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Anyone who thinks AI is immune to the same promise made by all major technologies of the last 150 years needs a little more...experience.

When legacy systems are already diabolical, throw in another language and they become close to impossible.

Technically-minded people have a responsibility to either:

1. Contribute to improving these systems in some way 2. Find ways to legally and efficiently shorten, circumvent or outsource them

There are other far more pleasant and productive ways to embrace a new language and community. Diving in to red tape is not one.

A shame that this took the threat of war to be taken seriously, rather than the reality of disenfranchisement faced by the elderly, immigrants, the homeless and the unbanked for whom cash remains a lifeline.

It is of great convenience to governments that digital payments require registered accounts on easily-tracked systems.

Just let people buy vegetables without becoming a cell in a Borgesian spreadsheet.

Despite knowing the correct answer to the question in the first section, the diabolical wording on it absolutely threw me:

"Erase the shaded background: does the share of ink that shows the five numbers go up, down, or stay the same?"

In the spirit of the project, try asking me instead,

"Remove the shaded background: is the amount of ink now left on the chart more useful, less useful or the same as before?"

Damn...even that was hard to write.

Max Junestrand has consistently said Legora treats the model layer as swappable, selecting across frontier providers rather than building the product around one.

OpenAI didn't need to name Legora and Harvey in the second paragraph of the launch post.

They are pre-empting the obvious interpretation of Astra for Law: that moving this far up the legal stack puts them in direct competition with their biggest legal AI customers.

“Don't worry, they can build on us” is a pretty conspicuous message to include on launch day.

They have clearly thought about some pessimistic outcomes.

Try Spanish roundabouts. On the whole, poorly designed, implemented and regulated. On roundabouts with two or more lanes, laws favour those on the outside lane, so everyone takes the outside lane even if they are travelling 3/4 of the way round. As a result drivers who are in a position to take an exit, do not take that exit. In addition, indicators are not used by most drivers, or they simply leave their indicators on all the way round. In addition, it is not allowed to exit a roundabout from the inside lane even on to a two lane exit. In addition many roundabouts have three lanes to enter onto a two lane roundabout, or two into one, etc. No one knows the rules, or follows them, and no one seems to care, from the civil engineers right down to the end users. The only winners are repair shops.

In comparison, UK roundabouts are civilised examples of harmonious intellectual etiquette. Enjoy them.

[source] I learned to drive in Swindon, home of the Magic Roundabout.

One is reminded of Damien Hirst's famed retort to a critic who said "Well I could have pickled a shark" ... "But you didn't, did you. I did."

Somewhere there are tiny people going "Don't let the giants eat those mushrooms!"

Ha, have also slept outside Biarritz station whilst interrailing. Must be the sea breeze.

Wow that's a fantastic deal. I seem to remember it was about £280 in the 90s for standard class, 30 day unlimited.

Thanks, great to know. I hear you on at least knowing where you might sleep. Age 18-23 even this isn't that critical, when 'beach' or 'park' are viable answers.

The best part of interailling for me was turning up to a major train station, looking at the giant departure board, choosing an enigmatic destination and just getting on the train. No booking or reservations or even planning at any point.

Is this not possible any more?

This is absolutely needed for media companies in London, some of whom may pay freelancers many months after invoicing and only if the freelancer repeatedly reminds them and escalates towards legal threats. When I ran such a company we made a point of paying people the same day they invoiced in order to stand out as being great to work with, it was the easiest win ever.

They should give the data to people who ask, which will be a snapshot in time presented in a spreadsheet. Then what you are paying for is the interface that shows you who clicked yesterday with a thumbnail and a link to their profile, and who will click tomorrow, as long as you keep paying. But refusing the download option is not on.