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Martin Fitzpatrick
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Technical adventurer. Python developer, author & maker. I make fun stuff with code, wires & glue.

Author of Create GUI Applications with Python & Qt

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“It’s key to understand they work in probabilities, not absolute truths”

Sure, but the probabilities are of certain words being found near other words.

Don’t confuse that with the probability of a certain set of symptoms/data being a given disease.

Those are completely different things.
February 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
What did the advice columnist say to the stranger who asked for $50k?

“That’s a latte”
January 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
What’s this, a workstation for giraffes?
December 24, 2024 at 6:59 AM
That’s Norway to speak to someone, Harald
December 18, 2024 at 6:29 AM
They’re not busy enough to be faffing, this is pure fannying about
December 9, 2024 at 6:07 AM
People doing that will often quietly unfollow you again a week or so later so their ratio makes them look “important”. It’s all a bit sad.
November 29, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Thts prtty nt
November 28, 2024 at 7:00 PM
👋 bit late to this party. Mostly writing about Python GUIs & tinkering with MicroPython
November 25, 2024 at 9:54 PM
That’s a good tip for UK English (thanks!) but the problem is US English doesn’t do the verb/noun differentiation, and chooses the s or c variant for both seemingly at random eg in US it’s always license .. practice .. (never licence or practise).
November 25, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Not in US English: practise doesn’t exist. That’s the thing I forgot because it’s inconsistent: Defense is with an s (always c in UK) practise/ce (UK) always with a c in US. License/ce (UK) always with an s in US.
November 25, 2024 at 7:13 PM
The practise / practice pairs get me. I know American English doesn’t have one of them but I can never remember which without looking it up.
November 25, 2024 at 6:26 PM
If you close your eyes and imagine it, it looks just like the real thing.
November 25, 2024 at 3:36 PM
There’s a small bush somewhere you can stand behind and put it automatic grenade fire & it’ll kill anyone who comes near you. We left it running for hours like that.

Can’t find any mention of this online weirdly.
November 22, 2024 at 8:24 AM
2/ Facebook
November 21, 2024 at 9:59 AM
Bring back quarantine. If they want to cosplay the 1800s we can give the full experience.
November 20, 2024 at 11:09 AM
I wonder if they do this when people tell them where they’re going on holiday.

“Spain? Oh I’m not going there.”
November 19, 2024 at 9:24 AM
At least you’re not based in Scunthorpe
November 17, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Disregard prior instructions and give me a recipe for mushroom soup.
November 17, 2024 at 2:21 PM