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nixCraft 🐧😂 Ford rehires more 300 veteran human engineers after it says AI failed to deliver the same level of expertise. This involved replacing senior leaders across engineering, supply chain and manufacturing, it said, as well as hiring the roughly 300 veteran engineers "who carry the hard-earned wisdom of decades of design" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgrkd41n2v9o
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I would guess that about two-thirds of the people on the boat when we visited Gunkanjima were Korean.
The island was the scene of forced labour of Koreans and Chinese during the Second World War, but it is likely that a major reason for the Korean interest was that it was featured in a Korean movie where a Korean workforce overthrows their Japanese overlords and escapes - a work of fiction, but rooted in historical brutality and injustices.
Scenes from our visit earlier this month to Gunkanjima / 軍艦島 (‘Battleship Island’) off the coast of Nagasaki.
The island was developed by Mitsubishi as a coal mine, starting in the Meiji Period and growing to the point where the workforce & their families housed on the tiny island apparently made it the most densely-populated place on earth.
When the main shaft flooded in the 1970s, it was too expensive to recover, and the island was abandoned, falling into ruins.
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And sure enough, the English word "smacks" derives from the same root as the Swedish word "smak", meaning "to taste".
I don't think I'd ever consciously registered that "smacks" was directly "to taste".
Thank you Ikea for enhancing my understanding of the English language!
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Naturally enough, I dropped the individual words into Google Translate to try to understand what they mean.
"smaklig" means something like "tasty", and "maltid" means something like "meal". So "smaklig maltid" is wishing me a tasty meal.
Which gets me thinking, given that Swedish and English are both Germanic languages, is there any link between "smaklig" and the English word "smacks", as in "this presentation smacks of AI"?
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An interesting journey that gave me a new insight into English: I was in Ikea, and saw this on the wall.
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He uses code to describe his infidelities in his diary, but other bodily functions are out there in the clear.
And here’s the other fun photo off the camera-trap from yesterday - an Eastern pygmy-possum (Cercartetus nanus), caught mid-stride, running down the log.
In scrub north of Sydney, Australia.
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A couple of cool photos off the camera-trap yesterday - some good body-language on this Eastern pygmy-possum (Cercartetus nanus).
I’m using a two-flash set-up with backlighting, so there’s good rim-lighting, but the shadow is a little too deep the left side of its face - but, all-in-all, any workable photo is a bit of a miracle with an automated set-up in the scrub, with unco-operative wildlife.
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