David Lowe

Maybe the local synagogue had a record of its Bat Mitzvah?

She Came Out of the Bathroom Naked, Employee Says Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’...

“The workers in Kenya say that it feels uncomfortable to go to work. They tell us about deeply private video clips, which appear to come straight out of Western homes, from people who use the glasses in their everyday lives.”

www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...

I fucking hate proline so fucking much it's the worst amino acid it's so fucking stupid it's incapable of being fucking normal so it forms an ugly ass ring with itself with its own fucking nitrogen cuz it's a loser fucking amino acid I hate it so much I'd rather cut off my right tit than have to ever draw a mechanism with proline ever again

Remember that everyone you meet is fighting their own battle, sometimes with amino acids

@theduckmachine.bsky.social I was in an InChI update zoom call with Daniel Lowe this afternoon, and it reminded me that I always thought it would be funny if I could find a excuse to write a paper with him, you and Jacqui Cole.

I feel like there is a lot of Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy in this post though

@billbarnwell.com I know the trade deadline has passed for players, but could the Rams send a late pick to the Jets to extract Chris Banjo as Special Teams coach? If he could quickly get the coverage units up to average it might be worth it.

I know the Rams have been very consistent as well as very good, and I am curious as to how their worst single-week performance compares to other historically good teams. Do they have the best worst DVOA?

They won't be read by a person, they'll be read by an LLM which will make a decision with no oversight or appeal available.

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...

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

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.

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!

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.

David Brent

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

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.

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.

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.

Today’s post tells the stories of two playgrounds, but it’s really about the imminent collapse of local government.

Swann is pretty clearly a homophone TBF

@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.

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

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

@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?

When you pose the question to a language model, what you are really asking is, “Given the statistical distribution of words in the vast public corpus of text, what are the words most likely to follow the sequence ‘what country is to the south of Rwanda?’” Even if the system responds with the word “Burundi,” this is a different sort of assertion with a different relationship to reality than the human’s answer, and to say the AI “knows” or “believes” 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 I’ve seen to date. (The whole article is great too.)

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

How correlated are the figures for man and zone? Gimme an R² value!

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

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

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

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

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