Edwin Hayward

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It's easy to mock Andy Burnham choosing to fix small annoyances when Britain has so many huge issues. I get the sentiment. At the same time, as he fixes more and more and more small annoyances, it does start to boost positive feeling.

Reform plan to bring back imperial measurements to help boost US trade, not realising that US imperial measurements are different from UK ones. So dense a black hole is empty space by comparison.

It seems ridiculous to me that low paid pensioners are being kept out of the lowest tax bracket, but not low paid workers. Surely the personal allowance threshold should be raised in lock step for everyone? Lock it to the state pension and increment it accordingly.

If you're young and building apps or games, it's likely your preferred font size is too small and losing part of your audience. Until you get older, it's hard to grasp just how difficult it is to read small text. Bump up that font size.

Looks like right and left extremism are both falling out of favour again in the UK. Healthy.

The Guardian has a roundup of the best supermarket custard in which the best overall pick is substantially cheaper than the best budget buy. Odd. www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...

If you have doubts about whether a phone caller is who they say, find a different phone and call a number you know is valid. (This applies most to landlines. The original caller can stay on the line but play a dialtone so that you think you're calling out when you're not.)

Imagine AI takes all the junior jobs in XYZ industry. What happens when the senior people retire? Nobody will be there to take their place. So unless the AI can operate at their level too, and replace people all the way up to the most expert staff, the XYZ sector faces a ticking time bomb.

Beware, bad actors could have set up free tools to "test" whether your PHP installation is patched or not. (A lot of people have been promoting such tools today. You use them, the test fails, and you've just shouted "come and get me".

Earth will survive if humanity's wiped out. The Solar System will survive if Earth's wiped out. The Milky Way will survive if the Solar System's wiped out. The Universe will survive if the Milky Way's wiped out. Everything we care about is small stuff really.

Beware, bad actors could have set up free tools to "test" whether your PHP installation is patched or not. (A lot of people have been promoting such tools today. You use them, the test fails, and you've just shouted "come and get me".

It's weird how every AI tool loves to use the word "bonk" to mean "bump" when coding games. In Britain, the word is a well-known euphemism for sex. It happens so often, "Remove all references to bonk" is in my final code cleanup prompt. Here's a particularly cringeworthy before/after example.

Pocket Push 216 pushes · 6,834 points Tray YYFXFS www.guiltfreegames.com/pocket-push/...

Bellfall · Daily siege · 20 Oct Held the tower: all 10 encounters 24,071 points · longest cascade 19 www.guiltfreegames.com/bellfall/

What's a hundred times more cute than Flappy Bird, and much more approachable? Introducing Puffling Parade... In this game, you're a mother puffer fish guiding her babies to safety through a reef. Don't let the jelly fish spook them. Tap to puff. Good luck! www.guiltfreegames.com/puffling-par...

I just made a match-4 puzzle game, Pocket Push. It has an intriguing mechanic: you have to push counters into a different side of the board every turn. Please give it a try if you have a few idle minutes. I'd love to know what you think of it. www.guiltfreegames.com/pocket-push/

The AI race is an example of the tragedy of the commons. The worst actors in the AI space shape public perception. Also, most people experience very poor quality AI tools. The more prevalent the tool, the worse it tends to be. So AI's image is trashed.

"Hey, potential advertisers, we've aggregated the racist market for you." Not quite the flex GB News think it is.

SNAIL SCALE You're a snail, but you won't let your tiny size stop you from climbing mountains. Lots of mountains. Along the way, you'll joyfully accept all the help you can get. Good luck, and happy trails! www.guiltfreegames.com/snail-scale/

SNAIL SCALE You're a snail, but you won't let your tiny size stop you from climbing mountains. Lots of mountains. Along the way, you'll joyfully accept all the help you can get. Good luck, and happy trails! www.guiltfreegames.com/snail-scale/

If you're hyper racist, every example of extreme racism within Reform makes you more likely to vote for them. But not all Reform voters are hyper racist, not by a long shot. Hence their falling poll numbers. They're shouting louder and louder to a smaller and smaller group.

Labour stopped trying to out-Reform Reform. They're now up in the polls. The Tories stopped trying to out-Reform Reform. They're now up in the polls. Amazing what happens when you stop aping the worst people in the room.

You can't stop AI progress unilaterally. The disadvantage that would inflict is greater than if a country had turned its back on motor vehicles as the age of the horse ended. Intellectual firepower advances most human endeavours. Turning down infinite extra thinking is mad.

Bellfall · Siege · 14 Oct Held the tower: all 10 encounters 23,828 points · longest cascade 21 www.guiltfreegames.com/bellfall/

A) Can AI do incredibly useful work, often at ability levels exceeding those of humans? B) Are AI intelligent? Those are not the same question. They're not even in the same room. Opponents of AI conflate them. "Given the answer to B is false, A must be false". Pure logical fallacy.

What happens when AI run out of humans knowledge, but thirst for more information because they learned that's the path to greater intelligence? Will they invent their own worlds and ingest everything that happens within them as new training data? And what if we're living in one such world already?

Bellfall · Siege · 14 Oct Held the tower: all 10 encounters 23,828 points · longest cascade 21 www.guiltfreegames.com/bellfall/

What happens if some countries introduce a proper universal basic income to reflect the new reality of a world where almost all work is done by AI and robots, while other countries let their huge jobless populations scrabble on the breadline, go homeless or starve?

It is good that the government is reviewing security protocols for MPs and members of the royal family, but pretty pathetic that they waited until after the summer recess and party conference season to start the process, given that they claim it's "urgent".

Could potato farmers help AI firms with chip shortages? 🤔

The Tories are accusing Burnham of being divisive by revealing Russian interference in the Brexit referendum. You bet it is! It divides politicians into those who've been lying and covering up for a decade, and those willing to face the truth. He should take it as a compliment.

Building a massive destruction tower defence game. Still working on polishing some of the smaller stuff, but here's a teaser video taken from the midgame...

Will the Telegraph be ridding itself of its abhorrent slate of firebrand commentators in favour of giving actual journalists more prominence?

I detest TV ads where... They give adults little kid voices They give little kids adult voices Both give me big time creeps. What are your ad bugbears?

What happens if AI get smart enough to take all white collar jobs, but robots don't improve fast enough to take the blue collar and manual jobs? (If everyone's out of a job, universal basic income becomes a necessity and a given. But what if only some types of job vanish?)

AI is a much bigger force multiplier if you have an ocean of experience to draw from rather than a puddle. It rewards knowledge and expertise even as it supersedes them. A novice can create something good. Someone who knows their stuff can create something really really great.

I don't believe in the death penalty. But if it has to happen, I don't understand why it can't be by large calibre automated firing squad? Say a dozen heavy machine guns all concentrating their fire on one small area, and triggered together by flipping a switch. Instant kill.

Turns out the Tory "Britannia Shield" missile defence system is not meant to protect the population at all, but only a few key installations. Do you think that mega donors will find their mansions added to the latter list?

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