Jim Clark

Thoughts on Die Hard. Not a Christmas Movie.

"Wife missing a shoe? Hemorrhoids treated here."

This sign raises more questions than it answers

Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇

Stop forcing rainbows down our throats, says Colin from Portsmouth

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.

Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph

Because this does NOT add up!

No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…

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Text says: This section provides a comprehensive description of the methodology employed in this study to develop an explainable XAI framework for ASD diagnosis and parental support. The proposed framework integrates the TabPFNMix regressor, a state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) model for tabular data, with SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) to ensure both high predictive accuracy and interpretability. The methodology is structured into five subsections: (1) Dataset Description, (2) TabPFNMix Overview, (3) SHAP for Explainability, (4) Framework Design, and (5) Evaluation Metrics. Figure 1 shows the overall methodology. Informed consent was obtained from all participants involved in the study, and, where applicable, consent was obtained from legal guardians for minor participants as approved by the IRB. And then Figure 1 is shown with lots of AI errors on the image.

An absolutely totally fine this can be published in a science journal image that purports to show how the study was carried out but instead is just AI slop.

Uhh,,, Figure 1 shows you... what exactly? Trying to understand Medical fryrmbial, runctitional features and mum's legs going through concrete.

This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪

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Romantics will love Prue’s new show, Prue Leith, Mad Leith, Deep Leith.

They don't emphasise the drop off in quality enough! #starwarsranking #isaidranking

Seems to me these Star Wars lists aren't quite doing it right.

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars
3.
8. Return of the Jedi
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50. Rogue 1
61. The Last Jedi
90. Revenge of the Sith
100. Solo
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897. Force Awakens
899. Rise of Skywalker
900. Attack of the Clones
1000. The Phantom Menace

Ah balls. Got reading glasses a yr ago after eye test. Haven't used them, didn't need them! Trying to read a book now and it was hard work, but y'know, the room is dim. I just popped the glasses on and I can read the book perfectly. And this phone looks so clear, the text so crisp! Ageing can do one

Patriotic Cross of St George White Dog Shit Bauble update. Thank you to everyone who ordered one! These have all been handmade in my kitchen - much to the bemusement of my children - and will now start to be posted out.
Still on sale here👇👇👇
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When Jesus and Santa see red: the Stephen Collins cartoon Father Christmas’s Coca-Cola get up wears thin with the Saviour

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As a small business owner I'd say tomorrow morning, business hours.

Just checked my files, I did this picture about three weeks before Johnson announced the first lockdown.

[Scene is MCcDONALDS PICKUP POINT but for the most part we can only see the close up faces of tha CUSTOMER and the McDONALDS EMPLOYEE at the serving point]. 1 CUSTOMER: Hi - I’m afraid this isn’t what I ordered 2 McDONALDS EMPLOYEE: Number 187? CUSTOMER: Yes 3 CUSTOMER: Maybe I pressed the wrong thing? I just ordered one strawberry milkshake. 4 EMPLOYEE: Oh - yeah sorry 5 EMPLOYEE: The milkshake machine’s not working. 6 EMPLOYEE: The only flavours we can do are vanilla, banana, and Labour Leader Pretending to be Nigel Farage. 7 CUSTOMER: Is that a new flavour? EMPLOYEE: Yeah 8 [We now see that the employee has placed a gigantic milkshake cup on the counter] EMPLOYEE: If you look inside, there’s a Labour leader pretending to be Nigel Farage. 9 [Customer looks inside the cup] 10 [Show Keir Starmer dressed as Nigel Farage inside the cup] CUSTOMER: So there is 11 CUSTOMER: Is that something people want, then? EMPLOYEE: No! No, not at all. 12 EMPLOYEE: It just keeps happening when we press banana. [ends]

why can they not just fix it

Scotland. Finding new and interesting ways to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. #SCOARG #autumninternationals #QCNS

I know England are in the lead, but man, their constant kicking even in good positions seems to speak of a lack of confidence in attacking with ball in hand, when they've actually done pretty well. I know it's a tactic, don't @ me! #engnz #QCNS

[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]

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Right. Hitler's DNA. Brace yourselves for a deluge of misinformation and bad science.

I'm in Australia, so do get in touch if you want some expert debunking.

That moment where 'celebrity' shows are full of people I've never heard of. I'm taking it as a good thing, a sign of personal growth.

Maybe I'm wrong but I feel Streeting would be less popular than Starmer.

Russia spends millions to recreate kicking out time at Coco Bongos in Magaluf

Meanwhile the print media could hardly be expected to hold the Tories to account, given their almost constant irrumating support for Conservatives. Of Britain’s 15 main national newspapers, only one backed the Labour Party. The rest vocally supported the Tories or their Lib Dem partners in the coalition. Thankfully, we could rely on the BBC to balance things out by flexing its renowned leftie muscles. The corporation’s controller of global news output, Craig Oliver, joined the Downing Street operation as David Cameron’s director of communications. Andrew Neil, editor of the right-wing Spectator magazine, fronted both of the BBC’s two leading political discussion programmes, This Week and Daily Politics. The editor of these programmes, Robbie Gibb, was brother of Conservative MP Nick Gibb, and later became director of communications at Theresa May’s Downing Street. Sure, Nick Robinson, the BBC’s chief political correspondent, had been national president of the Young Conservatives and then president of the Oxford University Conservative Association,but

those sympathies were balanced out by his deputy, James Landale, an old-Etonian close contemporary of David Cameron who was also offered – and declined – the Tory communications job. Meanwhile, a report by the University of Cardiff found from 2007 to 2012 (both in and out of office), Conservative politicians received 50 per cent more airtime on BBC News at Six than Labour politicians did. So if the tsunami of unmitigated failure that started in 2010 has been a revelation to you, nobody should be especially surprised.

The famously left-wing bias of the BBC.

(From The Decade In Tory)

I know that the story will be Wales lost, and it wasn't close, but I thought at least Wales were trying stuff and had some good attacking play, and competed at the breakdown. They lost to a better team, it's where they are currently, but some positives. #walarg #QCNS #nationsseries

TLJ is the best of the SW films after the OG3, it atleast tries to do something different and has some great set pieces. I don't mind Rose, don't like Casino planet, and I don't like Luke's 'death'. In saying this I've only watched any of the sequels once!

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