Posts by bishopkirk

Does terrible code drive you mad? Wait until you see what it does to OpenAI's GPT-4o

Re: Not sure why misalignment happens

‘Ask not what AI can do for you…’

-JFK

Re: It is far more worrying it if tells you it doesn't like Mondays

Telex machine if you still have one, but I never knew what a Bullhorn crackles were…?

A win at last: Big blow to AI world in training data copyright scrap

Some things AI can never replace…

Thumbs up to the Beastie Boys reference in the subtitle….who remembers those VW badges?

The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it

Re: American view of the world, as shown in this article

The old joke,

Xenophobia: a game for all countries…

Re: @AC, "nothing to hide"

Just ask: Do have the same coversation with your intimate partner both in private and when someone is listening?

Yes? Then you really do have nothing to hide- I pity you…

You can cross 'Quantum computers to smash crypto' off your list of existential fears for 30 years

Re: It's hard to make predictions, especially about the future

But does it matter if it’s always 20 years away, or always 1 year, or always tomorrow…?

Interesting diversion- look up ‘life tables’ for risk of dying and survival by age (ONS in the UK). Once you hit 90 years, your ‘life expectancy’ is always 1 yearuntil you’re aged over 100 or more (but the chance of getting another year goes down steadily)

New IT boss decided to 'audit everything you guys are doing wrong'. Which went wrong

As someone who knows a thing or two about these, not everyone has an arse, but every arse has a hole.

Most often they get taken out, but it’s possible never to born with one- I know research was done on transplants, and quite a few patients had muscle flaps formed to function in an arse-like way.

How not to test a new system: push a button and wait to see what happens

Re: Why not use the backup generators- which generators?

A few years ago work stopped in my hospital because they realised all the copper to the generators had been stolen… probably weeks had passed before they found out but it put a certain pressure on finishing those operations on time…