seanmatthews1.bsky.social
(Northern) Irish-British, entitled to, but no desire for, a German passport. Wife German, born Hungarian, teaches literature at a German university. Children ethnically confused. Mostly in Mainz, but also in Westmeath.
Does computational math for a living
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I vaguely remember when I was a boy, some farmers poisoning a rabbit warren one afternoon. The smell of almonds was very clear. I am assuming that the smell was a warning, not actually from the cynanide itself (which was administered as a white powder).
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? The cake is laced with cyanide.
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Took me decades to get the implication of Obelix, in Asterix and Cleopatra tasting the cake and saying 'yummy, it's got almonds in it; I love almonds'.
Embarrassingly obvious in retrospect. Asterix is littered with this sort of thing in general - much of it a lot more sophisticated.
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Very good. Thanks for the pointer.
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I've been saying it for years (and I have receipts). An LLM is best understood as a pitch-perfect simulation of self-confident guy in the bar on a Friday evening.
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I vaguely remember it as very 'Ken Burns avant la lettre' but not so mind-numbingly slow (I am not a fan of Ken Burns).
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I was thinking in the other direction. Intriguing about Musk is how muddy the picture about his (quite basic) qualifications is. He has a primary degree in economics, and was awarded some sort of a primary degree in physics, but the Stanford PhD program claims are, ah, unclear.
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Passing comment - I've made the all egg-yolk pasta in the River Cafe cookbook out of curiosity. It is just pointless, vulgar, even counterproductive, extravagance.
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Strictly, The River Cafe Cookbooks (La cucina di una mamma toscana - sort of, with occasional nouveau riche modifications (pasta with only egg yolks - really?)) are the direct descendants Simple French Food (La cuisine d'une mère provençale) and draw from a very similar tradition.
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Disagree. You can cook your way through most of Olney's Simple French Food with the ingredients from your local supermarket. Reasonable quality eggs, potatoes, leeks, etc. are not expensive (Olive oil is the obvious exception). What you need is care and attention to detail.
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Also on the fact that she wrote a novel called 'Mansfield Park'.
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But while Stark in the movies is a narcissistic jerk like Musk, he is an attractive narcissistic jerk. Also, more relevant to the review, Stark is clearly _much_ better trained than Musk. There is a yawning gap between Musk's qualifications and his supposed lead technician role in his companies.
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Fair.
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Minor point: Tony Stark is not based on Elon Musk - though they do run into one another at a party in the second Iron Man movie. Certainly Musk has marketed himself - I assume he was behind it - as a real-world Tony Stark.
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If Lyons thinks that Theodor Adorno was a 'hugely influential liberal' thinker, then he is already in a very weird place.
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I had forgotten that. I had not forgotten Kelly McGillis.
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'Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent', in particular, has stayed with me from when I was that age.
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It helps if you read it aged 13, or so.
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Seems the Guardian agrees with me, because they have changed the headline to remove the imputation.
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My point at the top of this thread is that the Guardian misrepresented Reindorf.
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Cunningham was agreeing that assumed rights that never existed in the first place would no-longer find official support.
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This is getting into the fine detail, but I do not see how Cunningham's answer needs to be understood as 'yes, rights were lost' either (an interpretation I find unlikely: I have no independent reason to think she would believe that, and good reason to think otherwise).
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As an EHRC commissioner, her primary duty is to support the correct interpretation of the law as it stands.
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That is a view, but how is it relevant to my point, which is that the Guardian misrepresented what Reindorf said? She did not say that rights have been reduced, or anything like it.
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Mislead would have been correct.
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The comment about lying was unnecessary, I grant.
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No rights were reduced, and Reindorf does not say so. Neither does Cunningham. Reindorf says that the law was misunderstood. To reduce rights you would need to pass a law, and no law was passed. The SC provided a definitive construal of _existing_ law.
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Don't get your point. Do you think the headline misrepresents or not?
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Nowhere in the article is Reindorf quoted as saying anything like what the headline implies. Which is not surprising, since Reindorf is a senior lawyer, and would never say anything so stupid and inflammatory.
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Watching the Tesla share price this evening is entertaining.
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How can I heart this twice?
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Bruno Latour - the Colonel Nicholson of French postmodernism - has been literally saying this for years.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKy-...
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Non-economists should be careful what they wish for.
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Simply a matter of time until lawyers turn up to deal with this, and only one possible result. Only open question is the legal exposure of the people involved.
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The family had been in Egypt for 300 years. She was Macedonian Greek in approximately the same way that I am Welsh.
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It's still a 'better/worse at the margin' analysis. The US was presented with the choice between a visibly resentful, corrupt felon found liable for [sexual] battery, and somebody who was none of those things even if mediocre. The result is not explained by marginal shifts even large ones.
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It is amazing how almost naively uncritical a lot of technically very clever people are. They give the impression that a stack of science fiction novels fell on them sometime in their teens, and they have never recovered. (AI people in particular - speaking from long personal experience).
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It was good while it lasted.
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Absolutely. And that work contributes to the final grade in that it is how the student develops the skills they need to pass those on-site written exams in shielded rooms.
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Increasingly think this is how it will resolve. Grades will be solely on the basis of exams written on site in shielded rooms, and oral interaction.
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There is a meme doing the rounds that 'its all in Linz' -
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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A fact I knew. Every time I recall it, my mind boggles.
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Classical opera is a lot easier to get into (Wagner excepted) than its reputation, I think. Mozart and Verdi are dense with lovely two or three minute tunes. I would just read a summary of Don Giovanni, and put it on (unlike many Mozart operas, the libretto is not mindnumbingly dumb).
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Ah, it is still visible in the quote. Also, I dislike that Auden poem intensely (even in the shorter version).
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This is a joke, right (the original post seems to have been deleted).
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C.V. Wedgwood, surely?
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Then there is David Bowie.