More about making Milton Keynes/Bedford/Peterborough into suburbs of London really. Move the very fast intercity trains to a new track and you can run a lot more fastish trains in their place. The sa… (View Post)

The checklist approach sounds bureaucratic, but it's proved pretty powerful in terms of stopping human error- see aviation. Does depend on what is in the checklist, of course. See also reducing the b… (View Post)

Wasn't the (insanely expensive) energy bailout largely driven by Moneysaving Martin Lewis? (Yes, something needed to be done urgently, especially for people at the bottom of the income scale. But mos… (View Post)

Called it on Friday; More likely, some poor sod working at 110% capacity screwed up because screwups happen exponentially when you are working at 110% capacity and the failsafe was cut due to efficie… (View Post)

This looks like bad news, then; The 𝕏 recommendation system is evolving very rapidly. We are aiming for deletion of all heuristics within 4 to 6 weeks. Grok will literally read every post and watch e… (View Post)