ajtucker
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ajtucker
@ajtucker
Semantic Web hacker
Patriotic citizen of nowhere Katılım Eylül 2008
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@DAaronovitch It'd be interesting to get your take on why one of the best and most coscientious More or Less presenters @katelamble was made redundant after her piece last year supporting @Hilary_Cass.
Do you think those actions might have a chilling affect on other journalists?
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Is that right Malcolm? I work with a department called Long Form Audio. It makes the Briefing Room, More or Less, the Reith lectures, dozens of documentaries. Its producers and editors are some of the best and most conscientious journalists I know. And you want them all fired?
Malcolm Clark@TwisterFilm
At this rate the only mourners at the BBC's funeral will be a bunch of bedraggled drag queens, some second rate queer "artists" and a couple of furries.
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Our own @_HannahRitchie did a video last year with @bigthink called “What the news won't tell you about climate change” — and it just won gold at the 2025 @tellyawards as the best non-broadcast video on sustainability!
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Where at home have you been storing four months worth of recycling?
Birmingham City Council@BhamCityCouncil
While recycling collections are suspended ❌Please don’t burn your recycling, or household waste ✅ If you can, take your recycling to a Household Recycling Centre ✅ Or store it safely at home For advice, follow the link in the comments👇
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Today I learned about the krul. I think it's used in The Netherlands as a way to show an answer is correct, much like I'd use ✓
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flourish_…
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@ProfBrianCox Thought for a moment this was confused with the Unix time end of the world in 2032, but realised that's 2038. It's the 2^32 that trips me up; though it's really 2^31-1 seconds.
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Fascinating thread - although it discounts the possibility that we live in a ‘Don’t Look Up’ world run by complete nob heads who won’t believe the calculations.
Jonathan O’Callaghan@Astro_Jonny
The chance of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting out planet in 2032 is now 1.5%, or 1 in 67. The OVERWHELMING likelihood is that the asteroid will miss Earth. But for the first time ever, we might have to seriously consider a deflection mission soon. Let me explain. 🧵 (1/x)
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@FondOfBeetles Where on earth were you staying? Weird food and arcades?
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Last night, Husbandman jabbed well over twice my score on one of those arcade boxer machines.
I beat him at air hockey though, so I guess we don’t need sex categories in sport anymore, amirite?
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@johng225 @bbcweather IIRC they ditched the Met Office in 2016 as accuracy was too expensive. You just need to believe harder.
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Why has the @bbcweather forecast become so unreliable? Light rain it said…
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At @ourworldindata, we’ve just launched new data download options and a Chart Data API to make it even easier to access and reuse the data on our site! Here’s a quick overview of what’s new: 🧵
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@namedgraph Internet Archive hosts it I think and is a bit wobbly and under siege?
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I tried the More or Less Statistics Quiz connect.open.ac.uk/science-techno… earlier.
I'd still say it's incredibly unlikely that two snowflakes would be identical given they have ~ 10^20 water molecules.
Better: what's the chance of >=2 people in London with same no. hairs on their head?
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@adrianbowyer I can't quite get to the definitions, but think this is about the yearly global emissions, i.e. additions of CO2 to the atmosphere per year. A bit like taking your foot off the accelerator in your car, but still travelling away from where you want to be?
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@namedgraph That's a tricky one! A while back I needed to use the graph isomorphism check you can do with Jena so hacked up git.floop.org.uk/alex/rdfdiff, but that just works on triples.
Another quick hack would be to dump into nquads then use standard sort and diff commands.
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Can anyone point me to a lightweight RDF diff tool that supports quads? 🙏
P.S. Yes I’ve tried asking ChatGPT :)
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Nicely hype-free white paper from @DeloitteNL and us at @VUamsterdam on combining knowledge graphs with generative AI, including a discussion of pitfalls and opportunities (60 applications categorized across 6 key industries). www2.deloitte.com/nl/nl/pages/ri…
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@andrewdoyle_com Ask it "what's 2 plus 2". If it answers "4", it's an adder, not poisonous, and a friend. If it answer's "5", it's an ideological cult, a foe. If it doesn't answer, but just stares at you and sticks its tongue out, it's a snake and it could go either way.
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This little chap was waiting outside the front door. Friend or foe?
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@welshflier @SamHallWales @EdwardTufte Sorry, I've not read up on dyscalculia, so was just responding about visualisations.
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