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Richard Gaywood @penllawen.favrd.social · 1d

having spoken to him in real life, i'm pretty sure he's forgotten more about machine learning, discrete maths, and various related fields than i'm ever gonna know

and I have a phd in metaheuristics, while he has a law degree

i mean ffs

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Richard Gaywood @penllawen.favrd.social · 1d

i wonder who made that headset he's wearing? i can't quite make out the logo

Richard Gaywood @penllawen.favrd.social · 1d

this is an excellent thread, although i think theo may have oversold "laypeople can understand" a tiny bit

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 2d

i am going to try to give a framework of my own understanding which laypeople can understand.

Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 2d

yeah - I was impressed by the token-prediction as being as powerful as it is, but there's more going on than that and I don't really follow it any more.

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Richard Gaywood @penllawen.favrd.social · 1d

This is the automation paradox; above a certain level of accuracy, "automation system + human" often starts to return worse results than just the human alone. The humans get lazy about the double-checking. It's well-studied in a number of fields but particularly in aviation, for obvious reasons.

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Richard Gaywood @penllawen.favrd.social · 1d

I miss him still. His warmth and joy.

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pumpkin spice linux @selectric.space · 2d

this is not cute or heartwarming! execs only rename streaming service in confusing manners when they’re very distressed!!!

Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 2d

Apple says Apple TV+ streaming service is being renamed as Apple TV, with "a vibrant new identity" (Eric Slivka/MacRumors)

Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Richard Gaywood @penllawen.favrd.social · 2d

all the way to the top! you heard it here first!

Richard Gaywood @penllawen.favrd.social · 2d

i'll take "what is a hatch act" for $400, alex

A screenshot of hhs.gov. A massive bright red box in the centre of the screen reads

"Mission-critical activities of HHS will continue during the Democrat-led government shutdown. Please use this site as a resource as the Trump Administration works to reopen the government for the American people."

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Richard Gaywood @penllawen.favrd.social · 2d

this was a brief flirtation with emacs; I was already a pretty solidly convinced vim user before this

but it was the last time I ever used emacs, yes!

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Richard Gaywood @penllawen.favrd.social · 2d

🫡

(sucks for the rest of us obv)

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Richard Gaywood @penllawen.favrd.social · 2d

wait I missed out on a chance to show off, that won't do

here's my showing off

An image of a shelf full of Shadworun 2e sourcebooks. In the front of the frame, I am holding a stupidly battered copy of the core rulebook, held together entirely with Sellotape.

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Richard Gaywood @penllawen.favrd.social · 2d

a man with a serious look on his face says ah i see you 're a person of culture as well

ALT: a man with a serious look on his face says ah i see you 're a person of culture as well

media.tenor.com

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 3d

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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Michael F @michaelf617.bsky.social · 2d

Margaret Thatcher was born on this day 100 years ago and if she were alive today I'd like to think she'd be saying "oh God why am I in this box and why have I been here for so many years and little spurts of urine keep squeezing through the box from up above, this is worse than being in a mine"

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Richard Gaywood @penllawen.favrd.social · 2d

As a Shadowrun fan for nearly as long as it has existed: yes, yes, a thousand times yes. True Shadowrun fanboyism is when you know each edition sucks but will die defending the one you believe sucks least.

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Richard Gaywood @penllawen.favrd.social · 2d

🫠

Even more stupid: I still unthinkingly put -rf on all my rm commands, even when it's not needed. You'd think I might have learned. Nope.

Richard Gaywood @penllawen.favrd.social · 2d

this is what they call a Strong Personal Brand

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Richard Gaywood @penllawen.favrd.social · 2d

"opt-in by default"

Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

"New Manhattan Institute article"

Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New LMS platform adopted

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Richard Gaywood @penllawen.favrd.social · 3d

The heavy shadow on Veidt's face has always reminded me of streaks of tears here. I realise it's not tears, but I do wonder if Gibbons drew it that way to create the association in reader's minds. Veidt looks drawn and haggard.

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Richard Gaywood @penllawen.favrd.social · 3d

I was once waiting for my undergrad dissertation to print with minutes to spare before the submission deadline. Full of nervous energy, while the ancient inkjet spluttered and whined, I cleaned up my Emacs backup files, that had an appended tilde. I typed:

rm -rf .~

(you may already be shouting)

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Richard Gaywood @penllawen.favrd.social · 3d

I had to drag the PostScript file out of the print spooler's queue to rescue it, and re-do the print job. I made the submission deadline 30 min late (but joined the back of the very long queue so nobody ever knew, shhhh) and then had a very fun afternoon learning about ext2fs undelete.

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Richard Gaywood @penllawen.favrd.social · 3d

A few minutes later I thought "hey why is my HDD churning so much"

readers, I had typed

rm -rf . ~

Also the print job failed. And the first directory it wiped out was the one with my dissertation's LaTeX source in.

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Richard Gaywood @penllawen.favrd.social · 3d

I was once waiting for my undergrad dissertation to print with minutes to spare before the submission deadline. Full of nervous energy, while the ancient inkjet spluttered and whined, I cleaned up my Emacs backup files, that had an appended tilde. I typed:

rm -rf .~

(you may already be shouting)

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 3d

WELL THEN IT'S NOT MEANINGFUL IS IT, NICK www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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