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I didn’t think about haggling on the admin fee price. Mine is due renewal next month so interested to see the replies to your question.

I'm intrigued! I have tried a little bit last year to make 2 AI suites useful for teaching Maths to kids - ChatGPT and TeachMateAI. As you say, since they are language based machines their ability to churn out actually useful equations, formulae etc. is rather limited. What I'm really hoping for is a way to quickly visualise key concepts, whether it's via a function on a graph or even with suitable shapes etc. We've recently switched back from Google based products to Microsoft and Co-Pilot was mentioned. Since we are still grappling with the migration of emails, 3rd party software things like Co-Pilot are not on the radar for our IT team, yet. Can you tell me a bit more? Can Co-Pilot do visual stuff and/or Maths?

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Yeh I use it a lot at work too, mostly for code. It can be really useful at some things, but it does seem to get fixated on particular solutions... if they don't work then it can't find it's own way out, and you end up having to guide it instead of it guiding you 😄 Claude AI is quite useful too.

Chaps what admin fee are you paying to Howden? Cos mine last year was £29 but this year they wanted £57. Got them down to £39 but that was it. Underwriter price stayed the same but still had to take a price increase.

Use ChatGPT and other AI tools quite a bit at work, and the team I work with helps deploy AI tech for a lot of clients. As you say, very powerful, for the right application. I think a lot of it depends on the LLM (Large Language Model) that it’s trained on - essentially what the AI relies on for coming up with answers. ChatGPT and Google Gemini etc basically have the whole internet to work from and this can cause problems due to the amount of rubbish published. Unfortunately they can’t always differentiate the good from the bull💩, and as the volume of AI generated content out there increases, there’s a danger it will be learning from itself! We use Microsoft Co-Pilot and it’s trained on documents within our corporate SharePoint, meaning it can only retrieve answers from documents that should be correct. We can ask it for a case study on how we’ve done x, y, or z in a particular sector and it pulls out case studies etc. Quite time saving Have you seen some of the capabilities around image generation? I think the latest Adobe Photoshop can do some amazing things

Great ! Must be sth unusual there that Car (and what amount of fun with and due to this ) can be so small

Too late the algorithms have already captured you 😆

I've watched all the Terminator films, I ain't going nowhere near it dude! 😂

Anybody use this? I’ve been having a butchers and it’s a powerful machine!

@ Naranja_Al has a topic going in the tech section

Was a really good evening and didn't even have a Scrooby Doo of how the track flowed as did no pre watching videos so was a great learning curve! Interesting watching fellow cars scampa away into the distance as was pushing my road tyres to the limit but to be fair they have seen 3 Track days and 4000 miles of road use so far so wear rate is minimal even if limited grip, but fun factor is massive. Can't wait to do some more next year with you guys!

Aim to pass the IVA and not 'wing it'. It would be a shame to fail on such a simple/avoidable item. If with modifications, you can demonstrate they meet the viewing angles, you should be fine. My tester commented at the start that he likes testing Westfields as if you build them to the manual with the factory provided items they generally pass.

Thanks everyone for your knowledge I will have to make a decision about what to go for when I get to that stage of my build.

They are, or were effectively higher up than on a Westfield, so not as masked by the front wheels.

Morning all. I have been in contact with a few roll cage manufacturers about getting a cage for my car and the possibility of getting something specially made. Someone else has been speaking to one of them recently and wondered if it was anyone on here. Could you get in touch, thanks.

Congratulations what a fantastic, and well deserved result!

Thats brilliant @3739Davis , congratulations! The Caterham 8 spokes look lovely on the car too 👍

I've read that too, but it would appear to variable depending on the App and the phone. When Ben and I did a comparison of laptimes on a tandem fast run. Racechrono running in my car logged a 1m51.88 and Ben following with the AIM Solo and an expensive Garmin watch logged a 1m51.79. We do notice that the AIM Solo registers slightly higher top speeds (which could be refresh rate) but it's within 1-2 mph. Given we were in 2 separate cars, and a tenth of a second at an average speed of circa 80mph for the lap equates to under 12 feet of distance, this seems a good correlation over the 2.5 miles. It's close enough for my purposes (a bit of friendly banter about our laptimes!) and the data can be exported to websites like Fastestlaps where it's interesting to see how the car compares. They added the MegaS2000 to the list of cars for me: https://fastestlaps.com/models/westfield-mega-s2000 I've not even tried to interface it with the GoPro as yet.....

congrats on win 🥉 👍

i passed iva with a set of indicator pods fitted on my mazda sdv with no issues at derby. he asked me where i got them from i said westfield. i suppose its just down to the discretion of the tester on the day but it was some years ago. also mk use an indicator setup on there cars in the same position but different design

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But don’t Caterham have their indicators in the same location? Pretty sure someone on here passed IVA with this type of indicator but it did require some fudging to get through.

Unlikely as they don't meet the viewing angle requirements as per the IVA manual. I 'borrowed' a nose cone for IVA to avoid drilling my new nose.

Thanks, Rob — that’s really interesting. I’ve read that the GPS sampling rate on most (all?) smartphones (1 Hz, one sample per second) isn’t accurate enough for sports applications, and that a higher frequency is preferable. I’ve been looking into data logging for a while now. My Dash2Pro does log data, but I find the interface and extracting/using the data quite clunky. It’s excellent for live lap and sector times, but nowhere near as good as RaceChrono Pro seems to be for data logging. I was impressed with @Mole’s Race Technology cloud-based logger, but if I recall correctly it’s both expensive and tricky to set up. I’m also interested in how RaceChrono Pro interfaces with GoPro and Insta360 cameras.