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Thank you.
At least it is not just a problem on this computer.
But that just seems to be a search engine, not the ai that can generate paintings.
I asked it as follows.
Please produce a painting in the style of Renoir of a lady feeding an okapi.
But it just treated it as a search, not as a prompt for generative ai.
William
This is the page from which one can Try now.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/fe … orm=MA13FJ
William
I tried to start Bing Chat ai today and it will not start up, I am informed that it is loading, but does not load, sometimes giving a red circle with a red bend dexter upon it.
Any ideas why, please?
William
Hi Albert
Your video is featured at the following post.
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index. … nt=1219390
William
> Five locations in France that inspired famous Impressionists
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/tripid … r-BB1lBHvq
William
So I need to try to find a way to go forward.
William
Thanks for the confirmation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWR_4900_Class
Well, Mr Stanier was Works Manager at Swindon when the Hall was introduced, So, at present in this thread it is not clear whether he contributed any input to the design.
William
William wrote:The designer was William Stanier.
That explains the derivation of the name Black Stanier, but not the name Black 5, and I still don’t know why it was changed.
Oh sorry, Alfred, I took your question as meaning why the change from using the name of the designer, I did not pick up that you also wanted to know why the number 5 was used. Though upon rereading now with hindsight, it is clear that you were asking two questions. Had I realized I would have said.
William
This locomotive, now in preservation, restored after being in a scrapyard, has Caprotti valve gear,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BR_Standard_Class_8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BR_Standa … 60047).jpg
William
The locomotive that is shown in full in the photograph is fitted with Caprotti valve gear, one of not many British Steam locomotives that had Caprotti valve gear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprotti_valve_gear
William
Would you like the answer yet?
William
This is about saving two of the Stanier 8F locomotives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Juy2-kwqL-Q
William
Possibly because he designed another locomotive that had black livery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMS_Stanier_Class_8F
William
Clue: Please consider the area of, and around, the wheels of the locomotive that is shown in full.
Also,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tGEPl-YvF8&t=870s
William
Would you like a clue?
William
The designer was William Stanier.
William
No, the locomotives are static. It is something about the one that is gradually shown full.
William
I find it interesting that the Great Western Railway Hall class locomotives and the London Midland & Scottish Black five locomotives were similar, yet the Halls were painted in a green livery like the top express locomotives and each had its own name, yet the Black fives were in a black livery and all but a very few had no name, just a number.
William
A puzzle for steam locomotive enthusiasts, which hopefully will lead to an interesting discussion.
Do you notice something unusual starting at 11 minutes 30 seconds in the following video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tGEPl-YvF8&t=690
William
Light fantastique: Paris through the eyes of the impressionists
Drawn to my attention here:
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/news/l … r-BB1ktrKb
Found with pictures here:
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2024 … essionists
Includes the following:
Place de la Concorde is being embellished for this summer’s Olympic Games, and I recently saw a lorry there, loaded with typically ornate lamp-posts. In any other town, this would have looked like a delivery of theatrical props, but in Paris it was just a job lot of streetlights.
William
I suppose that a new program Affinity Communicate that includes it as one of many features might be the way.
Convince a vendor I have been told.
It is interesting that emoji got going in application with Private Use Area encodings (plural) and they were not always mutually compatible.
William
Do you have any ideas of how the invention can become implemented and in widespread use unless it is "forward pass" encoded into Unicode first.
A long forward pass of encoding in Unicode could work magnificently.
If my novel got made into a movie ...
If I win a million pounds on the Premium Bonds ...
I wonder which of those two has the greater probability of happening.
William
It looks to me as though the problem you’re up against here is that you believe
the issue of scope is a separate issue from the requirement of needing to prove widespread usage
whereas in practice these two issues aren’t really separate at all.
Perhaps that is the answer. Perhaps I am looking at it as a mathematician and they are looking at it from other viewpoints.
For example, I started off with conversations about the weather, on a sort of establish a minimal system that works with just a few sentences, then add another sentence and that works and makes the whole system better, and then so on recursively, in a sort of pure mathematics way. Perhaps others observed that and regarded it differently, having studied different subjects.
William
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