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🆕 blog! “Yet another AI Racism example”

Here's a good pub-quiz trivia question - which Oscar-winning Actors have appeared in Doctor Who? It's the sort of thing that you can either wrack your brains for, or construct a SPARQL Query for WikiData0. I was bored and asked ChatGPT. The new Omni model claims to be faster and more accurate. But, in my […]

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#DoctorWho #racism

@Edent Just a knee-jerk reaction from realising that filling in the payee field gave me no protection before 2020 - it could've been done so many years earlier. I'm probably too harsh - reading that directive it sounds like banks were pretty happy to do it

@Edent Banks had to be dragged kicking and screaming to do the most basic confirmation of payee checks. With investment, they should be able to notice patterns and chase where the money went, which individuals can't. But unless it impacts profits (and therefore the CEO salary), the banks will do nothing.

@grifferz I guess with -R or -Y ... tbh, it's been a while since I used it

Irving Finkel from the British Museum talks about a from ancient Mesopotamia youtube.com/watch?v=LUxFzh8r38

Too many ? I donated a bunch of mine to the local foodbank. Hurrah!

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OMG - kids today on learning that the 'save' symbol 💾 is a physical storage disk ...

Also OMG - me on recently learning that 'upper case' and 'lower case' refers to the physical case printers used to use to store their letters. How did I miss this?

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At the height of One Million Checkboxes's popularity I thought I'd been hacked. A few hours later I was tearing up, extraordinarily proud of some brilliant teens.

Here's my favorite story from running OMCB :)

eieio.games/essays/the-secret-

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Last week’s electricity generation in the UK had a record low carbon intensity of 58g/kWh. So far this year the carbon intensity has averaged 118g/kWh, representing a 76% reduction since I created grid.iamkate.com in 2012:

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"This confidential government report proves that we need to liberate the Postcode Address File"

Brilliant article about the difficulties of getting cheap/free and accurate postcode data in the UK
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#GIS #Postcode #Data #UK
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/sec

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Wrote my first lua project, and first vim plugin before breakfast: github.com/cthulahoops/chatcli

It's such an exciting time to be making software.

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