First Published: Jan 21, 2009
Cycloc have sent us one of their clever bike storage things to try out. It makes an excellent hat as you can see, when we find a suitable wall we’ll bang it up and test it for what it was designed for.
Also in this morning: some Claqs as discussed here, Park brushes, Electron lights, Pro gloves and some Finish line wet lube, all going into the big testing pot. Expect to see them soon…
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We are told day in day out that AI is the future, mankind's only way forward. One step at a time, the environmental damage and human costs of AI start to surface. Mega data centres require plenty of electricity to power servers and gazillion of cubic meters of water for cooling, each year. This means more atmospheric pollution and respiratory diseases and less water for humans, animals and agriculture.
It seems we hardly hear of doping cases involving women conti and pro cyclists. Here is the latest data : Of the 20 total professional doping cases recorded in 2025, four involved female cyclists.
I think people are making errors deliberally now!
LLMs help pets to create games: https://www.calebleak.com/posts/dog-game/ I'm coming around to thinking that LLMs are like some kind of fancy gambling machine - creating a prompt is like pulling a lever on a slot machine and hoping you get a dopamine releasing result.
No-one expected that :) On the other hand (according to said LLM) the carbon footprint of a drive to the shops is 100–500 ChatGPT responses. Also, LLMs are nice and help kittens cross the street.
