Justin Cormack
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Tech and pictures of nature. Suffolk, UK
Had not seen this painting by Constable before, Rainstorm over the Sea. (in the Tate exhibition, must go)
about 24 hours ago
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OpenUK
4 days ago
Welcoming our new Board members,
@chira001.bsky.social
, Ashley Ward, Clare Schramm,
@justincormack.bsky.social
, Margherita Di Cerbo, Maria Lema,
@mathewlodge.com
, and
@mikemcquaid.com
, to strengthen our existing OpenUK Board.
openuk.uk/newboardmemb...
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"Even after applying weights to ensure the reported demographics of respondents match up to the target population, 12 per cent of young adults in the sample declared they had a licence to operate a nuclear submarine."
www.ft.com/content/1298...
by
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com
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The AI Shift: Is AI about to break polling?
Online surveys are susceptible to bogus respondents and synthetic samples warrant scepticism
https://www.ft.com/content/1298a2cd-5623-480c-b30e-ff81fc5c788d
4 days ago
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Morning walk by the vineyards
9 days ago
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12 days ago
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OpenUK
18 days ago
🔥✨🤩🫣⬇️ Want to get more involved in OpenUK and become a part of the team?
openuk.uk/ambassadors/
#opensource
#opendata
#openhardware
#opensourcesoftware
#openuk
#ambassador
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"China added 240GW of solar capacity in the first nine months of this year, and 61GW of wind"
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20 days ago
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For
#wildflowerhour
some wild snapdragons from Spain where I was earlier this week. Back home its more shaggy inkcap weather and slime mold
bsky.app/profile/just...
22 days ago
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I was re-perusing
@komorama.bsky.social
organizations are like slime molds piece
komoroske.com/slime-mold/
and then ran into a whole lot of the tastefully named "dog's vomit slime mold" up the road - slime molds are weird!
22 days ago
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evening walk
23 days ago
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sunset
26 days ago
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Justin
about 1 month ago
The Tour de France slows rise of far right
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The Tour de France slows rise of far right: "It looked like our town was actually important" | BikeRadar
Voting in towns and villages on the route of the Tour found to shift less to the right than nearby areas, according to new research
https://www.bikeradar.com/news/tour-de-france-slows-rise-of-far-right
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"This is a more extreme policy position than, say, the BNP’s 2005 manifesto."
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about 1 month ago
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Christine Lemmer-Webber
about 1 month ago
I can't understate how good of a job the
@inkandswitch.com
folks did at this Automerge website. Wow, holy shit
automerge.org
And the fact that you can *interact* with the visual demo at the top? This is the new high bar for a technical website. Holy moly.
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Automerge
Automerge is a library for building collaborative, local-first applications.
https://automerge.org/
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Autumn walk
about 1 month ago
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"Storing beautiful things in your head is really worth doing"
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about 1 month ago
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First thing that comes to mind when I hear the Louvre has been robbed "Inside the air was filled with gorilla smoke. I was looking for a man who might specialise in piano robberies from the Louvre."
goonshow.org/goonshow/nap...
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Napoleon’s Piano
The GSPS keeps a full set of transcriptions of the various versions of all the shows which were broadcast. These aren’t the original scripts, though we have many copies of those too. TheyR…
https://goonshow.org/goonshow/napoleons-piano/
about 1 month ago
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owl
about 2 months ago
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The EU wants to “help AI start-ups grow through increased demand for European-made open source AI solutions”
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about 2 months ago
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Jon Worth
about 2 months ago
This autumn the UK Office for Rail and Road will decide on capacity at Temple Mills depot in east London What that is going to mean for Eurostar's rivals - and the many questions I still have! - I've written up in a new blog post
jonworth.eu/constraints-...
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Constraints on future Channel Tunnel operators - Jon Worth
Sometime this autumn the UK’s Office of Rail and Road (ORR) will adjudicate on capacity allocation at Temple Mills depot in east London. Responses to ORR from Eurostar and the four other companies tha...
https://jonworth.eu/constraints-on-future-channel-tunnel-operators/
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after the roses
about 2 months ago
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"The field changes arising from train leakage currents have to be added to the variations due to temperature changes, terrestrial tides and seasonal deformations of the LEP ring from the water level of the lake of Geneva and the amount of rainfall in the vicinity of CERN"
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https://cds.cern.ch/record/334095/files/sl-97-047.pdf
about 2 months ago
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Josh Spero
2 months ago
This sounds great
on.ft.com/46vOll8
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Five stars for 11,000 Strings played on 50 pianos in New York — review
[FREE TO READ] Georg Friedrich Haas’s microtonal work brings an astonishing palette of colours and sounds to the Park Avenue Armory
https://on.ft.com/46vOll8
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Evening walk
2 months ago
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Goethe tells the story of the old Duke of Saxony, an original as well as stubborn man, whose advisers urge him to reflect and ponder before making an important decision. “I want neither to reflect nor to ponder,” he replies, “otherwise why would I be the Duke of Saxony?”
www.ft.com/content/85ee...
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How tech lords and populists changed the rules of power
Digital moguls and strongman leaders are more than disrupters of the old liberal order. Together they seek to sweep it away, writes Giuliano da Empoli
https://www.ft.com/content/85ee3be0-c9a6-4a1d-baf9-8b2ca9e46a85
2 months ago
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“When translating Dumas’s work, for instance, he would sometimes go off on twenty-page-long digressions before returning to the text. His version of The Three Musketeers, which is some six hundred pages long in the original, weighs in at more than six thousand pages”
yalereview.org/article/amir...
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Amir Ahmadi Arian Goes in Search of Iran's Most Famous Translator
Was Zabihollah Mansouri secretly a prolific author?
https://yalereview.org/article/amir-ahmadi-arian-zabihollah-mansouri
2 months ago
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Saw some clouded yellows fluttering around today, very bright yellow!
@bc-suffolk.bsky.social
2 months ago
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dorian
3 months ago
dunno but this was his license plate
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Some common soapwort for
#wildflowerhour
3 months ago
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"We dominate the world when it comes to “doing miscellaneous stuff”. Nobody can touch us when it comes to “things that don’t fit in any other category”."
backofmind.substack.com/p/the-thing-...
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the thing that makes the thing-in-itself
on the oddness of British exports
https://backofmind.substack.com/p/the-thing-that-makes-the-thing-in
3 months ago
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Tour of Britain just down the road here is Remco Evenepoul just on the local "mountain" range at Mill Hill
3 months ago
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todays newsletter is about arctic semirings, because of
@kevinxu.bsky.social
buttondown.com/justincormac...
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Ignore previous directions 6: floating points
Nature At this time of year the heather and gorse are flowering. View of Dunwich Heath. Once there was a port the size of London at the time here, but after...
https://buttondown.com/justincormack/archive/ignore-previous-directions-6-floating-points/
3 months ago
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Fish and fruit shop
3 months ago
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School No 6
3 months ago
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404
3 months ago
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Porceleyne Blompot
3 months ago
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Tree, Amstelpark
3 months ago
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Morning Amsterdam
3 months ago
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Next stop Amsterdam
3 months ago
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Mar
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Anne Moffatt's memoir, The IT Girl, details the story behind the photograph with the baby—where Moffatt, then Technical Lead at Shirley’s company, Freelance Programmers, programmed the black box flight recorder for the Concorde
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On Dunwich Heath
3 months ago
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Common blue
@bc-suffolk.bsky.social
they are a lot of them this year
3 months ago
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The latticed heath is a pretty moth
@bc-suffolk.bsky.social
4 months ago
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Kate Bevan
4 months ago
This is a wonderful piece
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in the woods today
4 months ago
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Tim Harford
4 months ago
BBC obituary here:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Dame Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley, technology pioneer, dies aged 91
She founded the software company Freelance Programmers in 1962, which almost exclusively hired women, and in later life donated almost ÂŁ70m of her fortune.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gzzlp7p3po
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Tim Harford
4 months ago
Very sorry to read of the death of Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley. What a life she lived! Escaped the holocaust via Kindertransport, computer pioneer, philanthropist, autism activist. Amazing, amazing.
www.franmonks.com/how-to-make-...
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ok I wrote about this!
buttondown.com/justincormac...
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Ignore Previous Directions 5: hardware has changed
Nature It is the gall wasp season. These are weird wasps that inject chemicals into plants, and repurpose their growth patterns, like gadget exploits in...
https://buttondown.com/justincormack/archive/ignore-previous-directions-5-hardware-has-changed/
4 months ago
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"Until other, more complete tablets are found that record the same myth, scholars may never know whether the fox successfully completed its mission."
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4 months ago
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