OctopusSnook's profile picture. Likes Haskell, FP, type theory, category theory, environmental and ecological sciences and composing.

Jim Stuttard

@OctopusSnook

Likes Haskell, FP, type theory, category theory, environmental and ecological sciences and composing.

Hi @GeoConfirmed, Tnx for your excellent work but why don't you have zoomability on the images cos icons get hidden at the fixed scale? Best wishes.


Bloody hell, that's my schoolmate Rob Walker's mum trying to snobbify Notlobians!

Contrary to popular belief, this isn’t actually a Victoria Wood sketch.



All credit to Prigozhine for causing massive chaos.


Repost di Jim Stuttard

Thanks to @BylineTimes for publishing my historical essay. As @GaryLineker case showed, we need to understand our history to combat racism and hatred today.

🔴From Uganda to Rwanda: The British Political Class’ Ever-Present Hostility to ‘Aliens’ @jonbloomfield2 examines the similarities between the 1905 Aliens Bill and the current Illegal Migration Bill and inflammatory rhetoric around refugees bylinetimes.com/2023/05/23/fro…



Repost di Jim Stuttard

Truly staggering.

14,945 Americans have been killed by Americans, by gun, since New Year’s Day. That’s 5 months. And 4 x more than US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan were killed in 20 years of war.



Euroconsciousness? @jonbloomfield2

The map shows what ChatGPT considers the most notable thing about each European country. Mostly it got the stereotypes right I feel. As a foodie rather than a dancer I would've said paella for Spain (maybe Real Madrid or FC Barcelona). Source: buff.ly/3N7FtJ5

simongerman600's tweet image. The map shows what ChatGPT considers the most notable thing about each European country. Mostly it got the stereotypes right I feel. As a foodie rather than a dancer I would've said paella for Spain (maybe Real Madrid or FC Barcelona). Source: buff.ly/3N7FtJ5


Repost di Jim Stuttard

If you are worried about "AI causing mass unemployment" listen to economists who have studied the impact of technological revolutions on the labor market, like @erikbryn . DO NOT listen to computer scientists who are concerned by the social consequences of their work.


For anybody interested in algorhythmic composition, I came across this thesis: dokumen.pub/a-computer-mod…


Notwwithstanding a near lifetime of crap MS Windows software their attempt a Large Language machine learning for searching with Bing is hilarious. bit.ly/3IBcT00


Some stupid news scriptwriter on @BBCWorld has just ruined the film "Jeanne Dielman", just voted the greatest film of all time, for us who haven't seen it by revealing the outcome of the plot. Grrr...


Repost di Jim Stuttard

This is absolutely shocking. Suella Braverman refused to let people in a dangerously overfilled migrant detention centre be moved elsewhere, leading "directly to overcrowding and outbreaks of scabies and diphtheria". thetimes.co.uk/article/suella…


Repost di Jim Stuttard

arxiv.org/abs/1803.03453 is a bunch of anecdotes about how computers accidentally subverted, over and over again, what humans would consider very clear instructions. Here are some of my favorites: 1/


Repost di Jim Stuttard

The Conservative Party has proved it can no longer be trusted to govern. The only way to stop the chaos, restore stability & competence is a #GeneralElectionNow The only person with the skills to lead us through the economic crisis & restore decency in politics is #KeirStarmer


Hooray. Truss is out. Hopefully this is an end of Odey and Rees-Mogg's hedge fund brexiteers' influence on Tory politics.


When Elon Musk suggested that the UN should organise referendums on joining the Russian Federation in the eastern tetrritories of Ukraine an some wag suggested that people should occupy Tesla's HQ and the UN should organise a referendum on the occupiers taking over the company.


"There are no facts, only interpretations wrote Nietszche", Vicker's 2 rules for how to spot long lasting scientific facts seems pretty good to me: 1) 97% of scientists agree with it for some years and 2) every piece of new evidence corroborates the fact. bit.ly/3LetczH


Loading...

Something went wrong.


Something went wrong.