Neil Bird — The Phoenix ☠ ⁂
aka Neil the Pedant
Computer geek and long term #Destiny2 player (clan “We are Team Fail”).
📍 Horsham (ex-Maidstonian), UK
Manages @bungiehelp, @destinythegame & @destiny2team unofficial bots which repost from the fowl site.
| PSN [Bungie] | the_phoenix [#2007] |
| Website | https://www.fnxweb.com/ |
| GitHub | https://github.com/fnxweb |
| GPG | https://keyoxide.org/hkp/6F8AECF36228D7A6F3F29CBA803BCC0614509AF3 |
A (long) Sunday read:
In the UK around 8% of all passenger kilometres travelled is by rail, the rest is by road (including buses); In Japan its nearly 28% by rail.
What have the Japanese done to keep this high(er) share of rail use. In short, they have returned to a model of regulation that looks much more like how the railways were bought into mass use in C19th; Japan's geography may also play a role but there's much of interest in this analysis.
#railways #politics
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-japan-has-such-good-railways/
If you have heard the buzzword "agentic AI" but avoided finding out what it meant until now:
1. Someone figured out an LLM can do JSON RPCs by typing out the JSON token by token.
2. The LLM is run in a harness that regexes out the JSON from its output and executes the RPC.
3. The response is catted into the LLM's context window, also in the form of JSON that the LLM just reads.
4. People connect these harnesses to system shells on their dev machines.
5. Fast forward, this is a trillion-dollar industry held together by markdown files asking the LLM to please not curlbash from the internet.
In an attempt to justify their killing of a Lebanese journalist, the Israeli military shares a photo of the journalist in a Hezbollah military uniform, arguing that that he was a terrorist.
However, it now turns out, this “photo” was AI generated by the Israeli military, because they have no real evidence of a connection between the journalist and Hezbollah.
France 24 has the story.
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