F1’s idiot owners…

From the same geniuses that decided racing in a car park in Miami was a good idea, we learn that they were amazed to learn that an industrial estate next to the airport didn’t offer spectacle!!!

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/sep/14/lack-of-overtaking-madring-fi-spanish-grand-prix

And the worst part. They gave up racing at Spa (the best race) for this mess.

In five years I’ve gone from watching each race including the build up and post race shows to having trouble concentrating for the YouTube highlights.

While everyone talks about power units the issue is obviously all the new tracks. The owners keep on comparing “the show” to the Superbowl where the highlight is the advert break!

GPT-6 Astra: And the future of work…

These product videos, especially at the start of a new technology, are always important in showing people how to use the new technology. So a couple of notes.

  • It’s a home setting. Obviously a studio but it represents a home.
  • There is no team work.
  • It’s dark. There are no windows.

The future of work?

GPT-6 Astra achieves state-of-the-art results on benchmarks for long-running computer-use tasks across professions and desktop apps, which means anything you…

Introducing GPT-6 Astra: the most intelligent and aligned model in the world. – YouTube

Lumière, Le Cinéma!

A view into another planet.

In one of those wonderful coincidences of history, lumière, the French word for “light,” was also the last name of brothers Auguste and Louis, whose brillian…

Lumière, Le Cinéma! – YouTube

The McNamara Fallacy…

I think that this maybe my favorite image of the new “school year”. Almost everything of real value was impossible to measure at some point duing the production process.

The McNamara Fallacy is a belief in easy-to-measure quantitative metrics at the expense of ignoring hard-to-measure qualitative factors. Robert McNamara was…

The McNamara Fallacy – Sketchplanations

Model Hardware Standard…

This is how a century of progress can compress into a decade.

Note to the stock market. It still takes a decade!

The Model Hardware Standard (MHS) is a new standard for AI agents to safely operate physical equipment in scientific research and advanced manufacturing. MHS…

Model Hardware Standard: AI operating physical equipment – YouTube

Random thoughts…