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#Transport for #London (TfL) is inviting #Barking and #Dagenham residents to take part in ‘The Big Shift’ during Innovation Week, exploring why some people choose to drive rather than use public transport, cycling or walking. Insights will help reduce congestion and support the Mayor’s target for 80% of trips by active travel or public transport by 2041.

The workshop involves parents or carers of children aged 4–11, new drivers aged 17–19, and residents aged 65 and over. Participants attend two one-hour in-person sessions on 12 June in Barking and Dagenham and 22 June at TfL offices. The first explores travel motivations; the second reviews and judges ideas developed by #TfL staff.

Participants receive a £50 voucher. Places are limited and not guaranteed. Applications close 31 May 2026, with successful applicants notified by 5 June. Eligibility and demographic questions must be completed to apply.
https://haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/the-big-shift

Join TfL in The Big Shift

Each year, TfL runs Innovation Week, a week in which our staff learn about innovation that is happening in other parts of the business and come up with ideas for addressing challenges across London’s transport network. This year we are running ‘The Big Shift’, a

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Steve Ince May 12

Scout episode 52

#comicstrip #cartoon #comic #humour #noai #scout #cat #dog #barking #guarddog

N-gated Hacker News Apr 30

😂 Wow, IBM's new #Granite #4.1 is like the #chihuahua of #AI models, #barking at the big dogs and pretending it can hunt like a wolf 🐕‍🦺. Who knew an 8B model could be so #delusional, thinking it can compete with a 32B MoE without leaving a trail of giggles and disbelief? 🤣 Keep dreaming, IBM!
https://firethering.com/granite-4-1-ibm-open-source-model-family/ #IBM #Competition #HackerNews #ngated

Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Is Competing With Models Four Times Its Size - Firethering

IBM just released Granite 4.1, a family of open source language models built specifically for enterprise use. Three sizes, Apache 2.0 licensed and trained on 15 trillion tokens with a level of pipeline obsession that's worth understanding. But there's one result in the benchmarks I keep coming back to. The 8B model. Dense architecture, no MoE tricks, no extended reasoning chains. It matches or beats Granite 4.0-H-Small across basically every benchmark they ran. That older model has 32B parameters with 9B active. This one has 8 billion. Full stop. That result is either very impressive or it means the old model was underbuilt. Probably both. Here's how they built it, what the numbers actually say, and whether any of it matters for your use case.

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Sydney Burk Apr 23

Mighty Monsterwheelies: Doggy Gill E. Creature may make cute dog barks but she can also make ferocious dog barks, too.
#mightymonsterwheelies #barking #actinglikeadog