June 14, 2022
During WW2 enemy beaches had to be surveyed and mapped. There was a top secret group of elite cartographers and surveyors who were up to the task!
To carry out covert reconnaissance of enemy-held beaches before a planned amphibious assault. As well as mapping enemy beach defences and surveying the underwater approaches for uncharted hazards, they also took soil samples to determine the load-bearing capacity of the beach – nothing would be more embarrassing than seeing your tanks become bogged down in soft sand.
COPP Survey
Dedicated to Combined Operations Pilotage Parties (COPPs), a top-secret unit from the Second World War that did covert surveys of enemy-held beaches.
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An amusing tale of how a WW2 Nazi propaganda story lives on to this day. The power of stories is amazing. The human mind loves stories. Language itself is great for stories, though not for logic. Language is good for persuasion, which doesn’t require truth. Book recommendation: Language vs. Reality, by N.J. Enfield.
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Just thinking on that language angle. There is a lot to be said for the confusion with AI discourse stemming from the language we use. The terms have a tendency to be anthropomorphic. We talk about AI like we talk about humans, “DALL-E created this…”. Humans create. Computer programs output data. “DALL-E generated this output…”
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The incident is attributed to the activity of a single beaver, which gnawed through a tree that then fell on fiber cabling 🦫
