Cllr Barry Smith 🔶
@barrysw19
Liberal Democrat Councillor for Abbey Ward, Merton. Following (back) 🔶 LibDems 🔶 Promoted by P. Gilbert on behalf of B. Smith (Liberal Democrats), all at 181 Merton Road, London, SW19 1EE.
Not a bad accuracy score in that game. What do you reckon Kramnik? #chesspunks
Got to love those games where you learn from your blunders but also get a win. My opponent resigned here, thinking their queen was lost. Can you spot their winning move (which I also missed in my calculations)? #chesspunks
Rule No. 17: "Bishops are better than knights in an endgame with pawns on both sides of the board." #chesspunks
I beat the easiest bot on chess.com! Ok, not the greatest achievement in the world, except I played it blindfold. #chesspunks
One of my best games in a while I think - lichess.org/TnZpyHb1ubRf #chesspunks
All the AI talk seems to suggest that, once an AI system becomes capable of producing a better version of itself, it will result in exponential growth in machine intelligence. I think a more likely scenario is that it rapidly approaches a limit based on the available quality of training data.
Every British Prime Minister gets a statue in Westminster. I think they're going to need to open a new wing for them all soon.
How perverse is an electoral system which sees Labour's vote fall 28% but they end up with a seat more than last time? No wonder the country is losing faith in the political system when results bear little relevance to votes.
There is an alternate reality where Ukraine surrendered to a Russian occupation then, when Orban lost the Hungarian election he invited Russian troops from Ukraine to occupy Hungary to overturn the result. Ukraine is the barrier keeping the Russians out of Europe.
Ukraine is paying commercial companies on the basis of how many Russian drones they destroy. This has become, quite literally, a war of capitalism versus state managed economy.
Another by-election - another victory for the LibDems over Reform.
The USA is not about to leave NATO and abandon all these military bases.
Right now there are only two countries which know how to fight modern warfare - Ukraine and Russia. If Russia wins this war, and conscripts Ukraine's forces, they will be the only country experienced in modern war and no European country would be ready to resist. Ukraine is Europe's war.
Since the launch of Sora every day is April 1st on the internet.
A recent US study put the damage of Brexit at 6-8% of GDP. Even at the lower figure we could increase the NHS budget by 20%, double defence spending and still give everyone in the country a tax cut. Brexit has failed, time to rejoin.
Frankly, British politics is in a very worrying place. Both sides are being seduced by populists who offer no real solutions, but just badly thought out ideas which will make things even worse.