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Iain Fletcher

@shmmeee.bsky.social
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 1h
Damn right we should but the thing about having fuck tons of money is it allows you to hire expensive lawyers and accountants who often are also the ones making tax law and know the loopholes. The rich are very good at not giving up their money and politicians very bad at resisting large piles of it
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 1h
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_... Uh huh uh huh
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 1h
“schools have been turned into panopticons through the academy system” Wut?
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 6h
Who fucking cares what the drug addled weirdo says?
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 8h
Brb telling my infant he can’t feel pain
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 11h
OK but those both scream vibe coded. Just saying.
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 20h
Not any more it isn’t. Nero is the only British coffee chain I think.
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I wasn’t talking about Ditch car drivers I was talking about UK drivers opposing infra
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It does mean, as I say to my kids, basic competence and work ethic has become a super power at work.
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Congrats on getting The Vitamin!
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Large tech companies famously never avoid paying taxes.
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Me to my date as she leaves
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Outstanding.
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You’re the richest country that’s ever existed what the hell are you on about?
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And weekends And paid time off
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This has been me for months. It’s a real black pill. And also why I’m trying twice as hard to become management now. Soon it’ll be all that’s left.
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ban music/phone speakers in waiting rooms and transport.
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Conveyancing
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
There’s lots of small improvements still being made, and we’re supposed to have hit the end of human data a while ago and seem to be fine with synthetic data. I remember BlueSky crowing about model collapse a while back. Regardless were some way from the original claim now.
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Great now I’ve got to buy a new freezer for every meal too! Uber Eats just gets better and better value!
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Scaling isn’t “new inputs” though. Yes yes bitter lesson but we didn’t just scale up an RNN with more data and here we are.
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’m trying to have a normal conversation which on BlueSky seems impossible without running into endless snarky arse holes tbh.
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Some algorithms are heuristic, yeah. Not all algorithmic improvements are heuristics though.
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is awesome
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I mean you’re being a bit of a prick here tbh so I’m probably not going to carry on but you in this post disprove OPs claim that all LLMs hallucinate at an unchangable rate.
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
OP said the rate isn’t improving. Do more recent models hallucinate less than earlier models of a similar size?
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Or for Gemini 4? Clearly some are better than others and the general trend is downwards.
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What is the rate for the 4th gen anthropic models?
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
LLMs are created using algorithms. What are we doing here?
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I mean moving to transformers from RNNs/LTSMs was a pretty big improvement. MoE was another pretty big improvement. RL for reasoning another. Scaling has mattered more but you can’t claim algorithmic improvements haven’t had any impact, that’s just silly. And scaling isn’t “more data” alone either.
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Standing isn’t it?
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Looks like both your numbers are off and the numbers generally are improving to me tbh artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/...
artificialanalysis.ai
AA-Omniscience: Knowledge and Hallucination Benchmark | Artificial Analysis
Compare AI model performance on AA-Omniscience: Knowledge and Hallucination Benchmark. A benchmark measuring factual recall and hallucination across various economically relevant domains.
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“WcDonalds” I’m at the toilet I’m at the burger joint I’m at the combination toilet and burger joint
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Same way it always has: algorithmic improvements.
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This man has never met a Dutch cyclist. But they do have far superior infrastructure. Infrastructure that a loud portion of drivers spend their time opposing because it’s not for them.
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And your solution is?
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It's fear of needles all the way down. Like every anti vaxxer I've known well enough to properly get into it with has ended up admitting this.
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I went to my doctor and she asked Gemini. Not even a frontier model!
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is why Computer Science is a better subject than ICT. Teach fundamental concepts not tool use.
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
WTF is this?
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ugh US only
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Not my intention to psychoanalyse anyone just the "wrong colour pen" comment felt super specific so I made a throw away funny remark. Apologies if it didn't read that way. I'll leave it here.
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I feel there's some unresolved school trauma we're working through here but poetry is absolutely a teachable skill.
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Writing a poem can absolutely be homework and education is about more than avoiding harm.
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Feel like this thread is relevant here bsky.app/profile/theb...
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
OK. Some of us want public transport to be a viable system though. The correct way to help very poor people is to give them money not immunity from crimes.
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Like shoplifting do you have any evidence it was used by “desperate people” and not just people who didn’t want to pay?
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Uncanny
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Iain Fletcher @shmmeee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yeah I suspected this was the real issue here. I’m against stealing from the state ngl
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