Keith Alcorn
@keithalcorn.bsky.social
Historian of gardens, plant introductions and British botanical empire. "The Empire in the Garden: How Exotic Plants Came to Britain" forthcoming from Yale University Press.
By 'shame' I mean: there are no adverse consequences for a LLM model of serving up wrong information. Unlike a gambler, when a LLM makes a statistical wrong guess about what the next word, sentence or paragraph should consist of, it loses nothing.
December 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
By 'shame' I mean: there are no adverse consequences for a LLM model of serving up wrong information. Unlike a gambler, when a LLM makes a statistical wrong guess about what the next word, sentence or paragraph should consist of, it loses nothing.
The Kaufmann office was a highlight of my first visit!
September 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The Kaufmann office was a highlight of my first visit!
I agree with Liz. This is not fringe science - the role of folate in foetal neurodevelopment is well established. But an important caveat in the article: children who test positive for autoantibodies that block a receptor essential for transporting folate into the brain are more likely to benefit.
September 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
I agree with Liz. This is not fringe science - the role of folate in foetal neurodevelopment is well established. But an important caveat in the article: children who test positive for autoantibodies that block a receptor essential for transporting folate into the brain are more likely to benefit.
Current gap seems to imply 3p on the basic rate? For historical context, basic rate went from 22.5% in 1935 to 27.5% in 1939 for rearmament.
February 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Current gap seems to imply 3p on the basic rate? For historical context, basic rate went from 22.5% in 1935 to 27.5% in 1939 for rearmament.