Describe the problem. Follow the instructions, jeez. Learn a totally new syntax to describe the problem again. Okay, don’t follow those instructions, follow these. No, you have to do this totally different thing first. Yeah, it doesn’t work automatically. You have to change it from ‘not working mode’ to ‘working …
We want to be useful to society. But any attempt to show that or to have it guide us either destroys what we are, or turns us into technical servants or mouthpieces of other peoples’ ends. If you want to see how that turns out, enjoy listening to Christian Rock. …
Many grants have I reviewed, grasshopper. This blog post is meant to give some advice on how to frame a grant effectively so it appeals to reviewers. The first point is to look for what data scientists call “Stop words”. Stop words in data science are terms that are not …
There has been a lot of recent conversation about radicalisation through different forms. Mumsnet has been blamed for radicalising its participants. There is an implied theory of change here. It is that radicalisation works something like environmental exposure. Radicalisation is like pollution in the info sphere. Exposure to small doses …
