Funny that the *withdrawing* of US funding at Australian universities gets described as "foreign interference". Might be a healthy thing to prohibit all foreign funding.

Hardly a surprise that EVs don't make very good police cars. Working online from the charging station must be nearly as productive as the working from home wheeze.

Seems to me Badenoch's big challenge is to overcome the Tories' record of strong words followed up by weak actions (Leave means leave, Taking control of illegal immigration, Two weeks to flatten ..., etc.). Even if the electorate accepts that Labour is even worse, will just one term in the wilderness be enough punishment for the Tories?

Mailman,
Another doctor getting the establishment's cold shoulder is covered in today's Jo Nova article. Suspended for prescribing ivermectin.

tomo,
Pretty disgraceful word-mincing from Mr Minns there. Once upon a time, the selling point of multiculturalism was greater tolerance and understanding. Minns's statement admits that the "understanding" now is that certain things won't be tolerated. Benefit of multiculturalism is brought down to a selection of exotic restaurants.

Listened again to that EconTalk. Really, the first 40 minutes was a bit humdrum. After that it got onto the AI stuff. Here's what she said describing her exasperation with LLMs s:

... the problem with these models--the thing that's so seductive and kind of reels you in and then they let you down--is when they are good at something, they do something really well, and it's brilliant. And you think, 'Oh my goodness, this is amazing. It's going to change the world.' But then, what you need for it to really change the world is you need to be able to crank the handle and for it to do that consistently.

And, what they do instead is they spit out these random, quite dangerous errors that they're incredibly confident about, of which your example is a very good one. And you are left there going, 'Well, why did it do that?'

And the answer is: Nobody knows. Because these models really are a black box.

The "example" she's referring to above is where Russ Roberts had asked AI about a pathology reading he'd been given. AI said the reading was in acceptable range. When he checked with a proper reference, no it wasn't.

https://x.com/TopherField/status/1903331966327591264

Hmmmm…seems America is moving towards the situation where earning less
Than one fiddy k will mean paying no tax 🤔

But who will pick up the burden of paying their fair share in taxation? 🙄😂

Gonna be a hard one for Democrats to argue only the rich will benefit from Trumps tax cuts 🤷‍♂️

"COVID dissident Kiwi doctor, Samantha Bailey, has been struck off for naughty YouTubes which suggested that the NZ government's pandemic actions might not be beneficial."

F88k me...these people in power are determined to protect their empire from the evil scourge of hurty words!!

No Pcar, that is NOT what she said. Look again at the extracts I cited yesterday. Better still read the transcript of her speech - not the words of someone who wants to achieve Net Zero.