17 Oct
2025
17 Oct
'25
6:59 p.m.
On Fri, 17 Oct 2025, Martin Bishop wrote:
I shall shift into BeerMode, everyone else seems to be
there
[BeerMode raambling]
British beer is excellent, and always has been. (and, It doesn't need to
be cooled down to the edge of freezing)
My father used to say, "A pint is a pound, the wrold around"; if that ever
was true of British beer, it wouldn't be now, and even as a unit of
measure, a pint is ambiguous.
Oil leaks and Lucas Electrics are issues with British cars and
motorcycles, and pretty much not an issue with anything else.
Many inventions come from UK. Including the parents/grandparents of the
USA inventors.
Bletchley Park was a major undertaking.
Without Alan Turing, where would we be?
Current AI, despite being STUPID and hallucinating, could probably pass
any of the earlier Turing tests.
(at one point, cchatGPT was asked for the last digit of PI;
a SERIOUS flaw in current AI design is to never let it answer, "I Don't
Know"! Also, there have been a LOT of legal cases where AI drew up
briefs, and included precedents that didn't exist!)
Sinclair did some brilliant and clever stuff.
There is nothing wrong with British computers.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com