Flip-flopping on lots of different things has become a running joke for the UK government.

I would like the option to put the original music video as the background, like you can in Ultrastar

The UK NHS is one of the biggest employers in the world. It absolutely could choose to hire and cultivate that level of expertise but then how would senior management retire into Palantir sinecures?

(It actually has quite a few expert staff who are not delighted with the tools they have been given but they don't have the lobbying power of Palantir and the cluster of consulting firms around it)

Sounds emblematic of a degraded bureaucracy to me, lots of wasted potential.

You learned that such things are even possible, and you learned that other people saw you as the cool tech guy just because you took time to memorise that stuff.

Quite a few people on here are neither math nor CS grads and some of us don't work in tech for our day jobs either.

Right. But HN, among other platforms, is full of users who will confidently run their mouths about something they don't fully understand while believing they do. I think the previous commenter was being too shy in pointing out that even exceptionally smart people sometimes forget where the limits of their own knowledge are, not to mention consider themselves immune to any propaganda that surrounds the subject at hand.

The Opus 4.6 thread was full of "very smart" and experienced SWEs likening model weights to neurons. And again, any DL curriculum worth its salt will thoroughly debunk that comparison, i.e. Justin Johnson. In this day and age it seems the Darios and Altmans have successfully waged the most damaging propaganda campaign in modern time. Even the Pentagon is lining up to relegate its decision making to black box stochastic ML models. Tech as an industry is unfortunately extremely gullible, all the more so when pressured by the market, VCs, clueless PE analysts, the tech blogger/grifter complex. Foundation model makers can get away with hiding training data while proclaiming they are building a "moral" neural network while no one bats an eyelash.

>Right. But HN, among other platforms, is full of users who will confidently run their mouths about something they don't fully understand while believing they do.

This is honestly funny and kind of ironic.

If this:

'The "reasoning" is two matrix transformations based on how often words appear next to each other.'

is what byang364 has to say, then he's part of the people you mention.

Glad you said areas rather than countries. It is quite common to degrade the environment within rich countries as long as it isn't near where powerful people live.

London buses are tap on entry only. For pay as you go riders the fare is not linked to distance travelled.

"whose ridership has bounced back more quickly after Covid than rail."

I suspect that's because rail users are more likely to have jobs which can be done remotely.

The writer might also consider that short distances between bus stops helps people who cannot easily walk longer distances.

London is trying out some services which have fewer stops, such as the Bakerloop route which follows a proposed route for a new Tube line. Perhaps this combination offer is a good choice at least for urban areas.

"If you'd like, I can search for the original NYT articles or additional reporting on her case."

No need but thanks for offering

This is true but seems to be orthogonal to the post you replied to. At a further tangent, I encounter people saying "well it's on Google" as they seem to think Google has some authority or quality threshold.