Really interesting and thought provoking evening listening… The Leviacene: Defining Our Times, David Runciman’s Past Present Future podcast, https://shows.acast.com/pastpresentfuture/episodes/65428b4bdf8cb80012a5c578
7.11.2023 18:26Really interesting and thought provoking evening listening… The Leviacene: Defining Our Times, David Runciman’s Past Present Future...Really interesting podcast from The Alan Turing Institute on #AI #regulation and the governance frameworks and standards that may play a role.
The Alan Turing Institute: https://turing.podbean.com/e/eu-ai-regulation/ #AIstandards #AIregulation
24.7.2023 14:48Really interesting podcast from The Alan Turing Institute on #AI #regulation and the governance frameworks and standards that may play a...Daily doodles
13.7.2023 10:55Daily doodlesMy first play at creating a stable diffusion generated arty #QR code - an interesting process, if sometimes frustrating
15.6.2023 08:41My first play at creating a stable diffusion generated arty #QR code - an interesting process, if sometimes frustrating #AI #Artcame across:
studying open government data: acknowledging practices and politics
" key question to be answered when studying and implementing open data is how the solutions openness promise latch onto the problem they aim to solve"
#OpenData #Policy #OpenGovernment
14.6.2023 10:04came across: studying open government data: acknowledging practices and politics...Meetings today in central Bristol. I know it is supposed to be good luck but some seagull has dropped a load on me as I walked back to train station. I suppose it is lucky it wasn’t on the way to the meetings!
29.3.2023 12:39Meetings today in central Bristol. I know it is supposed to be good luck but some seagull has dropped a load on me as I walked back to train...Correlation between my train journeys and political resignations is not causation!
Although it is amazing how many times when away for a meeting I get on the train home and see the news of one
15.2.2023 18:17Correlation between my train journeys and political resignations is not causation! Although it is amazing how many times when away for a...A rare (recently at least) train trip to Reading today.
15.2.2023 09:42A rare (recently at least) train trip to Reading today.Content warning:Satellites support impact assessment after Türkiye–Syria earthquakes
Reading: Satellites support impact assessment after Türkiye–Syria earthquakes
Amazing how quickly this detailed data is now available
from ESA
13.2.2023 12:07Content warning:Satellites support impact assessment after Türkiye–Syria earthquakesReading: Satellites support impact assessment after...the scale of the earthquakes impact on the landscape alongside the horror for everyone there! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64603521
You then realise that map is over 500km wide!
11.2.2023 10:03the scale of the earthquakes impact on the landscape alongside the horror for everyone there!...This week I've enjoyed reading some of the discussions on the practicalities / implications of Large Language Models (#LLM) such as #GPT
including: https://epimorphics.com/writing-ontologies-with-chatgpt/ from our CTO,
some really insightful posts on Medium
and this https://newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web from the
@NewYorker
Change of font mandate for internal documents in US State department https://gizmodo.com/times-new-roman-state-department-calibri-font-1850002984 - I do find the underlying reasons for particular font choices interesting. From an #accessibility point of view, it is interesting how varied the research seems to be.
19.1.2023 13:16Change of font mandate for internal documents in US State department...I'm getting extremely bored of this cough!!
11.1.2023 12:20I'm getting extremely bored of this cough!!back at work today after two weeks off - unfortunately still feeling a bit rubbish from whatever virus has been making me feel awful for the whole holiday :-(
9.1.2023 10:45back at work today after two weeks off - unfortunately still feeling a bit rubbish from whatever virus has been making me feel awful for the...I don’t know why he is so sad
30.12.2022 15:58I don’t know why he is so sadSome of my reading list of 2022. There might have been a bit of a sci-fi bias!
30.12.2022 13:03Some of my reading list of 2022. There might have been a bit of a sci-fi bias!Reading… Why Data Gaps Are Often the Missing Link for Data Stories https://stamen.com/how-data-gaps-contribute-complete-data-stories/ by Alan McConchie and Eric Rodenbeck at @stamen - posing the question “What would change if we viewed data gaps as opportunities and strengths instead of challenges and weaknesses in the data stories we tell?” #DataStories
edited as I should have linked to the Stamen Designs account (now fixed)
21.12.2022 07:42Reading… Why Data Gaps Are Often the Missing Link for Data Stories https://stamen.com/how-data-gaps-contribute-complete-data-stories/ by...Lovely venue for a meal in #portisheadmarina with the team
20.12.2022 15:07Lovely venue for a meal in #portisheadmarina with the teamInteresting news: Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom launch the Overture Maps Foundation to develop interoperable open map data...
15.12.2022 16:51Interesting news: Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom launch the Overture Maps Foundation to develop interoperable open map...We've been encouraging more of the team @epimorphics to write about some of their work.
I hope that we'll be seeing a range of different topics from a number of the team over the next few weeks and in the new year. Andrew has picked some of his recent #DevOps challenges to write about
https://mastodonapp.uk/@epimorphics/109471660047480799
7.12.2022 17:08We've been encouraging more of the team @epimorphics to write about some of their work. I hope that we'll be seeing a range of...