Sam Livingstone

Founder of Signal & Craft.
Founder of Eco AI | UCL PhDer.
Former Head of DS, DE, and Quant Strats.
Surrounded by wonderful friends & family. Views are my own.

[Sam Livingstone @SamLivingstone_]

What has happened to OneNote? It has not stopped crashing and erroring in the last week. Now, parts are read only and it crashes whenever the Notebook tries to close.

Recent buggy update? Who knows! Just pushing me faster to Notion.

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The PT sessions are slowly paying off

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Interesting piece from the @TheEconomist

Rent prices are actually down, not up, much as some parties would like to push the narrative.

People should be more data driven - and avoid looking to push more power into state control.

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Online chess really is toast thanks to AI.

And Lichess haven't figured out this person is cheating yet...

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You really cannot beat the end of season games in the EPL. Weather is perfect too (just a shame I am indoors working on my PhD!). That's commitment...

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The goal should be to die with memories, not dreams

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Looks like RIAT26 was cancelled as the US refused to move their bombers! Happy to stand corrected, but that does appear to be the latest suggestion.

@airtattoo @RAF_Fairford #RIAT #Fairford

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@Airscene Did they say why it was cancelled? I heard fuel wasn't the issue. US pressure?

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Hugely disappointed that RIAT26 is cancelled. They haven't said why, but the war in Iran is clearly partly to play.

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Interesting that @Google just made the Google One Premium Plan significantly worse....

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@NotionHQ Ignore me!

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Anyone else having issues accessing the @NotionHQ API?

Getting 503 errors.

Chatbot says they're experiencing "partial system outage" but wondering if this is a hallucination from my very specific error message.

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Looks like @SuperGrok just got an upgrade - it is so fast now compared to some of the other models, especially for lightweight coding checks - when the brain is stuck in neutral.

Have been using @claudeai by far the most, but it is good to see the other houses keeping up.

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If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow

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Does anyone know a decent online chess platform that isn't the mafia that is chess dot com or the AI ridden Lichess?

Three games tonight at 1000 ELO. 98% accuracy, 91%, 97%. Average centripawn loss between 11 and 17.

Online is literally unplayable!

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My opponents accuracy on the last three games of Blitz at 1500 ELO.

91%, 95%, 91%.

ACL around 15 to 23.

Don't tell me online chess is totally ruined.

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@vetarniec @SamsungUK I gave up in the end. It was in warranty, but the process was so laborious, I just gave up. I have since replaced my wife's Samsung phone with a Google Pixel, and my phone with a Google Pixel XL. The ring I went for Oura. Won't be touching Samsung for a while.

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I cannot believe the service I've received from @SamsungUK regarding my Samsung Ring. Less than a year old and not holding charge, it is sent under warranty for repair.

I think get an email from their "approved repair centre" who say it is not covered and that I have to pay to get them to inspect it, in order to tell me how much it might cost. But they won't tell me why it isn't covered under warranty.

Day light robbery. Time to stop being from Samsung and move elsewhere. @LGUK for my next TV, and @Google for my next phone. Absolute jokers.

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Online chess is ruined forever @lichess
... this is a 1100 elo game...

97% accuracy.... hmmmm

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Fall down seven times, stand up eight.

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Deary me - this is troubling. Imagine trying to help solve a crime, then your details are leaked.

I wonder what they're doing about it, Mark Hallas does not seem to be commenting.