google ai telling me today (as I searched for genuinely informative pages) that the last REF submission period ran from mid 2021 to end of 2020. Backwards in time. Some AI do impressive things. Weird that Google just forces us to watch it repeatedly stepping on rakes.
February 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
google ai telling me today (as I searched for genuinely informative pages) that the last REF submission period ran from mid 2021 to end of 2020. Backwards in time. Some AI do impressive things. Weird that Google just forces us to watch it repeatedly stepping on rakes.
One thing about the Traitors is it’s all about game theory. But it’s also about how useless game theory is when dealing with real people trying to do game theory.
January 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
One thing about the Traitors is it’s all about game theory. But it’s also about how useless game theory is when dealing with real people trying to do game theory.
if the framing was mob/hunted rather than faithful/traitor (or villagers/mafia) it would all still make sense
January 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
if the framing was mob/hunted rather than faithful/traitor (or villagers/mafia) it would all still make sense
Hey, I'm been moved onto Grade 5 pieces (woo! 11-year old me is impressed). HOWEVER there are all these things you can isolate and practice, and then there's "feeling the pulse" (esp. through syncopation), and there's... nothing I know how to do to get better at it.
January 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Hey, I'm been moved onto Grade 5 pieces (woo! 11-year old me is impressed). HOWEVER there are all these things you can isolate and practice, and then there's "feeling the pulse" (esp. through syncopation), and there's... nothing I know how to do to get better at it.
Recce’d the Hebden 15 today. Still undecided whether to do the 22 or the 15 in two weeks time. Legs, hips, back appeared to stand up to this after 6 months of trouble, though the true test is what they feel like tomorrow morning.
January 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Recce’d the Hebden 15 today. Still undecided whether to do the 22 or the 15 in two weeks time. Legs, hips, back appeared to stand up to this after 6 months of trouble, though the true test is what they feel like tomorrow morning.
Idly imagined the various earlier technological revolutions handled handled as big firms are handling AI. And then remembered the “children’s atomic energy kit”: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert...
Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
January 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Idly imagined the various earlier technological revolutions handled handled as big firms are handling AI. And then remembered the “children’s atomic energy kit”: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert...
Just finished on audible, after the book featured in @samfr.bsky.social’s recommendations for last year. And I really enjoyed it. Shocked, shocked to find the version of the Iliad I had as a kid… was not this story. I’m very glad I got this one on audiobook, and the voice actor is terrific.
January 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Just finished on audible, after the book featured in @samfr.bsky.social’s recommendations for last year. And I really enjoyed it. Shocked, shocked to find the version of the Iliad I had as a kid… was not this story. I’m very glad I got this one on audiobook, and the voice actor is terrific.
NYD Timekeeping at parkrun
January 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
NYD Timekeeping at parkrun
Farewell 2024, a truly terrible year. I started it driving back from visiting my sister in the hospital in torrential rain and very literal floods. I miss her terribly. Here’s to a cancer-free 2025, with as much sun and outdoorsyness as possible.
December 31, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Farewell 2024, a truly terrible year. I started it driving back from visiting my sister in the hospital in torrential rain and very literal floods. I miss her terribly. Here’s to a cancer-free 2025, with as much sun and outdoorsyness as possible.
I know it’s a joke and all, but I kind of find “breaking up England” discourse a bit upsetting, because it’s sort of plausible that one day the rich bits of will decide they are fed up with redistribution and try to ditch the rest.
December 26, 2024 at 6:28 PM
I know it’s a joke and all, but I kind of find “breaking up England” discourse a bit upsetting, because it’s sort of plausible that one day the rich bits of will decide they are fed up with redistribution and try to ditch the rest.
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Required effort exceeds maximum capacity. Sorry. Xox
November 18, 2024 at 1:51 PM
Required effort exceeds maximum capacity. Sorry. Xox
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This is just appalling. The BBC needs to issue a cease-and-desist because its reputation is being seriously diminished - and indeed the whole reputation of "mainstream media" is being diminished by this machine-led lies. Sue them! Don't just moan!
BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline
Apple's new artificial intelligence features falsely made it seem the BBC reported Luigi Mangione had shot himself.
www.bbc.com
December 13, 2024 at 7:34 PM
This is just appalling. The BBC needs to issue a cease-and-desist because its reputation is being seriously diminished - and indeed the whole reputation of "mainstream media" is being diminished by this machine-led lies. Sue them! Don't just moan!
Lunch should be abolished in favour of second breakfast (11am) and midafternoon tea (4pm).
Unpopular take: Kemi is right. Lunch (unless it's a proper sit down) is generally awful and best avoided. Have a bigger breakfast.
December 12, 2024 at 11:19 AM
Lunch should be abolished in favour of second breakfast (11am) and midafternoon tea (4pm).
Today is heading to be a soup-salad-sandwich-steak day.
December 12, 2024 at 9:57 AM
Today is heading to be a soup-salad-sandwich-steak day.
I have this Tibetan dance cello piece completely stuck in my head. It gives me the strong feel of early PJ Harvey, for some reason.
YouTube link for one of these (different cellist, not as good, but gives you the idea) youtu.be/VQ8uAV0QdG8?...
sheng tibetan dance cello - Google Search
www.google.com
December 10, 2024 at 6:39 PM
I have this Tibetan dance cello piece completely stuck in my head. It gives me the strong feel of early PJ Harvey, for some reason.
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Just reading up on the former dictator of Portugal, and, what? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
September 6, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Just reading up on the former dictator of Portugal, and, what? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
I’ve no doubt AI will have applications that are transformative in this or that field. But my god, the things I actually encounter are just people taking a working product and screwing it up for no apparent reason.
LOL the Washington Post replaced its archive search tool with an AI that tries to summarize the archive ahead of delivering any actual stories, and which only ranks its findings by "relevance," with no option to rank them by date
December 8, 2024 at 8:10 PM
I’ve no doubt AI will have applications that are transformative in this or that field. But my god, the things I actually encounter are just people taking a working product and screwing it up for no apparent reason.
This is a very lovely legacy game, obviously designed for younger people but very restful for adults. Kinda snakes and ladders meets pacman on a 3D pyramid. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41...
Ziggurat
A family-friendly legacy story game with six surprise-filled chapters!
boardgamegeek.com
December 8, 2024 at 5:42 PM
This is a very lovely legacy game, obviously designed for younger people but very restful for adults. Kinda snakes and ladders meets pacman on a 3D pyramid. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41...
If you don’t want employer and inheritance tax rises in an aging nation that is definitely not going to give up free healthcare and state pensions, then you need to work to make income tax rises more politically palatable.
December 6, 2024 at 1:12 PM
If you don’t want employer and inheritance tax rises in an aging nation that is definitely not going to give up free healthcare and state pensions, then you need to work to make income tax rises more politically palatable.
Not having a spotify account I can’t join in current fun, so I’ll just recommend my current favourite listen on Apple Music (particularly Weilerstein performing Sheng’s Tibetan dance, and Cassado’s Sardana) classical.music.apple.com/gb/album/145...
Solo by Alisa Weilerstein on Apple Music Classical
Listen in the app designed for classical.
classical.music.apple.com
December 4, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Not having a spotify account I can’t join in current fun, so I’ll just recommend my current favourite listen on Apple Music (particularly Weilerstein performing Sheng’s Tibetan dance, and Cassado’s Sardana) classical.music.apple.com/gb/album/145...
google ai searches continue to speak nonsense (latest search telling me to not use my fingers on the cello, some kind of garbling of thumb position info). And AI on strava giving mindless cheers for high HR in run (it’s bad to have higher HR in easy runs!) just absolutely not real world ready.
December 3, 2024 at 8:05 PM
google ai searches continue to speak nonsense (latest search telling me to not use my fingers on the cello, some kind of garbling of thumb position info). And AI on strava giving mindless cheers for high HR in run (it’s bad to have higher HR in easy runs!) just absolutely not real world ready.
the use of pinnable lists to follow breaking news events is A+ Bluesky.
December 3, 2024 at 7:59 PM
the use of pinnable lists to follow breaking news events is A+ Bluesky.
By far the best productivity purchase I have ever made is a large (full A4 screen), backlit, e-ink tablet.
December 3, 2024 at 3:55 PM
By far the best productivity purchase I have ever made is a large (full A4 screen), backlit, e-ink tablet.
Ahem
Remembering the time I heard that thing about presidential democracies being mostly unstable, with the USA a massive outlier, puzzling political scientists for that very reason. So, anyway…
December 3, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Ahem