You can’t spell “Gell-Mann amnesia” without LLM

esham.io/2024/03/gell-m…

New blog post: lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/enf…

A review in Nature, by Candice Odgers, asserts that I have mistaken correlation for causation and that “there is no evidence that using these platforms is rewiring children’s brains or driving an epidemic of mental illness.” Both of these assertions are untrue.…

🎉🌼🌸April Fools! 🌸🌼🎉

Only kidding. Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren't women at all, but men, every last one of them.

In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their…

Is it just me, or is GitHub code highlighting broken for all `.rst` files? e.g. github.com/spookylukey/dj…

If there is tech debt, there are financial instruments. Today in Rust world I successfully collaterialized my tech debt. lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/3/26/rust…

✍️ New post on some work I’ve done optimizing Django’s system check framework.

💡 This is a bit of a long post, about 3k words. I hope you learn something from it.

THE WPATH FILES

Advocates of gender-affirming care say it’s evidence-based.

But now, newly released internal files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) prove that the practice of transgender medicine is neither scientific nor medical.

American…

The rate of antidepressant use among 12-25 year olds increased 66% over 6 years.

That's 6 years, not 60 years. Literally 2016-2022.

This is insane.

Normal parent: your homework was to write a *list* of mammals, you can't just write 'dog'! 1 item is not a list!

Comp. sci. parent: your empty page of 0 mammals is a perfectly cromulent list, I'm sure you'll get a good mark.

My 3 screen setup right now:
- A Windows laptop
- A 2nd monitor for my Linux laptop
- My Linux laptop, which is running Linux inside WSL on a Windows VM guest in the Linux host.

3 screens, 4 OS instances.

There are reasons, but please don't ask 😭

New post: When is less data less private?

johndcook.com/blog/2024/02/2…

Male swimmer from Ramapo College sets another school record in women's event.

Now tell me again the strides women have made when society applauds a man for pushing us off our own podium...

Title IX literally means nothing at this point

A thread to summarise the human rights conversation involving Yuval Noah Harari, Tom Holland and Dr Jordan B Peterson...

Harari thinks rights are as fictional as the biblical stories that birthed them:

x.com/glenscrivener/…

New quick blog post - 'Python packaging must be getting better - a datapoint' - lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/pyt…

All this #htmx popularity is beginning to annoy me now. I'm rapidly going from 'one of the enlightened few' to 'plebian developer'.

✍️ New post on improving diffs with the “histogram” algorithm

💡 Did you know that Git generates diffs “on the fly” by comparing commit snapshots? And that there’s a superior built-in algorithm, “histogram”, that makes diffs easier to read?

I cannot believe that I’m watching a woman tell a committee at the Scottish parliament that it’s ok to put male prisoners in with female prisoners because the women are ‘kind & understanding’.

Of course she’s fine with it. She’s not the one locked up with these dangerous men. 🤬