Peter Garbett
petergarbett.bsky.social
Peter Garbett
@petergarbett.bsky.social
Retired software engineer on jet engine control systems . Owned by a small dog and partner. #fbpe and liberal enough to be occasionally annoyed by the Liberals. Watches mathologer videos and Tim Hunkin drilling holes .
One does wonder what passes for intelligent human activity when its only parsing what's being said and extrapolating . As per the advert where the chap has an internal voice that says "Say something businessy"
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
There's a paper that suggests that methods that leverage huge computational power are going to win out. Which is true if the leverage acts on the problem in hand. LLM s don't . Everything is a hallucination but they have managed to persuade us that its only hallucinating when it's wrong
November 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Ages back when language translation was being developed there was a debate over statistical brute force vs actually understanding the world. As it turns out, the statistical methods worked surprisingly well, possibly because there's an underlying common reality which you don't have to construct.
November 20, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Almost as if Keir is a mediocre middle manager who is now completely out of his depth
November 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Reposted by Peter Garbett
"Seizing Brexit opportunities to deregulate" was mostly unspecified magic fairy pixie bullshit then, and it's not going to get any more realistic in the hands of a bunch of Reform clowns who don't know how anything works, don't care to learn and disdain anyone that might.
November 8, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Reposted by Peter Garbett
Even better, Number 10 staffers touted the replacement of the whips office as a big win to cheer up disgruntled backbenchers, to the complete bafflement of several. Some of whom then signed up to the “Keir’s gotta go” faction, in sheer frustration.
November 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Yes the question I want to ask people who say they are proud is of what exactly?
November 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM