Oli

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"EVERYTHING was for ever until it was NO MORE"

socialist (ex labour), chilled, always curious and learning xx

I may boost random stuff that just seems interesting
A boost is not an endorsement of everything, in the toot, the attachment or entire thread ,

my comments may be satirical, or sarcastic, or wrong so corrections (with evidence) always much appreciated

LocationWest Midlands UK
PoliticsEx-Labour
@Natasha_Jay
Happy christmas Natasha
@statsguy
The "research" may be complete bollocks (or may be good)
Either way, low-fat " healthy options" like yellow slime instead of butter and vegetable oil "cream" , are miserable

"Eating full-fat cheese and cream linked to lower dementia risk, Swedish study finds"

Normally, when I see a surprising headline like this about some medical news, I seek out the original scientific publication and read it carefully, paying close attention to their statistical methods, to see if it stands up to scrutiny.

But this time I think I might just skip this step and EAT ALL THE CHEESE instead.

https://www.euronews.com/health/2025/12/19/eating-full-fat-cheese-and-cream-linked-to-lower-dementia-risk-swedish-study-finds

#Cheese #Dementia

Can eating full-fat cheese protect your brain? New study says it might

Participants in the study who ate at least two slices of high-fat cheese a day had a 13 per cent lower risk of developing dementia, and a 29 per cent lower risk of vascular dementia.

euronews
I think I'm going to start using David Copperfield as an argument when talking with AI optimists. You see, lately I'm finding a bunch of people who acknowledges the issues and the (limited) capabilities of the current crop of LLMs, but are "optimist they can improve and fulfill their promises".

David Copperfield made the statue of liberty disappear. It was an astonishing feat, and you could argue that he's one of the most advanced 'magicians' in the history of the world. But you see, he's really an illusionist, 'magician' is just a pop term. I'm sure he's still improving his art. I'm sure what he does, besides remarkable and spectacular, could even be useful in some cases. But no matter how good he gets, no matter if he makes the entire continent of America disappear, it's still just an illusion. He's not making the statue of liberty disappear for real. And no matter how much better he gets, he won't ever be able to make real magic happen, he won't be able to make actual matter disappear and the appear back for real. Because that's not what he does, at all, and we with the current state of science, for what we know that may not even be possible in this universe.

LLMs are the same. Sure, what they do is technically impressive. But they are a statistical model: They get things from their training data and combine them to find what they compute to be the most statistically liking answer to a user input. They don't solve new problems, they don't understand what they are answering, they don't cogitate. And no matter how advanced they get, they won't ever do. Because that's not what they do. We may call them "AI", but that's a pop term, as 'magician' is for Copperfield. No matter how much better they get at what they do, what they do will always be to return the most statistically likely answer compiled from their training data. No matter how much they evolve, they won't ever cogitate, they won't ever solve new problems. Not because I'm not an optimist, but because that's not what this technology does.

David Copperfield will never make the statue of liberty disappear for real. It's not a matter of being an optimist or not.
Name them. Count the days.
Qesser Zuhrah — ~50+ days
Amu Gib — ~50+ days
Kamran Ahmed — ~40+ days
Teuta Hoxha — ~40+ days
Heba Muraisi — ~40+ days
These are people, not case numbers. The state knows their condition. It is choosing to wait. 4)
#NameThem

People kvetch about goths and kids these days and whatever and forget that after The Terror in France the wealthy had a whole fashion “à la victime” where they’d wear red ribbons around their necks and guillotine earrings with dangly decapitated heads and shit.

#goth

Quick PSA : yes, #Mozilla has been disappointing, but so far, they’re the only organization preventing Google to have a full control over web standards. Blink/WebKit-based browsers (Chromium, Vivaldi…) do NOT help at all in that regard.

So please use #Firefox or a #Gecko-based alternative (#ZenBrowser, #LibreWolf…). Ride the nightly release train and report bugs if you can. #Servo is getting ready, but for the next ~5 years, Gecko is our only suitable option.

@pointlesslettrs

@pointlesslettrs is a rich seam of weirdness, racism, and bitterness produced by people who are so convinced they are right, that they have to share their "wisdom"

Its funny and depressing and only safe in small doses

#UKPolitics #fash #racist

Part of me thinks that I should really feel sympathy for people who spend so much of their lives - and time they absolutely won’t get back - angry, terrified and upset because they’ve been radicalised by right-wing media.

…then I remember that they’re cunts and think “Nah.”

Make Britain Cruel Again