Captain's Log - Stardate September 26th 2025
Still trawling The Ocean of Data. There are rich pickings out here. Every day we haul up huge tons of the stuff and transfer it to "Gorgon" - the mother ship. The job seems endless.
We have just entered The Sea of Bloggo off the coast of Narnia where the shoals are known to be particularly abundant. Data seethes just below the surface, squirming and thrashing and sometimes bursting into the sunshine like multitudes of silvery flying fish. I have never seen anything like it.
We are well-paid by Nvidia but the company's hunger for freshly caught data seems unquenchable. Every day they want - more, more, more.
It appears that the more data that is poured into the central processing plant in Santa Clara, the more accurate, visionary and ironclad their outcomes and proposals will become.
This is about changing the world folks and I'm all for that but sometimes I look back to the lazy days when we chugged out of Grimsby struggling to find cod fish off the coast of Norway or Shetland. On a calm, starlit night with sea anchor operational, the crew would gather in the galley and fuelled with tumblers of Jamaican rum sing...
"Old McDonald had a ship
Ay-eye, ay-eye - No!
And on that ship he had a monster
Ay-eye, ay-eye - No!
With a gobble gooble here
And a gobble gobble there
Here a gobble there a gobble
Everywhere a gooble gobble
Old McDonald had a ship
Ay-eye, ay-eye - No!"
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It was our Frances's thirty-seventh birthday today and we enjoyed brunch with her at "Carrie's" on Ecclesall Road. Her best friend Charlotte was there with her youngest boy Milo - who is in Margot's class at nursery school. Years ago Frances and Charlotte were also in the very same class at nursery school. Their bond of friendship is very strong. They even went to the same university. The brunch was excellent and Margot and Milo were excited to see the passing buses and lorries on the road below.
Not scary at all. I'm glad Frances had a good birthday.
ReplyDeleteI never claimed to be scary Pixie!
DeleteHappy Birthday to Frances! May she have a wonderful year!
ReplyDeleteI will pass your kind birthday greeting on Ellen. Thank you.
DeleteOur kids seem to grow up quickly and then they age quickly. Happy birthday to Frances
ReplyDeleteIt is like we are watching an express train go by.
DeleteLove the ship. Happy Birthday Frances. I knew a Frances when I was in Primary School, she was Italian and had a fine singing voice.
ReplyDeleteMy Frances is also a good singer but she is not Italian.
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ReplyDelete...sun shines, make hay.
DeleteIf only the increase in data and ease of availability meant people were more informed. It seems, instead, to create rabbit holes down which people can scamper. Down there they glean all sorts of stuff that enables them to connect the dots and become “awake”. They then happily, nay gleefully, ignore experts and science and feed the coffers of those selling their garbage. When you point out one of their icons believes the royal family are shape shifting lizards they dismiss it as everyone can have a bad day.
ReplyDeleteGleefully ignoring experts seems to me the modus operandi of the present Windbag in The White House. He is an expert in just about everything... according to him.
DeleteIt is quite depressing.
DeleteThere was a blogger who supported him and ridiculed those who questioned him. Unfortunately that person is no longer blogging - a pity, it would have been interested to read their take on Trump now.
Belated Happy Birthday to Frances.
ReplyDeleteI too have a friend from years back - ever since our mothers pushed us in our prams to baby clinic! Although we now live in different parts of Europe, we can still keep in touch, thanks to email.
I wonder what will be next - after computers, mobile phones and AI? Advances in communication etc., won't just stop now.
Thank you Carol. How lovely it must be to have such a "sister" with whom you have voyaged through life.
DeleteNice personal stuffs, and an amusing read of the Captain's Log.
ReplyDeleteHello sailor!
DeleteWhat will AI learn from scanning our blogs?
ReplyDeleteFoe example, it will learn better writing techniques and if trawling your blog today - just as an example - it will learn a bit more about Rhode Island and how to write about it.. All of my recent blogposts have attracted over 2000 visits each and a lot of those "hits" are surely down to A.I. activity.
DeleteAh- so your Francis has her birthday the same day as my Owen and Lily, his mother, has her birthday today. She is forty. Happy birthday to them all!
ReplyDeleteApparently September 26this the biggest day of the year for birthdays.
DeleteHappy birthday to Frances. How fortunate she is to have a lifelong friend. I wonder how many people can claim that?
ReplyDeleteAnd now they live within two hundred yards of each other. It's something so precious.
DeleteThat's pretty great, that Frances has maintained a childhood friendship and now their own kids are in the same class. There's something to be said for living on your home turf, rather than being a global wanderer like some people I know. (Me, obviously.)
ReplyDeleteUnlike ocean-going fish, there is an endless and ever-growing supply of data out there! No overfishing possible!
The A.I feast is like an endless brunch.
DeleteFrom my perspective, the rampant data harvesting of the various AI implementations is very much like the tragedy of the commons - these people harvest the data but put nothing back into paying anyone for the use of that data. I don't have an easy answer to this though.
ReplyDeleteSometimes you just have to shake your head in exasperation.
DeleteBelated Happy Birthday to Frances! To maintain lifelong friendships requires a decent character in the first place. Not surprising, since Frances is you and Shirley's daughter.
ReplyDeleteWhat happens if someone falls off the ship into the sea squirming with data?
If they fall in there, they drown through inhaling too much data.
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