Steve Renals

British Gas workers' pension cash was used to buy NSO Group, the Israeli spyware company blacklisted by the US. @FT scoop -> ft.com/content/8b427b…

@RuthieSThomas @yearsofreading @sandstonepress #SnowLaunch Hi Ruth, good book at bedtime with which to end the day, something which we all need these days! Love from Jane and Steve

Good evening! Thank you to everyone joining us for the launch of @RuthieSThomas's The Snow and the Works on the Northern Line. Before we dive in with question for Ruth, we’d love to know where everyone’s joining us from, and what you’re drinking! #SnowLaunch

I forgot the URL! vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecr… we are looking for a researcher to join us at CSTR, on a project to learn speech recognition models that learn directly from the waveform

we are looking for a researcher to join us at CSTR, on a project to learn speech recognition models that learn directly from the waveform

This beautiful video is something you’d hope to see from @UKLabour. But it’s not Labour. It’s @MagicMagid standing for @TheGreenParty in the European elections. A lot of red votes could go green this month. twitter.com/MagicMagid/sta…

@loweimi from @InfAtEd talking about DNN statistical interpretation and normalization for ASR

Congratulations to @UCSF for their incredible breakthrough work on a brain-to-machine interface manipulating brain signals into speech! We are proud to help with the visualisation of this powerful new voice! engadget.com/2019/04/24/dev…

Very nice short paper with Ben Krause benkrause.github.io, @MannyKayy @driainmurray showing dynamic evaluation can improve Transformer-XL language models arxiv.org/abs/1904.08378

"This is not democracy. Spreading lies in darkness, paid for by illegal cash." "Is this how you want history to remember you? As the handmaidens to authoritarianism?" Brilliant and brave @carolecadwalla calls out the "gods of Silicon Valley".

The image analysis #algorithm behind the magnificent #blackHole image is mainly based on a #GaussianMixtureModel #GMM designed for high-dimensional data, namely a mixture of probabilistic PCA! people.csail.mit.edu/klbouman/pw/pa…

As well as censoring our content over the past few weeks, Twitter have now deleted all the people we were following, which in turn means we have lost a ton of followers Please RT and follow if you’re still right behind us - we have no idea why Twitter is doing this

2018 Writing Reflections: one of the things I enjoyed most was preparing for the @royalsociety diversity conference. I wrote that 'the work of transformation lives in the mundane' and next year hope to expand this consciousness more. (Text and video): blog.shakirm.com/2018/11/contri…

@bmackie @harts_cyclery @SpokesLothian @lmacinnessnp @KarenDoran3 @kevin_lang Part of the problem is that people now expect this path to be treated when ice is possible (as last winter) so it makes it worse when icy and not treated (as last week)

This portion of the Silverknowes path has once again not been gritted last night/this morning, despite it being on the gritting map as P1. Now know of people who broke bones last week. @lmacinnessnp @KarenDoran3 @kevin_lang cc @bmackie

we are recruiting academic staff at Edinburgh in a number of areas, including speech technology, computational social science, computational cognitive science, and machinel learning ed.ac.uk/informatics/ab…

I should have said the experiment and blog post was done by @siderealed

iPhone vs intel i7 desktop for an SMT solver - homes.cs.washington.edu/~bornholt/post… - iPhone has amazing performance! (Via @charlesarthur ). Graph of year on year iPhone improvements is very impressive.

results of mid-term reviews of EPSRC CDTs obtained and released under FoI by @UKRI_info at ukri.info/part_1_cdt_inv… - very interesting, and some problematic issues raised (although equally the CDT review process wasn't great)

Great news for @speechgraphics, the Edinburgh & Californian team behind Lara Croft’s smile in the bestselling Shadow of the Tomb Raider video game, as it secures a £2m funding boost from @ArchangelInvest, the Scottish Investment Bank & Par Equity ow.ly/DxsE30maWlh