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Was personally appalled when my lecturer explained Schodringer's wave equation. Have never got over it.

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I think one of the big issues with LLMs is that the one thing they're best at, the thing they're absolutely stunningly good at, is convincing us, dumb humans, that they understand the assignment. Which is why there is so much confusion about what they can and cannot do.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

She was good, doing well, but now she's...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I am in Bavaria and have learned that Bavarians consider weissbier to be a breakfast beer, and my respect is unbounded.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Beechgrove is the support act for Gardener's World

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I'm old enough to remember the previous Labour government being utterly credulous about anything to do with computers

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Not laughing at the man on the radio talking about "doody rates" because that would be purile

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Nick Clegg's new book is £25, but I'm sure he's okay with us stealing it.

submitted 23 days ago • 26 comments

It is interesting, from a software development perspective, that Musk's gutting of twitter hasn't really resulted in many outages or bugs (it was always a bit flaky), but has resulted in an unstoppable tsunami of spam.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Good news! The Douglas Fir still exists (for at least a few months) @deserterblog.bsky.social

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

The lads two doors down are watching the Crystal Palace game in their garden on a delay (iplayer I guess) so every time there is a goal I get to open the door and hear them cheer.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Annoyingly I have left the house without my book because I had a new Private Eye but it is not a new Private Eye, it is the Private Eye the postman failed to deliver 5 weeks ago and all the jokes are out of date.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Recipes for curry appear in 18th century British cookbooks. It's more British than America is American

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

A movie that takes place where you’re from (using birthplace rather than where I grew up because NOTHING is set there)

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

I feel seen

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Three days after buying some degreaser and my brain is still singing 'I wanna buy, buy some degreaser.'

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

No shit Sherlock!

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Whenever AI images come up I keep thinking of the Cottingley Fairies. To modern eyes obvious fakes but took in many people at the time. I think in time we'll learn to see the differences with much more ease than we do now.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments