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| Coins of the Wickham Hoard. Source: See link below. |
The treasure has been described as "the largest hoard of British Iron Age gold coins to be fully studied," and was important in providing "a great deal of new information about the Iron Age, and especially about East Anglia at the end of the Iron Age." It was the largest hoard of staters found since the Waddon-Chase Iron Age burial in 1849.
In June 2011 the hoard was purchased by the Ipswich Museum for £316,000.
On March 16, 2008, a sixty-year-old auto mechanic - who initially wanted to remain anonymous but was later identified as Michael Darke - found his first gold coin after twenty-five years of searching for metals in the fields near Wickham Market. Darke identified the coin via the Internet as a Freckenham stater - named for the hoard in which the typeface was first found in 1885.
A week later, despite the snowfall from his previous trip to the field and working in the wet snow, Darke found eight more gold staters. After further searching, he remarked that his metal detector "suddenly went crazy" and that he "knew for a fact that he was standing right on a jug of gold."...
Here is the link for more of that story.
https://berloga-workshop.com/blog/1265-wickham-market-hoard.html
Thanks to SuperRick for the link.
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The 2023 hurricane season started June 1.
NOAA officials are predicting an average hurricane season, with 12 to 17 named tropical storms, five to nine of which could become hurricanes. They expect as many of four of those could strengthen into major hurricanes – category 3 or stronger...
Phil Klotzbach, a research scientist at Colorado State, said in April his group was predicting a slightly below-average season this year: 13 named storms, six hurricanes and two major hurricanes...
Last year, for instance, was an average season, but Hurricane Ian was a catastrophe for Florida. The storm killed more than 100 people when it made landfall in September, devastated the coast around Fort Myers and caused inland flooding that lasted weeks.
Florida was then struck by Hurricane Nicole in November, which tore the beach out from under homes in Volusia County, leaving them teetering on the brink of collapse.
Here is the link for more of that article.
Hurricane season starts today. Here's what to expect | CNN
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On the second day of the 2023 hurricane season, we have a tropical depression. The system I've been talking about for past few days has developed a little, and is now expected to head south. Despite that, The system doesn't look like it will do much for the Treasure Coast beaches.
Here is the windy.com site where you can find updates.
https://www.windy.com/-Weather-radar-radar?radar,41.640,-95.449,5
From the windy.com predictions, it now looks like we'll get a little rougher water around Tuesday.
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Here is a two paragraph excerpt from a much longer article on AI and the question of machine consciousness. (See What would it be like to be a conscious AI? | MIT Technology Review)
For all their sophistication, today’s AIs are intelligent in the same way a calculator might be said to be intelligent: they are both machines designed to convert input into output in ways that humans—who have minds—choose to interpret as meaningful. While neural networks may be loosely modeled on brains, the very best of them are vastly less complex than a mouse’s brain.
And yet, we know that brains can produce what we understand to be consciousness. If we can eventually figure out how brains do it, and reproduce that mechanism in an artificial device, then a conscious machine might still be possible...
"higher" consciousness. I was just playing around while providing a sarcastic little poke at the materialists. I don't think anybody actually got my joke, but now, nearly fifty years later, it somehow seems a little more relevant.