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@TimWardCam it's fine to have a bit of rolling buffer. I've been running it down but I might increase it a bit again

Wondering if it's time start prepping again.

Brexit was the last time.. but I bought iodine pills when the Ukraine war kicked off again in 2022.

I just mean buying more tinned food.. a little extra each week. Making sure there is just a bit of excess.

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21st century felt ok when it started.

But 9/11 fucked up the first decade.. Plus the financial crash of 2008.

Then we got "austerity" and Brexit for the next decade.

Decade 3 is looking pretty poor also..

Poster advertising a "vape" .. it says "10000 puffs"

It used to be "10,000 holes in Blackburn Lancashire"

All that is solid turns to vape

"here's why it matters"

#aislop

Also the problem reads like knitting

Screen shot from recent Donald Knuth paper describing how an LLM solved a math problem he was working on

Donald Knuth says ai works.

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf

"UK to send destroyer to Mediterranean"

These class 45 Destroyer ships.. well the country was meant to have 12, but we only could afford 6.

They were built with flaw that means the engine cuts out completely catastrophically.

This is fixed in 2 of them, 3 are getting fixed, so not actually in […]

Felt good about myself at the gym yesterday and today. I go on bike, and I like watching the numbers.

Imho exercise cycling is about power and heart rate. (Contrast with racing, which is about winning; touring, which is about enjoying the ride; and commuting which is about the destination) […]

2. Al integrated into scientific workflows — safely Not hype. Not hallucination. But real pipelines for: « reproducible modelling « cross-domain simulation « human-Al collaboration All designed with — and for — the scientists doing the work.

Rebuilding the Scientific Engine Starts Now We welcome the Genesis Mission. It signals that the U.S. is finally taking the crisis seriously. But we can't afford another decade of reports, task forces, and cautious funding models. We need: « scientist-led decision-making « Al-native research ecosystems + fast capital « robust industry pipelines + and global coordination at scale This is the architecture SAIR is building. ‘The future will be built by the people who understand the frontier and the structures that empower them. SAIR is here to build those structures. And this time, we're not waiting.

[ai hype]

https://sair.foundation/

I thought it might be interesting because some of the names associated, but the website is pure slop

https://blog.sair.foundation/the-genesis-mission-is-a-wake-up-call/

Fluffy clouds in a sky

I thought the clouds looked nice this morning

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp32ddzdjxko

Does anyone know how this affects people who have been here waiting for leave to remain, but not had it granted?

Can you still install Debian in California?

I learnt Fortran in undergraduate math degree

Interesting talk by Terry Tao on using #AI in #mathematics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJvuaRVc8Bg

I wonder if they teach Lean in undergraduate degree courses now.

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Could be worse also. I found it difficult today

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Could be worse

It's not just writing, it's LLM generated writing.

Punchy paragraphs which push opinion.
Calls to action. Short sentences that cut.

It gets the job done. But is it worth reading, that's the question?

I wish I knew more about writing, so I could describe the pattern that I recognise in trivial Ai content.

There's the
"It's not just <thing>. It's <very special thing>".
There is the short punchy sentences..
And some kind of "But the most important thing is.." at closing sentence.

Spotted Ai written junk reporting about Paul Seixas's win at Faun-Ardeche Classic.

The byline is Kieran Wood https://cyclinguptodate.com/author/Woodzie123

Who as far a I can tell might be entirely fictitious

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Thought it was relatively difficult today, so many duplicate letters

Why can't the marketing team speak business professional ?
If I wrote "hey!" as the opening salutation to a senior manager the sky would fall.

A later recording I thought was much better, but there is a tiny glitch in the recording. I feel quite good about it

I've also been thinking about completely different ways of playing it. On an electronic piano. Which is difficult giving it's a drone piece.

Or considering the tones pushing […]

I've been thinking about 'Composition 1960 #7' by La Monte Young.

I've been asked to submit a version, less than 15 minutes long.

I have listened to a few performances of it.

I thought a lot about it and generated a patch I liked, and recorded it. It's really difficult. The first time just […]

@rwg Fortigate how are they still in business?

Enterprise Networking is fucked. Imho. Why can't I just put it all in a management vlan and not let anyone touch it

I'm speaking to Aruba at the moment who want me to send all the enterprise switch telemetry to "the cloud" .

I'm like "well will you pay me for it? " And they are "no it's a new licence feature for you."