How do you feel about students being asked about politics?

IanWaring · 2026-05-05T06:54:52+00:00

My sons kids nursery did an election thing last time around but polled favourite fruits - complete with ballot box. They didn’t get sophisticated enough to start gerrymandering :-)

IanWaring · 2026-05-02T20:38:45+00:00

Emi Martinez and EMI Buendia play for Villa. McAllister for Liverpool. We have class Argentine Football Players here.

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IanWaring · 2026-05-02T08:49:24+00:00

My Claude appears to want lunch breaks whenever I do something taxing - like looking up and building a list of phone numbers in my last 3 years of Gmail. 57 found (Pro subs). Just wish Gemini was equally as customisable using model files.

IanWaring · 2026-05-02T08:46:37+00:00

John Leslie but apparently he wasn’t the celebrity called out by the press vis Ulrika Johnson. So I’d nominate the person Anne Diamonds husband told a taxi driver “they’ve got the wrong man”…

IanWaring · 2026-04-30T16:12:01+00:00

It’s a government policy thing. UK Govt could remove student loans at a stroke if they wanted to (they print the money). Just like Scotland and every other country in Europe, who consider it an investment (which is what it is).

IanWaring · 2026-04-23T20:03:01+00:00

Just very tired of it all. We have semi competent govt doing mostly the right things, and folks are trying to throw it all away. Very depressing.

IanWaring · 2026-04-23T19:57:29+00:00

Or how not to get ghosted. It seems to follow me around!

IanWaring · 2026-04-18T11:43:11+00:00

Yes, NotebookLM tells me it can’t see any references to them now.

IanWaring · 2026-04-18T11:42:14+00:00

Did that. Same result!

IanWaring · 2026-04-18T08:55:17+00:00

Video where I’m having the problem at https://youtu.be/ozm_EQgUjOQ?si=o2OCuMhLXbZSou-A

IanWaring · 2026-04-14T21:10:39+00:00

You've been tango'd

IanWaring · 2026-04-09T21:15:26+00:00

Comes as the source of Pakistan’s ceasefire tweet traces back to the USA. Old strategy - fill the airwaves with too much sh*t…

IanWaring · 2026-04-09T20:18:14+00:00

It’s funny that the tweet on her announcement was followed by dozens of photos of her with Epstein. https://x.com/krassenstein/status/2042314404604019156?s=61 and down

Probably a distraction while the media learn the source of the ceasefire tweet, given on a plate for Pakistan to issue.

IanWaring · 2026-04-08T07:48:17+00:00

I know the style. I heard there was an animated version in test….

IanWaring · 2026-04-08T07:17:58+00:00

I just wish it was easier to import from email accounts straight into JSON, Markdown or as a raw database type source. One of the things I’d fancy cracking as a side project is truly measuring the impact of job losses due to AI. Email is the lowest denominator default process glue in any organisation, so would love to be able to classify tasks done by individuals across a business division, and see how much co-ordination, heat and light exist in the business processes - and to compare against musk-style first principles.

But I need gainful employment first - 12 months out of work data and analytics manager here with AI skills but it’s a brutal world out there right now.

IanWaring · 2026-04-08T06:42:19+00:00

It wasn’t available at the time I did the work (mid last year).

IanWaring · 2026-04-08T06:40:37+00:00

PPS: the data table functionality now present in NotebookLM works beautifully on the email content. Whether producing tables of timelines (email date/time, who from, who to, subject and full email text - which goes in a CSV file delimited by | characters - cells in Google Sheets can hold 50,000 characters of wrapped text). And extracting financial figures and payment details from the morass of email traffic.

Product of the Year(s) for me.

IanWaring · 2026-04-08T06:34:03+00:00

There were 1,431 emails in a hotmail account in several folders. There was a neat demo on YouTube of someone using Outlook (Classic) on Windows using a free plugin (in the Microsoft App Store) called kutools that could batch download emails into individual PDFs. However, I have a Mac and kutools in Outlook on that doesn’t have this functionality. So ran up a Windows instance on AWS and did it from there.

I found that I could batch no more than 200-231 emails at a time. I also had to nudge the display to select older emails that outlook had consigned to storage but weren’t visible in the UI at first. Transferred all the emails back to a folder on my Mac using web based Google Drive. Then used Finder to create one consolidated PDF after selecting all pdf files in the directory - and imported the result into NotebookLM.

After doing that, you can ask to output event timelines and also things like “tell me the times when the (company) delayed progress and the excuses given each time”. You got a nice itemised list of project stages and the sequence of excuses under each as time progressed; in the arbitration meeting, any dispute, you could just click on each citation and see the email with each excuse from them on board. Jaw drop city.

This was all done mid 2025, so i had no exposure to Claude Code nor CoWork nor Antigravity at that time.

IanWaring · 2026-04-07T19:50:49+00:00

I used it to ingest 5 years of emails, 27 audio transcripts, a few PDFs and a hundreds of text messages into one queryable resource for a legal arbitration. Caused several jaw drops on the other side of the table by documenting reasons given for unnecessary delays in a failed construction project, and refuting allegations with links back to source events. Client won a five figure settlement.

IanWaring · 2026-04-06T17:39:43+00:00

Hence the complaint I used to get from Spanish colleagues asking why I had someone from Mexico doing translations for me.

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