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@DrScottArthurMP @HeriotWattUni Good project for students. This reopening is long overdue and it will likely take another decade at least... One thing HWU students would benefit from is taking the train to Currie with their Lothian Bus monthly pass, where they'd jump on 25 bus (extended from HWU to Currie).

It's great to see my old students from @HeriotWattUni leading on this. hw.ac.uk/news/2025/call…

@DrScottArthurMP Did you lack cycling infrastructure?

This isn't going well.

Research charity @IOMworld are carrying out a survey on the Low Emission Zone (LEZ), aimed at Edinburgh residents and commuters. Make your voice heard on their website until 15 November: survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90752293/Ed…

@SW20Ed Or an affordable 2-hour cap on the whole network (ideally including trains within the "Greater Edinburgh" region

@omarsar0 Is going from Hallucinating to Gaslighting sounds like progress in "intelligence"... Or could it be regression... 🤔 These models are jist unable to doubt.

Finally, a nice paper that evaluates whether o1 can plan. Here is a quick summary of the interesting bits: A domain-independent planner (Fast Downward) can solve all instances of Mystery Blocksworld. LLMs struggle, even on small instances. But Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) like o1-preview are effective but tend to degrade in performance as plan length increases. Now look at the drill down on the performance of the o1-preview and o1-mini models compared to Fast Downward: Accuracy/costs Tradeoffs: The authors claim that "while o1-preview may provide higher accuracy than LLMs, it still fails to provide any correctness guarantees, and it is unclear whether it is at all cost-effective." An interesting comment from the paper on o1's creative justifications: "While our main focus has been on providing a quantitative evaluation of o1’s performance on PlanBench, we have also noticed an o1 idiosyncrasy that is worth commenting on. When the model gives an incorrect answer, it also sometimes provides a creative, but nonsensical, justification for its decision. It is almost as if o1 has gone from hallucinating to gaslighting!" The conclusion in the paper is that while o1 shows a bit of progress on more challenging planning problems, the accuracy gains cannot be considered general or robust (particularly, on longer problems and unsolvable instances).

@DavidDouglasEDI @SW20Ed @SpokesLothian @TransformScot @best_edinburgh @LivingStreetsEd 1) Not just "cycling lobby". Lots of walkers got used to those quiet spaces. 2) Cycling lobby would be fine if councils offered good alternative segregated cycling. The issue is they will likely close the path for rail & give no adequate alternative. It's how they #getstuffdone

@SW20Ed @SpokesLothian @TransformScot @best_edinburgh @LivingStreetsEd It’s another 🦄 story. How much money would that cost and who is going to pay for it. The old railway system around Edinburgh would be ideal, but you’d probably have some cycling lobby kicking off because they would lose safe cycling infrastructure.

@JosephineCumbo @AdamGanz At Edinburgh one can start in one Engineer. programme but switch to some other one after 1 yr (with minor condition). I suspect this is true in many other unis. One may also end up discovering a cool discipline not initially considered. Civil Eng. often falls in that category 😉

@AdamGanz First choice was Manchester than Edinburgh for Mechanical Engineering. He was several points off A stars. Poor kid stressed now.

Son achieved AAA in Physics, Further Maths and Maths and no offer from First Choice or Insurance University. Now doing mad scramble for Clearing places. Stress levels are high.

Some v misleading claims about heat pumps in this @Telegraph comment piece by Robert Taylor It fails to grasp the key point about heat pumps - they lead to energy security. Reliance on gas boilers is a major reason we were so badly hit by the gas crisis Here's the rundown... 🧵

@ShaunLintern Tax sugar to support increase of funding to NHS?

Wes Streeting calls you and asks for *tangible* ideas he can implement to help NHS improve performance. But there's no extra money for big spending. What's your one idea? #FantasyNHS I'll start - staff passports across regions to free up pointless mandatory training time.

Dear @RachelReevesMP In the Autumn budget, please can you restore the £233m that was illegally removed from @activetraveleng's funding. The miserable state of sustainable travel in England is beyond a joke, pushing people into costly travel alternatives. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

@EdiDisgraces @overlandertheb1 He's definitely been struggling with whether or not to advertise that he's an academic, "Dr", let alone "Prof.". I actually understand why, but I am sad he doesn't fully own up to his actual profession.

@overlandertheb1 He’s actually a Professor now. Is he concerned ‘Prof’ could alienate voters?

There’s an old rule in academia that if you have to *tell* people you have a PhD then you shouldn’t have it.

@nigelbagshaw And they do wind me up! (which is the intention, I suppose)

The driverless Lille metro in France, (urban area: 1.2 million people) operates every 66 seconds (!!!) during rush hour—the most frequent metro service in the world!

My bike got nicked today from the garage at work. If anyone offers you a Specialized ebike in Edinburgh tip me a wink. Genuinely devastated.

🌟 Final Review of the @cogito_project ! 🌟The first part of the review has ended! We delved into pilot site demonstrations, and digital tools presentations 👏 At the end of the first part we had a live presentation of tools in the Ferrovial's immerse space 🚀

👉 Discover the innovative solutions developed by the @cogito_project ❗️ Throughout the project, 14 detailed reports have been produced, focusing on tools to enhance #safety, #quality, and #workflow management in construction #infrastructure📷cogito-project.eu/comprehensive-…

➡ Discover the @cogito_project #DT ecosystem, designed with harmonized #interfaces and advanced communication protocols for a seamless #construction #digitaltwin experience. Dive also into our four main technical #innovations on the COGITO website ⤵ bit.ly/3wNsaaY

@Rainmaker1973 Isn't this fresh brioche ? As opposed to what "pain perdu" is really meant to be?

Cedric Grolet is today regarded by international critics as one of the best pâtissier in the world. This is how he prepares the pain perdu, french toast with chantilly cream, vanilla and caramel.

❗ Last week Georgios Giannakis from @hypertechsa, and Raul Garcia Castro from @La_UPM represented @cogito_project during the 4th Building Digital Twins International Congress organized by #BDTA 👏Digital Twin apps, and SAREF #ontology were discussed❗👉cogito-project.eu/about/cogito-p…