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Chris

@chrsphr.uk

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Mostly Scottish. Map lover, lithophile, tech person. Vitreous lustre, poor cleavage. he/him 🏳️‍🌈 📍Edinburgh

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Chris @chrsphr.uk · 8h

cricket is insignificant so it's no biggie

Chris @chrsphr.uk · 8h

watching the x files for the first time

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 12h

“But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”

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Simon @simonxix.com · 21h

You can tell an LLM not to invent data as much as you want but it will very much continue to invent data.

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

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Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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Chris @chrsphr.uk · 11h

No more AI super intelligence, just a porn bot that *might* tell you to kill yourself if you're over 18

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Chris @chrsphr.uk · 1d

NIMBYism runs deep round here though. Trams bad. Houses bad. Data centres bad

Chris @chrsphr.uk · 1d

Interestingly, Scot gov has a list of sites recommended as locations for data centres

digitalconnectivity.campaign.gov.scot/binaries/dig...

Chris @chrsphr.uk · 1d

If you're gonna build them anywhere, build them where there's a fucking surplus of renewable energy, and it's using a close loop system.
Zero operational carbon. Zero operational water.

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Chris @chrsphr.uk · 1d

There's a data centre proposed for western Edinburgh but I wonder if it will get blocked because everyone learned from Instagram that data centres are bad now

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Chris @chrsphr.uk · 1d

tiktok must have accessed the WiFi....

Chris @chrsphr.uk · 1d

My money is on someone messing up the BGP configuration

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

oh god no he hoovered up his own brain

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spooky ijbolognese 🍝🎃 @benrs.uk · 1d

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Chris @chrsphr.uk · 1d

it's as if 2.5 million IPs cried out and suddenly vanished

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Cloudflare Radar @radar.cloudflare.com · 1d

At ~14:00 UTC, @VodafoneUK effectively dropped off the Internet, with traffic dropping to zero. No word from the provider on outage cause, and their network status checker page is currently unavailable.
radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/as53...
radar.cloudflare.com/routing/as53...
x.com/Independent/...

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Chris @chrsphr.uk · 1d

someone turned Vodafone off

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 1d

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

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Chris @chrsphr.uk · 1d

tfw when you overlook a massive upgrade because you're too distracted by usb ports which can be swapped out in a few years as part of the regular maintenance cycle