matthewmorris.bsky.social
A sometime mathematician and software engineer who should arguably have done something else instead.
A convert to Bluesky's block-heavy approach: "But the little children, to save any bother, Let it in at one ear and out at the other."
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Popbitch covered the main ones: popbitch.com/black-out/
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Yes that’s surely GCSE level in the UK. And not calculus either, at least not what I would call calculus
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Seriously though I’m a 3L in Australia and I just had a midterm that was “use Copilot to answer this problem question and then fix the answer” and I’m pretty sure the intended takeaway was “never ever use AI as a lawyer”
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AI will change everything. Now for a clip from Google's new AI video generator
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Starmer doesn't seem to realise that, if you consistently accept the way your opponents frame a question, you'll find it hard to reject the answers that they give.
If you keep telling voters that Farage is right in his analysis, it will be hard to persuade them that he's wrong in his prescriptions.
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They’re not entitled, just being daft: paying $$$ for education and then failing to get any value out of it. I work in software & have gained huge career benefits from being able to write prose. It blows my mind that so many people are autodarwinating in this fashion, but idiots are going to idiot…
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Found them (and blocked them) via search. Won’t repeat their handle here (pile-ons are naff) but my mouth quirked when seeing a recent post of theirs complain that they had spent 30 years in their current country without making a single friend there. Who can say why that might be? A true mystery.
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I’m a developer: I was a total sceptic but since then have received testimony from people I trust that appropriately trained LLMs can add significant value, even after checking. Of course, there are also lots of idiots out there blindly using incoherent LLM-generated code that they don’t understand.
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“The school cited Labour’s multi-pronged tax raid – VAT at 20 per cent, higher national insurance, and the removal of business rates relief – as a central reason for its closure; it could also have mentioned the middle class’s increasing immiseration”
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Is there *anything* that the Trump administration might do that would change your mind here? Apart from anything else, it couldn’t be more clear that they view willingness to negotiate as a sign of weakness, so attempting to make a “special deal” right now doesn’t even make sense in its own terms.
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They appear to be modelling themselves on China. Can’t see the attraction myself.
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LLMs have informed me that Derek Parfit was a Utilitarian, an interesting fact which had previously escaped not only Parfit himself, but also everyone who had read more than 2 pages of his writings. Really, I can only marvel at the new wonders of the age, and thank God that I’m not a teacher.
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The judgement is a very narrow determination: of the meaning of the word “sex” in the context of one particular Parliamentary Act. It’s been widely misreported as something more general than that, which it absolutely is not. Check out the judgement and then marvel at how poorly it is being covered.
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I’ve definitely seen some issues with their ability to take in disconfirming evidence. Seems to be a near-universal problem people have with this issue, very polarising on all sides. Anyway I’d certainly be extremely interested in any other studies, especially if pointing in a different direction.
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Typically people end up pointing to these studies, submitted as evidence to the Women’s Equality Committee by Stock, Sullivan et al - I haven’t seen any others, anyway: committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...
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Why doesn’t Waterstones stock you? I really enjoyed Lake of Darkness BTW
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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I was going to buy the Times today for some other article, but saw that nonsense on the front page and simply couldn’t bring myself to do it - went for FT again instead
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I simply don’t understand why anyone would risk travelling to the US right now unless they had to. I wouldn’t want to risk it personally, and I’m a white, normal-looking, UK citizen in my 50s. The US is working up to sending its *own citizens* to foreign gulags without any due process fgs.
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There are MANY reasons to feel alarmed about where things are going now, but this is a pre-Trump exam question.
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A fantastically important postscript to this piece: David Graham asks Jeffrey Goldberg about possible retaliation, and Goldberg gives a perfect answer — with perfect swipes. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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my generation were lucky enough to consume media which gave us good role models of groups of young men socializing in the open air, helping with each other's problems and navigating relationships together.
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He's also very aggressive in a non-shouty way. He went at me once at a dinner (a long time ago) with everyone watching and I crumbled despite being right on the facts because it's just so unnerving.
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Feels a bit like the Blair administration taking out fox hunting: (1) v v hard to argue rationally for its existence (2) virtually no-one likely to vote for you supports it (3) removing it will enrage your enemies, causing them to expend vast amounts of time and energy looking wildly unsympathetic.
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It’s this kind of thing that makes me glad I split from Twitter last year: watching someone befoul themselves, hoping for applause. Just grim
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He seems to be losing his mind. Is there something that’s triggering this descent? Haven’t looked at Twitter/X for months now so may have missed some earlier nonsense from him.
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Yep, it’s Popehat’s Law Of Goats again: www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t...