If it's warm and sunny today, that's an example of 'St Luke's little summer' - a traditional name for a period of fine weather around the feast of St Luke, 18 October. The sunlight of summer, falling on the glowing colours of autumn. gutenberg.ca/ebooks/sackvil…

A new blog post is out! “Beyond the Hype of AI – Machine Intelligence and the Pancake Problem” Retweets and likes are appreciated! Read it here: nubero.ch/blog/014/

Not wow, the new normal

Chase Oliver

Lo, behold the wreckage of the USA's suburban left. Still , like Matt Stoller clinging to a lost world.

Our latest Dallas investigation is now in video form 🎥 See how SLB – the world’s largest oilfield services company keeps Russia’s oil – and war funding – flowing.

It's not surprising that the inherent limitations of LLMs/GenAI would be exposed in the prosaic environment of legal litigation. The nett result is that AI makes litigation even more expensive and arduous, not easier or cheaper: futurism.com/artificial-int…

Oh, FFS. The AI bubble pop cannot come soon enough.

The last few months have been devastating for LLM dreams: • Apple reasoning paper and the ASU mirage paper and many others confirmed that LLMs still can’t solve distribution shift. • GPT-5 came late and fell short. • Turing Award winner Rich Sutton thanked me for my

Probably good advice

From the local newspaper Lister (1899), this gem: Political economy. 12-year-old: “What is political economy, Dad?” Dad: “Never buy more votes than you strictly need.”

“I don’t think people learn technique anymore. There are no great jazz‑fusion bands. I grew up seeing Weather Report & I don’t see anything remotely like that now. There’s nothing to copy from, because you can’t go and see a band like Weather Report." — PRINCE

This work-for-free arrangement called "woofing" wwoof.net is a terribly bad idea. Don't let your adult-kids go near it.

AI slop: It's waste but also fuel e-flux.com/architecture/i…

Like Adam Tooze says, one has to learn about China to understand the world. Good here foreignaffairs.com/china/china-mo… . Not in the unravelling but great lessons for other less developed countries to get to where China is now - regional competition through the tax system.

This approach to managing nature areas is 2nd nature in Souther Africa, it is new to Europe bbc.com/future/article…