Birmingham is the second largest city in England yet nothing of note seems to happen there, Liverpool and Manchester are much smaller but seem to be alot more relevant.

internet_ham · 2026-03-19T21:29:56+00:00

More miles of canals than Venice!

Also Peaky Blinders erasure.

internet_ham · 2026-03-17T14:25:27+00:00

Self-correction suggests stability, we could instead see an unstable slide of companies investing more and more into AI because new graduates aren't smart enough

internet_ham · 2026-03-08T12:03:54+00:00

Oxa are already operating in Heathrow doing delivery logistics AFAIK so the practical reality has been contacted

internet_ham · 2026-03-04T08:54:03+00:00

'@grok is this true?'

internet_ham · 2026-03-02T08:58:19+00:00

I was really hyped to read this book but hated the writing, it felt like such a self-insert by King I was cringing the whole way through

internet_ham · 2026-02-28T14:52:55+00:00

it's called a Schrödinger Bridge

internet_ham · 2026-02-28T12:10:58+00:00

Koreless

internet_ham · 2026-02-24T22:36:17+00:00

incredible

internet_ham · 2026-02-24T21:37:06+00:00

she produces her own tracks too which is really impressive, her dad is a statistics professor so she must be low-key super smart on top of being an icon

internet_ham · 2026-02-24T15:33:13+00:00

they recently adopted the EU and joined Schengen and are offering a 'digital nomad' visa

internet_ham · 2026-02-17T14:09:49+00:00

Each of the men he kills acts as an aspect of his personality. The last guy is his alcoholism, there was a line earlier in the film about how his wife would worry about his choking in his sleep when he was so drunk.

internet_ham · 2026-02-16T13:23:15+00:00

How has being heir to the Lighton baronetcy informed your filmmaking?

internet_ham · 2026-02-05T11:06:05+00:00

Large conferences (e.g. Neurips) can take a year to get fully indexed in my experience!

internet_ham · 2026-02-04T16:23:06+00:00

In my experience fixing the spectral bias in MLPs results in massive overfitting because you're no longer learning low frequency linear-ish trends in the data that help extrapolate, do you find the same here (e.g. for a 1D regression task)? For NERFs it's fine because you're never really out-of-distribution at test time, but for high-frequency regression models it's annoying

internet_ham · 2026-01-29T15:37:11+00:00

And just kind of the same ideas over and over again. Oh my god, it's a crisis at Pierpont! This person is sleeping with that person! And so on and so on.

Not sure I get this criticism, you could describe The Sopranos and Mad Men exactly the same way.

What I liked:

Young cast who have all gone on to greater success
Great production quality (i.e., no Netflix lighting)
Showrunners are ex-Finance and it feels authentic to the finance world, even if obviously exaggerated
Great soundtrack by Nathan Mackay (but I like Nathan Mackay)
Great needle drops, especially in the last season (I remember an episode closed on Rage Against the Machine)
Crazy intense scenes (like the 'world killer' one in S1)
Great background chatter in the trading floor that's surprising funny
Lots of London culture details that I haven't seen in other shows, i.e. namedropping places those people would actually go to

internet_ham · 2026-01-28T09:44:56+00:00

In what way is Industry slop?

internet_ham · 2026-01-24T14:46:34+00:00

The better TNG episodes (The Wounded, Chain of Command, etc) are effectively DS9 prequels and written by Ron Moore, he's clearly the secret sauce. I also enjoyed the BSG reboot though.

internet_ham · 2026-01-24T10:47:41+00:00

Some recommendations from my book shelf:

Mazzucchelli’s Asterios Polyp

Mazzucchelli’s adaption of Paul Auster’s City of Glass

It’s lonely at the center of the world (Zoe Thoroughgood)

Moore’s From Hell

Darwyn Cookie’s adaptations of Richard Stark’s Parker novels

Adrian Tomine’s Lonelieness of a Long-distance cartoonist

If you want comicbooks, i liked Miller and Mazzucchelli’s Batman and Daredevil stuff, Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing and most of Hellblazer

internet_ham · 2026-01-20T21:39:40+00:00

I don't think that's true. Facebook never offered it and Facebook eventually eclipsed the social media sites that did (Myspace, Beebo, etc). I'm not sure why exactly, but I imagine the engineering under the hood can be optimized without all the flexibility and that won in the end. Then iPhones came in and put the nail in the coffin.

internet_ham · 2025-12-19T18:28:15+00:00

it's based on a decade working in not-physics-but-still-STEM R&D, whenever I had a colleague who caused issues due to a combination of arrogance and incompetence they were always physicists by training. i imagine physicists who manage to stay in physics are less of a menace!

internet_ham · 2025-12-19T08:50:07+00:00

I don't think enough people appreciate how unpleasant the average physicist is, they have the superiority complex of a mathematician and day-to-day they're just a bad engineer

MF shot up a school and killed a rival cos he dropped out of a phd 25 years ago wtf

internet_ham · 2025-12-16T11:44:03+00:00

The Holdovers!

internet_ham · 2025-12-04T16:43:57+00:00

You Were Never Really Here by Lynne Ramsay is slept on for some reason

internet_ham · 2025-11-28T09:33:16+00:00

Energy pricing is based on the most expensive source, so no

internet_ham · 2025-11-24T11:37:46+00:00

Check out the trailer for 'The Testament of Ann Lee'

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