Robin Allenson

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It's BS Time at 19:00 GMT tonight (pay attention to BST time change!)

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Every Tuesday i tune in for BSTime hosted by @jlwchambers.bsky.social @hellemans.me and @robina.bsky.social BUT every time i’m at a loss for subjects to talk about. Sure, i have opinions, but need some help maybe. Anyone gave a nice SEO topic to discuss? (Ps: you’re welcome to join! It’s friendly)

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Yeah. 100x This. The model is just a bunch of weight data. The runtimes that run the inference are separate.

Runtimes like Ollama are open source (so we can see the code) and we can watch the network traffic.

Running locally is definitely private.

Yes. But that’s just not how running a model works. An AI model is a bunch of a matrices of numbers, called the weights, where you input some characters and get some characters as outputs. The software that you run to use the DeepSeek weights is not from DeepSeek.

How can it do that eg without internet? That’s not how a local model works.

Unless you run it locally

Be there or … be somewhere else. In fact, by the magic of the internet: be there AND be somewhere else.

BS💩 Time - Earlier time spin off of Shooting the 💩 - Clubhouse Chat about everything SEO! Bring your talking points!

It's Tuesday, you know what that means...

It's BS💩 Time!

Join the conversation on Clubhouse hosted by @hellemans.me, @robina.bsky.social & myself to talk about SEO, AI, digital marketing and more.

Tonight at:
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Had a 20 minute chat with chatGPT on the Extended Mind thesis from Andy Clark and Collective Intelligence from Michael Levin. What fun!

Maps and graphs of range contraction over different dynasties

This is so cool - this study used Chinese poetry to reconstruct 1400 years of range change for the Yangtze finless porpoise, and showed that most of the range loss happened in the last century
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Gorgeous photo! (And lovely subject of course).

Eponymous photo of the day.

Physics 😃 Photons have some probability of interacting with matter, and we know the density of the Sun, so we know how far on average a photon travels in between interactions. Turns out it's not very far in the Sun, and every interaction changes its direction, so it can be a very long random walk.

Super interesting! Thanks for the answer!

Eponymous post of the week.

I have been lurking for a week or two here whilst gazillions of you have been following me. The downside to the year ending is that there is infinite work to be done before the end of the year and only a finite amount of time in which to finish it.

How do we know this? 🤔

An image of the Sun, bright orange, with a cutaway revealing interior layers of different bright colors. A circle with a gamma, indicating a photon, is superimposed on the core.

A YEAR OF SPACE FACTS: DAY 1/365

The photons we receive from the Sun take a little over 8 minutes to reach us from the surface of the Sun. But they are created deep in the core of the Sun, and it takes them 100,000s of years to get from the core to the surface!

Quantum Computers Cross Critical Error Threshold | Quanta Magazine In a first, researchers have shown that adding more “qubits” to a quantum computer can make it more resilient. It’s an essential step on the long road to practical applications.

In a paper published today in Nature, researchers at Google Quantum AI crossed a significant threshold in quantum error correction, moving quantum computers one step closer to practical applications. @benbenbrubaker.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-comp...

Hard-forked! Casey Newton’s distorted portrait of Gary Marcus and AI skepticism What Casey Newton’s new essay skewering AI skepticism does—and does not—get right

« Hard-forked! Casey Newton’s distorted portrait of Gary Marcus and AI skepticism
What Casey Newton’s new essay skewering AI skepticism does—and does not—get right » #ai garymarcus.substack.com/p/hard-forke...

@drenerbas.bsky.social hey Kieran long time no speak! How’s life?

Cartoon of two birds sitting on a branch facing a third bird who is saying "You have to move. We 've acquired this branch under a Compulsory Perches Order"

I have a cartoon in the current Private Eye

When people expect me to have my shit together I tell them that one time I was at an important professional board meeting and reached in my work bag for a pen and grabbed a 4 month old banana that I forgot in there

BS Time - Europe time zone edition of Shooting the 💩 - Clubhouse Chat about everything SEO! Bring your talking points!

BS Time, the European-time zone friendly edition of Shooting the 💩, is back in a few hours!

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Massive away win for the little fella.