Notes for Week 32, 2024

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Notes

• Late publishing this week as a result of a hectic weekend!
• Said weekend involved visiting the Carole Nash Historic car event at Mondello Park with the kids, which was great fun. A great mix of old GT cars, motorbikes and single seaters running through the track while we got to see the garages and enjoy a bit of a festival vibe.
  • Unexpectedly, it was sponsored by Porsche's new Macan EV. The very car I've ordered!
• Someone had Tooted (a message on Mastodon) about the unbridled joy of cycling around the city, which is hampered, unsurprisingly, by the city itself. It's such a shame we don't have more greenways, cycle lanes and options to use a bike, or even use it for part of a journey (by bringing the bike on public transport etc.). The sense of adventure is taken away from our urban areas.

(via flickr)

Tabs

• Reinforcement learning is barely learning. Another blow for AI claims.
• Tony Hawk Pro Skater exploits
• Advertising group shuts down after Elon sues it. No doubt this was the plan, but it still won't go well for X.
• Astronauts go to space for 8 days but wind up there for months. Boeing. not even once.
• On-board the Creed cruise
• Google ruled as monopolistic
• Teenage Engineering get weird
• Ed Zitron on AI's bubble bursting
• nVidia scraping a lifetime of video per day for AI
• Yen carry trade explains this week's market wobble