake 184 was more plastic vegetation, this time from the start of the passage running down from Waterloo Road to Court Recreation Ground. Not clear (to me anyway) why one would want to add a couple of feet of fake ivy screen on top of a couple of feet of wooden fence of top of rather more feet of brick wall. Are they apt to be up to something which would attract Peeping Toms?

On the way, a stop to snap a cheap plastic dinosaur, acquired from a pavement on my way into town. It will be added to our small collection of same, perhaps to function as prey rather than predator. Dinosaurs' tea party? Market Square looking a bit bleak late morning yesterday. Even the street food people had not got their shutters up.

Rollator back in service, hopefully not for long. After which other peoples' trolleys will be back on the agenda. End-year target in jeopardy again.

Using which word reminds me that some years ago now, IBM made a big splash when their Watson product became the champion at a television panel game called Jeopardy! I wonder if the large language models we have now would turn their noses up at such a championship as beneath their dignity? And where is Watson now? When I have a moment, maybe I will check. See references 3 and 4.

Come to that, how would the large language models do at chess and go, long time targets of the AI community? Maybe here I should be looking here to Google's Deepmind, the product underneath their Alphafold, the thing that folds proteins for you, rather than Gemini and his friends, more conversationally orientated. For which see reference 5.

After the market square, back home to the rather more cheerful sight of my every-day mixed box - Quotidian Quaffers - from Caves de Pyrene of reference 6, people whom we started using after the plague shut down Terroirs in William IV Street - not quite sure that this was cause and effect, but the two events were around the same time. Three red, three white. Two French, two Italian, two Spanish. The reds imported for the Cave. One, possibly two, screw tops. One orgo. Water from Wales. At least the water originally came from Wales, but the bottle has now been reused several times, our having switched from jugs of table water to the more versatile bottles.

Plus, at the back, three interesting chunks of egg box moulding, which will no doubt be pressed into craft duties, along with the box proper, in due course.

30 days to go and almost set up.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/10/fake-183.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/11/trolley-769.html.

Reference 3: https://www.jeopardy.com/.

Reference 4: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/07/assisting-doctors.html.

Reference 5: https://deepmind.google/technologies/alphafold/alphafold-server/.

Reference 6: https://shop.lescaves.co.uk/lescaves-shopfront.

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