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Really interesting and thought provoking evening listening… The Leviacene: Defining Our Times, David Runciman’s Past Present Future...

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

Really interesting podcast from The Alan Turing Institute on #AI #regulation and the governance frameworks and standards that may play a...

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

Daily doodles

Daily doodles

My first play at creating a stable diffusion generated arty #QR code - an interesting process, if sometimes frustrating #AI #Art

My first play at creating a stable diffusion generated arty #QR code - an interesting process, if sometimes frustrating

#AI #Art

came across: studying open government data: acknowledging practices and politics...

came across:

studying open government data: acknowledging practices and politics

https://cambridge.org/core/journals/data-and-policy/article/studying-open-government-data-acknowledging-practices-and-politics/6761EAC79254B98E9579CD38CAC5CBE4

" 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

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...

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!

Correlation between my train journeys and political resignations is not causation! Although it is amazing how many times when away for a...

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

A rare (recently at least) train trip to Reading today.

A rare (recently at least) train trip to Reading today.

Content warning:Satellites support impact assessment after Türkiye–Syria earthquakesReading: Satellites support impact assessment after...

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

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Satellites_support_impact_assessment_after_Tuerkiye_Syria_earthquakes

from ESA

the scale of the earthquakes impact on the landscape alongside the horror for everyone there!...

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!

This week I've enjoyed reading some of the discussions on the practicalities / implications of Large Language Models (#LLM) such as #GPT...

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

#AI #ChatGPT

Change of font mandate for internal documents in US State department...

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.

I'm getting extremely bored of this cough!!

I'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...

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 :-(

I don’t know why he is so sad

I don’t know why he is so sad

Some of my reading list of 2022. There might have been a bit of a sci-fi bias!

Some 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...

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)

Lovely venue for a meal in #portisheadmarina with the team

Lovely venue for a meal in #portisheadmarina with the team

Interesting news: Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom launch the Overture Maps Foundation to develop interoperable open map...

Interesting news: Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom launch the Overture Maps Foundation to develop interoperable open map data...

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/15/meta-microsoft-aws-and-tomtom-launch-the-overture-maps-foundation-to-develop-interoperable-open-map-data/

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...

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