I think that I gave myself about four hours of bed time last night. Since my cellphone alarm was set for 1:45 a.m., then I must have gotten to bed no later that 9:45 p.m.
Sleep is seldom easy to achieve initially; and then if I am fortunate, I will sleep in blocks that will not have very long wakeful periods.
My cellphone alarm did definitely alert me.
When I quietly opened my bedroom door just to check if my eldest stepson was still up downstairs, I was annoyed to find that he was. I hate having to ready for my walks surreptitiously.
To my relief, I don't think that he remained up more than a further 10 minutes.
By the time I was all set to leave on my walk, I weighed myself while fully dressed for it: 197 / 198 pounds. It was 2:14 a.m. when I was on the other side of the locked front door and on my way.
The night was tinged with a cool element to the air, and the sky only lightly clouded.
Early into my five-mile walk, I made the usual stop at an elementary school playground for six sets of pull-ups and chin-ups, and managed four repetitions in the first set, two repetitions in each of the next four sets, and just one repetition in the final set.
I recall that I was to see three separate pedestrians within maybe the first mile (one person was a woman with what appeared to be two pieces of luggage, one suspended from each hand), and then no one else until I was returning home and maybe just over a half mile from it. It was an attractive woman coming my way who seemed to have something like a sheet or large towel draped over her shoulders. When she saw me, she gave me a wide berth, trying not to appear cowed, but there was no other reason for her to have abandoned the solitary sidewalk along that road and instead choose to walk in the traffic lane on the other side of the road, warily keeping her sights on me until we had bypassed one another.
It would have been soon after 4 a.m. ─ less than 10 minutes past.
I was back outside the locked front door of home by 4:17 a.m.
The only wildlife I sighted were a total of five rabbits, but for a time I did hear a distant owl, and of course there was the distant chorusing of frogs in the Green Timbers Lake area. Oh ─ I did see a large, long-haired, orange cat streak across the road just before I encountered that final odd woman. I mention the cat because I actually wondered if it might have been a fox ─ since I have not seen a fox in many years, I can only conclude that it was a cat. There are nothing but homes along that road.
I never checked the time once I returned to bed, but the morning was coming on ─ it may have been as late as 5:30 a.m.
I think that it was something like 8:22 a.m. when I did later check the time and decided to rise, for it seemed that I could hear the T.V. downstairs proving that my younger brother was up.
I didn't go downstairs until towards 9 a.m., and very shortly after that he invited me to put our Android TV Box into action.
In doing so, I led us off with Odessa Orlewicz's 1½-hour (1:31:02) livestream of yesterday: Interview With Scott Newgent- A Trans Hero Changing The Narrative To Save Children.
With Scott's speech having more than 7 millions views on Twitter alone ,and his huge part in Matt Walsh's famous documentary 'What Is A Woman" he is changing history by being courageous against the big pharma cabal $$$$$ and speaking truth about the fraud of sex changes. The cabal is getting nervous as his movement picks up storm.
Important links for Scott Newgent's movement: https://www.trevoices.org/scottnewgent and https://twitter.com/NotScottNewgent ; His speech solo as featured in the episode: https://twitter.com/NotScottNewgent/status/1634682798903635970 and the documentary
"What Is A Woman" : https://rumble.com/v1b0lb1-what-is-a-woman-the-documentary-by-matt-walsh.html
The video is also at this Rumble link. I do not understand why the video description makes no mention of second guest Scott Geiler.
Next I tuned in a 42-minute YouTube documentary at the DW Documentary channel ─ the video had been uploaded yesterday: Is AI the future of humanity? - Artificial intelligence and its limitations | DW Documentary.
Artificial intelligence is often portrayed as the future of humanity. But is the logic of algorithms really infallible? Today, even programmers warn against overestimating AI. After all, artificial intelligence presents us with opportunities, but it also comes with risks.
Since the beginning of the 2000s, the term "artificial intelligence" - or "AI" for short -- has been on everyone's lips. The reason for this comeback? The triumph of deep learning, or multi-layer learning. The technology seems to stop at nothing: language acquisition, criminal investigations, self-driving cars, medical diagnoses. But how do these systems work? And what are their limitations?
Deep Learning is based on extremely powerful statistical tools, but their true capabilities are light years away from the ‘intelligence of the future’ promised by some. Only the humans who work in the shadows of AI to train it, improve it or correct its algorithms have real neural networks at their disposal. Doubts about and criticism of artificial intelligence are growing ever louder, especially among developers and computer scientists.
This is because the technology is highly susceptible to systematic bias and the reproduction of stereotypes. Even more problematic is the opacity of the system, which experts call a "black box" because even they barely understand how it works. But regardless of the weaknesses of "intelligent" machines, more and more virtual assistants are creeping into our private and professional daily lives. A development critically examined by this scientific documentary.
I concluded our viewing with Peep Show, an old long-running British sitcom, and its premiere episode ("Warring Factions") of season (or series) one. The series has some work to do to reel us in.
My brother soon enough thereafter sought some bed rest, and I managed to have a meal and then get to bed for a nap before he emerged from his bedroom and left for the day to socialize.
We are back to sunny, hot weather; so this afternoon ─ beginning at 1:58 p.m. ─ I undertook approximately 1½ hours of backyard sunning.
And now I am back again to wishing that I had a supply of regular-strength beer to augment the strong (8% alcohol) malt that I try to keep in stock for my latter evenings while watching T.V.
I will be sitting up late this evening, so it certainly would be grand to have some regular beer chilling for the early evening.
Oh, well. Maybe one day ─ a drawback of not being a driver or car owner.
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