dave

Technology replacing people has been a pretty consistent theme of the last hundred years or so—how many actual people does it take to build a car? What about all those skilled engineers? Humans have been building tools in order to put in less effort since the stone age. I don’t think we’re going to argue our way out of this one…

Except models trained on medical images are actually pretty good at diagnosing some disorders. Models trained on random samples of the internet, not so much.

John McCarthy was right—AI is a terrible term.

Just started running Arch + KDE on a Kingston Traveller to experiment with setup. Installed from live usb iso and then ran archinstall to the same device.

Runs nicely on my dell xps laptop and my desktop with 3 monitors connected to an Nvidia 1070Ti.

Looks like it’s time for a little refresher: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AKx5xDVMpW0

How often did you catch it disappearing?

New Order—Blue Monday. Broke my first hifi listening to it too loud.

Yes, all bets are off this year. Plus we now have a ‘claim’ even though it was all paid by the other party. No idea how much difference things like that make but certainly not comparing like with like.

Not true—at least didn’t used to be. For 3 years, Tesco renewal was cheaper for us than any online comparison site (same excess, options etc). That included Tesco new quote.

But definitely never take a renewal without checking.

Narrowly missed out on spending the day with Patrick Stewart at an event in London. My wife went instead and she doesn’t even like Star Trek. She said he was very nice though.