Andrew JenningsRE: https://halo.nu/@theguardian_world_news/116292040529519641
I was such a huge fan of "Soul of a new machine". Brilliant writer.
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@andyjennings hmmmm. Surely they'd still get a primary signal of such a huge chunk of metal. Is there such a thing as a stealth tanker ship?
@andyjennings I'll have to watch that bit again... Seems like I missed something
@andyjennings I'm watching it. What is the context in which she talks about "balance"?
@andyjennings Many Melbournians I know take pride in living in Melbourne suburbs because of the "world's best city" awards. I point out to them that award is for the CBD and some of East Melbourne (the inner suburb, not all of eastern Melbourne or the suburbs further out). Then blank looks and silence.
It’s long past time we called out One Nation as a wrecking ball that would destroy the country. With no migrants, this is the future: dying towns, dying industries and no workforce: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026/03/23/books/depopulation-japan-books-tom-feiling/ #auspol “Alone in Japan” by Tom Feiling
@iuculano That's not actually Feynman. However, Mars is harder than the Moon and the Moon is extremely hard.
"Ten things language models will never be able to do (on 40 years in AI)" #AI
https://andrewjennings.substack.com/p/ten-things-language-models-will-never
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Thanks for your reply.
Projecting assumptions, as you call it, seems to be a problem in sociology. I wonder how big the "error bars" are in their stats?
Thanks for your reply.
Projecting assumptions, as you call it, seems to be a problem in sociology. I wonder how big the "error bars" are in their stats?
@andyjennings I can't help the feeling that this article focuses on the side-effects of managing a pandemic and not acknowledging the pandemic (the disease) itself. It's a bit like a cancer patient blaming the oncologist for the chemo side effects without acknowledging the cure. Several of my family members have long Covid to the point where they are invalids and can't work. That is how bad the disease can be.
The government's strategy of silence, a pretence to try and return back to a pre 2020 "normal" has brought on what the article has described. Yet I don't see this denial of the physical damage from the actual disease acknowledged in the article. It's blaming the oncologist for the chemo and denying, or not understanding the underlying disease.