Paul Callaghan @paulcc_two

PhD on Evaluation of NLP (MUC-6), 1998. Parsing & ambiguity, Haskell & type theory, Riichi Mahjong. Once lecturer, now happy escapee from organised education. free-variable.org Joined May 2009

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Ewan Morrison @MrEwanMorrison

4 days ago

Consider this: if Digital ID becomes mandatory in the UK, you could need government approval to sign any petition at all. This could be your last freely signed petition. I've signed it, please join me. Petition link: Do not introduce Digital ID cards petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7301…

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James Stanier @jstanier

2 weeks ago

For 48 hours you can get 45% off any of my books on the @pragprog website. There are usually only one or two chances in an entire year to get a discount like this, so act fast. All books are DRM-free and available in a number of digital formats. Go, go, go!

PragmaticProgrammers @pragprog

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PragmaticProgrammers @pragprog

2 weeks ago

48 hour FLASH! 45% off with code FLASHSALE @pragdave felt like stirring things up - he just put nearly every title on sale!

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Paul Callaghan @paulcc_two

3 weeks ago

Competitive #excel is strangely compelling - definitely worth watching the world championship in December.

Lisa @Lijoh1

3 weeks ago

Competitive #excel is strangely compelling - definitely worth watching the world championship in December.

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Paul Callaghan @paulcc_two

4 weeks ago

Current musical obsession: Buckethead. Just — wow.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior

a month ago

On how the man who played Leatherface in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" taught me the meaning of life: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/my-friend-le…

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Tamas Erdos @tamas

a month ago

Over the past 6 months, I had the opportunity to try out lots of different mahjong rulesets. Of course I played lots of WRC rules Riichi, M-League rules Riichi, and various 3 player rulesets. But I also got to play JPML-A rules, MCR ("standard" Chinese rules), Taiwanese mahjong…

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Ewan Morrison @MrEwanMorrison

2 months ago

IMHO - Open AIs strategy is to spread their faulty GPT chatbots into as many parts of the US & UK govts as possible so that when the AI bubble bursts - govts will keep paying & bail them out. Govts should renege on their deals w/OpenAI now, before the AI bubble bursts.

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Ewan Morrison @MrEwanMorrison

a month ago

Being seduced by the AI business pitch takes 1 hour: "We will put AI into everything in your organisation to improve all productivity". Investment in the LLM tech takes a few weeks to organise and - few months to integrate. Realising that the AI tech you invested in creates…

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Ewan Morrison @MrEwanMorrison

2 months ago

Yes, we are at peak AI. But the AI companies are attempting to push their faulty models into all aspects of govt and industry to spread out the impact from the AI bubble bursting.

Jade Cole @JadeCole2112

2 months ago

Yes, we are at peak AI. But the AI companies are attempting to push their faulty models into all aspects of govt and industry to spread out the impact from the AI bubble bursting.

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François Chollet @fchollet

2 months ago

GenAI isn't just a technology; it's an informational pollutant—a pervasive cognitive smog that touches and corrupts every aspect of the Internet. It's not just a productivity tool; it's a kind of digital acid rain, silently eroding the value of all information. Every image is no…

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Julian Togelius @togelius

2 months ago

I remember being excited about AI. I remember 20 years ago, being excited about neuroevolutionary methods for learning adaptive behaviors in video games. And I remember three years ago, mouth watering at the thought of tasty experiments in putting language models inside…

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior

2 months ago

In 1990, Kyrgyz writer Chinghiz Aitmatov popularized the term "mankurt": a former human with an enslaved mind. Big Tech wants to make us mankurts and AI is their weapon. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strippi…

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Dr Helen Ingram @drhingram

2 months ago

I don’t want to panic anyone in Bristol but

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Paul Callaghan @paulcc_two

2 months ago

It is a good essay. Maybe, adding yet a few more epicycles isn't going to work...

Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus

2 months ago

It is a good essay. Maybe, adding yet a few more epicycles isn't going to work...

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Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus

2 months ago

Check it out. Almost everyone in the major media is missing the real story around GPT-5. The real story is about how so many people (even big fans of OpenAI) were disappointed. And it’s about how that may well spell the end of scaling mania. And it’s about how the premature…

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Dad Jokes @Dadsaysjokes

2 months ago

Knowledge is knowing a Tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. Philosophy is wondering if that means Ketchup is a smoothie.

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Ewan Morrison @MrEwanMorrison

2 months ago

How to survive the crash of your own flawed product (GPT5). Push it into every govt. department at low prices, so that when your flawed product is exposed, those govt bureaucrats won't admit they've foolishly invested in bad tech & will keep paying. Govt. may even bail you out.