LeithMotive
@leithmotive.bsky.social
I've spent a grim two hours in Cambridge today looking for smart trousers that are 32/36 and it's impossible. Trivial to order them online though.
Close down half the universities. Send Huddersfield back to the stone age. The NHS was a mistake. The usual below the line Telegraph stuff but coming from people who develop policy.
I don't remember this happening to Labour in 2010 or in the Corbyn years.
Think-tank tories going bonkers on the other place. I can't see a route to sanity after they lose. Just paranoid fantasies in depth.
Went for a run looking like this, men stared, ladies swooned and bees chased me for several miles.
Ha, just remembered my children watched the original Lion King the other month and of course Disney recommended the Lion King II: Simba's Pride as a follow up film, which is, while slightly better than average straight to video 90s Disney, pretty bad and not a patch on the original.
Fairly grim sign of the times that the local Clarkes is closing down despite being the only children's shoe shop in a 10 mile radius.
It's quite disappointing that the bsky developers haven't developed a way of blocking tags. If one is applied to you there's no appeal process and no way to remove it.
There's third party labelling tools plugged into bsky and the bsky people refuse to take action against malicious and often libellous tagging.
I can't comment on that because here in the UK Tesla are just one of many competing options.
I've not read the Levitin book so maybe he addresses this, but from what I know of his arguments they come across as unnecessarily complex when more parsimonious explanations are available. Kind of like special pleading given his personal involvement in music.
By all means criticise that, but he's presenting an argument within terms set by evolutionary theory, so any counter argument should be in that context.
That's fine, but I think it misrepresents Pinker. He was arguing that appreciation for it is (or at least was) a spandrel, an accidental byproduct of evolutionary selection elsewhere on traits that influence reproductive success rather than a trait itself directly subject to evolutionary pressures.
Trouble is also that every other EV manufacturer has caught up with them on batteries and motors... They still have their best in class charging network, but recent events suggest their k holed ceo is going to blow that up.
Not least because that's my job as their father. Hey kids, want to listen to my vinyl copy of the new Teenage Fanclub album?
I find it depressing my children are growing up in a world where the tech companies who built their reputations on letting the customer choose what they want now see their role as choosing what the customer wants.
It's crazy how UI design seems to be going backwards. Lads, your streaming platform is essentially a frontend for a database. It's structured information, it should be trivial to search and organise, and yet...
If you didn't start building new plants yesterday, you start today. It's the only tech we have that replaces oil or gas plants to provide continuous power.
Story says they will build 4 nuclear plants though, which will offset more carbon than they create through other policies. This is about sticking it to Green politics, which are often as absurdly harmful to the environment as any other sort.
He's also quite camp and arch, so the vicious cruelty very much fits into the traditions of that style of comedy.
That's going to be the corporate provided one - but can't be used for personal stuff. And I don't think it will be capable of running modern strategy games?
But it also has to be capable of making predictions about real things in ways that can be iteratively improved, but when your algorithm is blackbox that can't spit out its reasoning then not only can't you know how to make it better, you have a huge trust issue on top.
In my line of work we're often thinking of use cases for AI, and there are plenty, but the problem of 'hallucinations' is a deal breaker every time. We need output to not only have an exceptionally high degree of accuracy and consistency and that seems impossible to generate via current methods.
The thing is the model has to 'know' physics not to look weird, and you don't need AI to generate on the fly 3D models moving convincingly on a 2D plane representing 3D space. Because that's your average videogame...
Your lemon looks disturbingly like a bird's eye view of Jeff Bezos.
OK, now I imagine you as being like a Tom of Finland character.
I need a new laptop as I have to hand back this one (MacBook Pro) when I leave my job and my new job's computer will be for work only (sensitive commercial environment). What's like a MacBook Pro but Windows and better? I hate the stupid camera cutout and dodgy external monitor support on the MBP.
That said, if you do a science type degree (my knowledge of other subjects is more limited) then you're final year project will likely involve working a fair bit with Post-docs who, frankly, know more and are more enthusiastic about the project than the PI.
Change in structures of degree programmes, if you want 1:1 then do a Masters or PhD. You'll get lots of it on those. UG degrees these days are mostly about giving people broad subject matter knowledge rather than expertise so 1:1s with subject matter experts matter less.
With the anti-immigrant turn of people like Neil O'Brien, a post defeat Tory party won't consider these people as possible allies because they are 'born overseas' - and it doesn't take much imagination to see where a party that divides british citizens into born overseas and born here risks heading.
I know a lot of successful immigrants, came here to study/work, have acquired citizenship, household incomes of £150k+, kids go to private school, and they're not voting Tory. These are the sort of people that you'd think someone like Sunak would have a natural affinity with...
How he maintained a career after the wanking in a taxi while high on crack I do not know.
The only sane one is Craig Charles, pure centrist dad, but he's incredibly annoying on the radio.
I was a competitive (but not that competitive) swimmer which is probably why I have a 46 inch chest and a 32 inch waist...
Which is why male gymnasts look like body builders in their upper body, and paraplegics in their lower parts...
Do we think that the Tory Party will let Sunak wait until January? I know they have nearly given up but if there's a last throw of the dice in them, that throw is deposing Sunak at some point in the next 3 months. Ditch Sunak, call an immediate election. Hope to salvage 50-100 seats instead of 0-50.
Who comes after Starmer? He'll most likely be past retirement age when he nexts stands for election after this year (or Jan next). Without wishing ill health, he's of an age where the unexpected is more likely to happen, and he may just get tired. So has he thought of a succession plan?