David Christensen

@davidchristensen.bsky.social

Retired software engineer. Dabbling with AI/ML/RL ATProto and anything else that catches my eye. Timid cyclist. Novice singer.

The train knife attack was clearly a terrible event, but billions spent on increasing train security would reduce deaths by around zero and injuries by not very many more. There are better ways to spend the money than knee-jerk reactions to extraordinarily rare events.

Recently talking to someone involved with improving NHS "efficiency" in UK. Asked how it is measured. They gave the example of operations per surgeon. My suggestion of *successful* operations per surgeon was apparently novel. I wish people would distinguish between process and result.

Surely with the scorched earth policy Trump is wielding at a lot of important US science, the UK (in particular, being Anglophone) & Europe should be on the biggest scientific talent recruitment drive in centuries? Are we? If not, why not? The 30s analogy people are missing is the flight of talent

I was bored by this on X/Twitter, guess I shouldn't be surprised it's now on bsky. Sign of the platform's success I guess. Not sure if I've just had my first onlyfans performer fishing for business, or someone with even more ulterior motives nicking their photo and fishing for something else...

I've been on Twitter for ages and BSky for a bit. I have only today discovered that scroll up gets you from a comment notification to what it was commenting on. Did I miss something telling me this was a thing? There's UI suggestion of it is there? :(

Nobody (except code reviewer) reads your code today when it works and everyone knows what it's doing . They need to read it when it doesn't work, you're not around, nobody knows what it's for. Write your code now for future person. Hope others do too, for when you're that future person.