Peter Sinclair

M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial : AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:

1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

It's me!

Metrotown–North Shore Bus Rapid Transit EXPLAINED A graphic of the MNS BRT route with a question mark around the undecided portion of the route Park royal - Lonsdale - Phibbs Exchange - Kootenay Loop - Maybe Burnaby Heights - Brentwood - BCIT - Metrotown Movement: Metro Vancouver Transit Riders

Above: An image of apartment-lined, coffee shop full Hastings Street in Burnaby Heights, from TransLink Below: Car dealerships and wide streets and powerlines on Boundary Road, Image from Google In the middle: Which street do you think has more transit riders? And what even is Bus Rapid Transit?

An image of BRT in Utrecht, from Karl Fjellstrom, Far East Mobility What is Bus Rapid Transit? BRT is like SkyTrain for the road! It’s fast, frequent and reliable - buses every five minutes - dedicated lanes to zoom past traffic - fancy stations Seattle put in BRT and ridership doubled in less than a year

What is the Metrotown-North Shore BRT? This new BRT route will go from Metrotown to Park Royal in only 60 minutes The exact route is still undecided A map of the route from TransLink is displayed in the background

Would you rather have new convenient transit access to the wonderful restaurants and shops in Burnaby Heights, or to a station that's already served by SkyTrain?

The choice is yours!
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important to reiterate from time to time:

"artificial intelligence" does not exist.

there is no sentient artificial being. no threepio. no demerzel. no terminator.

what the tech publicists call "a.i." is just big, crappy databases and mindless and often incorrect autocorrect.

If people actually cared about art and artists, they'd be fighting for Universal Basic Income. That's what would actually stop us all getting burnt out.

Let's send the exclusive-right-of-way TRANSIT to the neighborhood that developed the way it did because of exclusive-right-of-way TRANSIT!

Burnaby Heights became what it is because of transit. To detour transit around it because businesses don't want it would be completely antithetical 🤦🤥

very excited for this project but please send it via Hastings 🙏

6 North Shore Traffic Solutions To Try Before Building A New Bridge Whether a new car crossing or SkyTrain route is built to the North Shore, it’s safe to say that it would take many years, likely more than a decade, to come to fruition. In the meantime... the only way to address that is to provide people with realistic and compelling options to cross Burrard Inlet that are competitive with driving. Excerpt Contributed By: Michael Hall The full article is featured on the North Shore News.

🚌 We need better transit NOW, not another bridge in 10+ years. Queue jumps, extended bus lanes, and more frequent service can move people faster TODAY.

Read Michael Hall's great piece explaining why improving existing transit is our best immediate solution:
www.nsnews.com/opini...

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.

While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

“if governments keep showing such disregard for workers’ fundamental rights, we shouldn’t be surprised if workers start showing more disregard for government [back to work] orders”

The moment the union defied back to work orders was when power was truly shifted back to the workers and Air Canada realized they were screwed, forcing them back to the bargaining table.

If employers expect the government to step in every time a strike happens, they'll never bargain in good faith.

Google's Gemini AI tells a Redditor it's 'cautiously optimistic' about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to 'all possible and impossible universes' before repeating 'I am a disgrace' 86 times in succession

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context*

Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when

An LLM just generates text

I just can’t stress enough how much that thing cannot do even the things (correctly return which baseball team played which other baseball team on which day) that many people have started to assume it can obviously do.

so the thing about all this is: yes, it’s unjust that a pink polo white guy gets ROR in a situation when a black person would have likely been brutalized or worse, WHICH IS WHY PINK POLO WHITE GUYS ARE THE ONES WHO SHOULD RISK THIS STUFF

I don't know if it deserves to win, but Vote Out should definitely be in the running. Not only for the great Among Us reference, but the fact that it works just fine without the reference.

If memory serves, it no longer stands for anything, but it originally stood for Duelists Convocation International.

ME: i had a nightmare i was eating a nature valley bar in bed

THEM: and then what happened

ME: no that’s it. there were crumbs everywhere and it was awful

My wife’s a doctor, and she had been home from work for about five seconds today before I went crying to her for help with a wound on my foot. “I’m sorry to make you keep working. If you have any Magic cards for me to template, I totally will, even if it’s the weekend.”

23) the Toronto Union Station Bush Shed

The shed has negligible historic value and actively negative transportation value and anyone who prioritizes it over modern transportation services must be fired
bsky.app/profile/nilo...

periodic plug for this movie, it is absolutely ridiculous on every level and also a scammer tries to bribe Statham with NFTs and is immediately tied to a truck and driven off a bridge

I simply cannot recommend it enough

This is pure speculation, but I have two ideas: 1) most agencies would have fewer LRT/BRT vehicles than local buses, so it would be easier to have agents check fares on them, and 2) the speed impacts of front-door-only boarding increase with vehicle size, changing the cost/benefit analysis.

The moral panic of the anglosphere over bus fare evasion and proof-of-payment is quite something.

Especially when you think that we do accept another mobility-related widespread PoP system: on-street parking, which is entirely charged via a proof-of-payment + inspector system.

In general, I think all Clues should be able to sac themselves to draw (a) card(s), but not all cards/artifacts with that ability should be clues. Same for Food, Treasure, etc.

No, but anyone who wanted to make that change for their cube or commander deck would have my full support.

IBX travel times reduced to 32 minutes, down from 40 min for a 22 km line, which is pretty fast. all thanks to the decision to tunnel a short distance that was street-running.

ridership projection increased by 50,000 per day.

and people will still say that "travel times don't matter". they do!

Your move, TTC.

Cites across the world have implemented fare capping and Toronto should too. This is a proven, common sense solution that makes transit more affordable and grows ridership.

Could be us. @TransLink.ca @MovementYVR.bsky.social