Dr Peter Spayne

PhD - AI - Drones & Science

[Dr Peter Spayne @DrPeterSpayne]

@Welshbird_ Boy did good 💪

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@NatashaMDay Cohen, Smith, Day, Jacobs, & Reid, (2026). AI patients, real practice: exploring the use of AI-simulated patients to support primary healthcare training for combat medical technicians. Education for Primary Care, 1–7

Amazing seeing it like this. Don’t get robbed with an ‘Et al,’

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@MinxGenie He loves you too. No one, anywhere, ever, has access to the pipes that easy!

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@combat_boot Each one cost thousands and took years 🤣 they’re staying lol (and they change order every time!)

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@scottstts Doubtful, but potentially a private line, a bit like a dedicated internet connection and router, alongside your current setup. But I don’t think it would be domestic

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The moment you realise your old dad has just charged up an EHT and exposed it.

Cue a very quick phone call - Do not touch the back of that CRT tube! Many many thousands of volts!

Some engineers still remember the old magic.

Radar maintainer.

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@LucyTCWife Drop it too emergency accom. Delete and block number. Your enabling and your the latest victim in a life long pattern of scrounging charity from a professional victim. No doubt a harrowing back story where they never did wrong but were the common denominator in all problems 🤔

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@jameswharton The opposite I’m afraid, it’s for check fire bells

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This is the reason drones exist, MEMS, not AI. You can fit all this on a chip the size of a postage stamp now.

[Interesting STEM @InterestingSTEM]

Guided missile of early 1960. Note how much electronics you need when there is no Microprocessor available

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Right to repair ; these little mods are what the tool was made for!

[Kuber @kuberwastaken]

just Claude writing a MacOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows support

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@NatashaMDay That guys HR manager thinking they were going to have a quiet week 🤣

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@NatashaMDay @GeriatricEmt You absolutely must post the reply!

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Laughs in Type 42

[Seth Harp @sethharpesq]

More pictures from aboard the moldy old USS George Washington, which recently underwent an incredibly expensive “complex overhaul” that took SIX YEARS to finish. Our navy is like this because we only have ONE shipyard capable of refueling and repairing a nuclear aircraft carrier.

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@fieldproducer @ZacGoldsmith Had the message told me there was an uncontrollable fire minutes away and to leave now then fare.
But it advised not to have a BBQ……
Then it misfired 3 times in the night, so now it’s switched off.

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@AffluentMist Respect is a 2 way street. I knocked on the door when they were babies and they’ve been knocking since they could walk.

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@wrightdi @NavyCheck Ouch!

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All the points made are correct, but for the wrong reason.
Health, safety & environmental regulations prevent the crew from self help. It used to be a crews job to provide the husbandry that addressed this. Ships carried paint. Now they don’t, they wait for a dock and contractor.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

I need to say something about rust. Specifically, why rusting warships matter far more in Hormuz than anyone realizes.

First, I don’t know when this video was taken. Ships have been looking better lately. This may date to the low point of the Biden administration.

IDK but it did show up on my YoyTube feed today so it’s probably being seen by potential recruits too.

But the underlying issue needs addressing.

Every time I post photos of rusting Navy ships, my phone blows up with the same reply: “But John, it doesn’t affect operational performance.”

Look at the rust on the radars, the brackets, the ventilation. There is no way that equipment is performing at 100 percent.

Maybe the radar is at 98 percent. I don’t know. But will every louver seal completely when the tanker you’re escorting takes a hit and the DDG has to steam through burning bunker fuel?

What about a CBRN attack?

Nobody is going to convince me those closures are all quick and tight.

The second reply comes from captains and admirals: “They had a brutal deployment.” “The crew is already strained.”

Agreed. My criticism was never aimed at the crew. It lands on Navy leadership for running these platforms past the point of recovery.

But when it gets this bad, ship’s leadership owns a share too.
Long deployments are miserable.

What’s more miserable is walking out to watch the sunrise every morning and seeing filth.

We clean our houses and our offices for a reason. Morale dies in ugly surroundings.

Here’s something else I’ve noticed lately. Crews will pour effort into one side of the ship and neglect the other.
That alone cuts your docking options in half, and docking is the most dangerous evolution after combat.

But the deeper cost showed up in a lunch I once had with a very senior @Maersk executive.

Maersk. The company with the beautiful ships painted bright blue.

What he told me was fascinating. They spend millions every year not just on paint chemistry, but on ensuring every hull in the fleet is the exact same shade of blue with the exact same reflectivity.

Why?

Container shipping is a commodity. Even if you insist your box moves on a Maersk ship, they may hand it to a competitor. That’s why you never see Maersk billboards or television ads.

The ship is the billboard. And almost nobody sees it, because container terminals sit in industrial wastelands far from any city center.

So why spend a fortune polishing a billboard no customer will ever look at?

Because the people who do see it are the ones who matter. Sailors.

When a sailor on a rusty ship passes a Maersk vessel at night, he registers that ship’s judgment. When he gets home, he applies for a job there.

To be the best, Maersk has to hire the best. And the best want to sail beautiful, well maintained ships.

I’m writing all this because the real problem in the strait right now is the hundreds of ships still trapped in the Gulf.

Not all of them, but the Navy has offered protection to some, and the companies and crews have declined. They would rather sit and earn nothing than risk the hull.

Any American naval officer knows that even an ugly destroyer is the most lethal platform on the ocean.

The merchant captains who have to trust that destroyer know nothing about Aegis, weapons doctrine, or Navy combat procedure. They just DO NOT TRUST rusty ships.

What they know is the oldest rule in the trade: your reputation is your paintwork.
We give a rusted, neglected ship a wide berth, because a crew that ignores small things like corrosion probably ignores large things like sleeping or drinking on watch.

A US Navy bridge team would never do either. But the foreign master watching from two miles off has no way to know that.

And almost every merchant captain out there today is foreign.

So I don’t care how long or hard the deployment was, and I don’t blame the crew.

I blame the admirals and SES that have made the only real solution, building and maintaining more ships, nearly impossible.

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@wrightdi Not the fault of H&S, but aggregation of lots of complex rules now, including access etc. 20 years ago had great fun free climbing masts and superstructures with a harness, acids, detergents and paints. Chemicals aside access to maintain is all but impossible without scaffolding.

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@Intrepid_Sailor I can just about remember the bosuns chairs (taught, never used), acid wash and layers of top coat. Had a gleaming part of ship ~05-10. Not seen the materials or tools onboard since.
Not surprised that foreign flagged merchant vessels still work to the old rules.