Posts Tagged ‘Navy’
Bullshit Baffles Brains
It’s right there in the title. If the word offends you, just stop, now. TL;DR Generative AI is a bullshit machine, but that’s fine because we need machines to do the bullshit jobs. Military Grade Bullshit I first heard the phrase ‘Bullshit Baffles Brains’ in my early days in the Navy, and I would hear […]
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Tags: AI, bullshit, ChatGPT, generative, LLM, Navy
Black Sea ’93
The last few weeks have had me reflecting a lot on my time in Russia and Ukraine almost 30y ago… When I joined the Royal Navy in ’89 we were definitely living in ‘interesting times’. The defence studies lecturers at Britannia Royal Naval College (BRNC) Dartmouth were tearing up talks they’d used for decades as […]
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Tags: Black Sea, Constanta, Navy, Novorossiysk, Odessa, Russia, Ukraine, Varna
A lack of discretion
There’s been a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking over last week’s shutdown of Boston during the pursuit of terror suspects. I have my own opinions about what went on, but don’t feel this is the time or place to get into that. The point of this post is to examine whether if many (or even […]
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Tags: bomb, common sense, discretion, Navy, terror, transformer
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