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@brianhprobert.bsky.social

Retired British software developer. Yorkshire (near) Dales 75%, Connecticut 25%

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A fraction of the money they made from shorting gilts in 2022

11.12.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

CURIJ ?

11.12.2025 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You want to live without Google, Amazon and Microsoft?

11.12.2025 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Has Huang got it all now instead?

11.12.2025 00:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What happened in 2014 that caused the students to change?

10.12.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I fear that the opposite might be true for Huang -- and could be a problem for all of us

10.12.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They probably understand business a lot better than they understand GPUs and LLMS

10.12.2025 21:33 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Privateers on the loose again?

10.12.2025 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What is that as a percentage

10.12.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I can see a few security implications here

10.12.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I expect we have an edge in submarine hunters since we have so few deployable subs for the Russians to hunt

10.12.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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That's unfortunate

10.12.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They shouldn't be in public at all

10.12.2025 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wasn't this increase due to the invasion of Ukraine?

10.12.2025 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Except in Australia

10.12.2025 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Progress? Our entire fleet of nuclear attack subs is in dock for refurbishment and the army is short of 500 armoured vehicles due the Ajax fiasco. At least Germany and Poland seem to be getting their act together

10.12.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Google has loads of effective competitors but seems to have maintained astonishingly high market share by sheer inertia. I doubt that ChatGPT will be as fortunate

09.12.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No because he's fireproof

09.12.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

HMG humiliate themselves so we don’t have to. Be grateful

09.12.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If the press are worried about the mindset of the USA, they should ask about something more consequential like the future of our nuclear deterrent

09.12.2025 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Makes me feel old since our questions were mainly about Nelson

09.12.2025 10:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And most annoying of all is the way he leaves his middle button done up when he is sitting down. I have literally never seen any other man do that

09.12.2025 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He is a total moron. Did you see the draft of his 6 line bill to deport immigrants with ILR status (including my wife)? Not a lot of nuance

09.12.2025 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That's what the H in HCI stands for isn't it? It's not a new phenomenon

08.12.2025 23:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm surely not the first to observe that he is being negative about negativity

07.12.2025 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Perhaps the Turing test should require an AI to fool another AI since they excel at picking up patterns like this

06.12.2025 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Consolation prize?

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05.12.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Wizard of Oz | Courage Medal | Limited Edition Pin Badge Step into the magical world of Oz with our limited edition Courage Medal Pin Badge! Officially licensed and individually numbered, this enamel pin features a replica of the medal given to the Cowardly...

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05.12.2025 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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05.12.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Palantir is heavily involved in British intelligence analysis and they have been given access to anonymised health data. Only thing they are not into -- apparently -- is my spell correction dictionary since I had to type it three times!

05.12.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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