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Richard Harris
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Climate, complexity, data & cats Climate & Ecosystem Data Intelligence. Born at 315ppm, now 426.6. Social tech innovator/entrepreneur, writer, photographer, ecologist, motorcyclist, cyclist, skier. Ex-CTO of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Owned by cats
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With lots of new folks coming on board, a brief summary of me: I'm co-founder of BlueGlobe, a geospatial data intelligence platform, focussed on data-driven understanding, planning, forecasting and monitoring for environmental resilience & Climate Change response. More at: blueglo.be/news/everyth...
Apple? That whirring noise you can hear is Steve revolving in his grave. Anyone heard from Woz?
No. Just no. Treating Scotland like a remote colony. Again.
Douglas didn’t anticipate this one. His most common refrain, whenever a large learned treatise on the significance of 42 landed on his desk, was to put his head in his hands and mutter, “It was a joke dammit - a joke…”
TIL a new word - thanks! But shouldn’t it be bivalvometry? 😃
I’m glad to see that the Cat Distribution Network wasn’t affected by the AWS outage 😁
I’ve spent part of my career in cybersecurity, and more of it running my own companies secured systems, and am not remotely surprised. Quarter-driven corporate culture, combined with a continuing refusal by technology- and strategically-illiterate boards to take it seriously make this inevitable
Altman & co claim that ChatGPT is solving hitherto unsolvable maths problems? So how about we start with the basics: exhibit A - the AI summary of my Apple TV invoice: £11.65. Exhibit B - the actual content: £9.99. Apple “Intelligence” has failed to distinguish ‘VAT inclusive’ and has added it on.
Some of us were. But the world wasn't listening. Not sure if it is yet.
Warsaw’s water supply is monitored and controlled by crack clam teams: ecologiclife.com/does-poland-...
ecologiclife.com
If you needed definitive proof that the drugs don’t work, they just make you worse…
Looking at the data (and we were doing some very detailed Covid analytics and forecasting) it’s not unreasonable to suggest that he and his cronies are responsible for the negligent - and wilful - manslaughter of >40,000 UK residents.
In the sense of a very, very small puddle evaporating in the first light of dawn…
Same here: I got a 24 hour ban for quoting Pete’n’Dud (the acerbic British comics Peter Cook & Dudley Moore) at a troll. Took me ages to work out which reply it might have been…
ChatGPT did something useful today: I used it to query the Torx screwdriver size for my Asrock motherboard. "Probably T8", it came back with. "Bugger", thought I - "I don't have a T8 driver". ChatGPT then added, "Remember that Asrock motherboards ship with a T8 screwdriver? No I hadn't. And it had.
I’ll have “Do not disturb” on for the next couple of days…

#philippullman
#bookofdust
#therosefield
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Another report on how our high visa costs deter top R&D talent
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Exactly: anyone who understands LLMs would realise immediately that any such claim is bullshit. That these are being made by execs of OpenAI demonstrates either terrifying ignorance of their own product or a willingness to blatantly lie, and believe that everyone else is too stupid to notice
No apology required - and, although it’s difficult to express without sounding trite - bad things do pass, sunlight and starlight reappear and your world turns again. In the meantime though, here’s Oakley in Zen mode. All the very best…
An impressive level of seismic activity today for Scotland: a 3.6 magnitude at 0825BST today, & even bigger shake at 1807BST - our house is built on quartz bedrock and the whole place leapt around. Which is going it some for a 200-year-old stone house with metre-thick walls! The cats are unamused.
This government is almost entirely composed of snivelling cowards and apologists for violent bigots.
Needs to be Four Eyes (with no disrespect to spectacle wearers ;-)). Hopefully the security services have been in less denial than the politicians ahead of this
My issue isn’t with their engineering teams, but with handing data and service to potentially malign companies and the regimes of which they’re sycophants. But it keeps me on my toes - as co-founder of a startup, I’m having to relearn the sysops tasks I’ve been delegating to others for decades!