Vihanga

PhD candidate @TUDublinCompSci, researching virtual humans. MSc in AI @OfficialUoM. Watches F1, dabbles with competitive chess on weekends

[Vihanga @VihGamage]

Ødegaard is an Arsenal player - it makes sense that he shot straight at the keeper.

It must have been a very strange situation for him to be in.

I mean, rarely do Arsenal players score goals from open play, maybe he forgot how to.

#FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup #Brazil #Norway

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

These two editorials by the Washington Post expose how the Republican Party and Democratic Party are held to completely different standards by the media.

Texas gerrymander: “Not a threat to democracy.”

Virginia gerrymander: “Power grab by Democrats.”

[Vihanga @VihGamage]

@NickADobos Someone tell me what Cursor’s core business is supposed to be?

One day they are going to try and beat Claude code/Anthropic to have better models - now they are trying to one-up GitHub on hosting code and review cycles and all that by building a new GitHub.

Which is it?

[Vihanga @VihGamage]

@levelsio So, Imagination as a service?

[Vihanga @VihGamage]

@levelsio So, Imagination as a service?

[Vihanga @VihGamage]

@RapSheet See now this sort of thing is why I am sure in reality Cinderella ends up divorcing Prince Charming

[Vihanga @VihGamage]

See now this sort of thing is why I am sure in reality Cinderella ends up divorcing Prince Charming

[Ian Rapoport @RapSheet]

If the MRI confirms a torn Achilles, Daniel Jones will face a 9-month recovery that puts him right up against the start of 2026 season.

Jones is a pending free agent, though Indy wants him back.

[Vihanga @VihGamage]

@rydercc64 @YourAnonCentral The flames will eventually be extinguished by the water from the rising sea levels from climate change.

Luckily the Republicans and right wing politicians are sure climate change is a hoax.

[Vihanga @VihGamage]

More and more authoritarian, perhaps - but thy acknowledge reality and things like climate change, unlike legislative bodies from a certain country.

I’m not saying the EC doesn’t need change, they do - and the need to do a MUCH better job of listening to the people - and that’s understating it.

But I’d take the EC over the current US congress

[Will Buxton @wbuxtonofficial]

Lando Norris - a racer who, in embracing his vulnerability, has found by far his greatest strength. He never shied away from his struggles, has been honest and open about his fragility, yet fought and found the resolve to achieve his greatest dream. A champion and an inspiration.

[Vihanga @VihGamage]

@Aidan_Millward There is zero need for a sporting regulation on this too

This one falls under common sense I’d say? When you are obviously forced off track, what is a racer supposed to do.

[Vihanga @VihGamage]

@F1JayyUK @mk2escortstace You had the option of not amplifying a non-issue with this post and contributed to it less….but engagement is engagement I guess

[Vihanga @VihGamage]

@f1trollofficial The swap gave Lando the title over Max, not Oscar - if not for the swap, neither McLaren driver would’ve been champion

[Vihanga @VihGamage]

Fittipaldi, Hunt, Lauda, Prost, Senna, Häkkinen, Hamilton - and now Norris

Not bad company

#McLaren

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

A number of people are talking about implications of AI to schools. I spoke about some of my thoughts to a school board earlier, some highlights:

1. You will never be able to detect the use of AI in homework. Full stop. All "detectors" of AI imo don't really work, can be defeated in various ways, and are in principle doomed to fail. You have to assume that any work done outside classroom has used AI.
2. Therefore, the majority of grading has to shift to in-class work (instead of at-home assignments), in settings where teachers can physically monitor students. The students remain motivated to learn how to solve problems without AI because they know they will be evaluated without it in class later.
3. We want students to be able to use AI, it is here to stay and it is extremely powerful, but we also don't want students to be naked in the world without it. Using the calculator as an example of a historically disruptive technology, school teaches you how to do all the basic math & arithmetic so that you can in principle do it by hand, even if calculators are pervasive and greatly speed up work in practical settings. In addition, you understand what it's doing for you, so should it give you a wrong answer (e.g. you mistyped "prompt"), you should be able to notice it, gut check it, verify it in some other way, etc. The verification ability is especially important in the case of AI, which is presently a lot more fallible in a great variety of ways compared to calculators.
4. A lot of the evaluation settings remain at teacher's discretion and involve a creative design space of no tools, cheatsheets, open book, provided AI responses, direct internet/AI access, etc.

TLDR the goal is that the students are proficient in the use of AI, but can also exist without it, and imo the only way to get there is to flip classes around and move the majority of testing to in class settings.

[Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES]

“He is a villain in America’s story. He is a coward in America’s story. After the Trump coup he caved to Trump when he had the power to end the MAGA obscenity. He was too weak, craven, dishonest and weak to use it.”

https://t.co/3KIeFMS0wv

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Wow who would have thought that electing a rapist would have complicated the release of the Epstein Files?

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Of course I condemn any assault on law enforcement, you shit poster.

Now do Jan 6.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Paxton is getting divorced
Trump Jr is divorced
Boebert is divorced
Hannity is divorced
Palin is divorced
MTG is divorced
Trump divorced/cheated on all of his wives

But MAGA says, "Marriage is a sacred institution." 🤣

Republicans are Garbage people.