Photo of the Day - Feb 12, 2024

Tree at Greenwood Cemetery

 

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Lunar New Year Year of the Dragon

 

To all my Asian Readers and followers: Have a great celebration.

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My MERCHR shop of ClickaSnap Images

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ClickASnap has partnered with Merchr Hub for Print on Demand services. I added several dozen products with my photography imprinted. Please visit my site and consider a purchase during this holiday season. The link to the site is at bit.ly/Lens4anEyeShop

 My ClickASnap profile of images is at Lens4anEye and contains hundreds more images which I have not yet added to the Merchr Shop site. If you email me which image you would like to see printed on one of the Merchr products or as wall art. I will put a specific effort on it for you. Lens4anEye@modalchoice.com

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The PIC in Everyday Situations

The PIC in Everyday Situations

 

Principle of Imminent Collapse suggests that everything in our experience is on the edge of failure and all it takes is The Nudge to precipitate the cascading failure.

 

I first posed the Principle of Imminent Collapse in 2005 and it has manifest thousands of times worldwide ever since. It has been a specific to me several times but mostly I have avoided dire consequences by understanding it. 

 

Once on a long business trip I had driven about 600 miles to South Carolina. I was there for two days driving and parking in numerous spots without incident. On the last day when getting ready to drive home. My brake pedal went straight to the floor. Fortunately I was only moving at about 2 mph.  Only minutes before that total hydraulic failure I had had my vehicle moved to where I would load my equipment. The man who drove it had experienced not problems. 

 

A master cylinder brake line had been corroding at a fitting unobserved for quite some time. It was at that moment the metal burst leaving me without any brakes. 

 

This all transpired in a parking lot of a transit agency with no other vehicles immediately nearby. A few minutes later I would have been on the highway cruising on home. This catastrophic failure could have been deadly. 

 

The repairs had to wait until the next day after having the vehicle towed to a repair shop. It took all day to get done from having to locate parts and fabricate the shape of the pipe. It turned out the shop replaced the failed section of pipe and all the others which were equally old. 

 

When I got home I had my usual mechanic inspect every hydraulic line, the calipers, master cylinder and the ABS block. I was not going to have a repeat occurrence of an identifiable weakness. 

 

In advance of some upcoming interstate road trips I decided my existing four tires would be replaced before I headed out. They all had good tread depth but might harbor hidden flaws which could manifest the Principle of Imminent Collapse.

 

The 4-digit number imprinted on the sidewall on the tire, 4114, means the tire was manufactured in the 41st week of 2014. Specifically, my tires were nine years old. I had been pushing the envelope for a while. Every mile brought them closer to one of the four experiencing tread separation or a blowout due to failure of the steel belts. 

 

Being I am the originator of the statement of the Principle of Imminent Collapse itself and am fully aware of the perils of ignoring it, I spent the morning waiting in the installation of four new tires. 

 

I had to fight the reluctance of replacing four good looking tires. I had to resist the temptation of procrastination. I had to rationalize the fact that 95% of tire failures occur in the last 10% of its service life. 

 

Yes, a nail or shard of glass can fail a new tire. A pothole can crack the seal at the bead. A manufacturing defect may be present. However, all of those events are beyond the control of good management of the Principle of Imminent Collapse and the Nudges which brings on the failure. 

 

If one watches for the imminent failures they can be averted. The failure might not be stopped but horrendous outcomes can. 

 

Similarly, the phrase “a stitch in time, saves nine” is an early wisdom and admonition to heed the PIC and its consequences. 

Dear Readers of the PIC

 

Dear readers of the PIC:

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Both platforms provide exposure for my work. If you are interested in NFTs then OpenSea.io/itsalltuna is the place to go. 

The above picture is from my collection
of Front Porches. Click here for the Album.

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The AI Revolution Will Be What We Make It

There is a lot to be said about the ability of a computer program and the computer which can mimic human language in syntax, grammar and content. A huge question is how long will it be before we humans cannot discern the difference between AI generated content and what an author, journalist, artist, photographer can produce.

 Critique of The AI Revolution

https://modalchoice.medium.com/critique-of-the-ai-revolution-4630c8289eb4

Alan Turning proposed the concept of the Turing Machine. This was a computational device which could imitate a human and not self-terminate at some point in its computational run. If a human would interact with the machine via a blind communication channel and not be able to reliably determine if they were talking to another person or the machine, then the machine passed the Turing Test. Until now no machine has been able to pass. Now with AI systems advancing on a continuous stride, it surely will not be long before one does.

One of many photos in the Collection

 

So is this image of a yellow flower AI generated or is a photograph? You are the judge.