Not really. When asked a question, a human would think about the answer, and construct a sentence to try and express that point. An LLM doesn’t know what the answer is ahead of time, it’s not working towards a point, it’s just statistically guessing the next couple of letters over and over again. The human equivalent would just be making random mouth noises and hoping the other person interprets them as words

Different keyboard layouts. The big difference between UK and US layouts tends to be swapping the " and @ symbols, so on a UK keyboard the ! is shift+1 and the " is shift+2.

Going back over the scene, it’s confusing. The Rani says it was the genetic bomb, but earlier she said she’d flipped her DNA to avoid it. She says their species as a whole is infertile (“a biological dead end”), which sounds like she’s talking about more than just the two of them. If the genetic bomb was a slow, lingering extinction rather than an instant death, why did she only have a split second to avoid it? Maybe that means that others survived the genetic bomb as well, but the Doctor already knew about the infertility despite not knowing about other survivors. Add to that the Rani’s disgust at Mrs Floods comments last week about the new Rani being her child, and the whole thing feels like two different ideas squashed together and not quite fitting.

I don’t think it was very clear if that was a side effect of the genetic bomb, or if it was something else. I may have been a little distracted by the thought that they were making Looms canon, but I would love it if that’s where they go with this.

Edit: It might just be a coincidence, but I just realised there may be another link to the Looms. In her Cameo, Jodie’s Doctor says there’s a “great big time Schism on it’s way”. That article on the Looms? “devices used by the Great Houses of the Time Lords to perpetuate their race after the Great Schism.”

It’s probably not going to happen, but I can dream.

Also, UNIT did arrest a group of people who basically just dressed up and flicked the lights on and off. It seems like the real reason for arrest was UNIT were embarrassed and their friend Ruby was scared. Not good behaviour for people in power (it was a horrible “prank” to play and definitely morally wrong, but I’m not sure it’s worth being arrested by heavily armed police, or whatever UNIT are).

It was a co-ordinated effort to draw out a military response. Pulling a similar ‘prank’ on police or other emergency services is absolutely a crime (maximum penalty of up to six months in prison or a fine of £5,000), so the fact that he got arrested for it isn’t that much of a stretch.

For me, the disconnect is in how this is supposed to ‘prove’ that it’s a conspiracy. They fake an alien invasion, and the people who deal with alien invasions show up to deal with it. That doesn’t disprove aliens in the same way that a hoax call to the fire department doesn’t disprove house fires. But I guess that’s kind of the point, if you’re in these kinds of echo chambers then logic gets ignored and replaced with whatever the face of the group is shouting.

Yeah. Your main combat level is on the player/companion, so it’s much easier to change up your team and try out different beasts. Individual beasts do have levels, but that’s more about when you can ‘remaster’ (i.e. evolve) them and to unlock moves (which you can swap out at will). Also, elemental type effects are so much more interesting than just a flat damage bonus, and the music is really good. So in summary, yes, I would highly recommend.

So I ran into this word in two different ways without realizing they were the same word. I saw it written down in various World of Darkness books (where I pronounced it phonetically), and I heard it spoken in the Laundry Files audiobooks (where they pronounce it “gesh”). It took me ages to figure out they were the same word.

My problem with this is that your example replies on you already knowing the correct answer, so that you know it’s given you the wrong answer and you can go back and try to trick it into giving a different answer. If you’re asking it a question to which you don’t already know the answer, how would you know if this has happened?

It’s ending because it’s old. JET has been running since the 80s. It’s successor is ITER, which ran into some delays, but is expected to be finished sometime next year.

I fall on my ass in the carpark outside the office. It’s cold, but assuming there’s no car there at the time, I just walk round the building and let myself back in.

I thought the no car thing was a pretty safe bet at this time, until one drove past as I was typing this.

I never had that floating over the document I was viewing, just in the home tab of the menu, but I did find a way to switch it off. ‘File > Preferences > General’ has an option to ‘disable all features which require an internet connection’. There are also options in there to disable that opening splash screen if you don’t want that.

I started with LoadingReadyRun (@[email protected]) because I’ve been a fan of their work for many years now. I’ve found a couple of authors I’m fond of: Charles Stross (@[email protected]) and Neil Gaiman (@[email protected]). George Takei is a good one to follow as well (@[email protected]).

…and expensive enough that you need to be a nobleman or a legendary hero to get it. The cost of the most basic healing potion is enough for a family to eat for a year.

That moment with John Cleese and Eleanor Bron critiquing the TARDIS as a piece of modern art is going to live with me forever.