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by steve_gh 7d ago
Went to see it with family last night. We loved it.
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by steve_gh 1mo ago
My point is that the technology exists, for good or ill, and we cannot put the genie back in the bottle. What we can do, and should do as a society, is decide on how that technology should be used. And that means regulating it, in the same
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by steve_gh 1mo ago
How does that make us not a democracy? You are confusing the constitutionally based US system with the parliamentary based UK system. They work differently. We have elections typically every 4-5 years and elect a new government. That's
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by steve_gh 1mo ago
It's a technology. What you could do with it, and what you should do with it are completely different things. If you follow the links there is a lot of information about the trial, including a whole series of documents identifying the
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by steve_gh 1mo ago
Absolutely true, but (and importantly) the friction (i.e. effort) required to do these things were so much greater.
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by steve_gh 1mo ago
I think it takes time for demand to build. Certainly cities like London have seen huge growth in bike use. In my own home town(which is by no means flat) I'm seeing lots of cargo bikes, especially around tge school run. To your point o
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by steve_gh 2mo ago
So for context. Nigel Farage (Populist right wing UK politician, leader of the Reform party) has been accused of not following parliamentary rules around disclosure of donations - which are designed to ensure transparency of decision making
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by steve_gh 2mo ago
Looks interesting. What would be the pros and cons against a fully featured web framework like Rails?
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by steve_gh 3mo ago
But remember that "efficient" in terms of P and NP is about scaling. P == NP doesn't necessarily mean that a practically efficient algorithm can be found. The polynomial exponents involved may be large: O(N^1000) does eventua
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by steve_gh 5mo ago
One correction I'd make to the article's taxonomy: Ruby is an object oriented language not an Algol. Its inspiration is Smalltalk, and much of the standard library naming comes from that route (eg collect rather than map). Ruby is
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by steve_gh 6mo ago
How does this help? 99% of the population aren't technically minded enough. Most people just buy a wifi router, plug it in (maybe having read the instructions) and that's it. They have neither the skills nor the inclination to upd
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by steve_gh 6mo ago
Are there are other flavours of proton still to be discovered? Can you (theoretically) build a proton with any two quarks selected from {up, charm, top} and one selected from {down, strange, bottom}?
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by steve_gh 6mo ago
Lovely tales. I'm a keen climber - one of these stories has just explained to me why the fantastic sea cliffs at Gwennap Head are known as Chair Ladder.
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by steve_gh 6mo ago
Is the LLM acting as my agent? If the LLM has been exposed to the source code then have I been exposed to the source code? So in that case is a "clean room" implementation possible?
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by steve_gh 7mo ago
Brilliant! Loving it as an idea. Maybe what it needs is a testing framework - Σωκράτης (Socrates), that will demonstrate to you that everything you thought you knew about how your programme would behave (or the thought underpinning it) was
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by steve_gh 7mo ago
Gloves: if you have to take them off outside, brush the snow off them first, then put them in an inside pocket. You will naturally sweat a little, so the gloves will be a little damp inside even if you don't notice it. If your gloves a
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by steve_gh 8mo ago
It's a joke. The Morning Star is well known in the UK as being the mouthpiece of the UK Communist Party. It was originally founded in 1930 as the Daily Worker, before becoming the Morning Starin 1966. So the idea of the Morning Star of
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by steve_gh 8mo ago
I was somewhat dissapointed at the perspective :-) seeing the article was from morningstar.com, I was expecting a radical left wing critique of EU and US tech policy. [The "Morning Star" is a left wing UK paper, whose editorial st
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by steve_gh 8mo ago
They are asking the wrong question. The right question is about the trustworthiness of sources, not about whether AI was used.
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by steve_gh 8mo ago
What could possibly go wrong?
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by steve_gh 8mo ago
So let's just take a moment to recall how we got here: Grok had the ability to create sexualized deep fake images of people. This was shown to not distinguish sufficiently between adults and children, creating sexualized deep fake imag
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by steve_gh 8mo ago
Pickaxe Book, Chapter 12 - but it is terser and aimed at someone with more experience. I think that the article is a good introduction to Threads, and once you understand how they work, then Fibers and Ractors start to become easier to unde
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by steve_gh 8mo ago
Interesting, but probably a bit out of date, as it is based on Ruby 2.0, and Ruby 4 has just been released. Also, we now have more concurrency primitives like Fibers and Ractors, as well as the Threads discussed in the article.
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by steve_gh 8mo ago
Why are you doing 40mph in a built up area at night? Here in the UK we have a standard 30mph built up area limit, dropping to 20mph in most residential area. Result - a massive reduction in serious injuries and fatalities, especially in car
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by steve_gh 8mo ago
I experimented with using an LLM to code the same problem in Ruby (Rails) and Python (Flask) about 10 months back. The LLM performance with Rails was much better - it handled the increasing complexity as features were added much better. My
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by steve_gh 9mo ago
Seems to be along the same lines as my PhD thesis many years ago. Societies of artificial agents exhibit metastability.
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by steve_gh 9mo ago
IIRC one of the Scandinavian nations has solved this with property taxes: you self-declare the value of your property, but the state has the right to buy it at that price. Keeps people honest (enough).
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by steve_gh 9mo ago
>>Shops can refuse cash >No, they cannot. Many businesses don't want to handle cash and they will make it hard and send you an invoice with a surcharge but they must accept any form of legal tender, no way around it. Not true
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by steve_gh 9mo ago
The problem with big tech is that it is actively sucking resources and capital out of the world. For example, if I use Uber, a significant fraction of the fare (let's say 25%) is taken by Uber. That takes it out of the local economy. A
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by steve_gh 9mo ago
Not sure that the 3 big takeaways are self consistent. Redesigning proceses for digital is generally not consistent with focusing on pain points, as the pain points are usually single steps in a bigger process.

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