The Monks Were Tracking Climate Change All Along
Kyoto's cherry blossom record turns a thousand years of hanami diaries into a climate dataset, and the modern bloom dates now move with warming March temperatures.
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When the AI Narrator Gets It Wrong: A Stress Test of TTS on Serious Journalism
A stress test of OpenAI TTS and ElevenLabs on journalism-specific edge cases: context-sensitive words, units, acronyms, and publication-style proper nouns.
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The Eggs You Can't See
On caged hens, the restaurant visibility gap, and why I wrote to my MP about eggs.
Read more →Language Models Are Not Uncertain in One Way
GPT-3.5-turbo on 120 questions, six difficulty tiers, and what the model's own signals do and do not tell you about when to trust it.
Read more →Does Try Location Matter? I Looked at the Data.
I assumed touchline conversions were nearly hopeless and central kicks were automatic. The data says I was wrong at both ends.
Read more →Why I Used to Think None of This Mattered
On rationalisation, Peter Singer, factory farming, and the slow process of aligning what you believe with how you actually live.
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