If anyone is interested, I have written a Chrome plugin that scans any web page for any discussion about trans. If it find it, it sends the offending sections to the OpenAI API and asks it to rewrite… (View Post)

That's not quite true: influenza viruses are quite closely related, and if you prime yourself against one it will still speed up the immune system's recognition of another. It's just n… (View Post)

It's absurd we don't just put the electrons in trucks and just drive them down to England (View Post)

If we're doing French cycle routes, then there's a great route from Dieppe to Paris. It's an old train line that was demolished and converted to a cycle path, and you are pretty much c… (View Post)

That may be when the donation was reported, rather than when it actually happened. Nevertheless, @MaxPB's point is spot on. Qinetiq used to be part of the Ministry of Defence. It used to be the … (View Post)