Why do circuit breakers go up for on and down for off?

OK, machine learning. In a hard embedded electronic instrument, we want predictability and zero errors. ML and NNs and that sort of thing seems to me to continually generate dangerous bugs.

Golly. I knew mauve as a five year old, red blue and white paint.

Long time before I worked out what Chartreuse was, though.

Dont agree, nothing wonderful about them imo.

We don't see much concrete here. Mostly wood or vinyl made to look like wood. The odd bit of cultured stone.

I despise Victorian design. Arts and Crafts was a welcome relief.

Around here (N. California) most homes are stucco with some using painted T-111 plywood siding. Class A office space is mostly glass curtain walls. Industrial is mostly tilt-up.

There is plenty of architectural innovation in the world, regardless of King Charles opinions.

Hideous grey boxes win awards.

The Vics here are mostly on 24 foot lots with no space between, so the long sides don't lose heat.

It concerns me that it isn't too clear how it works once past the conceptual level. The linear algebra, gradient descent, and other algorithms are straightforward, but after you feed in a few hundred thousand labeled data values it's hard to tell what you have. I read an article a couple of days ago that some researchers are trying to apply Fourier analysis to the models to get a better understanding.

My ex and I had some fun times in the little room at the top of a tower in an old Victorian. The entry was sort of a trap door so we wouldn't be disturbed. The curved glass panes blew my mind.

I knew a man who specialized in Victorian restoration. He made a living but it was mostly a labor of love. Had he accounted for all the hours he put in and paid a reasonable hourly rate you'd have to be Bill Gates to afford him.

Damn socialist... Morris and all that crew were all radicals. I did read his 'News From Nowhere' last year and found it enjoyable. He was an anarchist at heart so it was an answer to the state socialism in Bellamy's 'Looking Backward'.

I really miss old school socialists.

I tried the green variety once a long time ago. A little goes a long way.

It was all the rage in the nineteenth century.

Ah, the Mauve Decade. I am familiar with the term but never was too clear about the color involved.

Every colour we use, has a fascinating story. Like Red Dye Number 2 (a suspected carcinogen). There is a CRC (Chemical Rubber Company) text, filled with info like this.

They even got purple ones.

You're assuming a very constant power supply to the motor.

They all tend to have markings, presumably for calibration.

Ahhhh, the French cassettes. Section three, page two, SSLLOOWW..... BONNNGGGGG!

Then you can never get it perfect.

Myself and my neighbour's son have fallen off a step ladder going into the attic. I landed on the floor and winded myself. He landed with his back astride the fallen ladder and broke his back.

Electricity doesn't usually kill you, but falls do. My tradesman friend got a shock off live and neutral when up a ladder and fell off it. Not a lot of good those ELCBs.

Why wasn't the ladder retracted as it was designed to?