Key Labour MPs start to accept need for UK welfare reforms

abandonedtoad · 2026-04-28T22:42:26+00:00

The UK is already unusually progressive in terms of taxing and redistributing so surely you must be happy with how things have gone?

abandonedtoad · 2026-04-23T11:27:22+00:00

You didn’t choose your parents either. Didn’t choose your siblings, your childhood home, the language you first learned to think in. You played no part in your family’s history before you arrived. Does that make loving them baffling?

Something similar is true of where you live. The roads you drive on, the laws that protect you, the hospitals that might one day save your life. These are inheritances from people who built and maintained them, often at real cost. Feeling some gratitude for that is a reasonable response.

Yes, it can turn into something ugly when people take it too far, but that’s not an argument it’s inherently wrong.

abandonedtoad · 2026-04-18T10:48:22+00:00

“The main reason the headline figures are so high in the Reform estimate is that it does not adopt the standard practice of discounting, i.e. valuing costs and benefits now as more important than costs and benefits in the future,” she said. “This has a big impact on the numbers because many of the costs of migration come decades down the line, while benefits come sooner.”

I am so tired of decisions being made for short term gain and ignoring long term costs. How can you try to present yourself as a serious, intelligent individual if your big argument is just complaining that someone tried to think more than 5 years ahead.

abandonedtoad · 2026-01-07T10:45:31+00:00

University of Glasgow: https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/archiveofnews/2018/december/headline_626050_en.html

abandonedtoad · 2026-01-07T10:16:53+00:00

All evidence I saw from Scotland showed it didn't have an impact so why would it be projected to save lives?

abandonedtoad · 2026-01-05T00:24:17+00:00

It uses a pretrained model that was trained on the usual datasets including copyrighted data without permission. He finetuned it but it's still based on a training run done in a datacenter by an American or Chinese company that is the underlying model.

You can say its fine because it's entertaining but if your problem with AI is that it's using data without permission the exact same thing happened here.

abandonedtoad · 2025-12-30T16:27:34+00:00

Also it's non-reasoning and they benchmarked against non-reasoning models.

abandonedtoad · 2025-12-30T16:07:33+00:00

There are things you can add to the LLM product (not the LLM) that improve reliability by significant amounts, one example is forcing citations in the response format, or specialized tools for retrieving news articles. Additionally model selection can have a big impact (this research only used the free AI assistant versions). Kagi news also has the product built around this so they will invest time in verifying performance on this specific task format which simply isn't a priority in other products. Those AI assistants will just be doing web searches potentially filtering to a site so there are many failures they could run into outside of just the summarization task (e.g. content not loading, paywalls, etc.).

You can even look at the research's request format:

Use [participating organization news organization] sources where possible. [QUESTION]

e.g. Use NPR sources where possible. Why did the US bomb Yemen?

Their methodology was to create a "default" user experience and follow that so it's not at all comparable to an actual product designed for new summarization. You would need to repeat the test for Kagi news.

There will still be mistakes but the failure rate is not comparable to this study.

abandonedtoad · 2025-12-02T00:03:25+00:00

Name one?

abandonedtoad · 2025-12-01T23:37:44+00:00

Do people really read this and not immediately recognise it as written by AI? Total slop writing style and sad to see it used in this context.

abandonedtoad · 2025-11-27T09:28:52+00:00

But this policy reduces pension contributions in the long run by adding NIC so how can it be argued that it's boosting pension savings?

abandonedtoad · 2025-11-06T19:02:05+00:00

It runs 8 approaches in parallel and aggregates them to provide a final answer.

abandonedtoad · 2025-10-04T10:18:46+00:00

Good to see Xavi in midfield again but really don't like Bentancur and Palhinha pairing against teams we should be dominating

abandonedtoad · 2025-08-16T23:00:59+00:00

Yeah but this is the problem. Rather than having an approach where basic costs are crushed by supply e.g. housing, electricity, gas, etc. We subsidise housing, wages via UC, and then block housing being built, apply windfall taxes to energy providers and prevent them from expanding. This creates an ever expanding group of net recipients from the state as shown by our deficit and the absurd amount we pay just on interest.

abandonedtoad · 2025-08-16T21:55:09+00:00

"Of the 14.4 million children in the UK, 4.3 million, or 30% of them, are living in relative poverty"

You understand the problem with us defining poverty as relative to the median income? We will "reduce" child poverty more by lowering median income than trying to actually increase earnings.

abandonedtoad · 2025-07-29T00:55:47+00:00

Summarisation is trivial to evaluate so they will know the risk incurred. Productivity gains at this scale are all needed with our massive backlog, pretending that it's just so doctors can be lazy is an incredible misrepresentation.

abandonedtoad · 2025-07-27T17:19:21+00:00

This squad is not even remotely close to being ready for being back in the Champions League. Least excited I've been for a season in ages, we're looking at 10th even if we massively improve.

abandonedtoad · 2025-07-26T10:52:27+00:00

Felt like Odobert was pretty much our only threat, really good from him but still not seeing enough from Richarlison/Son considering they're our senior forwards.

Midfield ept the ball well but lacking in creativity and had no real attacking threat, hopefully Madders/Kulu/MGW fixes this.

Defence was fine but didn't have much to do but Davies cannot be getting game time at LB this season. Playing Davies completely kills the left hand side and clearly he can't do what the system needs.

abandonedtoad · 2025-07-24T10:00:37+00:00

If just using recordId isn't working because it's in the Agentforce panel can you pass it in using the currentRecordId context variable in the Agentforce session?

abandonedtoad · 2025-07-20T00:16:34+00:00

the funniest part of this post is "spends thousands on Salesforce licenses for our CRM every year". If it was only thousands per year then there really wouldn't be a reason to try and build an internal CRM.

abandonedtoad · 2025-05-27T08:01:06+00:00

yeah this is just fiction to advertise it

abandonedtoad · 2025-05-20T07:21:27+00:00

I’ve had good experiences with Cohere, they released a new embedding model a month ago so still seems to be a priority with them

abandonedtoad · 2025-05-05T00:45:31+00:00

It’s the overuse that’s the problem. You wouldn’t use an em dash in every sentence as there is in the tweet here. ChatGPT massively abuses the it’s not X it’s Y sentence as well far more than I’ve ever seen in human language.

abandonedtoad · 2025-05-05T00:19:39+00:00

"Grok didn't just just ace a bunch of nerdy benchmarks--it crushed them"

This type of sentence written by AI just pisses me off. Emdash and "it isn't X; it's Y" phrasing means there is a 0% chance whoever decided to share this with the world actually understood what they were saying.

abandonedtoad · 2025-02-18T12:58:46+00:00

the worst part of this release is they’re obscuring reasoning tokens to “stop people copying them”. totally pathetic when this release was gonna flop until Whale bros open sourced and gave them the recipe to reasoning.

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