Audrey Brettle
Alexandra Audrey Brettle (1937–2003), was a Black Country author of Scottish descent.
Audrey Brettle | |
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Born | Alexandra Audrey Kinnon 10 February 1937 Rowley Regis, Staffordshire, England |
Died | Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England | 27 September 2003
Pen name | Amy Thomas |
Biography
Educated at Halesowen Grammar School, she became a Salvation Army officer;[1] before working for North Warwickshire Borough Council until her retirement.
In retirement, she began to write actively, and was a founder of the North Warwickshire Writers Group. After her death in 2003, her ashes were interred in Greenhaven Woodland Burial Ground. A collection of her writings was published posthumously, under the title The Clydebank Whistle.[2]
gollark: Early attempts at AI back in the last millennium tried to create AIs by giving them logical reasoning abilities and a large set of facts. This didn't really work; they did some things, hit the limits of the facts they had, and didn't do anything very interesting.
gollark: They don't even have *memory* - you just train the model a bunch, keep that around, feed it data, and then get the results; next time you want data out, you use the original model from the training phase.
gollark: They don't really have goals, only the training code does, and that goal is something like "maximize prediction accuracy with respect to the data".
gollark: They're big networks which are trained to detect patterns, sometimes very deep ones, in large amounts of data.
gollark: Current AI stuff doesn't have "minds" comparable to that of humans.
References
- "Tributes" (PDF). Salvationist. London. 6 December 2003. p. 18. OCLC 16509876. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011.
- "Librarything.com page on The Clydebank Whistle". Retrieved 6 July 2010.
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