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Head of Software Engineering, i.AI https://mechanicalsurvival.com
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A *massive* thank you to @duncanjbrown.com, Elliot from HFEA, @ayymanduh.bsky.social and @mrdudders.bsky.social for being brilliant at Data Bites last night - one of the best we've done Watch back as live: app.sli.do/event/6buz4o... #pddatabites

submitted 102 days ago • 2 comments

If you're interested in UK #govtech or #opendata, the Incubator for AI have just open-sourced this like of "Awesome UK Government Datasets" and are looking for contributors! github.com/i-dot-ai/awe...

submitted 159 days ago • 1 comment

🧵 Some standout quotes from this paper, which uses the Prison Service as an example of how centralised political control can impoverish us when it annihilates the autonomy of people directly responsible for delivering public services: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

submitted 164 days ago • 1 comment

Ministers and officials need to confront the two lies that dog spending reviews: effiencies are rarely that, instead they lead to blunt cuts with unconsidered consequences; the Treasury's self-identity as a strategic performance budgeter is shattered by their increased use of input controls

submitted 166 days ago • 0 comments

This was an honour! ❤️

submitted 186 days ago • 0 comments

Chris Cunningham eat your heart out

submitted 186 days ago • 0 comments

This is righteous. Imo gatekeeping is not only a plausible explanation, but *the best explanation* for all the gratuitous complexity in frontend development that’s sprung up over the last decade.

submitted 188 days ago • 1 comment

At DfE “board” had got mixed up with “authority” so people reached for the first when they wanted the second

submitted 197 days ago • 1 comment

Thinking about this post a lot this week www.ftrain.com/wwic

submitted 201 days ago • 1 comment

New language today: the expression “code piece” instead of “piece of code”, for an LLM output. The speaker meant piece as in “artefact”, not piece as in “fragment”, and the LLM had “broken” the piece by making a bad edit.

submitted 216 days ago • 0 comments

How do you refactor a country? Whilst top-down reform on a national scale is obviously the road to hell, I think we should take the #Platformland invitation to radicalism seriously. mechanicalsurvival.com/blog/the-way...

submitted 220 days ago • 2 comments

My old team is recruiting. If you're interested in setting the UK Government right on AI, stop snarking online and put your career where your mouth is. ai.gov.uk/join/

submitted 240 days ago • 0 comments