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Re: Thistle do nicely, a 16% return in 9 months? – politicalbetting.com
@Sandpit before I wander off and teach AI to read some payslips have you seen Ed Zitron's article on how ChatGPT 5 seems to work
https://www.wheresyoured.at/how-does-gpt-5-work/
One of those areas where you see the process flow and why it looks great but is really problematic when actually implemented (look at question, forward message to appropriate system, spend x00 tokens ensuring appropriate system understands the context).
https://www.wheresyoured.at/how-does-gpt-5-work/
One of those areas where you see the process flow and why it looks great but is really problematic when actually implemented (look at question, forward message to appropriate system, spend x00 tokens ensuring appropriate system understands the context).
eek
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Re: Thistle do nicely, a 16% return in 9 months? – politicalbetting.com
YESI will put 5 Scottish Pounds on Reform.Would Reform winning in Scotland be an even bigger sell out than the Union of the Crowns?
I don't expect to win, but 12-1 seem very fair odds.
malcolmg
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Leon told us AI is coming for our jobs, and now the Telegraph has launched its AI travel adviser:-I won’t talk about the tech - I believe I’m still not allowed - but I will talk about the economic implications
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travel-expert/
Ask not for whom the bell tolls...
The NYT has a piercing essay on the crash in tech/coding/computer science jobs for graduates. You can guess why. The industry is burning on the ground floor, the fire will spread to the rest of the building
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/technology/coding-ai-jobs-students.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The great jobs shakedown is beginning
Leon
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Re: Thistle do nicely, a 16% return in 9 months? – politicalbetting.com
Its more of Labour thrashing around in regards to the OSA looking for a narrative that it does really save the kids.How the f**k does OSA make revenge porn harder? The victim knows who the guilty party is - and all sites have required content "creators" to provide details for decades...Labour Party on X -They tried this same line of attack with Sunak over being soft on paedos.
"Nigel Farage would put women and girls at risk.
NIGEL FARAGE WANTS TO MAKE IT EASIER TO SHARE REVENGE PORN ONLINE"
I presume this is about the OSA, so the inference is that anyone who opposes the OSA wants to make it easier to share revenge porn
Who does the Labour Party think is stupid enough to believe this, even if only about Farage?
Re: Thistle do nicely, a 16% return in 9 months? – politicalbetting.com
From t’Net
“The Dawn of the Electrical Age was as chaotic as the Early Railway Age. In the 1880s and 1890s, when Edison, Westinghouse, and their imitators started stringing wires across cities, companies were constantly springing up, collapsing, or being swallowed. Setting up a power plant and network of cables was monstrously expensive, and there was no agreed standard at first (AC vs. DC being the infamous “War of Currents”). Small municipal or speculative firms often overpromised - “light for every home!” - then went bust when they couldn’t raise enough capital, or when customers balked at high prices.
So just like the railways, the early electricity business was a graveyard of little ventures, with a handful of giants emerging from the rubble. This pattern is painfully familiar in technological revolutions - wild optimism, frantic building, frequent bankruptcy, and eventual consolidation into a few dominant firms.”
“The Dawn of the Electrical Age was as chaotic as the Early Railway Age. In the 1880s and 1890s, when Edison, Westinghouse, and their imitators started stringing wires across cities, companies were constantly springing up, collapsing, or being swallowed. Setting up a power plant and network of cables was monstrously expensive, and there was no agreed standard at first (AC vs. DC being the infamous “War of Currents”). Small municipal or speculative firms often overpromised - “light for every home!” - then went bust when they couldn’t raise enough capital, or when customers balked at high prices.
So just like the railways, the early electricity business was a graveyard of little ventures, with a handful of giants emerging from the rubble. This pattern is painfully familiar in technological revolutions - wild optimism, frantic building, frequent bankruptcy, and eventual consolidation into a few dominant firms.”
Leon
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Re: Thistle do nicely, a 16% return in 9 months? – politicalbetting.com
As a Welshman I would love to be able to forget Welsh Labour.Bit in Italics -Updated the header now. How could I forget about Wales?
Labour have been in power in Wales for 26 years. Admittedly that's included two periods in coalition.
I've also kept updating my own comment...
ydoethur
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Re: Thistle do nicely, a 16% return in 9 months? – politicalbetting.com
Mirror and Express targeted for takeover that would sack a third of journalistsA former Editor of the News of the World no less. What could possibly go wrong?
More than 850 jobs at risk as David Montgomery revives swoop on news publisher Reach
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/16/mirror-express-targeted-takeover-sack-third-of-journalists/ (£££)
Re: Thistle do nicely, a 16% return in 9 months? – politicalbetting.com
There was also an “AI Chat Bot” company where the back end was actually several hundred Filipinos.The irony is that sat above the level where people are being impacted - the quality of what most AI generates is roughly that of an unmotivated, unmanaged indian graduate outsourced dev.There was of course a story recently about the 'AI' coding company who were in fact 'Actually Indians' writing code for minimum wage
AI might be able to take first world jobs at the moment, but there’s a long way to go when it comes to third world wages.
Sandpit
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Re: Thistle do nicely, a 16% return in 9 months? – politicalbetting.com
Hold on didn't Labour manage to win a decent Scottish by election against expectations ?
Pulpstar
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Re: Thistle do nicely, a 16% return in 9 months? – politicalbetting.com
The irony is that sat above the level where people are being impacted - the quality of what most AI generates is roughly that of an unmotivated, unmanaged indian graduate outsourced dev.There was of course a story recently about the 'AI' coding company who were in fact 'Actually Indians' writing code for minimum wage
Scott_xP
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