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Kit Thwaite
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Head of Data Science and AI @ PRH | Python, Rust, Typescript | NLP, IR
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this, quoting Jeffries analyst Surinder Thind, hits the nail on the head for me. you’re not going to make end-user computing happen without integrations, rich metadata, governance… to say nothing of observability! on.ft.com/491pzLj
In many conversations we sensed frustration at the inability to scale from pilots due to concerns around data (and governance) issues. According to an AWS presenter, approximately 70% of IT budgets are spent on managing legacy systems, legacy systems cause a 6-18 month delays for rolling out new features in software products, and around 40% of software developer time is spent on managing technical debt. The above becomes a much more serious issue when companies try and implement Agentic AI, because if an organisation does not have clean data and quality data governance policies, AI agents cannot be trusted to execute autonomous functions and make real business decisions based on data that the humans themselves deem untrustworthy.
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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piketty on soi-disant “AI” as product/ideological project in the FT, very lucid on.ft.com/4nFLyLk
JS: How do you see advances in AI affecting economic inequality? TP: It’s entirely a question of ownership and government. What I find really striking is the ability of the new AI actors to convince public authorities that they should be allowed to basically grab everybody else’s intellectual property without even mentioning whose intellectual property they have been using. And then to produce their own sort of knowledge or answer to questions where they basically have the right not to say who they’ve been using and copying. They have the right not to say how the algorithm is producing this. To me this is a complete dystopia — it is really crazy. This is a sort of extractivist, hyper-capitalist side of the most brutal kind, which in a way is consistent also with nationalist ideology, which has a sense of hierarchy based on socio-ethnic origin, which also fits together well with a sense of hierarchy involving a few geniuses who are going to save us if we give them all the power.
November 5, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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environmental storytelling
October 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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thou shalt not suffer a machine to say “ugh”
August 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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“human writers follow an
iterative process of thinking, outlining, writing, and refining to ensure coherence and quality” — arxiv.org/abs/2506.04180

don’t know where to begin with this
June 5, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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"99.45% uptime" is a funny way of saying that you had issues one out of every three days in the past 90
May 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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benchmarking
Screenshot of an LLM response: "To directly answer your question: Odradek is not Kipple. However, both concepts can be seen as philosophically related in their exploration of meaning, purpose, and the nature of existence."
March 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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A lot to unpack here
February 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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yes, virginia, there is a hardware overhang
December 5, 2024 at 10:33 PM