Interesting Links for 25-01-2022

[andrewducker]

What are the most watched TV shows of the 21st century so far? (in the UK)

(tags:TV uk )

Accountability needs transparency, and both need to be enforceable by legal remedies

(tags:law politics )

No, £30 for a leg of lamb isn't expensive. Quite the opposite

(tags:meat food economics )

How botnets pushed a bigoted hashtag to Westminster

(tags:bigotry LGBT internet fraud Twitter )

How big was the Tonga eruption? (visualised over various countries)

(tags:visualisation volcano explosions )

Imam appointed to define Islamophobia has had no meaningful engagement from ministers

(tags:Islam bigotry conservatives )

Chicago sets its train tracks on fire when it's this cold

(tags:trains weather fire )

Boris Johnson praised a seven-year-old who cancelled their birthday party - and then had his own less than three months later

(tags:uk BorisJohnson party pandemic Conservatives )

North Korea has communist dolphin soldiers poised and ready to attack!

(tags:NorthKorea dolphins military )

Militarized Dolphins Protect Almost a Quarter of the US Nuclear Stockpile

(tags:nuclearweapons dolphins usa )

Why chefs are turning to artificial intelligence to discover new flavours

(tags:taste food ai )

Comments

AI Chefs

[danieldwilliam]

Not sure I believe that the AI has no cognative bias. That does not appear to be the experience of other AI's.

Re: AI Chefs

[andrewducker]

Agreed.

I think that it's possible to deliberately train one to not have some cognitive biases you are aware of, but not to have no bias.

For a start "I like the smell of strawberries, and I don't like the smell of rotting fish" are both biases.

[cmcmck]

Seems the police are Finally now involved in partygate.

About damn time!

[andrewducker]

Took them long enough!

[danieldwilliam]

The North Korean dolphins are a) defensive and a legitimate and proportionate response to Western hegemonistic aggresion and b) democratic socialists, not communists.

Meat

[channelpenguin]

Lamb is much less available in Germany so I can't quote prices, but it's a step up from beef, which can be regularly €20 per kilo. This is in a normal supermarket. But you have to go to a butcher to get anything other than mince, steaks (small selection), stew, shin or maybe oxtail or liver if you are very very lucky. "Factory" pork and chicken are cheap. There's not usually a "free range" option - it's straight to organic (at about €10+/kilo for chicken IIRC).

[anna_wing]

Sheep is one of the most expensive meats, though possibly might be cheaper in New Zealand these days. Certainly expensive enough that in my younger days in the motherland or in the West I only regularly bought lamb when it was on deep deep discount at the supermarket.

Where I am currently, there's local mutton which is relatively cheap by my standards, but still noticeably more expensive than local beef, pork or chicken.