Kelvyn Taylor
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Kelvyn Taylor
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Ex-seismic layabout. Former editor of Personal Computer World magazine (UK). Copywriter, guitarist, grandad. Coach parties welcome.
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Yep, I'm new here. Don't have a lot to offer except some gentle guitar music, if you like that kind of thing.

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And I bet they celebrated with a nice long lunch
Among everything else fascinating about the Louvre heist, it's delightful it took place at 9.30am. Most of us, if planning a massive jewel theft, would be setting an alarm for the middle of the night. The French remind us you can have a decent night's sleep and THEN do it.
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I wrote something about the definition of AGI proposed by some luminaries of the AI field, which seems to be getting a lot of attention.
philipball86.substack.com/p/can-we-fin...
Can we find a good definition of AGI?
I don't think it is this one.
philipball86.substack.com
It's only taken our newly-refurbished house about 9 months to revert to its normal state of chaos, despite all our pinky promises to keep things tidy.
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Just saw that Pizza Hut in the UK could be folding. I think that officially makes it Calzone Hut. Eyethangewe. I’m here all week. Try the veal.
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An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them

techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...
OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math | TechCrunch
No, GPT-5 did not solve a bunch of previously unsolved math problems.
techcrunch.com
And the point being....?
Q: What does it say that president released a video of him pooping on the American people?

MIKE JOHNSON: You can argue he's probably the most effective person who has ever used social media. He's using satire to make a point. He's not calling for the murder of his political opponents.
Mrs K: This phone shopping service is rubbish - none of the product codes work, the staff don't know what I'm talking about
Me: Let's have a look at your catalogue.
Mrs K: Here you are
Me: Erm, it's dated 2011
Mrs K: So? That's no excuse!
Are you (potentially) benefitting financially from someone else's work? IMO, if so that's all you need to think about, regardless of whether it's technically legal or not.
What’s the legality of sampling chords from a melody in an old song and chopping them up into a new melody. Like it’s the same chords but rearranged to make a different tune. Is that under fair use if you’re only recording and chopping a few chords?
A fingerprint sensor? 🤦‍♂️
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"My doorbell won't work because a website is broken" is not the glorious frictionless future technology promised us, is it?
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All Royal Society journal content is freely available this week for open access week @royalsocietypublishing.org
We really advanced ourselves when we connected everything to a billionaire's data farm, didn't we?
C5's Cause of Death is an education in the weird ways you can die. At my age, it's nice to know there are options.
Never realised our window cleaner is powered by AWS
Oh wonderful, bits of AWS are broken, so even the Blink Security app doesn't work
I bet they enjoyed Trump's latest AI video of him dropping shit on Americans
The new Superman was fun, but hardly the life-changing experience I'd been lead to believe. The dog stole the show.
Those commies love their paperwork
Style.
Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.
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CNN talking about the possibility of violence as a guy in a giraffe costume waddles by
Also easier on the fingers!