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• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  Re: translation. ChatGPT in fact speaks / "understands" many languages other than English, it's just that its English is better because the corpus is (much) bigger. I think it was trained on essentially the whole internet up to some fixed...
• Commented on A death in the Firm
  @1560 Has anyone been tracking the Chinese and/or Russian vaccines? I talked with a woman from Hungary who said that people there were getting Sinovac, and she knew people who got COVID after vaccination, and one of them died. Of...
• Commented on Central Banking on Mars!
  The rover, yes. The "helicopter" though, being both an experimental project with less stringent safety requirements, and at the same time much higher computational requirements, uses an (off-the-shelf?) ARM mobile-phone cpu (from 2014). See the link in the above post....
• Commented on Central Banking on Mars!
  The processor clock frequency is 500 Hz (not a typo). Indeed it's not a typo, it's the ZDNet journalist not having a brain. Apart from very basic common sense telling you that an 500 Hz (Hertz!) processor has no chance...
• Commented on Book Launch
  May I then humbly suggest Kate Tempest instead of Snoop Dogg for said cooperation? She is British, raps amazingly beautifully, and won a poetry award for a spoken story, too!...
• Commented on A product review, and some musing
  I have anecdotal evidence of a cheap chinese usb charger perpetually infecting the iphone of the CEO of a (small) software company until he realized where the root of the problem lies. So yes, all the second part of this...
• Commented on CMAP: "Why can't I find audio editions of your books in the UK?"
  Being aware of walking on a swampy territory, I would like to offer a possibly different (to start with, non-anglophone) perspective on the general theme this thread gravitated to. TL;DR version: I believe piracy does much more good than bad....
• Commented on Competition Time!
  Hijacking heavy-duty pneumatic garbage trucks for the purpose of moving entities across London traffic definitely does not match the department-mandated way of transportation. The fact (of which the perpetrator was apparently unaware of) that the embedded control software of said...
• Commented on Competition Time!
  Sneaking pet entities into the gaps between the zeros of the Riemann zeta function in our own Platonic universe is a completely unacceptable and in any case terribly irresponsible behaviour! Even if it wasn't horribly dangerous (but of course it...
• Commented on Competition Time!
  Employee was caught using departmental resources to manufacture small green pills made up from of an unknown powered substance, which pills he apparently planned to sell as a heavily psychedelic research drug to East London teenagers. Upon further analysis, the...
• Commented on Competition Time!
  Embedding virtual summoning circuits in the circulary reblog threads of the social micro-blogging site "tumblr.com", even though more-or-less hidden from the unsuspecting participants, is still not a Laundry-standardized way of managing extradimensional entities. We strongly recommend that in the future...
• Commented on Competition Time!
  Employee posted several classified SOE hardware designs to /r/vxjunkies....
• Commented on Competition Time!
  Hiding innocent-looking amplifier circuits in hand-numbered vintage analogue synthesizers is not an approved method of spreading knowledge about elder horrors!...