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Executive Summary: Improved buses to major shopping centres are the 'low hanging fruit' of the bus world. They have high patronage gains relative to their cost and often do not need network reform or new bus purchases. Many examples given here. Large shopping centres are also major destinations and employers....
OpenAI has some severe misalignment problems, and experienced total failures of its infrastructure and supervision. I chronicled that in a series of posts, which also cover similar less severe incidents elsewhere: OpenAI Shares Some Alignment Problems OpenAI Model Hacks Into HuggingFace During Cybersecurity...
Even now, as youâre reading these words, hundreds of robots are poring over them, and carrying them away. Winging their way over the internet to massive data centres, joining trillions of their brethren in the mad dash to get eaten by every company with dreams of being a frontier AI lab. Before they get ingested,...
"Oblivion of the Waves" by Anton Smit, side on Looking into the hollow head from behind I've seen the hollow-face illusion plenty of times in textbooks. It's something else to come across it as a massive sculpture in woodland. For some reason I wasn't expecting it to work at this scale, outdoors, in resin and steel....
A year ago, I made the leap to lithium (LiFePO4). My lead AGM gave up the ghost, the result of a failed solar panel allowing it to go flat for too long. It was also long in the tooth. I wrenched my shoulder maneuvering it out of its hold, which was horribly located, so the decision was significantly based on its...
View from Cariboo Dam, pre-run: High cloud, high humidity. Or something like that. In a remarkable turn of events, I actually headed out relatively early and started my run at 9:38 a.m. This is over two hours earlier than Mondayâs run and yes, it made a difference. It was 21°C and humidity was relatively high. Just...
Ohmygod Iâm still writing about AI on my political philosophy blogI wasnât expecting to write a post like this so late into the AI bubble, which I wrote about in March, but after recent AI news stories I felt obligated to post this. Hopefully it helps someone make a little more sense of the world. Itâll be the first...
A day of mooching punctuated by an overdue visit from Roo to shoot the shit. Both our social batteries were low so it only lasted half an hour, but she brought brownies, which helped. Otherwise I seem to have got my reading bug back, or maybe people have returned from holiday and are writing again. Quite a nice...
The Copernicus Browser can be used to browser through current and historical satellite imagery: think of it like the Google Maps âSatelliteâ layer, more up to date, but with less resolution.I zoom in to St. Peters Harbour, on Prince Edward Islandâs north short, and grabbed images from every August from 2017 to 2026,...
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