[AFMUG] Alexa Troubleshooting

2024-09-02 Thread Nate Burke
I don't use Alexa units, so maybe someone who uses them could help me figure out how the back-end connectivity works.  I have a business customer that has 2 wifi Alexa speakers in his office. He uses them to play music, somehow they must sync together because they both play the same thing.  Abo

Re: [AFMUG] War Games

2024-09-02 Thread Rex McGuire
WOPR - War Operation Planned Response If I remember correctly. Shall we play a game? On Sun, Sep 1, 2024 at 9:13 AM Bill Prince wrote: > I remember the name of the computer: WOPR. > -- > bp > part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com > > > On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 2:46 PM Ken Hohhof wrote: > >> Some here mus

Re: [AFMUG] War Games

2024-09-02 Thread Ken Hohhof
So in 1983 a movie predicts that turning over important decisions to AI is a bad idea. (Lots of others too, remember Skynet, and HAL? What was that South African film with the police robots?) Now in 2024, AI is the greatest thing since sliced bread. My complaint isn’t so much that AI co

Re: [AFMUG] War Games

2024-09-02 Thread Bill Prince
The way I (currently) understand AI and the LLM (Large Language Models) that they "train" on, is that it is more memorization than what we might call understanding. Sure it works well at stringing words together, but it seems what we're calling AI can't really do basic math yet. Here's a good over

Re: [AFMUG] fiber patch cables

2024-09-02 Thread Josh Luthman
SASJ On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 4:54 PM wrote: > Are you using double or triple armor cable? > > *From:* Josh Luthman > *Sent:* Thursday, August 29, 2024 1:43 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] fiber patch cables > > We are something like 80% direct bury. We pay f