The article at first used the correct pronouns, and at some point clearly some transphobe had that changed, because we can’t have referring to someone by their preferred pronouns, can we now

I guess from SNCF’s perspective it’s a double unit TGV Duplex and therefore plenty of seats per hour - but ignoring all the benefits of an increased frequency instead of

Milton Keynes needs a magic roundabout

(One of my hot takes is that MK doesn’t have enough roundabouts, in the city centre at least)

I was looking forward to eventually being able to get from Bucks to Newcastle very quickly via Birmingham Interchange - instead every time I head up it’s via London. Eventually via Manchester may become a faster option but then lack of investment in the castlefield corridor means a poor connection

It would also be bloody useful to have high speed, high capacity services between Leeds and Birmingham - it wasn’t just about London but what we’ve been left with sure is London centric.

I saw a comment earlier today moaning how the keyboard volume on iOS cranks up with a notification…and I was like, oh, I forgot the keyboard could even make sound

Well, they were commonly that long until the B23 stock has been delayed that long the older stock is having availability issues!

If you’re on a 3 car train (or 6, depending on how you count) you potentially wouldn’t notice them as they’re in another part of the train

You…can’t see the tracks physically moving throughout the entire video? Because that system can’t do what the AI hallucinated because it’s physically impossible for a monorail or maglev. Of course, the AI cannot grasp that you cannot phase through track, hence it’s running into limitations.

If a friend doesn’t know the answer, they’ll say as much. Under no circumstances do they just confidently make stuff up and you have to remember to challenge them, or have to go independently verify all the information yourself

Except where it doesn’t, and just further hallucinates, very confidently telling the user some is true when it isn’t. If it would hold its hands up and say “idk”, I’d give it a lot more slack. But LLMs REALLY want to answer no matter what in my experience.

I’d be open to paying $20 a month or whatever if I actually had any bloody clue what to use it for beyond the occasional redrafting of existing text. I think I missed the boarding call for the AI train and so I’m just mystified at the hype.

It’s just Le Chat Free. But over on the OpenAI side, at least ChatGPT (free ofc) acknowledges a real answer to my prompt but it hallucinates real world applications when in reality there are only some patents.

Could I get better performance paying $200 a month for whatever top spec OpenAI model? Probably, but my need to ask questions that would make any return on investment is vanishingly small

I’ve used a bunch that are in LM Studio but I’m by no means well versed in which specific models are good and how much of a capability deficit they have from running locally. Similarly, I’ve just asked Mistral Le Chat one of my example questions and it still hallucinates to this day.

Hopefully MK Rapid Transit, if it ever happens, isn't a gadgetbahn (looking at you, trackless trams)

There’s some bizarre urban planning here which makes the city centre reminiscent of the City of London at night and the weekend.

There’s some mixed use development but it’s frustratingly far from the station and there’s literally detached houses with large gardens on one side of MK central station

Just don’t leave them on 1V60 at Penzance…

(At least that’s where we think the ones we picked up in Aberdeen ended up!)

The issue I have with it is that it’s not actually baked in store. They use careful language like “freshly prepared in store”