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Michael Armstrong

@medialator.bsky.social

Continually in transition, so just as soon as I get round to writing this description it will be out of date. Currently wrangling python code to monitor TV subtitles. Also to be found at @medialator@mastodon.social

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Watershed@wshed.bsky.social · 5h ago

We All Play Synth is back in the Café & Bar for another great set of synth music Fri 21 Aug 19:30. https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/watershed/fri-21-aug-we-all-play-synth-summer-emom-special-2026-158133#e158133

We All Play Synth Summer EMOM Special 2026 at Watershed

We All Play Synth ™ is excited to be back for a Summer EMOM Special at the wonderful Watershed in Bristol! We'll be occupying the wonderful bar area, with live visuals and an intimate stage, allowing 360 views of performers (if you want to get a close up on all the gear that's being tweaked! ;) Get out of the home studio and into the light of a warm, appreciative audience. Laptops, synths, dru…

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Transport Action Network@transportaction.bsky.social · yesterday

A Memorandum of Understanding with Active Travel England, adopted in 2024, wasn't published until we unearthed it under the Freedom of Information Act. Even now, we can see no signs of the promised annual reports on progress in putting it into practice transportactionnetwork.org.uk/national-hig...

National Highways must come clean on pedestrian and cycle safety

We recently highlighted National Highways' serious failure to meet its road casualty reduction targets - despite their claim that "safety is our most important commitment”. Worse still is their failur...

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Good Law Project@goodlawproject.org · yesterday

Anti-trans activists lost twice in one day, after the High Court rejected a challenge to police guidance. @jessothomson.co.uk argues that the ruling raises important questions for trans human rights: https://goodlaw.social/0kp3

High Court rules strip searches don’t have to be based on ‘biological sex’ | Good Law Project

Anti-trans activists lost twice in one day, after the High Court rejected a challenge to police guidance – Jess O’Thomson argues that the ruling raises important questions for trans human rights

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Sophie Molly@sophiemolly.co.uk · yesterday

A message to trans + people in the UK. Carry on using the facilities you feel most comfortable in from tomorrow. Your comfort matters. Your right to exist in public life matters. The guidance is completely unworkable and it will fail!!

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · 2d ago

Haters focusing on Liddle's violence toward his pregnant partner, his galloping racism, or his repeated defences of paedophilia, should remember to mention he was also one of the worst writers to ever do it. A calorie-free hack of the first water. Just absolute dogshit, back to front.

Michael Armstrong@medialator.bsky.social · 2d ago

Having seen the BBC TV coverage, it seems that the losses for one filling station is far less than it would cost them to put one person on the forecourt serving customers.

Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike@gazza-d.bsky.social · 2d ago

Shops put security tags on almost everything too try and prevent thefts. What are filling stations doing? Seemingly bugger all except whining. Anpr checks before fuel sales, and pay first like unmanned supermarket stations do. No money, no fuel. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Michael Ekstrand@md.ekstrandom.net · 5d ago

I remember a paper from several years ago about classical RL agents learning to exploit bugs/limits in their training gyms to “solve” the problem. One was a little physics sim, the agent learned to exploit the sim’s floating-point error to fly across the world at impossible speed to meet the goal.

Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 5d ago

We're in the era of incompetence & cybercrimes headlined as "unprecedented model capabilities gone rogue." So OpenAI & Anthropic are trying to one up each other with such incompetence because the "press release as a service" performing media & clueless politicians parrot pre IPO CEO talking points.

Michael Ekstrand@md.ekstrandom.net · 5d ago

In fact, one of the hard things about training & evaluating ML systems, even without an LLM or agent in sight, is making sure the system is learning to solve the real problem, not exploiting quirks of your data set and/or evaluation. There are so many ways to open the door to “cheating”.