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Shouldn't be anymore of these.
I'm hoping I've now put sufficient countermeasures in place 👍
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I'm hoping I've now put sufficient countermeasures in place 👍
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📝 Spam
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Captain)
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Hi all,
Been a little absent from the site for the past couple of weeks due to a house move. Who'd have thought it was so much work!
Deleted all the spam rubbish now. Despite best efforts, you still get the unfortunate sad individuals who haven't anything better to do than to post rubbish on other websites, or train bots to do it for them.
If it keeps re-occurring, I encourage all of you to please report these posts as spam. I'll soon be changing how these spam reports work and put simply - if multiple members report posts, I'll have the website be clever enough to delete everything by a user (especially a newly registered one) instead of waiting on me 😁
Thanks!
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Been a little absent from the site for the past couple of weeks due to a house move. Who'd have thought it was so much work!
Deleted all the spam rubbish now. Despite best efforts, you still get the unfortunate sad individuals who haven't anything better to do than to post rubbish on other websites, or train bots to do it for them.
If it keeps re-occurring, I encourage all of you to please report these posts as spam. I'll soon be changing how these spam reports work and put simply - if multiple members report posts, I'll have the website be clever enough to delete everything by a user (especially a newly registered one) instead of waiting on me 😁
Thanks!
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📝 Question of the Day?
4 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Captain)
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We do have rotating keywords that the QoD runs off, about 150. It probably needs an overhaul. So I'm happy to take question topic suggestions like merchant ships, naval vessels and the titanic! Might be worth having a list of specific ships and vessels of interest.
I think the challenge with making it modelling specific, is there are often no right answers there. Build methods and techniques vary and are subjective. I think historical and famous boats/ships people can relate to though, so we could focus it a little more in that direction?
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I think the challenge with making it modelling specific, is there are often no right answers there. Build methods and techniques vary and are subjective. I think historical and famous boats/ships people can relate to though, so we could focus it a little more in that direction?
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📝 Question of the Day?
4 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Captain)
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It’s still an improvement to a person writing out 365 questions a year. I don’t think we’d have a question of the day without AI.
Repeats are slightly less common now and the accuracy seems to be much better than it was.
Sign of the times definitely! As an IT developer in my day job too, it’s amazing to see what AI can do now verses just 2 years ago. Not sure all is good! But we have to keep our fingers crossed!
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Repeats are slightly less common now and the accuracy seems to be much better than it was.
Sign of the times definitely! As an IT developer in my day job too, it’s amazing to see what AI can do now verses just 2 years ago. Not sure all is good! But we have to keep our fingers crossed!
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📝 Question of the Day?
4 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Captain)
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@BoatShed - The Android App was removed from the Google Play Store - my fault, I didn't fill in a tonne of developer details they were asking for before the deadline!
Hoping they'll re-instate it soon, but I don't know how long it'll be yet.
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Hoping they'll re-instate it soon, but I don't know how long it'll be yet.
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📝 Pictures
4 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Captain)
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Working on this problem. It seems like the file limit was reached on the server, which has caused a number of problems. It shouldn't have been reached, so I'm keeping an eye on the reasons for it.
Uploads should be working again now though and the notifications and trending topics backlog is being processed.
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Uploads should be working again now though and the notifications and trending topics backlog is being processed.
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📝 Email format
5 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Captain)
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Is it possible to have a screenshot of it?
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📝 Question of the Day?
5 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Captain)
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Should be 6ft.
As agreed when AI goes wrong… we’ll regenerate a new question for the day shortly.
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As agreed when AI goes wrong… we’ll regenerate a new question for the day shortly.
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📝 Private sales
5 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Captain)
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Yes, you can advertise private sales. I only disallow companies.
Although if you make a sale from advertising here… I do encourage a small contribution 😊 it does cost to keep everything afloat 🛟
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Although if you make a sale from advertising here… I do encourage a small contribution 😊 it does cost to keep everything afloat 🛟
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📝 Question of the Day?
5 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Captain)
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Since this is bound to happen again, what is the correct action next time around when we know there’s an error?
1. Fix the current question
2. Generate a totally different question
3. Leave it as is
And your time starts… now… 😁
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1. Fix the current question
2. Generate a totally different question
3. Leave it as is
And your time starts… now… 😁
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📝 Question of the Day?
5 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Captain)
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Second chance to all today! I've updated the question and reset any entries.
Also Doug... I may have found a reason for your glitch by accident. I discovered the database is creating a few questions per day, not just the one! Shouldn't be happening... so I'll fix that later. It could be that when you clicked it was right, then the database got another update, page refreshed, the new question was then wrong... seems possible. Some were the same question but the answers swapped about.
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Also Doug... I may have found a reason for your glitch by accident. I discovered the database is creating a few questions per day, not just the one! Shouldn't be happening... so I'll fix that later. It could be that when you clicked it was right, then the database got another update, page refreshed, the new question was then wrong... seems possible. Some were the same question but the answers swapped about.
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📝 Question of the Day?
5 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Captain)
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Do we all agree that the answer today is none of the above? It should be safe passage to the west?
I may have to reset today’s question.
Getting closer to AI being reliable but then it throws in a curve ball, or a buoy 😫
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I may have to reset today’s question.
Getting closer to AI being reliable but then it throws in a curve ball, or a buoy 😫
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📝 Question of the Day?
5 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Captain)
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I was wrong, it was 1 minute and 9 seconds after the new question was released. The server works on GMT+0 (no summer time).
Not accusing you of fiddling! It's likely something unusual happened. Somehow C must have been selected. I'd be curious to know if anyone else has seen this? I've a feeling it's been mentioned before.
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Not accusing you of fiddling! It's likely something unusual happened. Somehow C must have been selected. I'd be curious to know if anyone else has seen this? I've a feeling it's been mentioned before.
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📝 Question of the Day?
5 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Captain)
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No clue why it happened. I know you answered within 1 minute and 19 seconds of the question going live. So I was going along the thoughts of the submission and the server going out of line with the current days question. But looking at the server logs, you did submit answer C…
Why the confetti if that was the case I haven’t worked out still! 🤣 perhaps an uncleared cache somewhere.
Might be worth giving it 5 minutes after a new question is out before submitted an answer 🤷♂️
I’ll have another dive into it later.
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Why the confetti if that was the case I haven’t worked out still! 🤣 perhaps an uncleared cache somewhere.
Might be worth giving it 5 minutes after a new question is out before submitted an answer 🤷♂️
I’ll have another dive into it later.
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📝 Question of the Day?
5 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Captain)
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Are you sure you answered A? 🤔😝
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💬 Re: Demo of W-Tail mixer to control two motors and rudder
5 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Captain)
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I've been looking into uploads - the limit was set to 60MB, but there were server settings that might have prevented smaller files still.
Website storage is limited only by number of files and not file size, so I've increased the file upload size to 1GB. That is a massive increase! But, do bear in mind huge files uploaded have to also be downloaded... and I may need to look into warning users about attachment file sizes (and likewise video file sizes) before allowing them to be downloaded and viewed.
Let's see how things go!
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Website storage is limited only by number of files and not file size, so I've increased the file upload size to 1GB. That is a massive increase! But, do bear in mind huge files uploaded have to also be downloaded... and I may need to look into warning users about attachment file sizes (and likewise video file sizes) before allowing them to be downloaded and viewed.
Let's see how things go!
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💬 Re: Demo of W-Tail mixer to control two motors and rudder
5 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Captain)
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Yes, the server kicks the upload out if the file size is too large. It tries to upload, fails, then as the file doesn’t exist in the next step, it only shows an invalid file type warning, even though MP4’s should be ok.
I’d cut it down to a smaller clip, lower the resolution, or cut into multiple smaller clips.
Not ideal; but I can’t allow a greater upload size unfortunately. It’s why the option to link a YouTube video is available instead 👍
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I’d cut it down to a smaller clip, lower the resolution, or cut into multiple smaller clips.
Not ideal; but I can’t allow a greater upload size unfortunately. It’s why the option to link a YouTube video is available instead 👍
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📝 Question of the Day?
6 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Captain)
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A little iffy today, I think the answer should really be the SS Caronia given the date.
SS Caronia: Sent a warning on 13 April, acknowledged but not significantly acted upon.
SS Californian: Sent a warning on 14 April, but was dismissed by the busy wireless operator (Cyril Evans).
SS Mesaba: Sent the most detailed and timely warning on the evening of 14 April, but it never reached the bridge.
SS Caronia: Sent a warning on 13 April, acknowledged but not significantly acted upon.
SS Californian: Sent a warning on 14 April, but was dismissed by the busy wireless operator (Cyril Evans).
SS Mesaba: Sent the most detailed and timely warning on the evening of 14 April, but it never reached the bridge.
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📝 Question of the Day?
6 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Captain)
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16 correct in the past 30 days = 53% 👍
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📝 Question of the Day?
6 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Captain)
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I shall have another go at the score board at some point. There will be a reason why you’re hovering around 50%… I think a lot of it is about publishing the numbers to the granular level, so you can all see how it’s calculated up at the top level. A bit like a ‘show detail’ option.
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📝 Question of the Day?
6 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Captain)
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Got a titanic question. I’ve been missing those…
Date and answer is right again though! I feel there may be more titanic related questions in the coming days 🤔
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Date and answer is right again though! I feel there may be more titanic related questions in the coming days 🤔
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📝 Question of the Day?
6 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Captain)
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The first question I ask captain AI is if there is an anniversary for anything. Except now, I’ve asked it to be more accurate and also double check it.
If there’s a wrong anniversary or no anniversary, it’ll fall back to a general question based on a keyword.
Whichever route, several questions are generated, based on either keywords or event anniversary. Each question and answer is then double checked. If it passes the check, it gets added to the consideration list.
Then the best question from the consideration list is calculated out, and it’s that question which is published. If there was a keyword prompt for it, that keyword is also removed for the next 30 days.
Then a final fallback, if captain AI isn’t feeling like playing, is to recycle an old question. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen too often though!
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If there’s a wrong anniversary or no anniversary, it’ll fall back to a general question based on a keyword.
Whichever route, several questions are generated, based on either keywords or event anniversary. Each question and answer is then double checked. If it passes the check, it gets added to the consideration list.
Then the best question from the consideration list is calculated out, and it’s that question which is published. If there was a keyword prompt for it, that keyword is also removed for the next 30 days.
Then a final fallback, if captain AI isn’t feeling like playing, is to recycle an old question. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen too often though!
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📝 Question of the Day?
6 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Captain)
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Is this two days in a row that we’ve had correct questions, answers and relevant to the date as well!? 😮
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📝 Question of the Day?
6 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Captain)
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I'm just happy that the question today was about an event that actually happened today (in history) and not a random other date...
So I'm taking that as a win!
@SimpleSailer, what would you expect to happen if you only answer 1 question in the last 30 days, and it was correct? To keep you at 100% all month? I think we'd end up with a leader board full of members only answering the questions they know for certain... tried to solve this tricky one a few times 🙈
I'm debating using the new US Tariff formula next 😂 apparently it makes things fair 😎
Update: got it sussed! Potential formula attached!
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So I'm taking that as a win!
@SimpleSailer, what would you expect to happen if you only answer 1 question in the last 30 days, and it was correct? To keep you at 100% all month? I think we'd end up with a leader board full of members only answering the questions they know for certain... tried to solve this tricky one a few times 🙈
I'm debating using the new US Tariff formula next 😂 apparently it makes things fair 😎
Update: got it sussed! Potential formula attached!
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📝 Question of the Day?
6 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Captain)
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Oh no! You’re quite right. Despite all my work… we still have issues! Will have another think 🤔
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📝 Question of the Day?
6 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Captain)
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Captain AI has been told off and had a slight re-wiring! Let's see what tomorrow brings.
I decided to apply some multi-step logic with multiple different algorithms checking each others homework. There's also a 'temperature' parameter which hopefully is adjusted to give more fact than fiction. Then after generating several potential new questions of the day, a third algorithm picks the most interesting one.
Let's just say, Captain AI is being monitored very closely from tomorrow!
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I decided to apply some multi-step logic with multiple different algorithms checking each others homework. There's also a 'temperature' parameter which hopefully is adjusted to give more fact than fiction. Then after generating several potential new questions of the day, a third algorithm picks the most interesting one.
Let's just say, Captain AI is being monitored very closely from tomorrow!
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📝 Question of the Day?
6 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Captain)
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Oh gosh. Something needs to be done again to get Captain AI in check.
Any AI experts out there?
Other than running a few recursive checks and an initial randomiser to stop the breakwaters coming up all the time, I’m a bit at a loss!
Once I get time (again very little right now as we’re moving house and I stupidly broke my arm) then I’ll have another dive into this.
Feels a little like Norbot when he went Rogue!
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Any AI experts out there?
Other than running a few recursive checks and an initial randomiser to stop the breakwaters coming up all the time, I’m a bit at a loss!
Once I get time (again very little right now as we’re moving house and I stupidly broke my arm) then I’ll have another dive into this.
Feels a little like Norbot when he went Rogue!
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📝 Question of the Day?
7 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Captain)
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I’ve explicitly told Captain AI not to repeat questions. He seems to be ignoring his orders 🤔
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📝 Question of the Day?
8 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Captain)
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Internet says it happened on the 24th April 1895?
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📝 Question of the Day?
8 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Captain)
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I can never guarantee what's going to come up, but I have told the captain to stick with maritime questions! He's not allowed to resign, so I think we're safe to continue feeding him with more and more requirements! 😂
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