5 minutes ago, Armchair supporter supremo said:

You're showing you have a bloody tediously boring job🤷 and likely live in a bit of an IT bubble

I'm a cleanshirt desk jockey yeah but that's the way the world is going. Out of interest what did / do you do? I bet that field has been made easier amd better at somepoint by new tools / technology / ways of working. That's all AI is, a new tool. 

42 minutes ago, Armchair supporter supremo said:

And that's why the countrys economy is going to 💩 since the lockdowns (although sheep will blame brexit🥱🥱) nobody actually wants to go out and work anymore, work ethic has gone out of the window. But hey as long as you're enjoying your life.... It's the kids and people from poorer backgrounds that will be left in the 💩 for decades to come

You should be measured by output not input. I embrace new technology and can therefore do jobs quicker than people who don't and to a better standard. AI is just another tool I use to do this. If I can do the same task to the same quality or better nuti can do it in 4 hours rather than 6, your logic would dictate I'm in the wrong. 

I watched over my colleagues shoulder as she painstakingly went down 100ish lines of data doing a manual calculation on her calculator and typing the number at the end of the row. After 5minutes and much pleading I jumped in, did a nested IF statement in less than 60 seconds and boom job done. An hours works done in 2 minutes. When Microsoft copilot rolls out I imagine it could be done in under 20 seconds. But my colleauge was showing fantastic work ethic working away in the stone age. 

Sorry but you're showing a really antiquated view of work. AI will revolutionise the workplace.

Yeah ironically AI would probably be quite good at passing the not a robot test. We could probably train it to be better than humans at it

Again with my limited cricket knowledge - purely mathematically, it seems that it might have been better if they were chasing 100 runs from the last 2 wickets rather than 50? 

The declaration would have only been a success if we'd taken a wicket or two that evening

Note that he didn't deny being a robot...

22 hours ago, Armchair supporter supremo said:

Jist briefly browsing through previous comments it seems its main use is to do peoples work for them because they're too lazy to use thier brain do it themselves 🤷 (seriously does nobody actually do a solid full weeks work anymore week in week out) 

You say lazy like it's a bad thing. If there's someone not pulling their weight in the team then yeah that is bad but what's wrong with finding different, more streamlined ways of delivering the same output? if there weren't lazy people looking for shortcuts we'd all still be working in the fields. 

It's just another tool to use in your job to make tasks quicker and more effective. It's no different to farmers using machinery to harvest crops "are people too lazy to pick it all by hand these days". 

It helps me do jobs quicker and to a better quality, i still need to fact check it and use my knowledge / experience to turn it into something useable. The other day I had a query around power purchase agreements and leases - without AI that would have probably been  a full mornings work as I could think of a few different areas I'd need to research. Within 30 seconds ChatGPT had given me all the areas I'd need to consider and a couple of others that wouldn't have crossed my mind. All in it took about an hour to turn something round to my boss. 

Makes sense to play TAA in midfield. He's transitioning there with Liverpool and could be class in that position - why not give him a go there in a dead cert game. It's not really a defensive move as he's been widely criticised for his defensive abilities. 

Very part time watcher of cricket so for the layman, why would we declare now with root still in and scoring on day 1? 

Is it to catch the aussie batsmen off guard? They wouldn't have been expecting to bat this evening and mentally clocked odd?

Finding it a real time saver when using excel. I'd sat I'm competent excel but there's loads I don't know. I'd used to Google something previously and spend ages trawling a load of answers that weren't relevant. Now I can ask the question as if I was talking to someone and get the exact answer I want. It even writes out the code / formula that I can copy straight in. Even quite complex formulas are 90% there and all I have to do is alter the cell references. 

Technical accounting queries, ChatGPT gives me a solid starting point of an answer as well pointers in terms of sources, relevant legislation etc. 

We're quite a techbophobic organisation so it's giving me a real edge in terms of speed and quality of work. 

Be funny if city lost

11 minutes ago, LDRover said:

Yeah, he strikes me as an intelligent football man, played for good clubs under good managers all his career. Am aware of the Brighton link but maybe he wants to go into management and we could tempt him?

35ish games short of premier league appearances record and physically has a season or 2 left in him. I don't think he'll be rushing into management. 

I do however think he will be a fantastic coach when he does retire 

26 minutes ago, DE. said:

Assuming we stick with a midfield two, and JRC and Wharton are our main pairing, who's doing the defending in that scenario if JRC is being primed as a goal-scoring midfielder? Wharton is a class act passing the ball around at the back and indeed from the back, or anywhere on the pitch really but is he doing to be expected to fulfil the battling DM part of the role as well? 

If we change to a midfield three with someone behind those two then fair enough, but where does that leave Buckeroo as he's certainly not suited to that DM role either.

Ideally it would be part of a 3 man midfield with some physical beast behind JRC and Wharton. I think that could be mouthwatering. 

https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2023/04/chatgpt-just-failed-this-accounting-exam.html?m=1

I can sit easy for now.

ChatGPT does seem to be really bad for accounting in comparison to other areas. The article talks ChatGPT struggling with advanced maths but accounting isn't advanced maths, it's basic arithmetic (apart from some the corporate finance / stock market stuff but that's a tiny % of the qualification). The challenge is knowing which numbers to add up which is dictated by the accounting standards which is just a big wordy document. Given it passed the Bar exam it should make light work of accounting standards. 

One other quirk is that it gets Credits and Debits mixed up. I think this will partly be because most people talk about crediting a bank account meaning an increase in money however accounting from the business point of view, crediting the bank is a decrease in money. Just shows that ChatGPT is only as good as the information already out there and as we know there's a lot of bullshit and misconceptions on the Internet 

I feel better than a lot of other seasons. We go into the summer with something to build on rather than having to rebuild the squad. 

We've gone into previous windows just needing bodies through the door as a minimum. Now there's an expectation that we need to add quality not just quantity, the bar is already higher under the current regime than the last 

Missed the play offs on goal difference, no one would have predicted that 11 months ago but its a disappointing end to the season given how many points clear we were at one point. 

A goal scorer and we were comfortably in the play offs this season. The squad isn't a million miles away, add some quality this summer and we'll be there next season. 

Is that they closest we've come to the play offs since we came down from prem? 

On 05/05/2023 at 19:17, DE. said:

One of the big issues developing is students at various levels of education using ChatGTP and other AI variants to write their essays. There are tools which supposedly detect if a piece of work is AI generated, but they are far from perfect. You get the feeling it's going to become a pretty huge issue, and is going to be a real headache for educators. 

Obviously I don't know how but assessments should be designed with AI in mind. Children of today will be spend their professional careers working alongside AI. Rather than creating tools to detect and prevent it's use, design assessments that embraces it. 

I don't remember as I was just  a kid at the time but what impact did the explosion of the Internet have? Suddenly kids had easy access to a wealth of knowledge on the world wide web where they could simply search for answers. It surely posed a similar headache but we soon embraced into the education sector. 

On 04/05/2023 at 11:20, Sweaty Gussets said:

Sam Allardyce: Leeds boss says he is 'up there' with Jurgen Klopp & Pep Guardiola - BBC Sport

It won't be a lack of confidence that defeats Big Sam at Leeds!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CryrbKzA2z-/?igshid=ZWIzMWE5ZmU3Zg==

Not sure if the link works or not but someone's put the audio of Big Sam over an impression of David Brent 😂😂

8 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

I don't think Lampard failed in his spells at Derby or Chelsea 1st spell. Think his 1st season at Chelsea was good given the club was in transfer embargo 

I agree with you here. At Derby he did no better and no worse than the previous season so I wouldn't class that as a failure. His first season at Chelsea was widely regarded as good by most given the circumstances he was in. The start of the second season wasn't great but a fair few thought he was hard done by being canned so soon. 

Everton and his second spell at Chelsea have absolutely destroyed is reputation. If he has any further aspirations to manage he should get his head down and work as a coach under experienced managers for a few years rather than take the short cuts he has so far. 

12 hours ago, ben_the_beast said:

An utterly mind blowing study here as well. Using a gpt trained model to analyse human thoughts. 

The study had subjects listening to narrative stories and silent movies and the model had to transcribe their thoughts into text. The results:

Perceived speech: (listening to a recording) 72% - 82% accurate

Imagined speech: (subjects mentally narrated a 1 minute story) 41% - 74% accurate 

Silent movie: 21% - 45% accurate 

https://www.artisana.ai/articles/gpt-ai-enables-scientists-to-passively-decode-thoughts-in-groundbreaking

Absolutely mind blowing. I can't even imagine where we'll be in 10 years time but for god sake stop decoding my thoughts! 

Win win for Big Sam. If they go down he had 4 games, one against city and the other against newcastle what more could he have done? If he keeps them up then he restores a little bit of shine he lost at WBA 

2 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Sounds like the square bar is slightly too long. Remove it and saw about 6mm off the end. I had a similar issue last year. 

Magic thank you! New handles was more of a minefield than I thought in terms of measurements

Clean shirt desk jockey reporting in again. Hoping @Tyrone Shoelaces is still online 😂

Had a broken front door handle, ordered a new one after measuring over and over again but its some how not fitting right. As you can see from the picture below it's bent out in the middle. 

Old and new handles have identical dimensions, all the holes line up perfectly. I used the old screws and spindle rather than the new ones which were a touch longer so confused what isn't working. Am I right in thinking the spindle is pushing it out I'm the middle? If so is it as simple as cutting it down a few mm? 

Functionally it feels sturdy and is working fine (for now) but looks naff, inside and out. 

Accountant here - I've used it, it doesn't do my job for me (yet) but certainly short cuts it for me. 

1. I'm the guy people ask to go research accounting standards and give technical advice. I usually ask ChatGPT the same question I get asked. It doesn't give a perfect answer but it gives me enough of a starting point. At the very least it tells me which part of a 70 standard to look at. 

2. It'll write an excel formula or a macro for me in seconds. Again it's not always perfect but will give me something to alter rather than writing from scratch

AI is going to be huge very soon. I saw a good quote on LinkedIn, AI won't takeover your job, people who aren't afraid to use AI will take over your job. 

58 minutes ago, Groundhog said:

All JDT's tactical decisions, post-match, his subs, etc are all under the microscope without goals. It's all about bloody goals, that's it - with goals the fine, fine margins in the Preston, Coventry, Hull and Wigan games are gone and we're 8 points better off, same as Boro.

I've been thinking the same. Disallow Coventrys goal, Hedges buries his one on one with the keeper and we get that last minute penalty against Burnley, thats 5 points right there and we're comfortably in the playoffs and that's. Now add a 20 goal striker and some of those small losses where we've dominated the game but not taken our chances turn into victories and we're pushing automatic and JDT is a hero.