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Don’t let AI determine your intentions

Intention is the determination to do a specific thing, or act in a specific way. When you’re being intentional, and deliberate, you are taking the first step to exercising your will into the world. Everybody else might accept what’s happening, but you won’t. At its finest, AI technology helps augment and amplify your intention. The […] The post Don’t let AI determine your intentions appeared first on Herbert Lui.

19 hours ago 2 votes
Down the country lane

Down the country lane Scraped-out ditch Speed limit begins Table of eggs for sale Footbridge to the paddocks Customers for the swimming pool White sofa on the first floor landing Workmen making the garage habitable Nosey neighbour walking repeatedly past Once we're home shall we put the kettle on?

4 hours ago 1 votes
The jellyfish knows how to survive uncertain times

A lion’s mane jellyfish can release up to 45,000 eggs per day. The jellyfish’s strategy is to lay as many eggs as possible and leave them to fend for themselves. Most of these eggs don’t survive, probably fewer than 0.1%. In ecology, this approach is known as a high reproduction selection—better known as r–selection. Fish, […] The post The jellyfish knows how to survive uncertain times appeared first on Herbert Lui.

2 days ago 3 votes
The £5 pint

I saw this poster outside a bar in Hackney. I can do a very rough check of beer prices in London by scrolling back through this blog. • At the 2012 Olympics a pint of lager cost £4.80. 2016 I cringed when a bottle of Becks cost £5.25. 2019 a pint of lager cost £5.95 and I chose not to buy a second. 2021 I bought a round which topped £6 a pint. Also if you step out of the London bubble then pints are significantly cheaper. the average price of a pint of draught lager nationwide every month. latest data the UK average price of a pint is £4.80, way less than Londoners pay. And here are the years various pint/pound thresholds were crossed. » £1 a pint in September 1988 probably That last pound took just three years, so beer inflation's certainly ramping up. Obviously other factors play an important part like energy prices, taxation and staff costs. But it is increasingly hard to justify a long evening in a London pub. Just don't stop, else there'll be fewer and fewer of them left.

2 days ago 3 votes