I was listening to the 2017 remaster of “A Day in the Life” from Sgt Peppers and it sounded very clean but also not quite right. I’m probably going to just go back to the older version I have.

3 years into this stuff and still no normal person could answer the question “what’s your favourite piece of AI art?”

Jim’s Palantir

All the human-in-the-loop bullshit assumes the human is a constant, unaffected by the loop. In reality, the loop is making the human stupider, lazier, and more careless.

Part of it is ensuring the local grid can provide the power.

BYD has a system they’re rolling out in China which involves a stonking battery (that can charge slowly from the grid but deliver huge amounts of power when an EV shows up).

If you nail the assembly I shall decree you emperor.

My back yard is full of cherry tree leaves. Good thing there’s no rain - I’ll have to deal with them today.

A large white waterfowl with orange feet stands in front of a door. On the door is a cardboard sign secured with tape that reads, "DO NOT LET THE DUCK IN." Adding insult to injury, I think the duck might be a goose.

Whatever you do,

And you. The chilly mornings are … invigorating, I guess.

It’s not going to help *his* case, that’s for sure.

First rule of criminal defence - let your lawyer do whatever talking may be necessary. STFU.

Smith St Fitzroy, early morning, no people.

Quiet morning on Smith St Fitzroy

He used to have a tie pin made out of one of the unused IC chips from Pioneer. Nerd cred. 😀

Yeah. That’s the very sad part. Where can he go from here?

The father of a school friend was an ex-NASA engineer. Did telemetry for Pioneer 10, among other things. Came to Australia for Aussat. He was also a keen photographer, and had bought some Hasselblad gear when they gave everyone at NASA huge discounts. He tried to explain it to me. It was beyond me.

It’s all a bit sad, really.

When it comes to the energy transition I'm a glass half full person.

I know: plenty of people would say that's terribly naive. They point to the scale of the challenge. They point to vested interests. They point to hard-to-abate sectors.

And they're not wrong. But here's what they miss.

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Can we listen to Titan’s heartbeat? Icequakes as a window into a hidden ocean. - The Planetary Research Blog What lies beneath the surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon? This question is central to the upcoming Dragonfly mission, which will deploy a drone equipped with scientific instruments on Titan’s sur...

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Yes. Except in my experience Geoff lives in a caravan down near Dunedin and only logs on to his email once a day because he’s out fishing the rest of the time.

(No joke - once had to send 2 engineers to the Sth Island to get an old bloke to explain what he’d built in 1978).

To be fair, almost half of all mainframe replacement projects fail, and the ones that don’t all run wildly over budget. It’s not a fun thing to be involved in.

(Personally, having been involved in some non-AI mainframe integration work, I think you’d have to be *insane* to allow AI to do this).

I wondered why all those chemical pest strips disappeared a few decades ago. No I know. Yikes!

Thanks for the paper 🙏

OMG

Researchers Asked LLMs for Strategic Advice. They Got “Trendslop” in Return. Leaders might assume that LLMs are able to offer a kind of unbiased, outside perspective. But new research found that leading LLMs have clear biases when it comes to strategy and consistently recommen...

I mean previously it would have been strategy based on what they saw on LinkedIn last week, so not hugely different. 10/10 for "trendslop" as a neologism though.
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"AI Populism" is a term that obscures more than it reveals. Can we just not?

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It was. Followed by some pho.

Young people play lawn bowls in a competition.

Social day out while the great nephew plays lawn bowls at the Cabramatta bowlo.

What a terrible problem to have!

e.e. cummings challenges you to a duel.

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Imagine doing this with your time when you could be on the couch watching sport?

Oh the sookage would be epic. Absolutely epic.

There are so many interesting different flavours of salt. I used to never add it (partner with serious coronary disease) but cooking for myself there are a couple of different kinds I like. Black Salt in chutney. Himalayan on other things. Smoked salt on grilled eel. Yum.