Posts by Matthew Bishop
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Fun fact. This is called a contronym. Other examples include oversight, inflammable, finished and splice.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contronym
Scienced the hell out of it.
Hell yeah. Dr Wilson rocks!
I misread that as "summons up a magic poo!" and I wanted to know more.
They must have the internet there.
Address lookup services (web APIs) already exist, where you can type in the address in one text field and get the top x matching real addresses, which you can suggest in the UI for the user to pick from.
You want to use a bunch of extra energy and water to do THAT?
Truly, one of the best games ever made.
Image Classification in C# with TorchSharp. Check the readme for my thoughts on TorchSharp vs CSnakes and PyTorch. Spoiler, TorchSharp is better.
github.com/PhasonMatrix...
#CSharp #Dotnet #PyTorch #ML #Avalonia #SkiaSharp
C#'s interoperability with C++ is one of the reasons I love the language. Not because I use it directly but because it powers the libraries I love, like SkiaSharp, CSnakes and TorchSharp.
We are doing the internet all wrong.
The freaks of the online world get so much attention - when there are absolute gems just sitting there, quietly, waiting for us to discover their excellent content. Here’s one example -
@engwithrosie.bsky.social : youtu.be/axc-GNY4VBM?...
Ouch, my shoulder spines.
This is my 15 minute documentary about how AI is turbocharging enshittification.
Or maybe it's just a Public Service Announcement for anyone seeing ads for AI-generated “educational” apps: be warned - they are slop at best, scams at worst.
youtu.be/y0BcCKUO0tE?...
One of the best games ever made.
Man at a protest, holding up a sign that says "HANDS OFF WORKING COBOL CODE"
If the code works, don't touch it. The guy who wrote that code retired. No one here understands it.
Mercury, Atlas, Falcon, Saturn - Space Rockets
Mercury, Iron, Gold - Metallic elements
Mercury, Plant, Lennon - Rock stars
Mercury, Saturn, Earth - Planets
Seems I have an extra one in the first category.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. So may episodes.
Behind the Bastards
Curious Cases
Darknet Diaries
Decoding the Gurus
Freakanomics
Knowledge Fight
No Dumb Questions
No Such Thing as a Fish
Ologies
Sawbones
Science Vs
Skeptics with a K
Squaring the Stange
Know Rogan Experience
Skeptics Guide to the Universe
Unmade Podcast
Your Undivided Attention
Thank you Ceri. I'm going to miss you and Sam so much. It's been a joy to have you in my ears.
One time I managed to find the exact spot where that photo was taken on google maps
Wow. The ".php" in the page urls. Takes me back.
Angela at 8:10. I skipped so you don't have to.
Only found two. There's probably more.
And bots can be programmed to 'watch' the whole video and then comment.
When someone's being a jerk, sometimes you just gotta be a jerk back.
Can't wait ❤️
Neckbeards? LLM bots prompted to be neckbeards?
I always thought of LCM as Something Something Marshmallow.