Paul Marks

The video mentioned in the Ian Wright section of today's Arsecast

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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

I logged off Arseblog Live in a distressed huff when you wrote 'Goal Chelsea' at the death. Only hours later did I hear on the BBC news it was disallowed. Doh! Lesson: Mustn't leave the virtual ground early, either! 🤩

Well, they know this anyway. ASATs only *start* the chain reaction. After that, satellites will fragment and destroy each other with hypersonic debris. Orbit is a virtuous circle for the attacker, but it'll be the end of low Earth orbit navigability for the rest of us. 🤷‍♂️

That is not how Kessler syndrome works. One ASAT could wreck a whole orbital shell, and probably neighbouring ones as the debris from one target vectors up and down.

Anthropic: We lost a contract because we refuse to build Skynet.

OpenAI: We'll do it

Dutch research teams are developing artificial human hearts based on soft robotics technology - which might be biocompatible, have a natural pulsatile heartbeat and even overcome the infection, clotting and rejection risks of today’s metal artificial hearts. My story: cacm.acm.org/news/can-sof...

NASA probe Lunar Trailblazer died after pointing its solar panels 180-degrees away from the sun, an NPR FOIA request reveals. Why sign errors bedevil spaceflight: cacm.acm.org/news/in-spac...

Their best for me has to be the headline on a story covering NASA's failed series of 'Faster, Cheaper, Better' lean, mean space missions. After a series of unmanned probes crashed, the Econ headline was: 'Faster, Cheaper, Splat!' 🤩

Morgan McSweeney resigns as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff Longtime aide departs after seemingly botched No 10 effort to shore up PM’s position against supposed plotters * UK politics live – latest updates Morgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer’s chief of staff and longtime aide, has resigned after a bitter row about supposed plots to bring down the PM. McSweeney masterminded Starmer’s path to Downing Street less than five years after Jeremy Corbyn’s devastating defeat in the 2019 election. Continue reading...

Morgan McSweeney resigns as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff

My latest at Aerospace America: how moon rock can be converted into breathable air, and more. aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/departments/...

Is this survey now one year old? i.e. based on AI released one generation of Moore's law ago? 🤔

Obviously. And authors and writers. Every book says "not for storage in a data retrieval system" or somesuch - and deepnet weights are merely thinly-disguised data.

Hope you all are having a blessed Thursday

Game over for pure LLMs. Even Turing Award Winner Rich Sutton has gotten off the bus. One by one, all the big names have turned around. What should we do next?

Turing Award laureate Rich Sutton now critiques pure LLMs—echoing @garymarcus.bsky.social . Time to move beyond science fiction and refocus on scientific rigour. #AI #LLM #Neurosymbolic #RichSutton #GaryMarcus

garymarcus.substack.com/p/game-over-...

Once again, this is not how copyright law works!

Arena - The Private Life of the Ford Cortina This programme looks at the history of the Ford Cortina, Britain's most popular, most stolen and most misunderstood car.

The BBC has posted about 50 episodes of its much-missed arts series, Arena, on iPlayer - including this paean to @forduk's most-stolen-car of the 60s, the Ford Cortina. Includes Alexei Sayle on Mastermind - with some terribly tough Cortina questioning. 🥸 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Oh very good. Jazzer also reminds me of Jimmy Corkhill from Brookside. Starting to think there may be a formula to this lark.

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Yes perfect choice. Amber is of course Lucy, the scheming one. This is fun. The SWs are rumbled!

someone check on Gregg’s’ cyber security, we got lucky with M&S

Those old Emap Media habits die hard ... 🤣 (ex IB ed here!).

Oh! Soz. Anyway, who is the hapless Cliff Barnes of Ambridge? Jakob? Kinda ambitious but not very driven. Ooh how about Ed?

"You're a no-good drunk [Sue-Ellen/Alice] - git back to that thar [sanatorium/rehab]." Yes. I see what you mean! And Doris probably ain't dead - like Bobby, she's just been having a long shower. #TheArchers

Just to be clear:
- Paracetamol does not cause autism.
- Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK
- We do not have a massive free speech problem here.
- Britain is not on the verge of civil war.
These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.

Caused a stir at our allotment, that story - leading to much composting of courgettes.

Tim Dowling: have my homegrown courgettes poisoned us all? ‘Stop eating,’ my wife yells. Plates are scraped. Antiques Roadshow is put on pause

The courgette poisoning issue is for real - as The Guardian's Tim Dowling found: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

TRANQUILITY NO MORE: THE LUNAR MODULE HAS LEFT THE BUILDING If I have any kind of church in London it is the Science Museum, where two exhibits in particular always stop me in my geeky tracks. The… |... TRANQUILITY NO MORE: THE LUNAR MODULE HAS LEFT THE BUILDING If I have any kind of church in London it is the Science Museum, where two exhibits in particular always stop me in my geeky tracks. The fi...

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Brain food KLAXON ...

Brain food KLAXON ...