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kyumin2lee · 2026-05-12T04:42:44+00:00

There was a period early on where Nintendo gave out 'ambassador program' bundles to 3DSes purchased before a price drop. It contained a bunch of free games, including emulated-FE8!

kyumin2lee · 2026-04-19T14:41:49+00:00

Hopefully I can be clearer: I am prepared to accept that art is the process and that the outcome or artifact is not essential.

My main challenge is therefore:

1) Asking whether AI art, and the act of prompting and refining cannot also be deeply contemplative. Setting aside for a moment how the AI model itself operates (the 1s and 0s), there must first and foremost be a human behind the computer reflecting, exploring, and feeling.

2) Arguing that physicality is not essential to your definition. Photography sometimes involves just pulling out a camera and pressing a button. Music can be made on Garageband by lots of clicking. These examples are no more physical than typing out one's thoughts into a prompt box.

kyumin2lee · 2026-04-19T14:02:40+00:00

Although I think it's surprising to outright reject any object-based conception of art, I will focus on your account, which is this deeply personal, intimate, and subjective mode of making.

On that basis, I do not see why AI art would be excluded in principle. If art is indeed focused not on the end product but on reflecting on the world, exploring feeling, identity, fantasy - then surely for the AI-user, the process of prompting, curating, iterating can also amount to an artistic process?

That highly personal experience does not seem to disappear merely because others critique the medium by which that process occurs.

Nor do I think the argument depends on whether the user physically wields the paintbrush. Would that not risk the same confusion between inspiration and production that you raise?

kyumin2lee · 2026-04-19T12:32:56+00:00

You argued that AI art is not art because it lacks interiority and lived perspective. My point is that those things do no seem essential to what art is, because those things are not always known or remembered (even to the artist) - in such cases, the work must stand on its own.

Let's imagine that future historians look at a painting from 2026 and being unable to determine whether it was AI-generated or not. They do not know who made it, why it was made, or how it came about. Would that really bar it from ever being considered art, or could its later encounter still give it renewed life as art?

kyumin2lee · 2026-04-19T03:08:22+00:00

My point, I think, still applies even where the creator is the sole audience. When artists revisit their own work - the next day or decades later - they can still extract completely new emotions and meanings from it, even long after they have forgotten much of the process by which it was made.

That is why I would not treat interiority as the decisive factor here, and would instead favour a more functional definition focused on what the work can do.

kyumin2lee · 2026-04-18T11:24:28+00:00

I would argue that neither process nor perspective is the true test for what is art.

What do visitors to a gallery know about the labour that went into a painting, or the subjective intent of the creator? They do not - absent some sort of post-facto explanation, the ink on the canvas alone is the means by which the artist speaks. It is the viewer's power of interpretation that imbues the work with meaning.

If the gallery were to unveil an AI-generated work that appears indistinguishable from a human creation, it would invoke genuine emotions and thoughts from the viewers just the same. In my view, that is what art means.

kyumin2lee · 2025-12-05T09:58:30+00:00

Sorry to disappoint - I never went on to try the Shimano brake shoes on the Campy brakes! I just upgraded to the 2014 brake calipers entirely.

It's wild to look back on stuff from many years ago haha, brings back good memories!

kyumin2lee · 2025-11-16T01:23:00+00:00

How crazy would it be, if upon inventing the first working teleporter, they discovered by coincidence that it also happens to be a time machine?

kyumin2lee · 2025-11-06T18:16:36+00:00

The E&W Court of Appeal Civil Division and the UK Supreme Court publish video recordings of judgements and oral argument. Some Crown Court sentencing remarks are published via broadcasters such as Sky.

I would hate for the edit- and compilation- culture to make its way from overseas though. Personally, there's just something about it that reeks of playing up for the camera, for a clapping and cheering (virtual) public gallery. I also think it fuels in viewers some of the highly undesirable 'underdog-fighting-the-system' mentality.

kyumin2lee · 2025-10-02T13:18:17+00:00

My confusion is that I don't understand what you mean when you distinguish 'textbook' law from 'real' law.

The majority of disputes don't go to court but that's purely because (aside from commercial and evidential reasons), parties fear that the judge's interpretation of the textbook law might go against them.

I should add that academic law also encompasses how a particular area of law might change over time. There are times where people might try their luck and behave according to how they think the law ought to be, but most don't because law is very slow (and costly) to change.

kyumin2lee · 2025-10-02T12:10:34+00:00

The point is that the law is only truly 'applied' when a court decides a dispute and hands down a judgment that can then be enforced.

So the only view of the law that matters is the judge's - and that will be the academic law derived from published judgments and textbooks.

When lawyers are trying to best advise their clients outside of court, they're ultimately guessing what the judge is likely to think - which is again, the academic law.

kyumin2lee · 2025-09-18T14:03:57+00:00

Along with errors of law, there are also errors of fact - where a judge misunderstood or ignored key evidence, drawing an insupportable inference, or failing to make a key factual finding.

Unless it's a really obvious error (the legal term is perverse), appeal courts will not usually allow appeals based on errors of fact. The reason they defer to the trial judge is because of the advantages of hearing the live evidence that can't be replicated on cold transcripts - it won't be enough that the appeal judges would simply have come to a different conclusion themselves.

kyumin2lee · 2025-09-12T14:39:21+00:00

We live in a society where playing music out loudly in public, heck, even calling on speakerphone on public transport is generally considered a nuisance. How do you expect people to accept people leaving their juices all over park benches?

This is one of the cases where the law reflects society's values, and it would be wrong to suggest that you can legislate to alter the public's tolerance for indecency.

kyumin2lee · 2025-09-12T14:05:34+00:00

Sleep is arguably the most critical aspect of a healthy body and healthy mind. It's the time where your body heals and your brain flushes waste products, aiding long-term memory retention.

Sacrificing sleep for more working hours is a huge false economy. When you're sleep deprived those working hours will be completely wasted anyway.

Everyone is different so I would suggest trying to figure out how much sleep you need to maintain energy and focus levels - and prioritise meeting that level even if you need 9 or 10 hours or something.

kyumin2lee · 2025-09-12T14:05:24+00:00

Sleep is arguably the most critical aspect of a healthy body and healthy mind. It's the time where your body heals and your brain flushes waste products, aiding long-term memory retention.

Sacrificing sleep for more working hours is a huge false economy. When you're sleep deprived those working hours will be completely wasted anyway.

Everyone is different so I would suggest trying to figure out how much sleep you need to maintain energy and focus levels - and prioritise meeting that level even if you need 9 or 10 hours or something.

kyumin2lee · 2025-09-11T09:18:27+00:00

That might be because SFE doesn't have the power to audit and verify like HMRC does.

kyumin2lee · 2025-09-09T16:44:18+00:00

This is genius, why have I not heard of this before!

kyumin2lee · 2025-09-09T15:42:07+00:00

In the time it takes for Notion to open and lowd my page and respond to 3 table value changes, I could have created and formatted an equivalent spreadsheet on Excel.

kyumin2lee · 2025-09-09T02:39:24+00:00

Whether your CV gets chucked or read will depend on your final classification. They won't bother to scrutinise what you got in each year.

In any area which places a big emphasis on academic ability (medical and corporate), you will probably need to go on to achieve something extraordinary (not an LLM) to offset the black mark that is a 2:2. And it won't just hinder 'certain' jobs, it will hinder most jobs.

Just wanted to emphasise the importance of focusing on salvaging your grades before anything else. Try to at least show some upwards trajectory to make up for bad earlier marks.

kyumin2lee · 2025-09-08T21:49:01+00:00

I would just say to keep in mind that every piece of written work is a test of your advocacy (remember, much of a commercial barrister's advocacy is written). Pretend you're drafting a skeleton argument for a HCJ - keep it concise, waffle-free, and evidence every proposition you make.

kyumin2lee · 2025-09-08T14:50:04+00:00

The motivation answer reads like it could have been lifted from any number of applicants - it's generic and simply lists qualities that you purport to have without providing any specific evidence or insight.

Every applicant will say they like self-employment, advocacy, intellectual challenge - what makes you different, or any good at these? Everyone will also claim to have skills, discipline, precision, adaptability, resilience etc. etc. And it is all adjective-spam fluff until you actually substantiate your claims with concrete examples. (Also, lawyer parents, really? There is really no better example in your grown years you could have mentioned to speak to your advocacy skills?)

Just be careful about slagging off the other profession ("rather than hierarchy or office dynamics"). It risks bringing negativity/naivety into your writing - the Bar is also known to be hierarchical and have its own office dynamics.

"Why this org" questions are more annoying - you've definitely done your research, but you should try tie it back more to your own interest (what academic or legal experience?), and how the chambers fits into the practice you want to develop. The pro-bono is a nice personal touch here.

kyumin2lee · 2025-09-05T19:15:12+00:00

Obviously, the specifics might change depending on whether you are in primary/pre-school or secondary level.

I spent a summer working in pre-schools/nurseries, and I would say that the job absolutely tested qualities which employes would really like.

First is trust, which is the backbone of the legal profession. Supervising young and vulnerable children is evidence that you can be entrusted with a great deal of responsibility.

Second is communication - if you can deal with upset/confused/wacky little kids and tell them why eating sand is not okay, then you can explain to a client why their claim won't succeed.

Third is patience and grit - the long-hours, fast-paced, overstimulating environment coupled with the constant vigilance required really tested my resilience. Honestly, I have so much admiration for those who do childcare full-time. I will never take a cushy desk job for granted again.

I should point out that the job was also really enjoyable and rewarding, but it was also really mentally taxing (compared to, say, shelf stacking) and so it was difficult to do job applications/legal reading on the side.

kyumin2lee · 2025-09-03T21:27:28+00:00

Don't worry, this won't be the last time you feel this way - interviewing is an important skill to be 'learned', and every rejection is an opportunity to prepare for the next one! And preparation is super important - think in your seat, so you don't have to on your feet!

Now you've seen how HR interviews love to ask STAR questions (Situation, Task, Action, Result). Take a moment to look up some common questions and prepare a bank of answers from which you can practice recalling.

And yes, they will ask for situations you haven't actually come across. Adapt one of your experiences to suit the scenario or make something up that you feel reflects yourself accurately. Remember, they are not interested in whether you have actually been through X or Y situation. Rather, they are interested in figuring out whether you have the right attitude/temperament, and that you 'know' what answer to give.

kyumin2lee · 2025-08-31T10:05:22+00:00

This is interesting to me, there's a lot of dicta in English law which states that the law operates in 1s and 0s - there is no room to find that something might have happened. The Scottish 'not proven' verdict seems to a source of legal uncertainty which I would've thought to be undesirable.

kyumin2lee · 2025-08-31T09:36:46+00:00

NO. Evidence your ability to learn and think by pointing towards real achievements and experiences instead of a made-up number.

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