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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 15h

This is fine if you can make a living selling virtual goods, I guess.

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 15h

I mean the institutions have all folded

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 15h

Quite possible that Noel Edmunds will do anything for exposure these days.

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 15h

No, no, it's very simple: they already have functioning models that do this, they want to bundle them all together onto one simple easy p̶a̶y̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ .model

The model is intended to address a fundamental challenge in analysing LHC collisions. Today, reconstruction relies on a chain of specialised algorithms that progressively transform detector signals into the particles and other objects used for physics analysis. Machine learning has long played an important role in this process, improving performance across a range of specialised tasks. Foundation models offer the potential to build on these advances, learning across the whole reconstruction chain and supporting multiple tasks within a single model

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 15h

For the same reason as people think they were a prince or a queen before they were reincarnated; they can't contemplate being on the losing team.

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 18h

My "it's just ones and zeros, that's not personal data" legal defence against data protection laws is working out just fine.

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 21h

Looking forward to someone dedicating their time to demonstrating why every single artist featured would fail Restore's criteria one way or another.

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

What does this fund do with the shares? There's no profit from which to pay dividends and the fund can't sell them into an open market.

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Imagining Alan on his death bed beckoning Giles to come closer and closer so he can whisper "Your sister was always my favourite."

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Seems surprising that a man who prides himself on use of language would be so sloppy as to say "real funny ones".

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

That's also about 2^30 seconds, for reference.

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

You mean 10^1? Also just going to throw out that a billion seconds is about 32 years, in case anyone feels like feeling a billion old.

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Pretty much all our wedding songs were really about death so I'm going to kick in with Van Morrison's Precious Time.

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Just attempted to look up my old @rkemb.bsky.social address via web search and it took me to my profile, don't know how repeatable this is...

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Star Wars, ended on a high, everyone is happy, Empire has lost its doomsday device, sequel is a massive downer.

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

I would simply invest in maintaining infrastructure

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

That would be practical, I guess.

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

"This... this is bullshit, isn't it?"

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

A Truss is a measure of how lightweight something is you say?

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Maybe you just weren't taking it seriously enough.

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Thanks but I'm just changing trains. Will need to come back for the actual city sometime.

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Just found the Scottish quarter in Frankfurt.

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

When you're on the ICE with a connection to make and they feel the need to let you know about every additional five minute delay.

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

There's always a branch of capitalism which is "extracting money from investors for vapourware", it's a problem when everything seems to run on that principle.

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Is this that weird thing where swearing and nudity are somehow worse than outright violence?

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

EV advocates: "See how quiet and smooth these vehicles are!" ICE advocates: "Fuck that."

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Drivers to wear helmets that vibrate and make broom broom noises.

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

No-one believes this is anything more than a rigged shell with anything heavy ripped out of it.

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Thread of various demonstration videos here:

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

This is an undoubtedly cool demonstration of cold-gas thrusters and control/fly-by-wire technology. What it is absolutely not is anything approaching a consumer product.

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Detail elsewhere: there's a massive fan in it to suck it on

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Just what we need, Beatles: Origin Stories.

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Building up and diggin' down

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

I note that Hegseth's jacket is so tight he can't raise his arm any higher.

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

I Was A Teenage Werewolf for tax purposes

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

So I Married An Axe Murderer for tax purposes

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Or just don't drink? Wholly agree that buying something where you're unhappy with both the price _and_ the quality seems like self-harming behaviour.

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Have to admit my broad view on things like this and theatre drinks is that you should budget appropriately for the outing as a whole, and not complain about the internal splits between which bits are profitable for the business and which are unprofitable.

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Getting more frequently mistaken for Dutch these days which feels like progress.

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

The wine we served in the chalet I hosted was borderline undrinkable, and sometimes guests would try to guess what it cost, and usually out by a factor of ten. Wholesale wine can be remarkably cheap.

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026