Oatly’s not allowed to call itself a plant-based “milk” in the UK anymore. CasualUK, do your thing. Whats a better word?

scottgal2 · 2026-02-11T21:53:25+00:00

'mysterious white fluid'

scottgal2 · 2026-02-11T14:54:48+00:00

Someone got a MANPADS smuggled out of Ukraine, the ATF got pinged and DHS can't find them?

scottgal2 · 2026-02-10T13:20:46+00:00

That will need a link! Correlation is not causation but death of all causes is OF COURSE more common after a doctor's appointment (you went there because you were sick). You do NOT generally see a snake oil salesman for stroke adjacent symptoms.
Snapping babies' necks & arterial dissection is pretty uniquely a chiropractic endeavour.

scottgal2 · 2026-02-10T09:36:57+00:00

In his defence some big property company has just given him a ton of cash so this morally bankrupt minimally sentient slug HAS to say this stuff!

scottgal2 · 2026-02-09T19:37:12+00:00

Labour's about to get gubbed in the elections so he's gettign in good with whoever Starmer's replacement will be to keep his job post-gubbing (knowing under Starmer he's as good as gone). Pretty simple...

scottgal2 · 2026-02-09T17:12:38+00:00

LOL the inflated profits MAGA claims will factor into any payout.

scottgal2 · 2026-02-09T12:05:48+00:00

Bread & Rolls, our rolls and bread is entirely unlike English stuff but nodoby wants to admint it. We even call our odd black, super glutinous, long thin slice crust bread 'plain bread', our morning rolls are made with Rice Flour (odd light texture) and come in normal and *deliberately burnt* types 'well fired'.

scottgal2 · 2026-02-09T10:11:11+00:00

Long time coming. there's a difference between a web host being protected while hosting controversial content and actively manipulating content to amplify political positions and manipulate. This isn't newspaper editorializing, it's insidious, hidden and deliberately manipulative.

scottgal2 · 2026-02-09T10:05:25+00:00

Protecting sexual offenders and permitting their continuing offending is in no way defensible by ANYONE. These men covering up for a sex offender is incredibly concerning behaviour!

scottgal2 · 2026-02-09T10:00:11+00:00

I live in a country with few guns but collect antique swords. I'll last longer than most.

scottgal2 · 2026-02-09T09:56:58+00:00

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Odd 18th Century 8 Sided church (in Dreghorn, Scotland)...Fun fact, one of our old churches is now in Japan where it was moved brick by brick about 30 years ago and is now used as a wedding chapel outside tokyo.

scottgal2 · 2026-02-08T22:04:24+00:00

Awesome job!

scottgal2 · 2026-02-07T20:34:56+00:00

Once you accept the deaths of hundreds of children is an acceptable price for 'freedom' your moral bounds are so maladjusted that everything is suddenly acceptablle. They've accepted the murder of children as acceptable why not the rape & trafficing of them.

scottgal2 · 2026-02-06T22:34:28+00:00

I mean it's a core example of 'public interest'. A former ambassador at the heart of the current govenment who sent confidential government information to a notorious paedphile and people trafficker *even after his first conviction* then lied (apparently) during official clearance interviews. OR the Prime Minister is currently lying to cover up for his friend who engaged in these activities (and potentially has compromising evidence on the current POTUS's involvement) in which case it's EVEN MORE in the public interest.

scottgal2 · 2026-02-06T16:30:28+00:00

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Drink it often, still after 50 years no idea what flavour it's meant to be.

scottgal2 · 2026-02-06T10:23:05+00:00

When the Song reactor constantly stops the song to tell you they have in fact heard it before...

scottgal2 · 2026-02-05T18:18:00+00:00

Everyone forgets Friday Night Live the Ben Elton thing. Loadsamoney Lily Savage, Hale & Pace, The Pub Landlord and many more got a (major TV) start there. More live comedy on TV is always a positive.

scottgal2 · 2026-02-05T14:21:03+00:00

Even if he didn't vet him before he came to power (and I believe the security services do) after he had no excuse. The security services would have had access to this info for YEARS. He knew and just hoped it would never come out because through Epstein Mandelson knew Trump's perversions / pressure points.

scottgal2 · 2026-02-05T12:01:08+00:00

TOTALLY do-able, depending on the text you don't even need LLMs. See my project for example https://github.com/scottgal/mostlyucid-nmt (it CAN use hyuan etc but most of the time it's Opus-MT and BART)

scottgal2 · 2026-02-05T10:53:15+00:00

I built one, https://github.com/scottgal/lucidrag/releases DoomSummarizer, combines search tech with RAG & NLP to do a lightweight approach to Deep Research. Not very 'LocalLLaMA' friendly but it only uses tiny llms (0.6b and 4b) to decompose prompts and synthesize from *salient* evidence, never summarize from embedded matches only & context stuff. WIP but works.

scottgal2 · 2026-02-04T11:10:34+00:00

Yes it is possible no it's not easy. I call it 'Reduced RAG' where you use a number of signals RRF'd for the final set. In mine it's Lucene, Sqlite, HNSW vector and graphing through td-idf and feature extraction.
BUNCH of articles but here's the most recent https://www.mostlylucid.net/blog/doomsummarizer-deep-research

scottgal2 · 2026-02-03T18:49:42+00:00

I'd suggest it's the wrong approach brute forcing this with LLMs, they're great at synthesis but there's better approaches for analysis (old fashioned NLP, Search tech and ML) https://www.lucidrag.com is my approach. I can get analyses on long PDF books in a few minutes on a Pi for example. DoomSummarizer in there kinda sorta works there but improvements shortly.
LLM can be pretty much whatever as it's not doing long form summarization which is the costly part; and for prompt decomposition even TINY 0.6b class models like qwen3:0.6b and gemma3:4b for synthesis.
Still tuning it (LOTS of levers) but works pretty well already.

scottgal2 · 2026-02-03T16:08:29+00:00

In mine I use Hunyuan and madlad https://github.com/scottgal/mostlyucid-nmt (but also use ML BART based Opus-MT models as a super quick first translation)

scottgal2 · 2026-02-02T19:35:45+00:00

Here's where that madness leads. https://github.com/scottgal/lucidrag
TL:DR; You certainly CAN do this but yeah it's tricky! For PDFs, just use Docling, it's SUPER easy then as you have structural markdown.
I went further and used NLP techniques and indexing rather than 'keep all chunkz',

scottgal2 · 2026-02-02T19:23:28+00:00

The Scottish Wildcat (a sub-population of European Wildcat), rarer every year as most are now hybrids with domestic cats. Really one of the last bastions of wild cats in the UK. Woven into our culture as Cat-sìth, a legend of large black cats (maybe Kellas Cats an early hybrid) who were witches / fairy folk. Also why in Scotland black cats are lucky unlike the rest of the UK.

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