Most of all reminds me of this: youtu.be/5YnpQ1f8Qo8?...
Long time software developer and data engineer. AI centrist. Norwegian/British. Walthamstow resident on hiatus in Oslo. Father of twins, servant of two cats.
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Most of all reminds me of this: youtu.be/5YnpQ1f8Qo8?...
IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”
Northern lights tonight
Kjenner en god del som har meldt seg ut av Venstre av samme grunn, etter å ha vært aktive i partiet. Jeg kan ikke skjønne at de kan fortsette som de gjør.
So forget about storage and transmission for a sec, let's explore the idea that assets are worthless if used <50% of the time. -Snow plows -substantial fraction of the poles and wires (built to peak) -The Red River Floodway (Most days Winnipeg wouldn't flood anyway!) -Every gun and private car
Just fwiw the best way to exclude your open source code from being ingested for "AI" training is to load it up to the motherfucking brim with fucking 4-letter word comments #fuck /* fuck */
It’s the end of summer (Zoom in for the reveal…)
Not been following the news much lately?
Nothing should ever be dubbed of course :)
Not in UK sadly
“Film things you see happening…Be loud for America” is quite the rallying cry.
Your regular reminder what Elon Musk stands for.
A bit of survivorship bias perhaps? Those books are good, but they really are the exception rather than the rule. All the dross that was produced 25 years ago is long forgotten.
🔴 Footage from a factory in China was found on the camera of a Russian “Gerbera” drone downed in Ukraine, likely recorded during device testing. This was reported by serviceman and radio technology expert and consultant Serhii Beskrestnov.
The tech industry has never ever had the courage to follow Primum non nocere. It's the fatal flaw (slash profitable feature) of the whole enterprise
One for the reading list.
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Exactly!
Can't wait for J D Vance to come and lecture us in Europe about "free speech" again
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There are no plans to bring their nuclear power stations back online.
How do you know if you’ve never tried it?
The anti-AI sentiment on this platform is reaching new heights
Amazing!
Which one?
It's like you'd almost have to intentionally design a system to be this bad. Though incompetence is no doubt more likely than malice, c.f. Grey's law.
It's weird that this is even a problem. Either there are separate systems for different countries and they can use the same email, no problem. Or there's a single system and database of customers in which case user could just use the same account hence email across different countries, no problem.
Lovely! Where is it? Or is it a secret, to ensure it stays quiet? :)
Someone said “if it weren’t for all the shootings you wouldn’t even know America had schools”
You've GOT to be kidding me! The Conservatives - who oversaw every single thing on this list - are trying to claim that only the Conservatives would "stop the madness" - that they created...? So incredulity aside, what about the list itself? Let's go Debunking! 1/34
Berger's three laws of chatbotics: 1) The bot should never express emotions. 2) The bot should never praise the user. 3) The bot should never say it understands the user's mental state. There's no use case for these things, and they're obviously problematic. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...
Letter of the day (in the Times)
In the seventies, Smalltalk was invented. It featured a virtual machine to update code on the fly and make changes go live immediately. I learned programming with BASIC. Just stop the program and modify it. Here I am a few decades later and writing posts while I wait for stuff to compile and start.
Robotic slurs
Really, no real-world use at all?
I was involved with a Symbian project in the late 90s. Interesting product, lots of good people there. And of course the way in ended up has some very interesting lessons.
Yikes. This really does look impressive. I travelled through Narvik last week, nice spot to go and work for anyone in the data centre business… techcrunch.com/2025/07/31/o...
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Can’t see why users need to pay a fee, there are ways of verifying that the user has a credit card without actually charging them.
Same, since kids there’s just not been much spare time for anything else.
Having been around for a few decades, it seems to me that the current fashion of hiring vs firing swings between the two.
League One begynner på lørdag 😇
My personal experience with online safety was my school installing strict internet controls to Protect The Kids™, so I joined a hacking forum to learn bypasses. The users also taught me how to import drugs via the dark web. Then I got arrested by the FBI for computer hacking. It was all very safe.
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
And reading the tea leaves?
Dæven. Jeg får flashback til Legoland-besøk med familien i fjor.
AHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHH alignment.anthropic.com/2025/sublimi...
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Exactly. It’s like that in Europe as well. Who wants to build a business based on the hope that the American electorate won’t elect another madman? The US simply can’t be trusted again.
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Limited capacity due to summer holidays. Check back in a few weeks. 🏖️
Yes but cleverly disguised as a broadsheet paper, tricking some gullible individuals to think it’s a serious news outlet.
I’m on holiday myself right now, so glass houses and all that…
Web sites in Norway are even less reliable than usual at the moment. Suspect everyone’s on holiday and summer interns are running the country’s IT infrastructure.
Was true back then too.
This is really fascinating to me because of the connections we've also found in my research between worse outcomes for software teams and contest cultures/competition mental models for software/zero sum thinking in domain specific ways for technological skills
This is a policy that would be dismissed as completely extremist even a year or two ago. And it’s now being proposed by the leader of the opposition. If a Brit married someone born overseas and had a (British!) disabled child, for example, they would be cut off from state support under this plan.
Jesus
Right, so I was asked to take a look at this headline and as you can imagine, there is a lot wrong with it! 🙄 This was initially published in @thetimes and then picked up by the usual GB News, DM, Telegraph etc Let’s take a look….👀 🧵 1/26 (1/1)
The 0.000001 %
‼️EXTRAORDINARY WORLD RECORD Brutal 48.5C Chillas,PAKISTAN 🇵🇰 1250m ! WORLD RECORD OF HIGHEST TEMPERATURE ABOVE 1000M asl BUT...Yesterday 49.3C Bafq IRAN 🇮🇷 altitude 999m (they should have moved the station a bit) Also crazy 46.1C Bunji 🇵🇰1469m asl History is rewritten again
You don’t think LLMs can help with those as well?
Whole-home lithium power used to be a rich man’s game. Now it’s “high-end graphics card” territory. This is a $2500, lithium polymer battery that would power an entire US residential house for >24hr. China is *crushing* it on kilowatt hours per dollar.
Da vi flytta til Oslo fra London en juli-dag for to år siden så lurte vi, hvor er alle folka? Har det skjedd noe?? Ser ut som det er ganske tomt der i dag og!
Woahhh!!!
This July 4 I am reading this remarkable book detailing the impoverished and Orwellian language of the Nazi era, written by a German-Jewish philologist who lived through it. Unsurprising echoes to present-day USA. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTI_%E2...
Where to work in London when it's too hot to think? My top 10 pitch-ups with WiFi, air con and relative peace in my Substack this week. open.substack.com/pub/helenbar...
Amazing list. Saving this one, not just for hot days!
Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.
I don’t disagree with that. But that’s still a different topic than what I was commenting on.
Going from “strings” to “relationships” is somewhat moving the goalposts, don’t you think?
I have been in the tech industry for 30 years and overhype and BS startups have been around forever, I’m as tired of that as anyone. But what OP says is that the underlying tech is still useful. Much like the web was despite the dotcom bubble.
If the produced strings had "no relationship to reality" then people wouldn't find it useful, which they often do. I think calling the outputs of current LLMs "sludge" is an example of what the OP refers to, the strong anti-"AI" views often found here.
And the entity inside the room learning Chinese isn't really a part of the original thought experiment.
I'm not fond of fond of the "AI" label either, I'm just saying that in the original Chinese Room thought experiment, the room system behaves identical to a real Chinese speaker, essentially passing the Turing test. If we can produce such a system, that would be useful. Even if it's not "conscious".
There sure seems to be a lot of AI hate on here, as the replies to this shows.
The Chinese Room Argument was used to argue that a computer system can't have "real understanding" in the way a human mind can. I think it's flawed myself, but in any case, if you're calling current AIs chinese rooms you're giving them a lot of credit.
Did Iran's internet shutdown inadvertently unmask a prolific and long-standing disinfo op? Intriguing research from Cyabra: A network of 1,300 fake social media accounts that have stirred political events around the world since the 2014 Scottish independence vote went dark during Iran’s blackout.
Well there’s an upside for the rest of the world in that Americans will now test the drugs for the rest of us
Nå snakker ikke DN om antall ansatte heller.
How to unenroll in “leagues” in Duolingo: Log in on the web site (not with the app) and go to Settings, Privacy, and set your profile to private. Presto, you’ve just removed most of the ‘gamification’ from the app!
- did not measure people's creativity performance by any reputable creativity task or measure, just measured the ESSAY content (after giving people different instructions) - did not measure people's overall MEMORY ABILITY - false on "brain activity," DIFFERENT activity is not "weaker"
Just hiding and hoping the problem goes away doesn’t seem like a particularly good strategy.
Movie you've watched more than six times using GIFs (hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek or LOTR)
An AI-enabled urinal? ... Hey y'all I think I know what triggers the Robot uprising.
Or have what looks like a camera pointing at me.
London is awesome so this is just great news all round
A third of them ordered 3x meals once. I don’t think the cost of that would buy them much property.
Is there some standard / adopted (as in: used by Cursor / @anthropic.com / coding agents) way to provide documentation for libraries?
That might create some other incentives…
Spiller ingen rolle. Dessert er godt uansett.
Nine years ago the godfather of Brexit, Lord Daniel Hannan, predicted life in Brexit Britain in June 2025. Roll the tape… (VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)
Both.
not great that I can now adapt a classic Jewish joke, set variously in Tsarist Russia, Nazi Germany, etc ... two Jews, one without papers, are talking on the street when they see the police approaching. the paperless one says to his friend "Quick, run so they chase you!" ...
Yes please
Must be quite handy to have a word that you can take to mean anything you want.
The thing I bought stopped working after a short while. Trying to get it sorted has been a study in dark patterns.
Reminder that Iran is merely the current name for the fricken' PERSIAN EMPIRE. That one. Those people. The ones who fucked with the ancient greeks and romans, stood up to Alexander the Great, and have pride going back to the bronze age. They will not roll over and become good little Americans.