Martyn Brake

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job. AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

This whole section really.

It's IT Professionals Day!

Many happy "have you cleared the caches" to everyone on Bluesky x

I remember watching Peej at Yeovil College. What a time to be alive. Amazing tunes. Thank you for awakening those memories!!

Death by HPC Friday fun. Which parts of a HPC system are most likely to kill you. Or the components of HPC for beginners in disguise.

Time for some Friday #HPC Fun
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C'mon , let's get fossil fuel ads banned . . . first step , a debate in Parliament . Will you be the 100,000th signature on my petition ? Sign at govpetition.uk/700024 – almost there !

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

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The aforementioned receipt, framed.

Someone on Reddit spent £75 buying 26 things in alphabetical order, then framed the receipt.
www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/c...

Opinions are like arseholes. Everyone's heard mine.

Great track. Thanks

The Caring University is now available for pre-order!

It's about structural and cultural change to improve the higher ed workplace.

See the ToC ⬇️

I'd be grateful if you would consider reposting to your networks to spread the word.

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Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?"
Me: "That's the documentation deliverable."
Manager: "What's the status of that?"
Me: "We're halfway there"
Manager: "Why is progress so slow?"
Me: "You fired Tommy"
Manager: "So?"
Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"

I thought I knew what I was doing with this stupid game

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I don’t wish to spoil this for anyone, but the hell is coddle eggs
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This is Erasmus Erasmus+ empowers students through opportunities to study, work, and grow across Europe. Join us in bringing this programme back to the UK

New Year - let's go!

First up, please join the >56,000 signatures on this petition. It's easy to get distracted by the Elon-Trump-Tommeh-Tate froth, which is all worth engaging - but we should not lose sight of driving our own drives for what we want.

Sign and share please. 👇👇

Making Tea xkcd.com/3022

Excellent - have added you to our good news starter pack:

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Looks like I’m going to top of everyone’s replies!

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Your real age is 70 minus the number of musicians you recognize playing at Coachella 2025

Nvidia looks to shoehorn AI into more HPC workloads GPU giant contends that a little fuzzy math can speed up fluid dynamics, drug discovery

#SC24: Nvidia unveils new tools and frameworks for augmenting real-time fluid dynamics simulations, computational chemistry, weather forecasting, and drug development with #AI

www.theregister.com/2024/11/18/n...

#HPC via @theregister.com

Utterly shameful.
#WorldBollardAssociation

Okay Bluesky, this is the greatest thing I have ever made and now it’s here for you. Mr Blobby in the Virtual Insanity video.

Bold choice for next Archbishop of Canterbury

Exodus

LOOK AT THE JOY!!!!
#WorldBollardAssociation

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Good evening wonderful people of BlueSky.
I'll soon be posting Space Station passes and all sorts of stargazing stuff, for your entertainment and pleasure.

Give me a follow and let's explore the universe together.

hu huh, huh, hhhh, let that sink in.. huh huhhh hhh Dammit Butthead, where is everyone? you said X was the place to be.

I've done the B&B picture as a gif, but trying to upload it to Tenor gives you worrying google account access alarms and even ignoring that it still got stuck trying to process it. So check it out on b3ta b3ta.com/board/11412911 or the other place