So much resistance to change
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01-12-23, 09:16 AM
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01-12-23, 09:39 AM
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BF member Kapusta informed me about "Chat GPT", an AI conversational tool. I read about it and it sounds exactly like the post you questioned.
What is ChatGPT and why does it matter? Here's what you need to know | ZDNET
What is ChatGPT and why does it matter? Here's what you need to know | ZDNET
https://www.youtube.com/@themountbike456
It looks to just be some words that are 90% applicable and accurate, and a program that reads it all.
I am only 42 and this world has passed me by.
01-12-23, 09:53 AM
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BF member Kapusta informed me about "Chat GPT", an AI conversational tool. I read about it and it sounds exactly like the post you questioned.
What is ChatGPT and why does it matter? Here's what you need to know | ZDNET
What is ChatGPT and why does it matter? Here's what you need to know | ZDNET
Check out the poster's youtube channel that they openly advertise in their profile.
https://www.youtube.com/@themountbike456
It looks to just be some words that are 90% applicable and accurate, and a program that reads it all.
I am only 42 and this world has passed me by.
https://www.youtube.com/@themountbike456
It looks to just be some words that are 90% applicable and accurate, and a program that reads it all.
I am only 42 and this world has passed me by.
AI works to a degree, but it usually gives you something that clearly looks like it was not written by a human being.
01-12-23, 10:10 AM
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What is it about the cycling community that is so resistance to change, and have such narrow minded attitudes. You can go back to 1934 when bents were banned from racing, because just one guy was winning all the races and time trials. Or maybe further back to about 1890 when the "safety bike" superseded the penny-farthling. Then come forward to the middle 80s when click shifting came out, most roadies claimed they would never use it. Also in that time frame mountain bikes were scoffed at in the beginning. Closer to this time frame, disc brakes were roundly put down, and some made it sound like in a crash, riders would be slashed so bad they would never ride again!!!! And lastly the huge out cry against bikes and trikes with electric motors. IMO almost all these things I have mentioned are huge advances, because it makes bikes better, easer to use for more people, safer, and increases the number of people that cycle.
Then we have the question of just who is a cyclist. The really hard core claim that unless you ride a $5000 bike, and have $500 kit you really are not a cyclist. IMO ANYONE that pedals a 1, 2, 3, or a 4 wheel machine is a cyclist. That includes little Susie and her sidewalk bike with training wheels.
So what are the thots of others on the forum???
Then we have the question of just who is a cyclist. The really hard core claim that unless you ride a $5000 bike, and have $500 kit you really are not a cyclist. IMO ANYONE that pedals a 1, 2, 3, or a 4 wheel machine is a cyclist. That includes little Susie and her sidewalk bike with training wheels.
So what are the thots of others on the forum???
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01-12-23, 10:37 AM
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Check out the poster's youtube channel that they openly advertise in their profile.
https://www.youtube.com/@themountbike456
It looks to just be some words that are 90% applicable and accurate, and a program that reads it all.
I am only 42 and this world has passed me by.
https://www.youtube.com/@themountbike456
It looks to just be some words that are 90% applicable and accurate, and a program that reads it all.
I am only 42 and this world has passed me by.
"Article Title: How does Tubeless Tires Work? Description: A tubeless tire looks like your average tire, except it requires no extra tubing. After its placement, it automatically snaps into place without any hassle. You confirm the order by using latex"
Be sure to confirm the order by using Latex.
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01-12-23, 11:44 AM
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"It puts pressure on the brake lever, and the bike stops eventually". Sounds like the perfect brake system to me.
"Article Title: How does Tubeless Tires Work? Description: A tubeless tire looks like your average tire, except it requires no extra tubing. After its placement, it automatically snaps into place without any hassle. You confirm the order by using latex"
Be sure to confirm the order by using Latex.
"Article Title: How does Tubeless Tires Work? Description: A tubeless tire looks like your average tire, except it requires no extra tubing. After its placement, it automatically snaps into place without any hassle. You confirm the order by using latex"
Be sure to confirm the order by using Latex.
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01-12-23, 12:33 PM
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So called music these days is not music at all, it mainly someone screaming with a LOUD background to cover him up. If there is no melody, there is NO music.
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During the last few years of my career as a college professor, students started using these translator websites… You plug in a sentence, or a paragraph, or an entire paper, and it essentially uses a thesaurus program to change a bunch of the words – – so that it has the same ultimate meaning, but in different language. But it makes the material very weird, cumbersome to read, hard to decipher. I didn’t really know what I was seeing until a colleague told me about these websites. The end goal, of course, was to plagiarize without getting caught by an online text search or any of our other tools.
AI works to a degree, but it usually gives you something that clearly looks like it was not written by a human being.
AI works to a degree, but it usually gives you something that clearly looks like it was not written by a human being.
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No squealing, rapid pad wear, problems with piston centering? The people who use their brakes often put up with a lot more than you do and much more often than once a year. Pads lasting 2-3 months is common with many riders that I work with.
Everything seems to work well if you don't use it all that much.
Everything seems to work well if you don't use it all that much.
01-12-23, 12:44 PM
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There is just so much more good music out there!
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The picture was taken in Tucson. There are plenty of aggressive drivers in Santa Fe, but not as many as in Los Alamos, which is downright treacherous because of impatient, entitled drivers.
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Nevernind. Your attitude comes as no surprise. Zero.
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You clearly don't understand the difference between citing other material and plagiarizing other material.
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Don't you have some clouds to yell at?
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01-12-23, 01:10 PM
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I wish we could go back to album-oriented '70s rock on the radio that was part of the collective conscious, $0.60 gallon gas, and $100 Sears department store bike boom road bikes that lasted forever.