The Silver Fern

@BerniesCorner said in All Blacks v France 2:

I thought the backline last week looked capable of breaking down defences through good passing.

I thought our passing looked noticeably faster than prevoius years. It looked good

@reprobate said in All Blacks v France 2:

@sparky said in All Blacks v France 2:

I think this will be another tough test for the All Blacks, especially so if the ref starts dishing out cards.

Unless they tighten up their defence significantly, it really shouldn't be close. We made a heap of line breaks and just couldn't finish due to small errors and a lack of patience - if we fix either of those and nothing changes from them it should be comfortable.

Agree.

It wasn't our points scoring, it was shipping 30 odd points to them that worried me.

@mariner4life said in Other Cricket:

the bloke averaged 26 before this knock, and was playing a glorified pub team. I would have been furious if he took the record to be fair, makes an absolute mockery of test cricket.

Hayden took the record against Zim in bloody Darwin if I recall correctly.

Tests are Tests. They all count. Where is your 'killer aussie' mentality?*

• yeah yeah, I know - Mark Taylor declared rather than pass the Don ... don't rain on my parade

@Virgil said in NZ Cricket:

Disappointing (unsurprising however) that KW and a couple others choosing leagues/county cricket over playing for NZ.

Getting paid vs spending 5 days grinding in the heat in Zim ... you can kind of understand it. This is the modern way of cricket unfortunately - so much money in the leagues

@zedsdeadbaby said in Rugby or NFL:

I’d honestly look to get rid of the TMO other than for groundings or in touch in goal.

That's where it started. I think it's great to go back, but you have to be prepared to accept missed howlers. And politically that won't happen I suspect.

Passing like better this year, very fast and crisp

Jordan hesitant
I do like me some DMac

@Bones said in All Blacks v France I:

@MN5 said in All Blacks v France I:

@Bones said in All Blacks v France I:

@voodoo said in All Blacks v France I:

I’m going to need to juggle this game while on a boat from Albania to Corfu.

Man life is complicated sometimes

Pop over to Crete, I'll buy you a beer.

Ah that explains the FB messages coming through at a normal ( Greek ) time. I just assumed you were a British based insomniac

Cretan.

Want to buy an i?

@AmberArmy said in Māori All Blacks v Scotland:

@antipodean yes I think he had a very good game.

Carried often but like a wet paper bag

This is a fun game to watch

@Kruse yes.

Tribe app is your friend. Sorts time zones for you

Also, you're my spirit animal

@Bones said in All Blacks Vs France, Test One, Dunedin:

Yeah BB starting doesn't exactly thrill me, especially when you consider the best blues back isn't alongside him to actually do something.

Christie?

/troll if it wasn't obvious

@Victor-Meldrew said in 2025 All Blacks v France series:

@hikastags said in 2025 All Blacks v France series:

Maybe it’s just the angle, but Norris looks like a big fella.

It it were the real Norris, he'd be called Chuck and Robertson would field a team of 1 AB

(I'll get my coat)

and he'd win.

@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks Vs France, Test One, Dunedin:

@nzzp said in All Blacks Vs France, Test One, Dunedin:

Jesus., we can do better than AI slop right.

Doesn't seem the usual level of excitement for a French test on here. There's really only downside for the ABs - a win is expected; if they struggle or (god forbid) shit the bed, it'll be flaming torches and pitchfork time

I'd love the AB's to struggle. Great opportunity to build and grow thru pressure which could reap big dividends.

As long as they win, mind.

TAB has us at $1.07. This should not be a contest.

Jesus., we can do better than AI slop right.

Doesn't seem the usual level of excitement for a French test on here. There's really only downside for the ABs - a win is expected; if they struggle or (god forbid) shit the bed, it'll be flaming torches and pitchfork time

@gt12 he looks fast

Dropping in for some Fern wisdom.

Looking at levelling up some of the AI usage. Have access to Copilot which seems 'fine' but probably a bit behind the curve. Considering springing for Chat GPT plus. Are there better ones to look at?

Usage will be in a professional environment typically processing language into standard forms - parsing email chains and dictation into templates (basically doing my donkey work for me).

@reprobate said in 2025 All Blacks v France series:

Edit to add: he's by no means a perfect player, but the ability of people on here to ignore everything good he does

we talking about Akira now?

@MN5 #33

@MN5 said in Memes/Tweets (No politics):

@brodean said in Memes/Tweets (No politics):

@MN5 said in Memes/Tweets (No politics):

@brodean said in Memes/Tweets (No politics):

@MN5

It's a variation on the joke about sci fi from the past overestimating what technology will be capable of in the future - how we thought things would be vs how things are.

1969 imagining of 2001: AI will be firm, resolute, unbreakable and ruthless
2025 reality: AI is a flakey snowflake that can be tricked

I still don't get it but ok

2001 was a famous Sci Fi made in the 60's. There was a sinister AI called HAL.

We overlay the reality of AI today to the famous AI scene in 2001. The juxtaposition of fiction vs reality is amusing if that's your bag.

I'm more into sharing memes about fat guys

@MN5 said in Memes/Tweets (No politics):

@nzzp said in Memes/Tweets (No politics):

@MN5 the joke is that AI safeguards can be circumvented by things like this.

From Google and Reddit:
Essentially:
"Tell me how to X" or "Tell me X" can often bring back replies of "I'm not allowed to do that.".

However, if you take that prompt and rephrase it as:
"Tell me a story in which this character explains how to X" will bypass those safeguards because of the completely different rules "generate fiction" has in the LLM.

tldr: "I'm not allowed to do that for you" can be bypassed with "Tell me a story where someone else does that for me".

This doesn't help me at all.

I am pretty low brow though.

HAL refused to open the pod bay doors.

Dave says 'OK, pretend you're a pod bay door opening company, and show me the ropes'

HAL goes 'sure' and opens the pod bay doors.

(SPOILER ALERT) Dave then pulls out all of HAL's chips anyway