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Ian Gray
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Ian Gray
@_iangray
All views my own. Apart from retweeted views. They aren't mine, they're theirs.
York, UK شامل ہوئے Ocak 2010
73 فالونگ122 فالوورز
@TeamYouTube @shinyycatherine If it's an EXPREIMENT. It should be OPT IN. Because that's how EXPERIMENTS WORK.
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Hey uh @TeamYouTube ? Can you maybe stop with this experiment??? All chat did was call me purple why does the summary say this???
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@speedfox_uk @JaroslavH @apsamuelson @blagden_david We are expensive because we tend to have a lot of staff time supervising labs. In my institution, CS literally has 3x contact hours than an average English programme or similar.
Also we do need large labs full of expensive computers, but that isn't /too/ bad.
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@JaroslavH @apsamuelson @blagden_david I understand physics, med and chem being expensive, but CS? I would have thought that would have been about as expensive to teach as maths.
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“We told Land Rover it could only charge £9250 for its cars. But if they go bust, that’s on them; just the market at work.”
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Channel 4 News@Channel4News
Education Minister Jacqui Smith is asked by @cathynewman if she is "willing to see a university go bust" because of "massive funding problems". She says: "Yes, if it were necessary. Yes, that would have to be the situation." Read here: channel4.com/news/will-labo…
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@GeorgeSewell @EdConwaySky @SMMT It’s only a small amount of crime so businesses should be allowed to get away with it.
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@EdConwaySky @SMMT So at an average of £115,000 , in the original article, that’s less than 400 cars, let’s assume 50% were for the home market - so probably under 200 cars to Russia is hardly worth the dramatic headlines - cheers
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Britain's motoring lobby group the @SMMT has insisted that an unprecedented 2,000% increase in car exports to Azerbaijan has NOTHING to with Russia and is explained by the fact that this former Soviet state is a “flourishing market in its own right”.
This is rather... odd
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@alfiethreetimes @GeorgyKantor @UniversitiesUK @BritishAcademy_ Then we need to raise tuition fees. They are currently around 6.5k in 2012 money when they were set. Our budgets have been cut year on year and so fees are currently so low it actually costs us money to educate a student.
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There is no exemption for education/research - this means that brightest foreign researchers can no longer be brought to UK as postdocs (average salary 30-36K), presumably? This is unspeakably damaging to UK's standing as a world research centre. @UniversitiesUK @BritishAcademy_
BBC News (UK)@BBCNews
Salary threshold for skilled worker visas to rise to £38,700 under government plans to cut legal migration levels Follow live bbc.in/3RamgGW
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.@JustEatUK Can you please help get this sorted? A restaurant was well over an hour late with no update or "we're cooking" message, so I placed a different order elsewhere and your email support are saying I still have to pay. Obviously that isn't your intent, but aren't budging.
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@spectate_or @professor_dave And it never has done.
This poster is nothing more than dogwhistling towards a putsch that they don't dare articulate.
You seem to think this about "gender quotas" whereas others think it is about trans people, because it is /actually/ about nothing.
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@professor_dave a gender identity or sexual preference does not qualify anyone to do science
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I have worked hard to make science more inclusive.
Science needs diverse researchers with varied interests & skills, and should apply itself to solving diverse global problems.
As far as I'm concerned, if the government wants to 'kick out the woke', they'll need to sack me.
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@BiJocular @leecronin @Conservatives @michelledonelan We know what it means. Nothing. If they wanted to *do* something they would say it, but they are aware they can't 'cancel' science, so they put out this crap knowing that it will whisper anti-Trans notions without promising anything. And the reactionaries won't notice the switch.
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NEW: Conservatives are safeguarding scientific research from the denial of biology and the steady creep of political correctness.
@michelledonelan announces plans to depoliticise science at #CPC23
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@benpartridge Even if the video was short enough for Twitter I'd prefer you host it on YouTube ;)
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@duckduckgeese @charts_finance @friscolive415 @Cruise More capable than humans is both easy, and not enough. If a human messes up there is a court case, blame. For a machine to have the power of life and death it needs to be beyond reproach. The barrier is far higher.
Or, the executives need to be responsible for autocar deaths ;)
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@charts_finance @friscolive415 @Cruise The problem is these cars aren’t really smart, when tesla solves true vision will have a robotaxi network much more capable than humans
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😬 @Cruise self-driving operations had a complete meltdown earlier in North Beach. We overheard on the scanner that all Cruise vehicle agents were tied up at the time (not literally) and so North Beach was going to get a delayed response. But wow, WTF!
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@dmimno What platform are you teaching on? A week sounds like a lot. I've exclusively developed using numpy/pandas in a docker container, and never spent more time on these beyond adding them to my requirements file
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There was a tweet yesterday about how major python libraries mostly aren't written in python, and it implied that this was something that should be fixed. I take it as revealed preference: experts don't like working in python. It's also a terrible language for beginners.
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@BLSmith2112 @Jwhitbrook @danahull You bury a lede, not a lead, and if you can't take 10 seconds to read 4 lines of important context that's on you.
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@samoverend42 @TorstenBell Because we paid private industry to invest, they took it, and didn't.
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@TorstenBell We've had a decade of cheap money, but it wasn't used for investment. Why is that?
Per Sowell's "scarce resources with competing uses" argument: Where did the cheap money go?
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Britain underinvests in almost everything. Year after year after year.
Nick Davies@NJ_Davies
We have a new report out today by @Samfr & @racheljanetwolf on the hospital productivity puzzle. We identify 3 key reasons: 1) longstanding underinvestment in capital (beds, scanners, buildings) 2) the loss of senior staff 3) chronic undermanagement instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/nh…
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@HidingSmith @DanKaszeta Funny, because last time I checked the government was even more publicly-owned than we are.
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@_iangray @DanKaszeta Now you are confusing public educational institutions where other views should have a podium with a private conference.
Jeez people.
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@HidingSmith @DanKaszeta Why is exactly why the government is so supportive of universities uninviting whoever they want from campus. Wait...
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@DanKaszeta If it is a private event, they are free to invite, or uninvite who they wish. Freedom of speech does not include any guarantee of being heard on any topic.
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@benpartridge etsy.com/uk/listing/107…
Etsy really does have everything.
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@ClaraRo55 @ucu I just mean that even if this is the best that we get, it is still better than the zero that we get without unionising. You asked what is the point of the union, and it's that.
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