Nick Hall

you're saying if interest rates and energy prices suddenly go up these AI bonds are worthless?

Less offensive, but yesterday they had an item about whether it was worth going out to look at the sunset, which they transmitted *after* sunset. Not sure they're on their A game right now

if it was the Swedish entry it would top the leaderboard after the jury vote, before being narrowly beaten into second place by Baltic and/or Eastern European tactical phone voting

as it is the UK entry it will get 14 points and we will be surprised and grateful for each of them

It is a bop though

This must be where they keep the sage

Beef cheek to beef cheek

they're playing Fatboy Slim at the garden centre

I have managed to find it at last. It is this, from 1963 though this copy is a 1976 reprint. The introduction engages fairly thoroughly with the issues of address and sexuality of course.

I also realise now that the previous owner did make one other scholarly annotation, to Sonnet 116

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

Oh, super

www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

I am going to have to search out the book when I get home and see just when it was published, but from memory it's a few decades earlier than the Dead Famous book. Section 28 may even have been an issue!

this is an excellent one

indeed, though I'm not entirely sure whether this understanding would have been taught to the annotator (or, "Young Man") - given the age of the book and my suspicion that it was used in secondary school or sixth form

I have finally done a hit tweet

this is the ONLY annotation the previous owner made in my second-hand copy of the Sonnets

hey here's a helpful list of documents you might want to attach to this email

does it include that document you just received, opened, commented on and saved to OneDrive? the one called "request_for_comments_please_email_back_to_me.docx"

of course not

(who has no PhD) 😂

+1 for Decathlon Quechua. More pockets, nooks and crannies than you'll ever need.

And I like that it's not "coded" at all. It doesn't scream "I may work in the City but wild swimming is my real job" like the roll tops do

I wrote a poem about what it was like to live and teach in the pandemic in January 2021.

"bought every item in the Sylvanian Families catalogue" level of excess

BBC News headline reads Winter Olympics GB women face curling defeat, Smeding to come in speed skating

the thing about the Winter Olympics is that I truly had to Google to find out whether Smeding is a competitor or a particular form of speed skating

(I shall treasure forever the look on my daughter's face when I suggested we watch the Skeleton)

Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text

radgepacket-deactivated20241030 parents got a new cat they named lord montague and this morning i heard my dad in the other room say "i would have to advise against that decision, my lord" followed by a crashing sound

From the Insta account catsbeingweirdlittleguys

Saw this painting at Penlee House a few years ago and I have been thinking of it almost every day...

The "use case" for LLMs is: Spam. Everywhere.

“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video

‘We feel kinda bad when a solo bird shows up’: Canada sees its first European robin – but how did it get there? Birdwatchers flock to Montréal for rare sighting of ‘vagrant’ bird that has made its home during a bitterly cold winter

Love this story about a European robin which has somehow made its way to Montreal.

Knowing robins, it has probably been sent there by the Robin Council, to supervise things in Montreal and to ensure that garden tidying, etc, is being done properly

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

There was a pretty primitive one at Exeter when I an undergrad in 2003

excellent music choice, but I would like a Ski Sunday version as well

I think the media has a big part to play in this, as they often do not recognise and articulate the existence of SUs as autonomous policymakers in such debates. Universities in these sorts of situations have often had to patiently explain "we didn't make that decision, we are not the SU".

Screenshot from Tumblr User hatingongodot: “In 1404, King Taejong fell from his horse during a hunting expedition. Embarrassed, looking to his left and right, he commanded, “Do not let the historian find out about this.” To his disappointment, the historian accompanying the hunting party included these words in the annals, in addition to a description of the king’s fall.“ LMFAOOOOOO rip to that guy User Shitacademicswrite: i thought maybe this was fake, but there’s even a citation! Taejong Sillok Book 7. 5th year of King Taejong’s Reign (1404), February 8.

Never forget the anniversary of King Taejong falling off his horse!