@kingcoherent.bsky.social

Maths, music, machine learning and martinis. Some cat pictures. Mélange: 🇮🇪🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺

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There is nothing in the NATO Charter that requires a member-state to join wars of aggression started by another member.

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Trump Admin Drops the Olive Branch from U.S. Seal on New Dime Coins, Keeps the Arrows A new dime coin entering circulation in 2026 is sparking conversation after eagle-eyed Americans noticed a small but significant detail in its design

I had assumed the headline was a joke. But no.

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Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪

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The parents in the study were interested in the toy's potential to teach language and communication skills.

However, their children frequently struggled to converse with it. Gabbo didn't hear their interruptions, talked over them, could not differentiate between child and adult voices and responded awkwardly to declarations of affection.

When one five-year-old said, "I love you," to the toy, it replied: "As a friendly reminder, please ensure interactions adhere to the guidelines provided. Let me know how you would like to proceed."

This is so tragic it's actually incredibly funny

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Octopussy. Or a view to a kill (Grace Jones, Christopher Walken and a freaking blimp). Yeah, definitely a view to a kill.

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He's outright admitting Ellison bought CNN to turn it into a propaganda outlet for the regime.

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I've just had an amazing idea

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nigel farage tweet:

The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes.
This is the definition of woke.

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”

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4 days ago

the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy quote I think of most often these days is, “What do you mean, why’s it got to be built? It’s a bypass. You’ve got to build bypasses.”

Any connection to certain modern technologies is purely coincidental, and mostly harmless.

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I still think about this a lot.

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Haha! I was going to post the same thing.

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Zenodot — Find book translations across languages Discover book translations across languages. A documentary tool for readers worldwide.

I spent 4 months trying to answer a simple question: has this book been translated into my language?
Turns out no one tracks this. Not ISBN registries. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries.
So I built a tool that crosses four databases to piece it together.
zenodot.app

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6 days ago

This would make my whole week, second coffee of the morning or not.

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They’ve increased it substantially. Not as high as a h100, but when I priced up a system with one of them in (and enough ram) it was twice the MBP. Will try and remember this thread when it arrives an I can tell you how well it works.

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It will probably depend on use case. I’m upgrading to a new m5 max with 128gb ram. Intrigued to see how effective it will be for local inference tasks.

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Local ai is also catching up. I would imagine in two years time a Mac Studio in an office will run the larger models and serve requests for a small business. Much like businesses used to have a server in the office in the late 90s.

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England's *men*, you mean

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Attacks leave dead vs killed

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Every single professional journalist who uses the phrases “Department of War” or “Secretary of War” without scare quotes should be lined up on a public viewing stage and bopped on the head with a giant inflatable hammer that says DUMB DUMB on the handle and makes fart sounds.

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Vampires killed by sunlight.
Superman killed by kryptonite.
Right-wingers killed by accountability for the Epstein files.

The Epstein War continues to distract from the truth.

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Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?

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I think this is the moment Labour expunges its last vestiges of starry-eyed Blairism (which in my opinion, Iraq aside, is a bit of shame).

But I can't imagine any future leadership contender invoking the spirit of Blair.

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Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage want Britain to blindly follow Trump into this illegal war, even though the President has no plan for what comes next.

There is nothing patriotic about outsourcing Britain’s foreign policy to Donald Trump.

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Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

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And still, so-called patriots queue up to condemn their own Prime Minister for refusing to join in with all this…

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The Brexit tendency seem to be absolutely losing their minds over the government's refusal to get bullied by America into an illegal war.

Quite something from the people who wanted "independence" and to "take back control."

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Maybe if Starmer showed this sense of humour more often, people would like him a bit more.

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