Andrew Jennings

Hey, how do I turn off the AI agent in Mastodon?

Oh right.

Never mind.

got every connection on Melbourne pt this morning. Frankston to Fairfield in 2 hours. #melbourne

although most seem only aware of OpenAI and Google, according to the Stanford index there are approximately 10 thousand AI startups #AI #business

a One Nation vote of 18% is a real problem. Govt needs to get ahead of this. No, not by becoming faux racist #auspol

Against apprenticeships Australian political discussion regularly returns to the idea that the solution to our education and labour-market problems lies in “more apprenticeships”.

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnquigginblog/p/against-apprenticeships?r=2wzki&utm_medium=ios

Oh yes 😎

put the last of a huge pile of mulch down just as the hot weather hits. Nailed it. #gardening

one thing about the huge demand for GPU based models: it costs me almost nothing to run my non-GPU models :-) #AI

normally at this time the big water tank is about 80% full from spring rains. But this year it is almost full. Cannot recall this happening before (had it for about 20 years) #climate

(shouting): they are doing <what> !!??
https://mastodon.online/@aregenberg/115656433095665886

Drawing a long bow here David Speers. I think the voters were mostly on the ticket “anyone but Spud”. If you look at the polling on trust in politicians it’s hugging the zero line. #auspol […]

Helen Garner says State Library of Victoria turned into ‘party central’, with planned job cuts to ‘bring disgrace’ on Melbourne Acclaimed author ‘sick’ about 171-year-old institution’s proposed restructure as hundreds of writers sign open letter in protest

this is awful. It must be stopped https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/03/helen-garner-says-state-library-of-victoria-turned-into-party-central-with-planned-job-cuts-to-bring-disgrace-on-melbourne #melbourne

In my 20s I was poorer than most Frankston residents. But as Rick Morton so brilliantly explains in Dirt - being like this with an upward trajectory is fundamentally different to the actual experience. In my weird mind I associate being poor with being young.

I’m around Frankston today. I’m really attached to the rough edges of the place. That (so far) the gentrification has not swept them away. There is a guy walking up and down shouting at the sky. #frankston

your periodic reminder that the statements “the AI investment bubble will burst and destroy trillions of dollars of capital” and “we are at the beginning of an era where AI will change our world beyond recognition” canboth be true #AI #business #finance

@georgegalanis i saw in an article that Kubrick did not tell the actors about Hal refusing to open the pod bay doors, that the whole scene was improvised. Is this correct?

I bet I'm the first person to ever use the words "meh", "stan" and "bro" in a Classical Chinese translation. If not: let's be friends. https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/115195918556365522

I’m sticking with learning Mandarin

Ali Kaya (@beyondeuclid) Icelandic photographer Haukur Sigurdsson captured skiers that look like musical notes from above.

https://substack.com/@beyondeuclid/note/c-182900192?r=2wzki&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action 😀

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bruces/115648373178469417

such an innocent phrase "a model of how reality works". But a moment's thought will tell you that this is completely impossible.

I’m seriously regretting reading that article arguing (statistically) that physical frailty sets in at age 75

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

Professor Ron Purser exposes how AI's destruction of the university is even worse than you think, and goes well beyond students cheating with ChatGPT.

#AI
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself

Sen. Mark Kelly: "When Trump was driving the Taj Mahal Casino into bankruptcy, I was being shot at over Iraq. When Trump was writing birthday greetings to Epstein, I was the first on the scene to recover the bodies of my fellow astronauts. When Trump was peddling conspiracy theories against Pres […]

yes, I know they are evil. But the google "unsubscribe" button is really useful.

As a child my father worked in a customer facing job. Over December he would become grumpier and grumpier as the month passed. Be kind to a retail worker today.

Another interesting book on the imminent collapse of capitalism. Only one problem: it has been on the edge of collapse since 1850 #auspol

there is an interesting story in the decline of Facebook AI. Now that I think about it, offering $5m sign on bonuses is precisely the opposite of what you should do in this situation. #AI #business

there is a house on my morning walk that has been empty for 20 years. A young family is living in a caravan and renovating it. They ripped out the insides and today I noticed they have the heaters running so must be inside. All in about 4 weeks. Really impressive stuff.

US 30 year bond yield. The reckoning approaches. #finance