Simon Paynton

Yay!! Thanks Reg!!

Have a great week everyone!

Enco, I think the point *is* the violation of structure. 😉

When Trump took a dump on linguistics,
He’d hump his own daughter by mutilization,
Into her room he’d creep.
Putin has the vid to keep.
It is but a small leap.

A most excellent cinquain!

Jake,

Yes, Doron is the real deal. He lives the role. He is a very believable character both as an ‘ordinary Israeli family man’ and even more so as a fluent Arabic speaking Muslim ‘spy’.

I would consider the series in the same league as ‘Breaking Bad’ or ‘Homeland’. I was surprised to read it is No 1 on Netflix in Lebanon.

I am quite skeptical that many will do a 180 after seeing Fauda on their Jew hating viewpoint/Palestinianism…

I have been interacting with ‘Hamas’ supporters for over 20 years. I will aver that in that time the have become ‘stupider more’. They are now so uninformed (or maybe ‘ill-informed’ is a better term) that they are a different species to…[Read more]

I also thought the casting of Melanie Laurent was clever, given her role in ‘Inglorious Basterds’.

Yes, just finished Fauda S5 this evening. All 5 seasons are worth watching. I will watch it again for E7 and E8. I was guessing it would go there but I was still surprised. I will leave my comments at that for now.

A non-confrontational approach is the only way. Some pointers….

How to Address Vaccine Hesitancy: A Compassionate Approach

https://gillings-projects.unc.edu/cph-articles/how-do-i-talk-about-vaccines

…..and a 40-year-old female resident of Jefferson County died on Saturday, September 12, 2026, from complications associated with measles.

Thanks Reg!!

Have a great week!!

Secularism protects everybody from somebody else’s certainty. RTFF

I think that Ferguson has characterized the mechanism correctly. Social Media rarely creates extremism from nothing. I like the term “activating” and it is aptly used. The algorithm finds susceptible people and supplies them with validating material  and then connects them to communities in which their prejudice is normalized. “You have found…[Read more]

Human: “Our time of 40 math professors spent fourteen months checking the proof.”

Lean: “I spent 14 seconds.”

Human: “Yes, Lean is correct.”

OpenAI just solved a 90 year old math problem in 88 hours. Here.

For me, the remarkable part is not the solution, but the ability of how 10,000 concurrent AI agents were split into groups, each exploring different variants and approaches and then sharing everything. Basically, the AI agents cross checked each others findings. I suspect their…[Read more]