Neil C

Neil C

@plantz.io

10,000+ hours of tapping on keyboards. Started tapping on a ZX81 and over 4 decades later, tapping this on a phone. Some of my tapping is to build a new web where tapping isn't required, a "No click internet", and then my journey here will be complete.

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Neil C
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UK Medical Cannabis Registry: A Two-Year Prospective Observational Cohort Study of Clinical Outcomes in Insomnia onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com<fc>UK</fc> Medical Cannabis Registry: A Two‐Year Prospective Observational Cohort Study of Clinical Outcomes in InsomniaInsomnia affects around one in ten adults. In this 2-year UK Medical Cannabis Registry cohort study of 211 adults with insomnia, treatment with cannabis-based medicinal products was associated with a...

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EUROPE 🇪🇺: Europe’s Cannabis Pilot Trials Are Working Switzerland and the Netherlands are letting adults buy legal cannabis for research, and the early data is good news for public health👇🏻 cannabisnow.com/europes-cann...

cannabisnow.comEurope’s Cannabis Pilot Trials Are WorkingSwitzerland and the Netherlands are letting adults buy legal cannabis for research, and the early data is good news for public health.
Neil C
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Australia: the TGA tells the AU Federal Court that Montu and Alternaleaf broke the ban on advertising prescription cannabis by calling it "plant medicine". The full hearing is now under way.

Neil C
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Increasingly of the view that building AI Agents and expecting everyone to know how to use them is for the birds. There will be AI specialists who are super powered that will be hired in the same way as lawyers, accountants, doctors etc.

Neil C
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Harness agents open up a whole new world of possibilities. We're using them to build multi agents for both medical research and drug policy frameworks, pulling information from our Cannabis Knowledge Base with impressive results so far venturebeat.com/orchestratio...

venturebeat.comResearchers made AI agents better by turning academic papers into working code — no retraining requiredScholarEvolve uses published research to improve AI agents, raising Qwen's AppWorld task completion from 69% to 81.4% without retraining the model.
Neil C
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I've argued the achilles heel of these delivery robots will be vandalism. Not least from unemployed delivery drivers And here we see their "defence mechanism". Taking your biometric data without consent Justified, I guess, if you attack it. But huge ? otherwise apnews.com/article/chic...

apnews.comDelivery Robots Accused Of Scanning Customers’ Faces, Sharing Biometric DataThe battle over Chicago’s food delivery robots has reached the courts, with two customers accusing the companies behind them of collecting their biometric data without consent.
Neil C
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"In order for it to become realistic, Crawford would need to step out of retirement and agree to enter his first outing since September 2025." Another entry in my series of Boxing blogs creating headlines by saying who Terence Crawford isn't going to fight boxingnewsonline.net/news/judah-v...

boxingnewsonline.netZab Judah delivers honest verdict on potential Terence Crawford vs Jaron Ennis fight | Boxing NewsZab Judah has dismissed the idea of a competitive bout unfolding between Terence Crawford and Jaron Ennis, whose potential encounter is seen by many as one of
Neil C
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"The researchers independently verified that they reached a peak intensity of more than 10²⁰ watts per square cm" Or, 5 million times the energy output of the entire human race. Enough to boil the oceans in 14 months "No, I expect you to die, Mr Bond" phys.org/news/2026-10...

phys.orgWorld-record intensity in attosecond hard-X-ray pulses could unlock closer study of electrons in atoms and moleculesResearchers used the European XFEL to create X-ray flashes that were not only extremely short but also reached record intensity for this type of pulse. The researchers focused the X-rays to an area ro...
Neil C
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"Graham Mott, director of strategy, Link, said: “These results show cash remains a practical choice for millions" So, nothing dodgy about paying "cash in hand" then Graham? Still, so long as Graham has his job doing Strategy, tax avoidance is best left unsaid www.independent.co.uk/money/uk-cas...

independent.co.ukMore than half of Brits asked by businesses to make payments in cash, data revealsCafes, restaurants, barbers, outdoor markets and pubs are among the venues requesting cash payments, the study revealed
Neil C
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"Fizzion encodes it into a StyleID—a machine-readable identity that automatically applies brand rules across formats, platforms, and markets." In other words, a 'Design System' then, like the one Claude already does? www.coca-colacompany.com/media-center...

coca-colacompany.comThe Coca-Cola Company Introduces Fizzion: A New Era of AI-Governed Creativity at Global ScaleThe Coca-Cola Company unveiled Project Fizzion in collaboration with Adobe — a groundbreaking design intelligence system.
Neil C
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"1m gb p/sec is enough to move around 125 terabytes of data every second, or roughly 25,000 HD movies, each 5 gigabytes large." For all the talk of putting data centres in space, 99% of the world's Internet traffic is still via cable www.livescience.com/technology/c...

livescience.comNew 4,300-mile-long internet cable will shuttle data along the ocean floor at 1 million gigabits per secondPetal, the world's first petabit transoceanic fiber cable, could theoretically support simultaneous music streaming for 75% of the world's population.
Neil C
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The fact that AI companies were founded, and still run predominantly, by mathematicians could be a factor here?

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app

"Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding." www.ahmath.org/statements

Neil C
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"Chains are worse off than most enterprises, because a blockchain doesn’t merely use cryptography, it commits to it" It's called "crypto" for a reason. Except, that reason could soon be it's downfall if quantum computers crack the 'unbreakable' encryption thequantuminsider.com/2026/10/17/a...

thequantuminsider.comGuest Post: AI Infrastructure Investment and the Future of Quantum ComputingQuantum computing could expand AI infrastructure opportunities, while investors assess commercial risks and the economics of new systems.
Neil C
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""Thirty years from now, they'll probably be working four or three and a half days a week. They'll have an income of per person of $300,000. It'll be a great life," he said." What he fails to mention is a pint of milk will cost $10,000 www.businessinsider.com/jamie-dimon-...

businessinsider.comJamie Dimon says AI is moving so fast that even governments can't stop itThe JPMorgan CEO says the global spread of AI, from open-source models to systems developed in China, makes it impossible for governments to stop.
Neil C
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I was choosing my next book in Willesden Library in 2003 when I picked up a, "Jack Reacher novel" by an author I'd never heard of. Now, I've got his latest book on my bedside table So it's nice to know, Lee Child sounds like a decent bloke too www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...

theguardian.comLee Child backs launch of reading scheme to send prisons half a million booksThe Jack Reacher author, the UK’s first prison reading laureate, said drive to improve literacy skills was a practical way to address reoffending and support rehabilitation
Neil C
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This is an interesting direction for Meta They've long been a player in the open source market. But releasing a successful product like Muse as Open Weight could tempt some companies to start experimenting with setting up their own servers as token costs escalate www.reuters.com/business/met...

reuters.comMeta releases open-weight Muse Spark model for coding, agentic tasksMeta Platforms on Thursday released an open-weight version of its Muse Spark ​artificial intelligence model for coding and ‌AI agents, expanding developers' ability to download and adapt the technolog...
Neil C
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Blockchains, built on the premise that crypto was a safe way to store currency, now concerned that $2.9tn could be at risk as early as 2028, when a 500,000 qubit quantum computer could crack their "uncrackable" security in just 26 days. thequantuminsider.com/2026/10/15/q...

thequantuminsider.comQuantum Alliance Launches to Set Post-Quantum Standards for BlockchainsNine blockchain groups formed the Quantum Alliance to create open standards for post-quantum security, wallet protection and cross-chain compatibility.
Neil C
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Person A: "I refuse to use AI due to it's negative impact" Person A: Posts constantly to Instagram FYI - Meta's projected spend on data centres this year: $65bn

Neil C
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This is why we built the Cannabis Knowledge Base that underpins our Agents General models have to predict the right answer Specialist models only have curated information to begin with We give you far higher accuracy so you can be confident in the answers www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

independent.co.ukFive AI chatbots were tested on accuracy. The results weren’t goodResponses from leading AI models were prone to being ‘incomplete, lacking context, or poorly sourced’, report finds after testing of Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok
Neil C
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We're very close to building dynamic websites that respond to the user so this strikes me as a great use of decision models. Considering these things are, like, 6 weeks old?? , the potential is amazing as people quickly find more use cases thenewstack.io/workday-is-u...

thenewstack.ioWorkday is using TypeSafe's Jev to build user interfaces on the flyWorkday’s AI assistant Sana now builds each screen as you type. Rather than have an LLM draw the interface, TypeSafe’s Jev picks from parts Workday already designed.
Neil C
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Fascinating expansion of "decision" models. They work on the ability of vector db's to analyse thousands of data points to make an almost instant decision, without the need for an LLM to make it human readable. Or, take out the human and machines do better www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/11/w...

marktechpost.comWhat is Decision 3.0? vLLM Semantic Router’s New Open Decision ModelsvLLM Semantic Router releases Decision 3.0: 5 open multimodal decision models, 0.8B to 27B, with d3 scoring 64.1.
Neil C
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I just bought 50 billion tokens. Not sure I've ever bought 50 billion of something before :)

Neil C
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I missed this. When two brilliant people get to talk to each other, it's worth listening in

K.B. Spangler@kbspangler.com

Catching up on this @doctorow.pluralistic.net interview. The first third explains the AI bubble as a shell game. I'm usually tilting my head like a confused dog when the stock market comes up, but this was straightforward enough that I'm a dog who's realized we're boned.

youtube.comAI and the Enshittification Era w/ Cory Doctorow | The Weekly Show with Jon StewartYouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Neil C
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A personal hero of mine, Prof Nutt, explains why so many Doctors remain divorced from the lived experience of millions of people using cannabis. I post about things like quantum mechanics and astronomy for a reason. Sometimes, the science taught in school and reality are actually miles apart.

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Prof. David Nutt provides a reason for the Australian Medical Assoc’s dislike of medicinal cannabis: they don’t understand the nature of the available evidence. And in particular, they don’t understand the shortcomings of systematic reviews with meta-analyses. www.drugscience.org.uk/lancet-medic...

drugscience.org.ukMetanalytical Madness Over Medical Cannabis: Meta-analysing Poor Research is UninformativeMany of you will have seen the media reports of the recent Lancet Psychiatry paper by Wilson et al 2026 claiming that there is little or no evidence of clinical utility for medical cannabis in mental ...
Neil C
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Bailey represents everything wrong about UK finance. Orthodox, aloof, money over people. On the other hand, UK debt is real and after years of borrowing to pay for things we can't afford, relies on bond markets. Not just UK. US, FR, DE, all suffering the same

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social

Bank of England governor tells the UK chancellor to agree a budget that reassures financial markets. Govt told to serve markets, speculators, corporations. Healthcare, education, social justice, housing is secondary in neoliberalism. Wither democracy.

theguardian.comBank governor urges John Healey to use budget to allay market fears amid bond turmoilAndrew Bailey tells chancellor ‘whatever the stance of fiscal policy, it must be credible and be seen as such by financial markets’
Neil C
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"By state: filtered hit@1 was 0.94 for California and 0.93 for New York. Professional questions did slightly better than plain ones (filtered hit@1 0.95 against 0.91)." WTF does this mean, I hear you say? Our AI responses are wiping the floor with OpenAI, Anthropic, etc that score around 0.6-0.7

Neil C
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WOW The new Claude artifact editor is a total game changer. The prompts and markdowns I was doing before can now all be edited, shared and then re-posted all within Chat. The acceleration of building sites and apps is now as quick as you can tell Claude what to do.