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Google at North Weald Airfield could cause loss of market stalls - BBC News Google wants to build a car park for its employees at the airfield in Essex.

@mjrobbins.com @jamesomalley.co.uk I have one mouth, and I must scream share.google/Ecia1jFrLUbN...

28.10.2025 23:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Are you going to add your experiences to the literature on owl rehab, to help the next person magnificently crazy enough to attempt this?

05.10.2025 10:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Born 32 weeks after Tony Blair was first elected to parliament. Makes it unlikely to be a celebratory conception, but going by normal gestation times it is entirely plausible that Cherie told him she was pregnant on election night.

03.10.2025 22:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Do you think the Rams would consider offering their two 1st round picks for Parsons? The combo of him and Verse would be pretty scary!

01.08.2025 15:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My best mate used to wind people up by arguing that that if there was an Illuminati they have overseen a couple of centuries of things like massively decreased child mortality and improving living standards. That he thought they were doing quite a good job and would quite like to join them.

01.05.2025 13:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 37    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

David Brent

25.03.2025 18:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

He will end the halftime show by flying it out of the stadium

10.02.2025 01:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If I were PM of Canada I would offer to have a referendum for each province to join the US but only if the border states had a referendum to join Canada. I'm sure every referendum would fail, but also that the Trump administration would be caught trying to fiddle things to ensure no states left.

08.02.2025 22:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Here we go. "No better example" This is going to be the new "bat tunnel". The project was abandoned by Hitachi because the UK government wouldn't provide the financial support they wanted, not because of concerns about the Welsh language. Lazy uncritical reporting: it's all in the public domain.

08.02.2025 13:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 99    ๐Ÿ” 37    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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The end of the playground In which one playground shuts and another is sealed off from the public before it even opens, in a chilling warning for the future of local government.

Todayโ€™s post tells the stories of two playgrounds, but itโ€™s really about the imminent collapse of local government.

21.01.2025 08:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 51    ๐Ÿ” 22    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

Swann is pretty clearly a homophone TBF

10.01.2025 15:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@milmillington.bsky.social I gave my mum my copy of TMGAIHAA after my dad died. She finally got around to reading it and while visiting for Christmas was telling me how much she loved it! This is fantastic, because now I can get it back.

01.01.2025 00:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Can we pencil in the Giants for 1st draft pick in 2026? All this plus the 49ers would be tough for anyone.

31.12.2024 23:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

But surely the Bengals are not crazy enough to keep playing him once they are eliminated from playoff contention?

10.12.2024 15:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@ianvisits.co.uk I just noticed that Google Maps has a branch of the Mildmay line running from Camden Town to Willesden Jct via Primrose Hill, and I remember you talking about this before. Are there scheduled diversions coming up, or is this just a Google booboo?

10.12.2024 13:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
When you pose the question to a language model, what you are really asking is, โ€œGiven the statistical distribution of words in the vast public corpus of text, what are the words most likely to follow the sequence โ€˜what country is to the south of Rwanda?โ€™โ€ Even if the system responds with the word โ€œBurundi,โ€ this is a different sort of assertion with a different relationship to reality than the humanโ€™s answer, and to say the AI โ€œknowsโ€ or โ€œbelievesโ€ Burundi to be south of Rwanda is a category mistake that will lead to errors and confusion.

When you pose the question to a language model, what you are really asking is, โ€œGiven the statistical distribution of words in the vast public corpus of text, what are the words most likely to follow the sequence โ€˜what country is to the south of Rwanda?โ€™โ€ Even if the system responds with the word โ€œBurundi,โ€ this is a different sort of assertion with a different relationship to reality than the humanโ€™s answer, and to say the AI โ€œknowsโ€ or โ€œbelievesโ€ Burundi to be south of Rwanda is a category mistake that will lead to errors and confusion.

This is one of the most well-written explanations of certain kinds of AI errors Iโ€™ve seen to date. (The whole article is great too.)

www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...

05.12.2024 03:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2139    ๐Ÿ” 789    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 51    ๐Ÿ“Œ 63

How correlated are the figures for man and zone? Gimme an Rยฒ value!

22.11.2024 23:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You'd want a hot tub to dissolve a hot bed, wouldn't you?

17.11.2024 10:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Time to pitch "A history of the world in 47 Vordermans"?

12.11.2024 19:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Is there any chance Met Eireann will publish a comparable dataset? It feels like we are missing part of the jigsaw.

02.10.2024 08:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I don't find Disney+ that bad, but that's probably because I sometimes use ITVX.

27.08.2024 21:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Why couldn't he be the same policeman as in 55 Degrees North? It's the MCU but for BBC detectives

02.05.2024 21:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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