Chris Woods

Hi everyone. Look forward to talking to you all. Salut tout le monde! みなさん、こんにちは。私は日本語を学んでいます。私はあなたに話しを楽しみにしています。よろしく！

@Jira when I search for the acronym "SIAM", results containing only the word "Thai" or "Thailand" are returned, and the word "Thai" is highlighted. I'm aware of the significant history of the name "Siam" and Thai people, but why is this happening?

@Chaos2Cured @heygurisingh Using LLMs to finish a thought process or reason a problem offloads the cognitive work, which in turn makes you essentially refactor the process of problem solving because you no longer have to think hard. This is bad, because it also risks you forgetting how to think critically.

@heygurisingh The human makes the decision on HOW to use AI. Stop spreading this drivel. •

🚨BREAKING: MIT put brain scanners on people using ChatGPT. It is erasing your memory faster than Google ever did. 83% of ChatGPT users couldn't remember what they wrote. Minutes later. Not days. Minutes. In 2011, researchers discovered the "Google Effect" -- people stopped memorizing what they could look up. Your brain outsourced storage to the search bar. What's happening with ChatGPT is significantly worse. MIT put EEG monitors on 54 people writing essays with either ChatGPT, Google search, or no tools. The brain-only group lit up across memory, creativity, and planning networks. The Google group was weaker. The ChatGPT group? A 47% collapse in brain connectivity. Their brains basically clocked out. 83% of ChatGPT users couldn't recall what they'd written minutes earlier. Only 11% failed in the other two groups. The ChatGPT group wasn't even sure the essays were theirs. Google made you forget where you read something. ChatGPT makes you forget you read anything at all. With Google, you still scanned, compared, and synthesized. With ChatGPT, you ask, receive, paste. Information passes through your brain like water through a pipe. Wharton confirmed it across 10,000 trials. Over 50% surrendered their reasoning to AI voluntarily. Confidence went up. Accuracy went down. They called it "cognitive surrender." Google made us lazy searchers. ChatGPT is making us lazy thinkers.

@philipvdm @f1multiviewer @60fps Not that they necessarily need to run generators, they can theoretically power cameras on site with anything - perhaps they just put up with occasional lighting strobing from 50 Hz cameras in 60 Hz environments.

@philipvdm @f1multiviewer @60fps FOM unilateral feed is 50p as are the F1TV streams, it's all produced from Biggin Hill in the UK. I have wondered if they run gennies in countries where the grid runs at 60 Hz because I haven't noticed any standards conversion artifacts for quite a long time.

Looking back at the replay of the start, the last light was only illuminated for a single frame (!) before all lights went off. Given F1 broadcasts at 50fps, that means the last light was on for less than 0.02s, much shorter than what the FIA recommends (0.2s) #F1 #AustralianGP

@formula_tiger @F1TelemetryData @F1BigData @racecardata @matteobobbi Either the ECU misreports based on conditional criteria, or the receiving system remaps values based on whether superclip was in effect while the throttle is pressed. Or this is a data interpretation/representation issue with mismapped values.

@F1TelemetryData @F1BigData @racecardata @matteobobbi It’s a bug. There’s no way to manipulate this. Get a brain and stop the blind hate

🚨 Is #F1... CHANGING telemetry data to hide the super-clipping?? Look at today's speed traces: throtthe goes above 100%, and the speed for all drivers gets locked until braking. I hope this is a bug and not wanted, because this would be RIDICULOUS. #ChineseGP #Telemetry

Hi @PeelWaters @PeelPorts @PeelLandP @MediaCityUK, what's left of the old jetty in North Bay (under the Alchemist) on the Manchester Ship Canal really needs some TLC. It's one good storm away from disassembling itself, there's enough submarine detritus already ;) Could you fix?

@PolePositionist I hope teams tune the regen to be less aggressive, because they have a full km with wings open... Hopefully there'll be no crazy rev sag.

Sooo.... at what point down the back straight will the new F1 cars start super clipping?

@mattamys Think they said it was on shift, so I'm suspecting torque map plus car riding the kerb plus tyres not up to temp... Oops

I’m so confused, it’s just like Kimi’s crash yesterday touching to kerb which is acting like it’s a wet patch or grass - do we think this was the electric power interfering?

Hey @F1 where are the hundredths on the timing tower? In fact, where are the thousandths? Please don't make these stupider simpler graphics permanent.

@SecurityTrybe Tell me you're in your 20s without telling me you're in your 20s

Did everyone start their Linux journey with Ubuntu?

Seems Sky eventually fixed this for F1 UHD channel on DSAT sometime during the quali show. It was about 8 frames (300 ms) out when I measured it! Quite annoying.

Hi @SkySportsF1, on Sky Q it seems that lipsync is incorrect on the SSF1 UHD, affecting programmes and adverts. Pictures leading sound by several frames. Could someone nudge MCR to try and fix before Saturday? @SkyHelpTeam

@CarolineRonsley @SkyHelpTeam I also had a few problems with Q on Saturday that necessitated full network resets on both the Q and Mini. It took ten minutes just to get the mini box reconnected, I had to use the box-to-box WPS method to re-pair as it refused to connect to my WiFi direct. Slow, buggy mess.

@SkyHelpTeam @christopherw Sky customer service is so bad now. Based overseas difficult to understand they lack empathy and compassion for two special needs children having no sky for fifth day. Spent 2 hrs this morning trying to get skyQ to work or the mini boxes. Tech support doesn’t open till 8am.

@F1BigData Meh, if they corner more nervously, chase closer and battle more often, I don't care. ;)

During Mercedes' fastest lap, they lost a total of 51 km/h (From 313 to 262 km/h) between turns 8 and 9 despite having the throttle at 100% Welcome to the new Formula 1

BREAKING: Honda deny their energy recovery system is powered by hamster wheels. Claims a shortage of hamsters are curtailing Aston Martin’s mileage have also been denied. Meanwhile, the FIA have confirmed a 5 place penalty for any hamsters used outside of the agreed allocation.

@FamilyTaes I think you're dipping your timeline too much in the weird technosphere irrational hatred bubble, this is not a talking point in normieverse.

Why is there so much forced hate on the privacy display in S26U? It's a really great feature, with little to no trade-offs if you don't wanna use it. & even when you're using it, only downside is that the resolution is lowered. If it was apple, people would be going crazy rn.

YIKES: @perplexity_ai is flexing that they have OS-level access to 100M+ Samsung S26s. Zero mention of: Privacy Security Encryption What will Perplexity do with this growing stash of personal data from deep inside Samsung phones? What jurisdictions will it live in? Who will it get shared with? Here's the thing: Android's current security & privacy model involves sandboxing 3rd party apps from each other. TikTok can't read your private notes, for example. Sandboxing is good & it narrows the attack surface against your private stuff. But this #Perplexity integration breaks that baseline sandbox model, making a kernel-adjacent data bridge for Perplexity into your personal stuff. Will users understand the structural shift in privacy? Meanwhile, the risk of prompt injection & other attacks against an agentic AI that has OS-level access to personal stuff is also real. Lots of speed, no signs of caution.

@jsrailton @perplexity_ai Ugh. Now I need to figure out how to permanently disable Bixby and disable all the AI features. Big yuck.

@amb_balcaen10 Sure. What's disappointing about this is how tonedeaf Molson Coors have been about taking over the brewery then removing its origins, making it just another brand in their range with no more heritage behind it. Cornish water also makes such better beer compared to Burton water 😋

Ugh. Molson Coors should be boycotted for closing the Cornish home of a well-regarded Cornish brand. The tastiest Doom Bar was always casked from Rock; now we'll only have naff Burton upon Trent brews. If you've not had St. Austell beers yet, go try them! bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…