kevfquinn.bsky.social
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The specific claim around “700 Indian engineers” acting in secret appears to be fake news, unfortunately. Builder was upfront about using developers, so this wasn’t hidden from investors.
Long history of allegations about how much work the AI did tho. Dealt with some of this here on.ft.com/3SHlkuY
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The only people who think current AIs can replace human workers are the managerial class (which includes a lot of politicians) who don't actually do much themselves and assume everyone else is just as useless.
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Tentatively offer:
🌈*(💧🌈+)*❄️
but not sure as I also think "[💧🌈]" on the diagram could be just 💧
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One having a rest in mine yesterday. Yes, grass needs a bit of a mow. Couldn't do that while the fox was there, though, could I? 🤠
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Just checked the energy statement at the planning application and yes, 3.7bn kWh *per year*.
Equivalent to something like quarter to half a million homes (inc. heating), if my arithmetic holds up.
apps.northlincs.gov.uk/application/...
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We were imperial (obviously...) but when metrication came in we did pick and choose bits. We kept miles because we're obstinate, the kilometer is seen as French, and, well, there's some long-standing history there - first half of the second millennium AD is a rash of invasions in both directions.
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Trans people were lied to??
Using services based on “self ID” (the gender role in which they present) regardless of GRC is right there in the EHRC’s 2011 Code of Practice.
It’s in the EHRC’s own 2022 guidance.
The Labour Gov recognised this too a matter of months ago.
This is horrific gaslighting.
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Struck me so much when I lived in Italy, the stark difference in what was presented at supermarkets. Most obviously our salad offerings are quite meagre by comparison. They had whole aisles of variety costing next to nothing, when we get iceberg and costly pre-packed bags.
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And as always, this still applies:
bsky.app/profile/tacc...
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Yeah, that kind of science communication is surely a special skill in and of itself. No good shortcuts, really.
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Or even - just render the text on the preprint site so that normal accessibility tools can parse it reliably in the first place!
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Sheesh. All they needed to do for accessibility is to have a text-to-speech reader render the preprint to audio. There's no good reason to generate an "AI summary".
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Mealy-mouthed gas-lighting revisionism doesn't change that prior to the revisionist SC ruling, "sex" included "gender" - the explicit intention of those who wrote and passed the act originally.
Used to be politicians who would be furious about the judiciary changing interpretation of law like that.
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Hmm. If I remember right, the post I quoted was The Guardian's post mentioning reduction in rights for trans people, which they've deleted, rewritten, and posted anew, presumably in response to legal threats.
Here's the direct URL instead.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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The context here is clearly LLMs; you brought ML into the conversation from nowhere.
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Machine learning and LLMs (Generative AI) are extremely different things, in all aspects.
Problems abound with Generative AI - utility, ethics, environmental impact, the list goes on.
Some specific uses of ML have ethical issues, but that's about it.
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I particularly like the ones that read half-way to London geezer
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I frequently need to restructure my thoughts in order to "flatten" what I say, to pick out aspects I need to get across without doing the "let me back up a bit" thing - because it's never just one bit, it quickly spirals out of control.
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This is so deeply embedded, that we forget how niche a way of thinking it is. Other engineering disciplines do it to varying degrees, but I suspect software engineering has it especially deep.
That it's so niche, significantly affects our ability to communicate with other people.