@wadingboid
Views expressed are my own, it's easier than expressing someone else's. Nerdy, birdy, devourer of sciencey stuff I missed at school, unreasonably fond of ferries and trains. (Posts before Nov 2024 are imported from Twitter.)
So a lot of the hype around LLMs and a lot of the userbase just fundamentally misunderstands what the technology is and what it’s capable of, instead treating it like a mythical supernatural or religious being. The industry openly encourages this delusion for profit
My Endo regularly writes to my GP telling them what a pleasure it has been to speak to me. It is very odd.
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
Oh it is in the linked article. My second-favourite Aus timezone anomaly!
I love Australian timezone oddness. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in...
Not sure if it is still the case, but the India Pacific train had its own timezone when travelling between WA and SA, presumably for the same reason.
Challenge! Daylight Time "solutions," but each one has to be worse than the one before. I'll start: Instead of a one-hour switch twice a year, how about 4 forward jumps of 15 min each, at one-week intervals, in the spring, and 4 backward jumps of 15 min each, at one-week intervals, in the fall. 🙃
Sorry, I'm just going to go with the actual, correct solution: everyone should work fewer hours during the winter.
A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.
HMS Irresistible sinking during the Dardenelles campaign, having proved to everybody's satisfaction that the name might just have been a teeny-tiny bit premature after all.
If I'd rushed into a poorly planned campaign around a notorious maritime choke point that left it closed to friendly shipping I'd carefully lay off the Churchill comparisons, but hey...
The fact that genAI slop and pro-AI academics write equally poorly isn’t the major win you seem to think it is.
I like the sound of this guy. Whatever happened to him?
A small thing, but the disaster relief/crisis mapping I’m leading as part of my FLF wouldn’t exist if basic research on galaxies hadn’t been funded, and if Galaxy Zoo hadn’t been created. Pretty sure the co-creator had an STFC PhD studentship. Now the tools they created are used to help save lives.
In order to hold the centre-left ground, it would first have to occupy it...
“Grievances” here is just “issues which might motivate a vote” same as any other group. I, a white man in a Labour constituency, share the views that Labour’s Gaza policy was dreadful, that Modi is an authoritarian and that Reform is far-right!
As ever, I don't imagine myself representative of anyone but me. But if I'd had a vote in Gorton I'd have agonised, then done whatever felt most likely to stop Goodwin. After Starmer and Mahmoud's responses I now feel quite motivated to vote *against* Labour?
A circular infographic chart categorizing cheeses by type of milk and texture. At the center, four sections are labeled cow, sheep, goat, and buffalo, radiating outward into concentric rings for textures: soft, semi-soft, semi-hard, and hard. Each cheese name is placed within its corresponding segment, with illustrated wedges of cheese circling the outer edge. Cow’s milk occupies the largest portion, featuring well-known varieties like Brie, Camembert, Taleggio, Havarti, Gouda, Cheddar, and Parmesan. Sheep’s milk includes cheeses such as Roquefort, Manchego, and Pecorino Romano. Goat’s milk features options like Chèvre, Crottin de Chavignol, and Humboldt Fog. Buffalo is represented by Mozzarella di Bufala Campana and Buffalo Blue. The cheeses are organized visually so that softer varieties appear closer to the center and harder ones toward the edge. Small colored drawings show each cheese’s texture, rind, and tone, from creamy whites and soft rounds to golden blocks, crumbly wedges, and blue-veined interiors. The background is a deep charcoal gray, making the warm oranges, yellows, and creams of the cheeses stand out clearly.
EVERYONE STOP
cheese wheel of cheeses
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article 8bis of the rome statute of the international criminal court
continuation of article 8bis
posting, once again, the well-established definition of the crime of aggression in the rome statute for the ICC
Yes, exactly that.
This has me crying in real life 😂😂😂
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And checked where the stop cock is, quite sensibly.
/9 In other words, I reject the Ezra Klein position that if you do evil with the right formalities and debate-team traditions and the right formatting, you’re actually doing good.
/6 I do have a question for the people who are supporting/defending Wurman et al., the dishonest academics who are pushing this farce.
The question is this: are there any limits to what arguments you will defend, so long as they are done in the rituals and style of academia?
For my fellow UKians, here is a very useful thread from the US about fundamental rights and how these are defended/overturned, with an excellent end note on the hideous veil of quasi-academic 'legitimacy'.
/5 I think — hope — that getting SCOTUS to lie about history, law, and facts to overturn birthright citizenship is still a couple of votes beyond their grasp. But it’s far far closer to possible than it ever should be.
This by-election is not a turning point for the Labour Party, which is clearly incapable of rediscovering its conscience.
It is, I hope, a turning point for Labour voters who now realise there is an electable, compassionate, progressive alternative.
Exactly.
Town class cruiser HMS Manchester seen in the 1930s, before British policy took a necessarily forceful turn against the fascists...
HMS Manchester - lost due to the actions of its leader, who the resulting court martial "negligently performed his duty" in deliberately scuttling it.
Don't know why that came to mind this morning...
The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.
