I personally think this particular rule - that no glazing changes are permitted because it “changes the look of the building” is absolutely ludicrous. We need to loosen Grade II listing permissions t… (View Post)

On the Vanguard refuelling fiasco: https://www.navylookout.com/hms-vanguard-finally-sails-from-devonport-after-refit-lasting-more-than-7-years/A senior uniformed stakeholder admitted last year “Vangu… (View Post)

I remember a Google engineer metaphorically holding his head in his hands when he discovered that there were people out there using GMail autocomplete as a divinatory source to decide how they should… (View Post)

The Civil Service is astonishingly insular. I guess that’s what happens to any bureaucracy that persists over decades: internal concerns inevitably dominate over external ones. (View Post)

Getting an LLM to not generate this kind of word salad within the first two sentences was the great achievement of GPT2 (or maybe 3). Even today you can trigger this kind of confabulatory text by sim… (View Post)