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why is china suddenly interested in my blog

Matt Wood-Hill and Paul Downey on market-shaping with open data and community power

Intrigued to see whether this reduces the waiting time for a test (or standards check for instructors).

might just spend next year tramping across hills and mountains

🏙️ Governing Urban Data for the Public Interest

Revisit our #IIPPInConversation panel with @francescabria.bsky.social, @rainerkattel.bsky.social, Theo Blackwell ( @ldncdo.bsky.social), and @henriverdier.bsky.social on how cities can use data for the public interest.

📺 Watch here: buff.ly/wCmWPCY

Sitting in these was a link to the latest on using AI to extract data from documents: digital-land.github.io/extract-alph...

this will be difficult to decipher

The Right Environment: Weeknotes S21E06 It’s sociotechnical systems all the way down. Plus good films I watched.

Lunchtime reading via my #weeknotes from last week. Seen a couple good films and some art. Really enjoyed @ripplesbristol.bsky.social l last week and hanging out with @jukes.ie, @ewebber.bsky.social and others!

you should blast a roasting meat as hot as possible for 30 minutes then turn it right down to 150°c for the remainder of the cooking time (unless it’s a small joint).

is rees-zammit redeeming himself at least? still not sure i’m ready to forgive him for leaving and welcome him back

glad you had fun! was the roof closed? was there any singing? always a good day when the songs are belted out

gonna have to watch the highlights, score suggests they put an effort in. not looking forward to the six nations.

and the score is sad 😞

I’d always wondered why no one had ever published a full, detailed map of the 1960s plan to turn London into a giant web of US-style urban motorways…. It turns even the politicians and designers didn’t make one at the time. It just didn’t exist. Until now.

bugonia is very good, a ripe satire.

Friend of mine does, happy to put you in touch!

got the wordle in 3 and in under 10 seconds

Wordle 1,603 3/6

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yeah i’m into hyperscaling!
hyperscaling my face into an industrial bone slicer!

Nice to see you back at it! Hope you’re doing well.

Are bubbles good, actually? On Jeff Bezos’s defence of AI mania

“Funding the railways through a bubble, rather than through central planning (as was the case in much of Europe), left Britain with a very inefficiently designed rail network,” says Quinn. “That’s caused problems right up to the present day.” on.ft.com/3XcKd3M

a crisp sandwich made out of bread made out of crisps is worthy of a pedestal, i guarantee you’ll have phone calls from martin parr wanting to photograph it as soon as it’s made

this sort of exchange is exactly what the web was invented for

“glad they’re readily salted, mate, HA! can you imagine salting all these yourself? nightmare, mate!”

absolutely happy to spend some shame credits on this mission, no qualms with being the crisps mule

For some reason, I’ve decided to get a train from Paddington at 6.30am tomorrow, which means leaving home around 5.15am. WHHYYYYY.

Much coffee will be drank at @ripplesbristol.bsky.social

Ahead of this week’s weeknote, here’s some early design thinking from our designer, Fabia. digital-land.github.io/extract-alph...

So what’s happening is MacWhisper makes a local API call to LM Studio and it 504s. But it’s taking 10 or 15 minutes to get to that point and ain’t nobody got time for that etc.

That’s why I’m thinking of getting an M5, it’s not the context length of the model but how much my computer can handle. And it feels like the transcript from a 2-hour meeting is the top limit, so won’t need to upgrade for aaaaaaages!

Yeah, I should look into that really. The transcript goes into the prompt to be summarised, but maybe there’s another way.

Ha, would be nice but not an option right now! We’re doing work in a novel space with lots of unknowns, it needs us to go deep!