@hughshanahan
Professor of Open Science at Royal Holloway, University of London. He/Him/Hugh. Co-chair of CODATA-RDA schools. Dad. Irish agus ó Chiarraí. More details at orcid.org/0000-0003-1374-6015. Also at @HughShanahan@mastodon.ie I am very much under renovation.
If you use Python and are curious about learning Polars, you might like the workshop @eadehemingway.bsky.social and I delivered at #NICAR26: Analyzing election data with Polars and Python. The repo contains a detailed walkthrough of everything we covered in the session.
github.com/olihawkins/n...
Working on a q&a lecture for a class today: The story of robots is always a story about slavery. The story of LLMs labeled as AI is a story about class, and which humans pay the cost, including the physical toll on their bodies/minds, and the lack of water and electricity, so data centers can exist.
This is really dirty. Palantir, Mandelson, Global Counsel. NHS. www.ft.com/content/6c54... NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform while also advising company
Awwww
On Linux forums I, a woman, would get ignored and disrespected. These days I ask my question, then switch to a fake account to give a completely wrong answer, then switch back again to thank them and praise their Linux knowledge. The experts show up right away. Sorted.
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It’s weirdly how rarely you hear what it actually feels like to be a Dad.
This answer to ‘who are you jealous of?’ from Bob Odenkirk had me blaming dust & onions.
Everyone is analysing the implications of the byelection for Keir Starmer and Labour but the most important lessons are for democracy - my latest for @instituteforgovernment.org.uk www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/gort...
Try marmalade.
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Paul.
We're not angry....
Is there a significant difference in their foreign policy? Would TISZA be less difficult re Ukraine?
It’ll be fiiiiiine. 😬
For many AI is a synonym for magic.
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Yaaaaaay!!!!!!
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Sometimes when I'm a doubtful mood I also think that at their hearts there is a belief that things can be improved (through openness for OS, through standing back from Science in Metascience) rather than being more detached. #GloomySundayNightThoughts
Movements always fight hardest with the ones closest to them.
<Double sigh>
Really looking forward to your rematch with the CEO of Strategy.
“Wrong way Forrest!!”
I may be talking nonsense here but RO-crate might be what you’re looking for …
www.researchobject.org/ro-crate/tec...
Apologies if I have this entirely wrong.
It’s the way he’s looking for any excuse not to say it and her silence is shouting “GO ON!!”
Awwww
Crown 2: The quickening
Really good piece. The falling graduate premium is a consequence more than a cause of low growth
‘Is university still worth it?’ is the wrong question - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
Basically the entire core of Microsoft pitch on AI is that it's the safe, responsible one that corporates and governments can use. So this is very much not what they needed to happen.
I’m guessing there’s a lot of Whisky.
AI’s electricity demand is fuelling inflation, crimping consumer spending and slowing economic growth www.ft.com/content/a644...
