STOP comparing London railway termini St Pancras is MAJESTIC Waterloo is GIANT King's Cross is ADVENTUROUS London Bridge is SHINY Liverpool Street has MANY CONNECTIONS Victoria is CONVENIENT Euston Paddington is HISTORIC Marylebone is COSY

No formal surrender treaty was ever signed by Australia, and technically they're still at war. Local Australian-themed bars have been told to beef up security just in case... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Search for missing emu Irwin amid fears bird fell into Wiltshire river

People in Malmesbury asked to keep eye out for Irwin, who vanished from animal sanctuary on Monday

Scaling up and shaping up large language models increased their tendency to provide sensible yet incorrect answers at difficulty levels humans cannot supervise, highlighting the need for a shift in AI design towards reliability, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/4eCAnis 🧪

Research shows scaling up makes #LLMs#climatecrisis#AI

NPnatureportfolio.bsky.socialSep 30, 2024 1:39pm

Scaling up and shaping up large language models increased their tendency to provide sensible yet incorrect answers at difficulty levels humans cannot supervise, highlighting the need for a shift in AI design towards reliability, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/4eCAnis 🧪

“Released yesterday, the latest broken record to drop on the Tufton Street label…”

I am obsessed with this graphic from Kemi Badenoch's pamphlet (via www.theguardian.com/politics/202...)

Yesterday was the last day of coal burning in the UK. A real achievement of successive governments to replace with renewables and gas. I believe UK is the first country to wean ourselves off coal entirely though Spain are hot on our heels. A change to a cleaner world is possible

CBcarbonbrief.orgSep 27, 2024 9:21am

By the end of this month, the UK will bring its 142-year coal-powered era to an end with the closure of its last remaining plant at Ratcliffe-on-Soar. Carbon Brief looks at how the UK became the first G7 country to completely phase out coal power.

I always wondered what had happened to Underground Transgender Mafia after 1992, that first album was amazing.

English vineyards have produced sparkling wine that beats champagne in some blind tastings in France! Not sure if that moves us up the agenda...