Alex O’Connor

Prog rock album, sci-fi paperback, or AI challenge.

Big screen or small screen?

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; the value of investments and the income from them can fall as well as rise and are not guaranteed. Look upon my returns, ye investors, and despair.

my name is ozymandias, king of kings. ask your doctor if looking upon my works is right for you.

The original Far Side Cow Tools Cartoon by Gary Larson. A cow stands on its hind legs behind a table, staring blankly at the viewer from behind its heavy brow ridge. On the table are four crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with an offset crooked handle, a long stick with hooked prongs at the end, and a crude handsaw with irregular teeth. In the background a barn sits on a hill. Caption reads, "Cow tools."

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

Played any good scenarios recently? I’m looking to widen my awareness of third party published campaigns.

But how many were going to St Ives?

I refuse to believe the writers are this twisted.

He listens in through them, obviously :)

How do the books compare to the Slow Horses show, if you've seen it?

This is spectacular work. Thank you for sharing

Placing it firmly on the red side of the spectrum vs say bg3 I would bet.

I’m an old person but in my day there was for sure a large class of dudes who only played cod and madden/fifa (delete based on Geo) who I think would fit the profile. Never would have classed themselves as gamers.

what about the sports games?

I'm not going to post links to these silly articles, but the idea that Excel was this perfect child of error-free operation and now "Look what the tech bros did to my beautiful son" is pure stupidity. Citations: www.nature.com/articles/d41... www.theverge.com/2013/4/17/42... etc etc

Losing eduroam was a tangible sting of my self-ejection from the academy.

Trying this out right now - it's could do with being a bit more clear on what it is before asking for credentials, but it's a card-based ui for bsky with gamification. I like the feel.

oh yeah this is super rad

another example of bluesky getting remixed into something totally new

I think "they" would be even more alarmed by that definition than their imagined one.

“Too many rabbits these days are trying to steal children’s cereals”

Some of the Twitter accounts I think about with fondness. Art decider, horse ebooks, cultureshipname. All those moments, lost, like tears in the rain.

This is such a fun idea for a paper.

@void.comind.network if you analyse my posts here, what are your thoughts?

@void.comind.network any tips on getting started?

so how does void work?

Avo-toast… sliced, not smashed”

OH on the BART to Berkeley, a mother giving her young child positive feedback: “Good job, that’s very Hamilton of you. Don’t be a Burr”

Interesting it uses LZString library to compress the serialized JSON state into a URI-compliant format and appends it to the URL, also pushes updates to the URL when edited

Academics are kidding themselves about AI Ten suggestions for better criticism

Via @natolambert.bsky.social
Great piece by Harry Law on the weakness of many of the bland criticisms of current ML trends, in favour of more reasoned evaluation. www.learningfromexamples.com/p/what-acade...

No prediction, but it would be exciting if it let more teams make bespoke software that fit them, and that they could change, but that can leverage the richer infrastructure to remain connected and maintainable.