To risk stating the obvious: LLM benchmarks are bullshit not because LLM vendors game them, but because the benchmarks are proxies for general human ability and intelligence. They are in no way proxies for the general abilities of statistical models, even if they weren’t gamed.

Ordered a Chromebook from Amazon. Went to the locker where it was delivered and found an open bottle of Lucozade and a roll of duck tape instead.

I am so struggling with IndieWeb syndication that I’m mainly writing in my (analogue) notebook with a comforting Sailor Princess raden pen. I don’t want digital technology to be painful anymore.

The Labour government are making cuts, not making policy. It’s a rerun of the Coalition’s “shrinking the state”. What didn’t work in 2010 won’t work now.

This will come as a shock to Oxbridge PPEs and members of the political class: neoliberalism is an ideology not a description of reality.

Here are some culinarily rules of thumb:

  • Use more garlic than suggested
  • Use a little more chilli
  • Add less salt. You can always adjust
  • Bayleaves sweeten cooked tomatoes better than sugar
  • Bengali 5 spice (panch phoran) helps with brassicas
  • Herbes de Provence fix all white bean dishes.

It is clear that criminal and far-right influencer Stephen Yaxley-Lennon either enjoys the protection of the British state or a rogue group of police and security services officers who presumably endorse his politics.

The eagle-eyed among you have reminded me that this is a photo of Trantor, not Poplar, on the way to the Seer Church, and several other exterior scenes - (Foundation, Season 1, Episode 1).

I was asked today why I don’t want to use WhatsApp.

“The chairman of the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar stated that Facebook played a ‘determining role’ in the Rohingya genocide”.

Why would you use Meta’s products?