You are now & will be in the future completely dependent on a continuing supply of educated sprogs for everything you rely on to have any kind of life. Water, roads, the staff that run the nursin… (View Post)

Another example: defence barristers. https://thesecretbarrister.com/2022/07/21/guest-post-by-joanna-hardy-susskind-attrition/ The court system is falling apart, with court dates delayed multiple year… (View Post)

Also, concentrating on pay misses the fact that this is a complex system that the NHS is compelled to engage with by its very nature, of which pay is just one lever. Pay does make a difference, becau… (View Post)

Yes, I have seen the transcript published by the Google researcher. If you ask a ChatBot trained on the entire English corpus of the internet, including (presumably) every bit of fanfic ever posted t… (View Post)

These text models are the ultimate “yes, and” improvisational partners. They pick up on what you say & what you imply via statistical analysis over a zillion other pieces of text & respond in… (View Post)