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daedalus_f commented on Where is James Bond? Trapped in an ugly stalemate with Amazon wsj.com/business/media/ja... · Posted by u/gnabgib

briga · a year ago

>The two sides are at an impasse: Amazon needs Broccoli to furnish them with ideas for a new Bond movie, but Broccoli doesn’t want to make a new Bond movie with Amazon.

No offense to the Broccoli family or the franchise but these movies aren't exactly full of original new ideas. They've been rehashing the same formula since the 60s. It doesn't take a creative genius to come up with these plots and I'm pretty sure ChatGPT could generate new ones just as effectively

daedalus_f · a year ago

I wouldn't be suprised if this attitude is indeed prevalent at Amazon and across studio executives as a whole. But the lack of respect for the process of crafting a good story seems to me to be why all these studios keep churning out rubbish that is eating away their bottom lines and destroying the very expensive franchises they keep buying then end up winding down.

daedalus_f commented on Boulder's explicit traffic safety signs are the latest fakes on CO roads cpr.org/2024/11/21/boulde... · Posted by u/mooreds

A_Duck · a year ago

This is the law in Europe, passing on the inside is called 'undertaking' — in the UK if you get caught undertaking 4x in 3 years you lose your license!

It's a shock initially in the US but actually leads to a more relaxed kind of driving. US driving is more like going for a relaxed walk, in Europe it's more like running on a track.

daedalus_f · a year ago

The UK has also now passed laws that criminalise hogging the middle or fast lanes on motorways (UK highways). Unfortunately it's not strongly enforced. It feels like a significant cause of congestion during peak hours.

daedalus_f commented on The decline and fall of the British economy (2022) worksinprogress.co/issue/... · Posted by u/MrBuddyCasino

thaumasiotes · a year ago

> That doesn't really make sense historically. "The UK" is a modern concept relatively speaking

It makes perfect sense; you just have to acknowledge that to anyone outside England, "England" and "the UK" are identical in meaning.

daedalus_f · a year ago

It’s surprising how many people get them mixed up even in the UK.

England is one country of the United Kingdom. Scotland, England and Wales make up the island of Great Britain, the largest of the British Isles. The UK also includes Northern Ireland. Hence: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Island.

I was confused too, thought that Great Britain referred to the archipelago as a whole (excluding Ireland) rather than the largest island.

daedalus_f commented on The decline and fall of the British economy (2022) worksinprogress.co/issue/... · Posted by u/MrBuddyCasino

mattlondon · a year ago

It is not a fair world unfortunately.

Regardless, is it so bad if the UK becomes an inconsequential country? I feel like Brexit only happened because people here thought the UK was somehow special or important.

daedalus_f · a year ago

I’d agree nationalism played a big role, but I’d also argue that was being driven by a right wing press that had used Europe as a scapegoat for decades to explain away economic disparity. Meanwhile there are legitimate complaints about the EU, its opaque democracy and extensive bureaucracy.

daedalus_f commented on The decline and fall of the British economy (2022) worksinprogress.co/issue/... · Posted by u/MrBuddyCasino

vishnugupta · a year ago

The word colony appears just once. Britain's economy was built on extracting resources from her colonies around the world. Surely what was happening in India, African continent, and elsewhere had some bearing on rise/fall of their economy? Perhaps they got spread too thin trying to administer so many colonies with so few people? Perhaps colonies started exerting more and more resistance?

daedalus_f · a year ago

The British empire reached its territorial peak in about 1921. This article is more about its domestic economic decline during the late 19th century.

daedalus_f commented on Radiology-specific foundation model harrison.ai/harrison-rad-... · Posted by u/pyromaker

jarrelscy · a year ago

One of the developers here. The paper links to an earlier model from a different group that could only interpret X-rays of specific body parts. Our model does not have such limitation.

However, the actual FRCR 2B Rapids exam question bank is not publicly available and the FRCR is unlikely to agree to release them as this would compromise the integrity of their examination in the future- so the test used are mock examinations, none of which have been provided to the model during training.

daedalus_f · a year ago

Interesting, is your model still based on radiographs alone, or can it look at cross-sectional imaging as well?

daedalus_f commented on Radiology-specific foundation model harrison.ai/harrison-rad-... · Posted by u/pyromaker

daedalus_f · a year ago

The FRCR 2b examination consists of three parts, a rapid reporting component (the candidate assess around 35 x-rays in 30 minutes where the candidate is simply expected to mark the film as normal or abnormal, this is a perceptual test and is largely limited to simple fracture vs normal) alongside a viva and long cases component where the candidate reviews more complex examinations and is expected to provide a report, differential diagnosis and management plan.

A quick look at the paper in the BMJ shows that the model did not sit the FRCR 2b examination as claimed, but was given a cut down mock up of the rapid reporting part of the examination invented by one of the authors.

https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/379/bmj-2022-072826.full.pdf

Posted by u/daedalus_f 2 years ago

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daedalus_f commented on The Moral Economy of the Shire nathangoldwag.wordpress.c... · Posted by u/thecosas

082349872349872 · 2 years ago

I guess the US guarantee is what kept the "cod wars" limited to shouldering?

(how well might current DDGs stand up to a similar full and frank discussion?)

daedalus_f · 2 years ago

Even without the US guarantee, I strongly doubt the UK would have entered an actual shooting war with Iceland over fish.

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