mr_toad

We can then add in an existing dataset of _known_ incidents, indexed by the same common features, as a training/validation set.

Beware of the Anna Karenina principle. Well behaved data might be explicable by the same common features, but often the anomalies all have unique characteristics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_principle

In France castles are all called Châteaux.

New Zealand was colonised long after castles had become obsolete. There are a few remains of WWII coastal fortifications here and there, but they’re now obsolete too.

The Māori built thousands of hilltop fortifications with wooden palisades (Pā), but lacking metal tools they didn’t build with stone.

It also lists the Bastille, which was completely demolished and is now a public square.

It’s missing the extensive Napoleonic-era Western Fortifications on the opposite side of Dover from the much more famous Dover Castle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_Western_Heights

But to be fair they’re much less well known, and quite well concealed, and are partly on private land, with big fences, cameras and scary warning signs. Tourists don’t seem to be much interested in post-medieval fortifications.

since records began I guess

Possibly since 1086

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesday_Book

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It’s the queue of users who want to be hand held because they can’t do X, or open Y, that IT doesn’t want to deal with.

Also, there’s no budget for training any more.

AWS, GCP, Azure don’t care either.

I’m just pushing back on the notional ignorance of non-technical users for not understanding one abstraction among many.

And I’m complaining about technical and non-technical users who don’t understand why object stores (and web servers, and ftp servers, and archives) aren’t file systems just because they can hold files.

And don’t get me started on documents. Document object models can be so much more when they’re not just treated as a sequence of bytes.

You don’t even need to be an adult to pay taxes, at least in some countries. I’ve been doing my own taxes since I was 14.

This often massively discounts the cost of reversing decisions. People often work to build things without any thought given to those who have to maintain it afterwards. Especially when it's not them.

This is often because no thought was put into making decisions reversible. Version control, CI/CD, virtualization for example can make it easier to reverse decisions and make it faster and easier to replace bad designs.

If you're going to assign a relatively medium talent engineer to solve a problem, it's cheaper to let them solve it twice, maybe even three times, than it is to try to figure out what the right solution is before touching a keyboard.

What’s even worse is when a lot of talented people spend a lot of time planning a solution on paper which turns out not to be workable in practice, and then they throw good money after bad trying to get the unworkable solution to work, rather than admitting they were wrong.

Considering many people doesn't know what a file is, keeping the spirit alive is important, I think.

Files aren’t sacred. It’s actually troubling that many technical people never consider alternatives. Most of the worlds data today is probably not stored in filesystems, rather in databases and object stores that use custom storage backends.

A driver should only be that. A driver

What does a monitor even need a driver for? I presume if you plug one of these into a Mac or a Linux box it’s still going to function.

The host star is described as very inactive, which probably accounts for the retention of atmosphere.

I doubt any new physics will be needed, just computational imaging, meta-optics, very long baselines (multi AU, or even light years).

People have been using brute force methods to win Kaggle competitions since the beginning (and other people have been complaining about it just as long).

At its core, ML is all about computer generated models (automated feature selection, hyper parameter tuning). Many (most?) of the models produced in Kaggle are already black boxes and have been for a long time. The model that won the Netflix prize was never used in production for that reason.

Using an LLM to generate code to generate a black box is pretty much par for the course.

As those lock-ups expire I only see the stock sliding further. Still, the very early investors will probably make bank, with the retail investors holding the bag.

Many of those early investors would have invested in a rocket company, I doubt many of them were overjoyed to be saddled with all the debts from an AI company and Twitter.

Half of all steel in the UK is imported anyway, and there are many places to obtain it. Unless the UK goes to war with most of the world at the same time, it’s not going to have trouble getting steel.

The government is forced to sell steel at a loss, because all the buyers for whom this is a such a vital supply would otherwise buy cheaper imported steel, every single one of them.

And ultimately all the ore and coke used to make the steel are imported anyway.

I try and avoid connecting trains. With each connection you only have about a 50:50 chance of success.

It’s usually cheaper to book in advance. In particular if you want cheap seats on the Eurostar you have to books months in advance.

I thought it imparted all mass.

It’s all relative; in the quarks frame of reference it does get all its mass from the interaction with the Higgs field.

Only in piston engines, which are a minority of propeller planes. Most commercial propeller aircraft are turboprops, and they use jet fuel. And diesel engines are slowly taking over from gasoline in piston engines.

People can earn six figures and still be living paycheque to paycheque, and up to their ears in debt.

hepped could also just be "hopped" as in "hopped up on X"

Another Simpsons reference.

Myths don’t have natural or human causes. Instead you have wars caused by divine rivalry (e.g. the Judgement of Paris).

Maybe Troy was actually destroyed by the Sea Peoples, but that probably wouldn’t make as much at the box office.

If invaders appear out of ‘nowhere’, it’s usually by boat or on horseback.

The people of that era would have thought so. The Iliad and the Odyssey (if they have any basis in reality) might be examples of that period seen through a lens of mythology.