Oh, I am so sorry to hear the news. My condolences
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Oh, I am so sorry to hear the news. My condolences
Happy 93rd birthday Michael Caine! In 1997 I interviewed him for British GQ. (I wrote here that he hadn't done any science fiction; since this, of course, he has appeared in several of Christopher Nolan's science fiction films, though I still don't think he's done a western.)
Too many people have gone through life never wracked by doubt over "do I look like an idiot is that why everyone is laughing" and it shows
have been randomly reminded of one of those things of beauty that is a joy forever (elevated by the commentators' passion) therunnereclectic.com/2014/08/18/m...
Timeline cleanse: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t50s...
I could cry with relief that someone expert is saying this, the belief that all organisations are blank slates waiting for your from-scratch automated invoicing software or whatever has been so tedious. An 8yo’s idea of how the world works.
I used to try and make a dad-joke about The Black-Eyed Peas' curiosity about late 90s footballers ("where is Ndlovu") but sadly had to retire this after looking up actual life events en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_N...
Here is my best Habermas story.
I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"
@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com had a strong reaction to A bout de souffle ...
Things I didn't expect: finding an old-school pocket-sized printing of a Cadfael book in a non-2nd-hand bookshop.
Things I really didn't expect: finding that this Cadfael book had a plot and tone verging on something I'd associate with a mid-era Ruth Rendell story
I'm coming to the view that Hegseth is not just objectionable, he is actually a scumbag. The mentality of a wifebeater with the petulance of a toddler.
Ealing 1, Godard 0
Trump has always been a eugenicist, obsessed with "good" and "bad" genes, but the media largely ignores or sanewashes it.
Trying to think of the most deserving punishment (moral, not judicial) for Hegseth once he eventually leaves his current position. There is always the risk that the more genteel / aesthetic options only work on people with some level of self-knowledge :-/
Long shot I know but is anyone out there an expert in Scottish voter registration law as it existed in 1880? In particular when people who had been adjudged qualified as county electors actually joined the register and were able to vote?
I know I'm not the intended audience for Ororo Munroe The Most Omega Of Omegas but part of me longs for a de-escalation of the line they've taken with the character. They could even call it Storm: In A Teacup
Alexander Kustov: In the meantime, I just used these stochastic parrots to redesign my website, publish it, and translate all my writing into most world languages in less than one day. Reply from Matt Crosslin: I think you mean the top 12 most popular languages - there are hundreds of languages and 12 is not "most." But from what little I studied Arabic a few decades ago I can tell you it is really messed up. No need for any words in English for one, and the word order in the sentences is all wrong. Alexander Kustov again: Thanks, I appreciate it. I meant most popular languages, of course, with a focus on immigrant-receiving countries where my work matters. … but you're right that it may be messing up word order.
About that…
I guess in this metaphor I am the farmer at the start of Once Upon A Time In The West who is sitting on a well of "intelligence" and will be shot by the agents of a dying tycoon who needs that "intelligence" to power their trains
Now imagining an undiscovered Smiths B-side: "Give Me My Blue Blanket"
TBF: in my profession (UK university teaching) LLMs are a big deal, even among those who aren't coders. Not all of this preoccupation is positive, of course
Was driven by unceasing rain to stay in my office and try to finish the thing that I had hoped to finish a week ago. Over an hour later, am fed up, and the unceasing rain has driven me to chicken nuggets and fries at the student bar downstairs. The life of the mind; the thickening of the arteries
Bad on this side of the Pennines too ...
I must confess to (a) feeling a bit of sympathy as someone who has taught for weeks on end while only managing 4 hours of sleep before each lecture (b) my brain immediately supplying Gene Wilder yelling hysterically "Mr Bialystok I cannot function under these conditions"
Strait of Hormuz billionaire solution brainstorming, Donkey Kong barrels edition
can this be a solution
Two bright ribbons of green light shoot out in a V behind the silhouetted spires of snow-covered spruce trees.
Two bright ribbons of green light sweep across the night sky behind the silhouetted spires of snow-covered spruce trees.
A few more photos from last week's amazing #aurora show. #NorthernLights
not-morons dot gif
Maybe some of the ideas about AI and productivity are so difficult to map cleanly onto other areas outside of coding because most things aren't like coding? This isn't rhetorical, it seems like there is a real disconnect here, where the bottleneck isn't really quantity, in most cases.
How fascinating. Because they started this s*** in August. And suddenly, within a week, they deactivate it.
Quite the sign of how experts don't actually use Grammarly and thus hadn't noticed until last week? And how stressed Grammarly is about potential law suits now that we do realise.
