jasdevsekhon.bsky.social
Ex-Civil Servant.
Interests include global news, sustainability, the green transition, disinformation.
I click "Like" to mark posts as read, sorry if I got your hopes up 🤷♂️
Spotify Premium is my fourth emergency service.
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You’re missing out.
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Excellent point. Referring people to twitter relies on people having twitter accounts. Also, for many years a bugbear as I could not complain about a service provider anywhere else.
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It was being driven by the Conservative government rather than Permanent Secretaries but agree with your main point.
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Updating my apps or rapid scrolling through Instagram reels are the main actions that make my phone get hot, if you’re not doing either of those then might be worth getting it checked out!
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Always worth getting a quote from Computer Exchange or www.ismash.com
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That's an improvement, at the weekend some women were posting complaints about how other users were asking Grok to edit the women's photos to make them look flushed and with white glue streaks over their faces, and, for about 24 hours, Grok complied.
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The FT does provide transcripts though...
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I am just teasing
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😱 did you just say "adverts" rather than "advertisements"?
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Here's something I saw yesterday
www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdvic...
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Have you heard of www.justwatch.com ? It's like a search and ranking engine for streaming services, and you can filter by which services you actually have access to.
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Mmm, thanks. I wonder how big law firms can expect to use AI to cut down the time and effort of tasks typically given to paralegals and trainee lawyers, then!
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Question for you as I expect you'll be well placed to answer. Suppose that I'm a podcaster and I want AI to sift through a podcast episode (or transcript thereof) and produce a summary of the episode/transcript. Is any LLM well suited to the task or are hallucinations inevitable?
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How long before BNPL providers lobby Congress for first-priority liens over users' food stamps?
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Happy birthday Felicity!
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You're radioactive 🤓
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Very clever!
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Who is Gerasimov in this scenario?
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I really hope they won't be considering it going forward because that would be really, really dumb.
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100% agree.
Every single person on the planet being able to read other people's thoughts would be my analogy.
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Finally (for now), Caleb Hammer (calebhammercomposer) is a very popular influencer who invites people with money problems on to his show in order to identify why they're having problems and often to insult them or lose his composure, which obviously is what makes him so popular.
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And I've discovered another American, Jessica Inskip (jessinskip_) who was a regulated professional but had to relinquish her licences so that she could become a finfluencer and counter the misinformation she sees affecting users of social media.
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I also follow a product manager at Microsoft, Mariana Antaya (mar_antaya) who specialises in AI and ML, and often writes about investing, though I've pointed out that were she based in the UK, she'd likely be breaking FCA guidance with some of her content.
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I do see a few finfluencers through Instagram, though I only follow one for that purpose. Michael Taylor (shiftingshares) seems quite popular but I find something amiss about him, like he plays up the cynicism only to find he needs to quickly walk it back when it attracts the worst kind of followers
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Do we think South Africa will still want to pursue a contract with SpaceX for Starlink?
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Honestly impressed.
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By happenstance I read this while Radio 3 played Stravinsky's Circus Polka and it was oh so fitting.
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Those least able to afford to play are likely the most probable to buy tickets!
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With £200m why restrict yourself to London?!
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I haven't read the essay but at the same time I saw people sharing it, I also saw this thread: bsky.app/profile/hern...
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Unexpected Lime CEO mention at the end of this Economist piece
A manager’s guide to handling crises
economist.com/business/202...
from The Economist
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I wonder whether those same students are exploring the multitude of virtual boy/girlfriend apps...
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And the PM finally seized upon it: www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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It's £15 for a standard men's cut at a long-established barbers near me. A new place has just opened up charging a tenner. And the Headmasters opposite the long-established barber charges *from* £40 for a standard men's cut!
Back in Japan '08 I think I paid roughly £30 to have a cut and wet shave...
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The issue I have with the usage of hard-right and far-right in the FT and Economist is that I don't know which is the more extreme, as the term hard-right just seems to have been introduced in recent years without being defined.
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Growing/teething pains. I find that sometimes opening the app or website, or carrying out an action, takes a while, but I believe it to be due to user demand.
@jay.bsky.team would that be an accurate assessment?
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Your worst nightmare is Piers Morgan interviewing Tzipi Hotovely (yes it happened, yes the clip is as bad as you think it is).
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I read, maybe in The Economist, years ago, that voters in the Netherlands receive brochures outlining the political parties policies ahead of each general election. I'd welcome this sort of thing in the UK. Have these regulated by the Electoral Commission to prevent false claims etc.
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I'd have to disagree, I also have friends who do this. Things around you can just get worse, and you can get upset about it without knowing why, until some populist comes along and tells you politics is broken and they will fix it for you, so off you vote for them.
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"I werk at the BBC"
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I joined the University Officer Training Corps for a very short time, it was physically and mentally demanding and I was told if I couldn't shape up physically, I'd be out. I left after about six months but I'm glad I tried.
I think a voluntary National Service corps might work in the UK.