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Ben Dickson @Alien2human

British Programmer, @uniofeastanglia CompSci graduate. I code, created randomperspective.com I like F1 and tweet as @HAL9000_

Joined April 2009
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I got ChatGPT to agree that Babylon 5 is a retelling of Tom & Jerry. Spoiler Warning: contains spoilers for Babylon 5 and Tom & Jerry
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Forgot to add: the point was to show that LLM do not actually provide any insight. The idea that Babylon 5 is a retelling of Tom & Jerry is absurd, if you are using ChatGPT to come up with your material, it will likely just be an echo chamber, or use someone else's work.
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Ben Dickson@Alien2human
21 Oct 2022
It's good to know that Netflix can follow up its popular series "The Crown" with the sequel "The Clown" #liztruss #borisjohnson
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Replying to @ScarbsTech
@ScarbsTech if anyone can answer this, it's you. I remember an article from the Button/Hamilton days that said McLaren were forbidden from ever using some braking tech they learned from SpyGate and this made the McLaren have a different braking characteristic to other cars.
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Given Danny Ric's driving style is very brake dependent (and assuming my memory is correct, and McLaren still can't use the tech) could this be part of the reason he's never gelled with either McLaren car?
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Ben Dickson@Alien2human
10 Aug 2022
It's only a matter of time before Liz Truss suggests fixing Britain's energy price crisis by renaming energy meters to energy yards: a blow to EU red tape and return to British values! And people will buy it.
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Ben Dickson retweeted
HAL 9000@HAL9000_
14 Jun 2022
Space fact: The habitable zone in solar systems should be called "the baby bear zone" but I guess Goldilocks gets to steal that too. @nasa @neiltyson
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Ben Dickson@Alien2human
15 May 2022
Do you have an Eye of Sauron? Because we have an Eye of Sauron... #LordOfTheRings #Japan #Moon #NightPhotography #EyeOfSauron
A close up of the top of a bridge tower silhouetted against the moon at night, composed to look like the Eye of Sauron as was visually depicted in the movie adaptation.

ALT A close up of the top of a bridge tower silhouetted against the moon at night, composed to look like the Eye of Sauron as was visually depicted in the movie adaptation.

A bridge tower silhouetted against the moon at night, composed to look like the Eye of Sauron as was visually depicted in the movie adaptation.

ALT A bridge tower silhouetted against the moon at night, composed to look like the Eye of Sauron as was visually depicted in the movie adaptation.

A bridge tower silhouetted against the moon at night, composed to look like the Eye of Sauron as was visually depicted in the movie adaptation.

ALT A bridge tower silhouetted against the moon at night, composed to look like the Eye of Sauron as was visually depicted in the movie adaptation.

A close up, and high exposure photo, of the top of a bridge tower silhouetted against the moon at night, composed to look like the Eye of Sauron as was visually depicted in the movie adaptation.

ALT A close up, and high exposure photo, of the top of a bridge tower silhouetted against the moon at night, composed to look like the Eye of Sauron as was visually depicted in the movie adaptation.
Ben Dickson retweeted
HAL 9000@HAL9000_
25 Apr 2022
If Twitter starts crashing a lot you will know it's because Elon Musk transferred over the Tesla Autopilot engineers.
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Ben Dickson@Alien2human
19 Apr 2022
If a form gives me the opportunity of a completely custom input field the web engineer in me likes to test how much sanitising it's doing, and @standupmaths Humble Pi accepted my name in katakana. If it appears as 7 square boxes it will be my own fault, but also kind of on topic.
I live in Japan. Masking, including outdoors, is essentially 95% with indoors at 99% . There are virtually no densely packed environments, and ventilation is good. Nearly everyone understands that it's a predominantly airborne spread virus. There have been zero lockdowns.
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Just as a further update, as many have been reading this tweet, the Japanese Government punished this back in 2020 as the five guidelines to follow to help reduce the spread. From my own experience, people still try to follow them (although not as strictly as at the start)
Ben Dickson@Alien2human
16 Mar 2022
My booster shot turned me into my MacBook when it has 100 Chrome tabs running for 12 hours.
Ben Dickson retweeted
HAL 9000@HAL9000_
14 Mar 2022
I calculated all of the digits of pi. Its: 10 In base pi. #PiDay
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Ben Dickson@Alien2human
1 Feb 2022
Now that Boris Johnson has arrived in Ukraine, Russia is now arming its soldiers with cakes. #BorisJohnson #AmbushedByCake
Ben Dickson@Alien2human
25 Jan 2022
At this point, I expect Boris Johnson to cover all his bases by claiming he is leader of the "Conservative Work Event" #PartyGate #BorisJohnson
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Ben Dickson@Alien2human
18 Jan 2022
Microsoft is buying billion dollar gaming publishers like they are loot boxes. #ActivisionBlizzard
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Ben Dickson@Alien2human
11 Jan 2022
In computer science, most people think the smallest variable type is a bit, which can have two states: true or false. In actuality, the smallest variable type is the Boris Johnson, as no matter what it states, it's never true. #DowningStreetParties
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Ben Dickson@Alien2human
11 Jan 2022
Units, Tens, Hundreds, Thousands, Number of parties held at Downing Street during COVID lockdown. #DowningStreetParties
Ben Dickson@Alien2human
31 Dec 2021
The best thing about living in Japan is you get to take the cellophane off of the new year before most others... #HappyNewYear2022
Ben Dickson retweeted
HAL 9000@HAL9000_
21 Dec 2021
Today is the shortest day of the year, meaning it cannot exceed 32,767 seconds. #December21st #WinterSolstice
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Ben Dickson@Alien2human
16 Dec 2021
I use 0.5 as my circle constant after @standupmaths said he favoured pi over tau.
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