Andy Gimblett 🇪🇺🇨🇿🇺🇦

Co-founder/CTO @ Estima Scientific. Programmer; python, etc. PhD, ADHD. Used to lecture/do formal HCI research/haskell @ Swansea Uni.

[ℋ𝒶𝒾𝓁𝑒𝓎 @Am_hailey]

My eight year old woke up at 5am today, got herself dressed. She's wearing a huge, poofy lavender dress, light up pastel pink shoes and she covered her face in glitter. I asked her if it was a special occasion and she said "It's museum day, I'm dressing up for the fossils" and girl - YES. Dress up for the fossils 🙌

[Andy Gimblett 🇪🇺🇨🇿🇺🇦 @gimboland]

"Borag Thungg, earthlet. "

Lmao

[Andy Gimblett 🇪🇺🇨🇿🇺🇦 @gimboland]

Hahaha wow... I just used the word "zarjaz" in an Opus session (I'm drunk, sue me) and it replied with "splundig vur thrigg". I know I shouldn't be surprised, given what I know about how LLMs work, but dang that tickled me.

[Andy Gimblett 🇪🇺🇨🇿🇺🇦 @gimboland]

Squaxx dek Thargo

[Yawar Amin @yawaramin]

'It's terrible, why would I want my endpoints to return random HTML fragments?' - this is what SPA brain does to people

[Andy Gimblett 🇪🇺🇨🇿🇺🇦 @gimboland]

GigaChad Ethernet

[Simon Harris @SimonHarrisMBD]

Well done to the social media person at Rowhead Farm near Stirling in Scotland for what is possibly the greatest Facebook post of all time …

[Andy Gimblett 🇪🇺🇨🇿🇺🇦 @gimboland]

@SplattTheTwat @top_banana3 I read it as “today did I learn”, which felt quite sweet, I thought.

[Sensurround @ShamashAran]

Can we PLEASE
for the love of all that his holy
STOP NORMALIZING THIS INSTALL METHOD

[Fav ⛧ @Favwontmiss]

I'm a psychologist with ADHD and this is my number one ADHD life hack.

Take the damn stimulants.

[Andy Gimblett 🇪🇺🇨🇿🇺🇦 @gimboland]

@rnelson0 @pierrebgood @bulldog1205 @SamRo Ah yeah, good point. Fair enough.

[Andy Gimblett 🇪🇺🇨🇿🇺🇦 @gimboland]

@pierrebgood @bulldog1205 @SamRo It's not poorly worded given its context: in frequentist probability theory "expectation" is a precisely defined term, and the question is testing if you know what it means.

(Aaaand, as others have pointed out, "good at frequentist probability" ≠ "financially literate".)

[Andy Gimblett 🇪🇺🇨🇿🇺🇦 @gimboland]

Yass queen.

[Mudit @muditfx]

— Žižek, on not obsessing with psychoanalyzing oneself all the time

[Sam White @SamWhiteTky]

Future people will look back on current discussions about LLMs being conscious in the same way that we look back on Victorians discussing whether the telephone could be used to contact the spirit world.

[Andy Gimblett 🇪🇺🇨🇿🇺🇦 @gimboland]

@Mat_Hunt @wtgowers BOSTOCK & CHANDLER FOREVER!!!

[Andy Gimblett 🇪🇺🇨🇿🇺🇦 @gimboland]

@AugustoRom84603 @RetroBoyJon @Based_Potato @todayyearsold That’s not a curve, that’s two straight lines. I think you’re making an unwarranted assumption about the underlying geometry within which the shape exists.

[Andy Gimblett 🇪🇺🇨🇿🇺🇦 @gimboland]

@james_rands Yep. I’m 51; my Dad ran a chippy started by his grandad. He did exactly this: greaseproof protecting the food, newspaper around it. Alas, had to stop after a surprise visit by an officious fellow in the mid-to-late 80s. People always said they missed it. 😔

[James Hogg @JamesAHogg2]

The great Paul Whitehouse is 68 years old today, which means I am obliged to post this (again!) - arguably the most majestically random but brilliant comedy sketch committed to celluloid for at least the last, what, forty, forty five years?

Yes, forty, forty five years.

Happy birthday Paul 🤘

[lewis @Lewiswbt1]

Trump at rally: And frodo baggins is here, we know frodo baggins, we love frodo, we know the vest, very strong vest, we love MITHRIL. does he want to come up? get him up here. he's invisible, he turned invisible, that's okay

[Andy Gimblett 🇪🇺🇨🇿🇺🇦 @gimboland]

@DaniNYC212 @LiberTmedic @RepJackKimble Especially Poe’s Law! For that alone Jack has earnt his money tenfold.