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Professor of Mathematical Sciences, working mainly on epidemiology although partial to a bit of non-commutative algebra, social science and basic biology. https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/thomas.house/about.html
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Has anyone ever been hit by luggage that became displaced in an aeroplane overhead locker because they didn't pay sufficient attention when opening it? The lockers' concave shape seems adequate to make this a much less likely accident than announcements would suggest.

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Civil War as a movie was overall a bit oddly paced but the vignettes, including this one, were brutally on target.

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So if you finally give in and click on "Copilot" that has now been "integrated" into Office, it's just the standard LLM chatbot but a bit breezier and more corporate: It can tell you how to use Outlook menus modulo hallucination but can't use its text processing capabilities on your Inbox.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Mark Cuban isn't a household name here, but for anyone doing "diversity of thought is better on X", haven't you noticed the owner there literally Sieg Heil'd? I wouldn't go to a cafe or pub where the owner did that even if the vibes were better (which from a cursory look at X they certainly ain't).

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RIP - what a great talent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKqR...

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This is like when Russian oligarchs and, more recently, Chinese tech billionaires learned the difference between being a fantastically rich person and being in direct personal control of the state and its powers.

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Great ID modelling opportunity to aim for real impact on mitigating and monitoring AMR in sub-Saharan Africa. You'll work closely with us @ox.ac.uk, and Oxford’s Modernising Medical Microbiology group, as well as collaborators at CRUN (Burkina Faso) and KWRTP-KEMRI (Kenya). tinyurl.com/mry25kxe

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shel silverstein on the LLM, 1981

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"You will be incredibly unsurprised that someone who was in a prominent TV series X years ago now looks X years older and has a different hairdo."

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Andrea’s principled stand reveals once again the failure of @royalsociety.org to stand by its own principles. They really have misjudged to moment – and the momentousness of Musk’s damage to the fabric of US science. on.ft.com/4dVzoef

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