Fun fact: this means the sun will finally set on the British Empire. Once handed to Mauritius there will be a point in the day in which all remaining British colonial possessions (and Britain itself) will be in darkness. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
In a historic move, the UK gives up sovereignty of a strategic group of islands in the Indian Ocean.
Can it code as well as a human? Well, no. But can it increase implementation speed? Also no. But does it reduce overtime? Not as much as NOT using it does. But does it write less buggy code? Quite the opposite, actually! But does it save money? In the long run, almost certainly not. But is it more e
The reason AI grifters push their product so hard in creative fields is that untrained eyes can’t tell how badly the output sucks. For anything with an objective standard of success, their climate-destroying plagiarism machine just straight up doesn’t fucking work. www.cio.com/article/3540...
Code analysis firm sees no major benefits from AI dev tool when measuring key programming metrics, though others report incremental gains from coding copilots with emphasis on code review.
Local independent pharmacies often seem to be cheaper than Boots for the covid jab -- you can get it for £85 from a local one here, & my mum got hers for £75 (she's up north though :)
When I was younger, I wondered if I would live to see this wonderful news. Now I have: The latest generation of malaria vaccines, today being delivered to African children, have efficacy 75–79% in infants a year later (age <18mo.) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38310910/
The Serum Institute of India, the Wellcome Trust, the UK National Institute for Health Research Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, and Open Philanthropy.
Risk of #ChronicFatigueSyndromewww.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis#MEcfs#CFS#PwME#LongCovid
And they're working on Marburg! www.ovg.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-... (I nearly signed up for this trial, but have ended up on a trial of a new covid vaccine instead)
Scientists at the University of Oxford have launched a new clinical trial to test a vaccine to protect people against deadly Marburg virus.
Yes!! I bought a huge tub of bungees from the Middle of Lidl and now always have one with me & some spare to lend/give (eg to the guy I saw struggling to fix a watermelon to his back rack, or the mum at the school gates who was trying to carry a toddler bike on the child seat of her bike...)
Love it! Have you met @slamdunc.bsky.social (another Brompton lunatic)? :)
