over 200 minutes of world cup finals held in USA and no goals.
never again
Argies yet to have a shot on target.
They’ll have 5 in penalties. Though hopefully fewer.
At least after tonight the world’s social media enthusiasm for annexing and ethnically cleansing the Falkland Islands just for the Bantz will die down and the trolls will move on to the next thing.
I’m told that of the 80 students who graduated at Exeter university in computer science just two have found jobs as Labour tax policies and AI have killed the market. Feel desperate for the grads who have given 3 years of their life and £60K to discover they’re unwanted.
Putting aside his political rant, I would be interested to know if this is really true. Exeter is quite a highly ranked university. And those numbers feel so apocalyptic not to be believed.
80 responded to the survey and 2 reported having found a job, or 10 responded and 2 reported?
And department ranking and university ranking are different things.
I mean we should start with the person tweeting, has known once or twice to get the facts wrong or it could be my mate's son goes there and he says only 2 people he knows have a job (and he doesn't actually attend any lectures and knows f##k all people on the course but not going to admit to his parents he spent 3 years in his room playing FIFA). Universities are pretty hot these days on pestering students about their employment status as they want all the data, but it could be a dodgy survey.
From someone who did quite a few hiring rounds over the past couple of years - compsci students are a glut.
Every single one seems to have done the same course and acquired the same skills and been told to write their CV and cover letter the same way. At one point last year I was getting around 80 compsci masters students applying for each post we had open.
And you couldn't tell them apart. Totally generic "I gave institution N-thousand pounds and now I can say I did django, some jquery and can talk about microservices without really understanding them as that's what my lecturer said".
Once in a while I get an application from a somewhat self-taught kid who's done an HNC and fiddled about with raspberry pi's and some random tech sh*t and I couldn't hire them quick enough.
Anecdotally, there are a lot of unemployed graduates doubling down by doing their Masters. The jobs market is perhaps worse than post GFC when a lot of graduates were given offers to start a year from now. Many junior computing jobs have been passed to AI, and even mid-level jobs. As I may have mentioned, the young woman who serves my fish and chips has a degree.
I've still not come across any sign of the AI stuff affecting hiring. Aside from the fever dreams of middle-management (who are more at risk than the actual junior IT staff). I've seen a few people not having their contracts renewed - but it's been more in the (again) management and product/project management roles and 'technical documentation' side. But 'actual' on-the-ground IT staff still seem to be in demand - junior, mid or senior.
Where I am, the head of IT has taken the view that AI means every developer has a bunch of assistants. Assistants who are a very inexperienced, but have read a lot.
While true, I'm getting to the point where a for the AI to be useful enough to justify cutting staff it costing roughly the same as the human being...
Now that may drop as token prices fall but for the day to day stuff I do the dataset is so contaminated with historic deprecated crap you can't trust AI to give you anything usable in the first 5 attempts.
I’m told that of the 80 students who graduated at Exeter university in computer science just two have found jobs as Labour tax policies and AI have killed the market. Feel desperate for the grads who have given 3 years of their life and £60K to discover they’re unwanted.
Putting aside his political rant, I would be interested to know if this is really true. Exeter is quite a highly ranked university. And those numbers feel so apocalyptic not to be believed.
80 responded to the survey and 2 reported having found a job, or 10 responded and 2 reported?
And department ranking and university ranking are different things.
I mean we should start with the person tweeting, has known once or twice to get the facts wrong or it could be my mate's son goes there and he says only 2 people he knows have a job (and he doesn't actually attend any lectures and knows f##k all people on the course but not going to admit to his parents he spent 3 years in his room playing FIFA). Universities are pretty hot these days on pestering students about their employment status as they want all the data, but it could be a dodgy survey.
From someone who did quite a few hiring rounds over the past couple of years - compsci students are a glut.
Every single one seems to have done the same course and acquired the same skills and been told to write their CV and cover letter the same way. At one point last year I was getting around 80 compsci masters students applying for each post we had open.
And you couldn't tell them apart. Totally generic "I gave institution N-thousand pounds and now I can say I did django, some jquery and can talk about microservices without really understanding them as that's what my lecturer said".
Once in a while I get an application from a somewhat self-taught kid who's done an HNC and fiddled about with raspberry pi's and some random tech sh*t and I couldn't hire them quick enough.
Anecdotally, there are a lot of unemployed graduates doubling down by doing their Masters. The jobs market is perhaps worse than post GFC when a lot of graduates were given offers to start a year from now. Many junior computing jobs have been passed to AI, and even mid-level jobs. As I may have mentioned, the young woman who serves my fish and chips has a degree.
I've still not come across any sign of the AI stuff affecting hiring. Aside from the fever dreams of middle-management (who are more at risk than the actual junior IT staff). I've seen a few people not having their contracts renewed - but it's been more in the (again) management and product/project management roles and 'technical documentation' side. But 'actual' on-the-ground IT staff still seem to be in demand - junior, mid or senior.
Where I am, the head of IT has taken the view that AI means every developer has a bunch of assistants. Assistants who are a very inexperienced, but have read a lot.
While true, I'm getting to the point where a for the AI to be useful enough to justify cutting staff it costing roughly the same as the human being...
Now that may drop as token prices fall but for the day to day stuff I do the dataset is so contaminated with historic deprecated crap you can't true AI to give you anything usable in the first 5 attempts.
Depends how you use it.
For example, while I’m reviewing a pull request, I get Claude to review the same code, in the background. I write up my thoughts, then look at what Claude has found.
I’m told that of the 80 students who graduated at Exeter university in computer science just two have found jobs as Labour tax policies and AI have killed the market. Feel desperate for the grads who have given 3 years of their life and £60K to discover they’re unwanted.
Putting aside his political rant, I would be interested to know if this is really true. Exeter is quite a highly ranked university. And those numbers feel so apocalyptic not to be believed.
80 responded to the survey and 2 reported having found a job, or 10 responded and 2 reported?
And department ranking and university ranking are different things.
I mean we should start with the person tweeting, has known once or twice to get the facts wrong or it could be my mate's son goes there and he says only 2 people he knows have a job (and he doesn't actually attend any lectures and knows f##k all people on the course but not going to admit to his parents he spent 3 years in his room playing FIFA). Universities are pretty hot these days on pestering students about their employment status as they want all the data, but it could be a dodgy survey.
From someone who did quite a few hiring rounds over the past couple of years - compsci students are a glut.
Every single one seems to have done the same course and acquired the same skills and been told to write their CV and cover letter the same way. At one point last year I was getting around 80 compsci masters students applying for each post we had open.
And you couldn't tell them apart. Totally generic "I gave institution N-thousand pounds and now I can say I did django, some jquery and can talk about microservices without really understanding them as that's what my lecturer said".
Once in a while I get an application from a somewhat self-taught kid who's done an HNC and fiddled about with raspberry pi's and some random tech sh*t and I couldn't hire them quick enough.
Anecdotally, there are a lot of unemployed graduates doubling down by doing their Masters. The jobs market is perhaps worse than post GFC when a lot of graduates were given offers to start a year from now. Many junior computing jobs have been passed to AI, and even mid-level jobs. As I may have mentioned, the young woman who serves my fish and chips has a degree.
I've still not come across any sign of the AI stuff affecting hiring. Aside from the fever dreams of middle-management (who are more at risk than the actual junior IT staff). I've seen a few people not having their contracts renewed - but it's been more in the (again) management and product/project management roles and 'technical documentation' side. But 'actual' on-the-ground IT staff still seem to be in demand - junior, mid or senior.
Where I am, the head of IT has taken the view that AI means every developer has a bunch of assistants. Assistants who are a very inexperienced, but have read a lot.
While true, I'm getting to the point where a for the AI to be useful enough to justify cutting staff it costing roughly the same as the human being...
@Tomorrow'sMPs @tomorrowsmps · 2h 🔵 MAIDSTONE & MALLING: MP Helen Grant announces she will stand down at the next election. She's the first MP this parliament to announce their retirement.
Argentina are a fxcking disgrace with their negative football . Utterly shameful performance. Please Spain don’t fxck this up now .
It's the worst behaviour I can ever recall seeing.
They deserve to be trounced, not just lose 1-0
The 1990 final was worse than this, utter shithousery from Argentina from start to finish, ended up with 2 players sent off as they lost to West Germany.
Argentina are a fxcking disgrace with their negative football . Utterly shameful performance. Please Spain don’t fxck this up now .
We should give Gibraltar to Spain if Spain win this, that's how much I want Argentina to lose.
I’ve always thought we should give them the isle of Portland, and we can keep Gibraltar. Similar shape and geology. Useful Spanish naval base location. And imagine the excellent tourism and stag do opportunities for us.
Bascially they'll keep on playing until Argentina score.
The economics of football.
What does anyone gain by winning in such a way? Do they pat themselves on the back and say 'We played well'?
I really don't get it. They disgraced themselves and should have had more than 1 player sent off. The number of fouls on players who were running towards but not on the ball was disgraceful.
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At least after tonight the world’s social media enthusiasm for annexing and ethnically cleansing the Falkland Islands just for the Bantz will die down and the trolls will move on to the next thing.
Now that may drop as token prices fall but for the day to day stuff I do the dataset is so contaminated with historic deprecated crap you can't trust AI to give you anything usable in the first 5 attempts.
For example, while I’m reviewing a pull request, I get Claude to review the same code, in the background. I write up my thoughts, then look at what Claude has found.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accurx
The AI generated letters are rather patronising and waffley, and need proof reading for hallucinations, but it does actually work fairly well.
Not.
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Wayne Rooney to be new BBC commentator for Eurovision. #VoteBinface
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🔵 MAIDSTONE & MALLING: MP Helen Grant announces she will stand down at the next election. She's the first MP this parliament to announce their retirement.
Shots SPA 20 - 0 ARG
On Target SPA 12 - 0 ARG
Needs careful game management.
Where's the team photo?
They deserve to be trounced, not just lose 1-0
https://x.com/ALANMYERSMEDIA/status/2078936220470542529?s=20
No-one is supporting Argentina.
There wasn't even that long added on to the second half, when there was 3 minutes of a hydration break.
Just depressing.
Your boys were beat.
I wonder whether Trump will give us a Jesse Owens moment.
Bunch of absolute arses every one.
Scum.
To drum playing muppets.