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AI for Everyone
Next Wednesday I’ll be at Basingstoke u3a talking about AI https://www.basingstokeu3a.org/monthly-meetings #U3A #AI

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Science talk Artificial Intelligence
Next week I will be speaking at Banstead Area u3a Science Group https://bansteadarea.u3asite.uk/u3a_events/science-talk-on-artificial-intelligence/ #u3a #ai

AI in Government
I will be chairing this online u3a event tomorrow: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-news-february-ai-in-government-tickets-1980455664204 #u3a #ai

1812 seems to have been a popular parental choice! This one holds memories for me, and even the cover photo looks like our garden in the winter of 1963!

AI for Everyone
On Friday I will be at White Cliffs Country u3a, talking about AI. https://wcc.u3asite.uk/u3a_events/ai-artificial-intelligence-for-everyone/ #AI #u3a

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Brands Hatch SIMs
This was great fun - driving the race sims at SIM Motorsport, Brands Hatch. I came 7th out of 12. https://share.icloud.com/photos/09cEFikdKem8Cs9Ql045_G86Q

Addiscombe ARC
It took some head-scratching to get the config right, but I have now added the Addiscombe newsfeed to the fediverse. Follow @G4CTP #hamradio

Anyone for morse?
I just completed my first CW QSO in over 50 years! Very nerve-racking. I think I need a little lie down now! #amateurradio

Volumio update
Kitchen #Volumio player upgraded to latest version, which required an SD reflash. It runs on a #Pi 3, with DAC and soundbar on top of the kitchen units. And also a lot of dust!

Mystery connector
Does anyone know what connector this is? Notice it is D-shaped, not round.

SEMARC meeting
Tonight is the first of a series of meetings to construct a simple pi-based SDR receiver #semarc #hamradio https://membermojo.co.uk/semarc

EULA ratings
@Peter Lord What was the website you showed that gives a traffic light rating of user licenses?

Testing, testing
Test of my fediverse to Bluesky link…

Not a bad result. www.rsgbcc.org/cgi-bin/vhfr... #rsgb #ft8

An excellent evening with Gryphon at Trading Boundaries. Only 51 years since I first saw them at Crystal Palace.

Sporadic E propagation on 6m at the weekend

I’ve completed a restoration of this beautiful Beogram 900. Not much needed doing: mainly tidying up the woodwork and replacing the bulbs with LEDs.

My son spotted this curiosity in a charity shop and bought it for me. It’s a bit of a novelty item, but actually rather good! Have you come across it, @sidsmith.bsky.social ?

Today’s solar noon transit in Acireale Cathedral, Sicily

Ceramic insulators. Catania, Sicily.

Italy still has Teletext!

#Perplexity.ai gave me this suggestion for a short comedy story. Heard it somewhere before, perhaps?

"The Great Gourmet Night Disaster"
Basil and Sybil, the bickering owners of The Wobbly Wheel pub, decide to host a gourmet night to attract a more upscale clientele

Quite a crowd up at Newlands Corner looking for planets

The planet parade continues. 6 planets visible in the night sky, into late February. But what about Mercury?

Forecast is for clear skies tonight. We might take our binoculars up to Newlands Corner just after sunset. www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/planeta...

Tomorrow’s #SilverAIProject for #Guildford #u3a looks at some more advanced generative AI image creation tools

Not sure if you attended the @u3acommunities.org #fediverse talk (follow-up & recording here https://u3acommunities.org/is-it-time-to-move-to-the-fediverse-followup/).

The talk included a suggestion that maybe, #u3a world-wide could create and manage our own #fediverse instance. We can set our […]

At what point does a loaf become a work of art? #homebaking

The monthly #Guildford #u3a talk today is on the #NT work at Munstead Wood guildford.u3asite.uk/u3a_events/m...