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Reposted by: Paul Matthews

phyphor.one-dash.org
I have a sentient coin because I ask if it's alive, telling it that Heads is Yes and Tails is No.

I flip it and, would you believe, it says Yes!

But, what's really impressive, is that sometimes¹ it shows Tails, which proves that it is so smart it knows how to lie!

¹ about half, to be honest
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by Paul Matthews

paulusm.jellytussle.org
Spidey Tree
Oak tree framed by Spider web in foreground Misty morning.
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elderman.bsky.social
This only happens to you once
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paulusm.jellytussle.org
Cozy
#NarcoSubs

‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine
Poorly paid crews risk their lives on voyages in ‘propeller-driven coffins’ to smuggle drugs from Brazil to Europe
www.theguardian.com
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ddgutierrez.bsky.social
Most companies don’t need deep learning. They need clean joins, honest metrics, and interpretable results.
Startups often chase GPU clusters before fixing their CSVs.

#DataScience #MachineLearning #AI #RStats
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by Paul Matthews

paulusm.jellytussle.org
GitHub Copilot on autopilot as community complaints persist • The Register

www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/g...

#slop
GitHub Copilot on autopilot as community complaints persist
: Unavoidable AI has developers looking for alternative code hosting options
www.theregister.com
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by Melissa Terras — Reposted by: Paul Matthews

melissaterras.bsky.social
AI things I love: the Merlin bird call identification app from @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social, Cornell. Screenshot of the sounds of Oxford before I wend my way home. More of this kind of AI processing, please. And we should be asking why there isn’t more of this, and where resources are to build more.
Screenshot of list of birds in Merlin app
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by Paul Matthews

paulusm.jellytussle.org
#qotd #ThursdayThought
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. - Niels Bohr
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danhf.bsky.social
August 31
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by Paul Matthews

paulusm.jellytussle.org
Aloe whorled

@ Kew Gardens, London
An aloe plant with spiral spiky leaves, on rocks
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marshnaylor.net
#academicsky #philsky #edusky
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by Paul Matthews

paulusm.jellytussle.org
Does, this cheer you up?

Windsor Great Park, this morning 😏
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by Paul Matthews

paulusm.jellytussle.org
Does. This cheer you up?

Windsor Great Park, this morning 😏

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rbly.bsky.social
During my PhD I found that the main utility of prediction models in hospitals was just forcing the doctor to listen to the nurse's worries about the patient
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by Paul Matthews

paulusm.jellytussle.org
@bsfa.bsky.social please get rid of the tedious captcha on your login page. I was at it for about 5 minutes just now trying to authenticate. Why should we be training autonomous vehicle AI for free? I like taxi drivers!
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by Paul Matthews

paulusm.jellytussle.org
Big rain here on the Bristol riviera
Rain on train platform, and a poster ironically saying “this is what summer in Bristol looks like”
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miskaknapek.bsky.social
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I'm selling photos to raise money private medical help for a severe - quite lifeshortening - immune damaging disease I have, #MECFS, outside the coverage of public health.
There are some good nature photos in any event ;)

More info here:
payhip.com/MiskaKnapek/...
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by Paul Matthews

paulusm.jellytussle.org
Hedgie turned up for some supper
Hedgehog with its snout in a bowl of food “lent” by the cat
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kiwiskinz.bsky.social
Big shout out to ‪@thomasp85.com & the wonderful gganimate #rstats package. It enabled me to produce this gif of an exoplanet transit now on Space.com (www.space.com/astronomy/ex...) & elsewhere. #Unistellar Citizen Scientists & professional astronomers exploring the universe together.
#Astronomy
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by Paul Matthews

paulusm.jellytussle.org
Heading to Bloomsbury for a tour then Hatchards Books for #DallowayDay talks. Exciting ! #vwsgb 💐
Cover of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

by Paul Matthews

paulusm.jellytussle.org
Liked this SF Short : In the Shells of Broken Things, A.T. Greenblatt

clarkesworldmagazine.com/greenblatt_0...

#ClimateFic #Architecture
In the Shells of Broken Things by A. T. Greenblatt
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
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by Paul Matthews

paulusm.jellytussle.org
Current harvest is curranty #allotment
Punnets of red and white currants, gooseberries and some kale to the side

by Paul Matthews

paulusm.jellytussle.org
#attention #reading
Quote from On Close Reading by John Guillory: "If the concept of attention announces this alternative mode of consumption in the instance of reading, it is also a name for what is problematic in our engagement with cultural works generally ... we are sometimes able to arrest the constant deflections of our attention; we succeed in bringing our sensory and cognitive apparatuses into focus upon a single object, a neurophysiological state that distracts us from competing solicitations of attention. The ability to achieve this state has considerable social value"

Reposted by: Paul Matthews

ketanjoshi.co
Also more and more examples of Fressoz-isms ending up in the mouths of fossil fuel company CEOS

www.reuters.com/business/ene...
"(History has) shown us that when conflicts occur, the importance of oil and gas can't be understated," Nasser said. "We are witnessing this in real time, with threats to energy security continuing to cause global concern," he said, without directly mentioning the fighting between Israel and Iran. Nasser also said that experience had shown that new energy sources don't replace the old, but added to the mix. He said the transition to net-zero emissions could cost up to $200 trillion, and renewable sources were not meeting current demand. "As a result, energy security and affordability have at last joined sustainability as the transition's central goals," he said. Aramco is the economic backbone of Saudi Arabia, generating a bulk of the kingdom's revenue through oil exports and funding its ambitious Vision 2030 diversification drive.
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sfencyclopedia.bsky.social
Illustrations from Astonishing Stories for authors without a SFE entry (1940-1942): 1&2. Harry Walton, 3. C Shook, 4 Joseph Gilbert (Artist: 1-3 Hannes Bok, 4 Lawrence) 1&2 for "Radiation Trap", 3 for "The Band Played On", 4 for "The Eternal Quest":
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Reposted by: Paul Matthews

marcelmoran.com
A city heading out to school and work - without all getting in a car - is a magical sight. Rues Montorgueil
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Reposted by: Paul Matthews, Julian Webb

marcmichaud.bsky.social
Presented without comment
Headline reads: Chatgpt gets crushed at chess by a 1 MHz Atari 2600
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Reposted by: Paul Matthews

karampbell.bsky.social
I have become my (academic) mom:

Oh, this looks like a relevant paper!

Oh, I already saved a copy.

Oh, I seem to have read it...probably just skimmed it.

Oh, I highlighted and commented throughout, but don't remember anything. 🤦🏻‍♀️

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #GPDBrain
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tomgauld.bsky.social
‘Combined Classics’ - my cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.
Title: Combined Classics: get those notable novels ticked off more quickly! Image: a line of four books 1. 'Remains of the Day of the Triffids' by Ishiguro and Wyndham 2. 'Greats: Gatsby, Expectations, Glass Elevator' by Fitzgerald, Dickens and Dahl 3. 'Watership Down and Out in Paris and London' by Adams and Orwell 4. War, Peace, Pride, Prejudice, Crime and Punishment by Tolstoy, Austen and Dostoevsky
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by Paul Matthews

paulusm.jellytussle.org
A nice Hay on Wye #bookhaul with a rare - for me- foray into poetry

#HayFestival #AmReading
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