I'd argue that friends *do* let friends do that (over)analysis for fun - but don't let them believe it has any weight.
'Cos let's face it, it really *is* fun...
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I'd argue that friends *do* let friends do that (over)analysis for fun - but don't let them believe it has any weight.
'Cos let's face it, it really *is* fun...
GitHub issue if I'm happy for it to be public, email otherwise.
I agree that it doesn't tell us much about a GE in 2029. I think it tells us more about what might happen if there's a GE in 2026 or 2027 though. (And the locals will give us more info on that.)
Personally I'm still hoping for a 2029 election as otherwise I've got work to do on my election site...
Will we find out turnout by various demographic grouping? Lots of speculation about "how different groups vote" (even without assuming homogeny) may assume flat turnout. I don't know what stats are gathered for by-elections.
Maybe it was the one set in the world that just consistently worked, and you never had to tend to the brushes on the cars, or the connections between track segments...
@samfr.bsky.social once pointed out to me that there's a correlation between a strong LibDem showing in demographically-surprising places, and historically-Methodist towns. (He can correct me on the details, for sure.)
As a life-long Methodist and a LibDem supporter, this pleases me greatly.
Except that I keep anticipating the election day itself, when that isn't actually interesting... unless there are exit polls, presumably we won't actually learn anything until Friday. Thursday is just an exercise in frustration.
Just for once, it worked out for me:
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Interesting that we both got purple first...
> And it's a serious attempt to improve a broken system.
If I were in the DfE, I'd take that as high praise indeed. (Without in any way wanting to underestimate the challenges involved.)
Not for several years, at least.
Did it! Signis and Gron are no more...
I should also have mentioned that as well as seeing it twice in the West End, I caught it on Broadway. Jeff Daniels was wonderful, as you might expcet - but Celia Keenan-Bolger was *amazing* as Scout. Would *love* to see her in it again.
Nearly finished work for the day. Looking forward to putting some time into defeating my current nemesis boss in Hollow Knight: Silksong (*amazing* game, btw - I may post more on that another time).
Trouble is, I'm also considering having a tinned cocktail. The two activities may not mix well.
Have read the book of TKAM multiple times - haven't read Go, Set a Watchman yet, but keep meaning to.
But I thought @robfordmancs.bsky.social had called it for the Greens weeks ago? Something about them having a "really straightforward path to victory"? ;)
And of course, by "AI" I mean more than "LLMs". There's an awful lot of really neat AI stuff happening that really isn't LLM-based. As a Google employee I'm biased of course, but DeepMind does seem to be doing some great stuff, e.g. AlphaFold.
My best case scenario for AI actually being transformative isn't so far off "perpetual motion machine" - if somehow it ends up being smart enough to "solve" clean, safe, cheap energy then we *might* be okay as a society even if there's less employment available.
I see To Kill A Mockingbird is going to be on in the West End again. I don't remember a show coming back (as opposed to a transfer like The Producers) so quickly before. (We saw it in 2022, and it lasted until May 2023.)
That won't stop me from going again of course. It's a fabulous play. All rise.
AI agents asking questions and other AI agents answering, and let's hope it all works out...
I'd assume that will be relatively temporary though - the existing content will become less valuable over time, right? (Maybe I'm wrong, of course.)
Utterly brilliant at explaining scale - in this case about nanoseconds and microseconds, but there's a bigger picture in terms of making our brains comprehend a number outside our normal experience: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYqF...
Yup, will do now (as an answer on that post).
It really pains me to say this, and I know people have been talking about Stack Overflow dying for ages, but I really think this *is* the beginning of the end - at least of the site I used to love. meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43...
Is it also likely to throw those councils into a panic in terms of organising the local elections, or would they not have done very much yet anyway? (Looking back on emails, I see my "election agent briefing" meetings in 2022 and 2023 were in early March, so there's not a lot of spare time...)
Is this now official, documented Reform policy? It doesn't seem wise to let individual candidates make up policy on the fly. I'm sadly unsurprised by anything other than how transparent it is.
I'm struggling to guess whether this makes it more or less likely that Starmer makes it to the end of February. (That being a handy marker for "having had a day or so to mull over the by-election result" but definitely before the May elections...)
I would have thought journalism would be appealing to billionaires as a relatively cheap and popular way to secure a long term legacy.
And The Guardian (UK anyway; not sure what the US version funding is like) has a trust. And then there's the BBC with its own unique model. (Not a newspaper of course, but I think it's still worth including...)
The difference in daylight when I do my micro-commute (living room to garden office) at about 7:30am has been really noticeable over the last week.
As others have said - if we could just have a bit of dry weather now, that would be lovely...