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  • 100 Posts!

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    100 posts in about 18 months, every one a banger I guess I will just keep it going anyway Personal Update: This is silly, I have been off the booze for 5 days, kind of because I crashed my bike drunk and scared myself a bit, plus I do have a nasty bruise which makes…

  • If you’ve seen one….

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    Lamine Yamal’s dark past Lamine Yamal is probably the world’s most exciting footballer right now. At only 13 years old he has not only featured in, but starred in some of the most thrilling encounters in La Liga and the Champions League as well as emerging as Spain’s new star player But life was not…

  • Fact About My Dad

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    My dad is a very interesting guy. I could tell you loads about him, to steretype him, he’s one of those guys who always had a crazy wavy beard. Like beards were in fashion and are still a thing, back in the day people had moustaches more than beards, but he always had the beard,…

  • So how did you let the town down?

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    Ok, so I moved around a couple of jobs. Because I was not doing well in Wenzhou but they liked me, they sent me to Yangzhou. Yangzhou is another super interesting city. In history it was where all of the salt on the Yangzthe was taxed, in the old days salt was way more important…

  • It’s beginning again

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    It’s not exactly an original take, but it’s still crazy how we are just watching world war 3 start and we can’t really do anything except comment. Mercenary armies and drone armies returning to earth. I don’t know if it’s true, but people claim that the US army wargames that they absolutely could not beat…

  • I let a town down

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    When I first moved to China, I was in a bad way, I do have this charm which really suits teaching, like people believe what I say, and I think because I have quite weird mannerisms and so on, it’s even more funny for Asians lol. But anyway, I was offered a job in Wenzhou,…

  • It’s Going to be a Fine Day Today

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    Here is some weird ephemera that I found today. I’ve always liked this song, I think that everyone has, it’s really dated, but the vocal is so good. It’s one of those ones that loads of people have tried to improve but noone really hasI’m having a go now lol But the weird thing that…

  • PM Dawn lol

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    I saw a documentary the other day about PM Dawn. It’s weird, like they were one of those groups who did one album and then went right off, but you can still listen to their stuff and it still sounds lush Anyway the story is also pretty common. I’ll retell it from memory and then…

  • Constantly Lowered Great Expectations

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    Just read it, not as good as I thought it would be To be honest I just haven’t had any cool ideas to write about, but I promised that I would churn out some shite once a week and I think I’m about 10 days late. I am studying as well as teaching and the…

  • Universal Paperclips

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    This is a very fun game based on the Paperclip Maximiser concept. If you like that sort of thing… https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html It’s based on the Nick Bostrom thought experiment to terrify yourself about AI. So briefly the story is that humans design an AI to make paperclips as efficiently as possible, but accidentally make it a…