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by cjs_ac 9mo ago
That's all well and good, but the law stands because the administration has more firepower than you.
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by cjs_ac 9mo ago
This is a good point - thanks!
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by cjs_ac 9mo ago
It seems weird for Denmark to be defending Greenland from US threats while also leasing land on Greenland to the US for Pituffik Space Force Base. European states seem to be doing everything by half measures in the hope that Trump loses int
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by cjs_ac 9mo ago
What makes you think this is an appropriate response to someone telling you what's been published in newspapers?
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by cjs_ac 9mo ago
Grok AI generating child pornography has been a leading news story in the British press for the past few days.
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by cjs_ac 9mo ago
Regarding the quote about the British East India Company, it's worth noting that employees of the company had notoriously poor pay and were half-expected to set up their own personal ventures while in India to support themselves. The c
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by cjs_ac 9mo ago
The person reading Wikipedia and the person who visited the place are both beaten by the person who read Wikipedia and then visited the place. Reading about a place can point you to unique experiences that you would otherwise have missed. A
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by cjs_ac 9mo ago
As someone who doesn't really use AI, this could still be really useful, because it would make it much easier to create product search engines - a sort of DIY, ad-hoc Amazon for whatever product you're trying to buy.
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by cjs_ac 9mo ago
Most people who live in rural Britain today are still getting around in hatchbacks or estates (station wagons, to use the American term). The enormous SUVs are almost entirely driven by people who've used their money to buy into the co
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by cjs_ac 9mo ago
A predecessor that I had as a child: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms
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by cjs_ac 9mo ago
The weakest point in any computer system is the bag of meat operating the thing; the second weakest point is the network. Most web apps that are slow are slow because of the endless chit-chat between client and server across the network, an
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by cjs_ac 9mo ago
The postal service doesn't need to be fast, but it does need to be reliable. The natures of one's promises are less important than whether or not they are kept.
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by cjs_ac 9mo ago
I'm intrigued as to what you think one studies as part of a Postgraduate Certificate in Education or a Masters in Education.
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by cjs_ac 9mo ago
By 'immediate', I meant same day. But you sound like a reasonable parent; you're writing in the hypothetical. It's the small minority of parents who are constantly in contact with teachers (because most legitimate concer
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by cjs_ac 9mo ago
I’m talking about institutions and their internal processes, not some tedious nonsense about how money is intrinsically evil. Rich people have all sorts of problems. Part of the package in an elite education is that the school has a better
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by cjs_ac 9mo ago
Prestigious boarding schools - the schools that I’ve been writing about - need not bother with teachers outside that top 25%. Non-selective government schools, like all public services, have inevitably become largely concerned with social w
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by cjs_ac 9mo ago
Housemasters and housemistresses have a better idea of whether pupils are being bullied than parents, because they are physically present and receive reports from classroom teachers, tutors, games coaches, and so on. The 1970s are over and
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by cjs_ac 9mo ago
My first teaching job was at a prestigious boys’ boarding school. A colleague who had the next desk in the staff room was also head of the first-formers’ boarding house, which meant he received an awful lot of emails from anxious parents ab
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by cjs_ac 9mo ago
> You know my favourite bit of that story? I just made it up. Yeah, it's not true. There is no Morgan. Ooh! It's very unsatisfying, isn't it? But I saw him in my head. I saw Morgan in my head. > Why is it we can feel so
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by cjs_ac 9mo ago
Live data is shown here: https://www.marinetraffic.com/
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by cjs_ac 9mo ago
1. The size of a healthy, general social network is limited by Dunbar's number, because this is the number of people an individual can get to know individually. For a social network to grow beyond this and remain healthy, it must becom
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by cjs_ac 10mo ago
LLMs write like a high-schooler padding out an essay about something they only pretend to care about with vacuous adjectives and adverbs because that’s how most commercial writing reads.
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by cjs_ac 10mo ago
Everyone knows what’s going on. Europe is slowly reacquiring pants (too slowly for my taste). The US has this ridiculous belief that Europe has no military ability. The truth is that Europe is far too skilled at war, and collectively disarm
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by cjs_ac 10mo ago
I think the hidden motivation for all of these crackdowns across the developed world is the increasing risk of a third world war. Propaganda is already rife across social media for both sides of both the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Palestine
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by cjs_ac 10mo ago
An LLM can respond to any online discussion about <x> is a good approach for solving a particular class of problems with LLMs can do <x> better than a human better than you.
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by cjs_ac 10mo ago
> A henge can be one of three related types of Neolithic earthwork. The essential characteristic of all three is that they feature a ring-shaped bank and ditch, with the ditch inside the bank. Because the internal ditches would have serv
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by cjs_ac 10mo ago
UK energy prices are set by the most expensive energy source in the mix that contributes to the National Grid, which happens to be gas.
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by cjs_ac 10mo ago
https://archive.is/KVT11
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The AI providers' operations remain heavily subsidised by venture capital. Eventually those investors will turn around and demand a return on their investment. The big question is, when that happens, whether LLMs will be useful enoug
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by cjs_ac 10mo ago
Content and services on the web provide this problematic content precisely because there's a monetisable audience for it. It won't go away until that audience decides it doesn't want that content any more. The content you wan

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