I done found me a tree goblin!
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

Water safety day!
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

It was about ten seconds later that we realised how terrible Crocs are for climbing.
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

Two weeks after seeing the CGI Lilo and Stitch at the cinema I'm watching the original with the kids. And it's so much better. The direction, the writing, the acting are all just much higher quality.

The remake felt much clumsier. And I don't really understand why.

Edit: Just realised that they entirely cut the Ugly Duckling part from the remake. Why would you do that? It's key to Stitch's arc!
And all of the bits where Lilo how to be like Elvis.

In fact, nearly all of the bits where Lilo talked to Stitch and built a relationship with him.

1. Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft -- and people are paying anyway

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2. How much is golfing at St. Andrews worth to the Scottish economy? (over $400m)

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3. Recording orchestral music for a computer game (Bloodborne, Cleric Beast fight)

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4. Why Israel Struck Iran Now

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1. UK sanctions Israeli ministers over Gaza comments

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2. Rough sleeping to be decriminalised in England and Wales

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3. The pictures that show why the UK has run up a £49bn repair bill

(tags:UK infrastructure OhForFucksSake austerity )

4. Krakencoder predicts brain function 20x better than past methods

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Reading this article on advice to teachers in the UK about using AI, they suggest using it for things like "marking quizzes" and "generating routine letters".

And what really annoys me about this is that it's a perfect example of where simple automation could be used without the need for AI.

The precise example in the article is "Generate a letter to parents about a head lice outbreak." - which is a fairly common thing to happen in schools. So why on earth isn't there one standard letter per school, if not one standard letter for the whole country, that can be reused by absolutely everyone whenever this standard event happens? Why does this require AI to generate a new one every time, rather than just being a standard email that gets sent?

Same with marking quizzes. If children get multiple-choice quizzes regularly across all schools, and marking them uses precious teacher time, why is there not a standard piece of software, paid for once (or written once internally) which enables all children to do quizzes in a standard way, and get them marked automatically?

If we're investing a bunch of money into automating the various processes that teachers spend far too much time on, start with simple automation, which is cheap, easy, and reliable.

Also, wouldn't it be sensible to do some research into how accurately AI marks homework *before* you tell teachers to use it to do that? Here's some research from February which shows that its agreement with examiners was only 0.61 (where 1.00 would be perfect agreement). So I'm sceptical about the quality of the marking it's going to be doing...