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There's probably a case for saying it doesn't need specifically to be the PM. In principle Starmer could crack on with things behind closed doors as long as there's somebody sharp, likeable and media-savvy to counter Farage every day. I guess the risk is you'd have to be a very self-confident PM, unafraid of leadership challenge, to go for that

I'd much rather employ a 50-year-old recent graduate than a 21-year-old recent graduate. There are lots of reasons for this, not least all the extra life experience and the hard evidence of being able to make major decisions and follow through with a difficult challenge.

No employer expects a new graduate employer to stay with them more than a few years anyway, so I can't see you'd be disadvantaged there either

These language models don't get the meaning of anything. They predict the next cluster of letters based on the clusters of letters that have come before. Sorry, but if it feels to you like they're captured the meaning of something, you're being bamboozled

There's at least two steps before those three:

-1. Society has been built around the needs of the auto industry, locking people into car dependency

0. A legal system exists in which the people who build, sell and drive cars are not meaningfully liable when the car hurts somebody

Or an Office 365 Group

These authors (and my work is in there) did not write so that Mark Zuckerberg could steal our work and profit from it

It's become a mass noun, but only thanks to years of people using it wrongly. It was originally very much the plural of datum

Old man here... The first online bubble was probably the dot.com bubble of the late 90s, when lots of people first went "This internet thing is amazing and we're all going to make millions!" I remember boo.com being one of the first high-profile crashes, but pretty soon a lot of that first wave of internet retail businesses folded, with notable exceptions like Amazon, of course.

Psychology gets unfairly singled out wrt replication but the same issues are found in a lot of other disciplines, such as biomed.

Psions were amazing. I had a Psion 3 in the 90s. That thing fell out of my pocket when I was cycling and a van drove over it - still worked fine. I'd like to see an iPhone manage that

She's crying because she knows he's about to say "Tibble" and their relationship will be over

Oil extracted near the UK doesn't get used in the UK - it goes to the global market.

All oil goes on the global market. Drilling for it here doesn't mean we use British oil here, and doesn't meaningfully mean the Saudis produce any less. The only way forward is to wean ourselves off being dependent on oil

Wouldn't need to work so hard if you weren't making massive car payments

I can't remember who said this, but somebody said the version of the Turing Test as we all remember it is ridiculous: It's basically saying that the test of intelligence is "Can a chatbot fool one idiot?"

We did curation of existing knowledge for years, in the form of textbooks and reference works. This is just people thinking they can get the same benefits without the expense, and it'll come crashing down soon enough when people see that you need to handle concepts, not just surface words with a superficial autocomplete

This ticket is odd by UK standards, and the arrangement you describe isn't the norm. These seat reservation tickets normally specify a particular seat

If you read the paper, they're building on existing work that shows night-time light affects the metabolism

Sorry, but no

If they really cared about children and the most vulnerable they'd be taking much firmer action about car pollution, especially near schools and hospitals