With postgraduatisation of professions, and rising need for career transition quals (grad certs/dips, some masters) in a flexible labour market, the divide between undergrad & post grad is now quasi-arbitrary. The rigid divide in funding structure has no strong logic any more

We used Google Sheets formulas to confirm responses and avoid hallucinations, then pivoted to Python to demand validated, pitch-perfect JSON (which sometimes takes a little automated back-and-forth).

Find the recoding on ye olde YouTube!

youtube.com/watch?v=5MHEMe…

I spent a long time experimenting with AI before finally writing about it in depth. It can be pretty useful — but is it worth it?

citationneeded.news/ai-isnt-useles…

I'm VERY excited to launch a new project today! Rest of World's AI Elections Tracker will track incidents of AI being used around elections globally - for campaigning, misinformation, and memes. Check out our entries so far - restofworld.org/2024/elections…

we mapped tents in Rafah by applying machine learning to high resolution satellite imagery from Planet. we also show damaged buildings from analysis done by corey scher and Jamon Van Den Hoek. 🛰️

read here 🎁: bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

a small thread with some model specifics 🧵

I got an Armillaria culture in my lab you need to see!

Anthony Albanese You should, if they desire, also allow Faraz Tahir's family to come to Australia as he was working towards. He was killed while protecting the public, which was his job.

Security guard Faraz Tahir is remembered as a tireless charity volunteer after his death in a mass stabbing at Bondi Junction on Saturday. “He had a great heart.' Beautiful piece Luca Ittimani theguardian.com/australia-news…

Tsukihashi Wataru, the mascot of Kyoto's Arashiyama district, is a ghostly figure with a 9th century bridge on his back.

Police treating as terrorist attack the alleged stabbing of Sydney bishop during livestreamed mass. theguardian.com/australia-news…

Can Turing patterns be engineered in synthetic biological populations? Yes: A recent paper by Imperial College London Mark Isalan shows how to obtain regular and tunable Turing structures in growing colonies using Synbio: biorxiv.org/content/biorxi… Víctor de Lorenzo

Islamophobic & anti-immigrant rhetoric & false accusations. Antisemitic speculation that led to thousands of X posts naming the wrong man. A news outlet actually using that name on air. A first look at the absolute mess following the Bondi Junction attack. theguardian.com/australia-news…

One of my main motivations for founding Our World in Data was to overcome the mad reality in academia that much of the most important research and data is locked away behind paywalls.

I wanted research and data to be a public good, accessible to *everyone*.

If you find our work…

A little exclusive: Priscilla has been found! It has survived bushfires and floods and years out in the open after being abandoned - it's a heck of a story and I loved writing this theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/…

'bad news for skiers'

Daily Tele discovered end to end encryption.

Australia passed a bill to deal with this 5+ years ago!! Go find out why law enforcement barely use it.

theguardian.com/technology/201…

A bioluminescent mystery from my friend Dave Kelly! What is causing this flax bioluminescence? Two photos, one with a flash, and the other with only natural light (in almost complete darkness). This is in NZ… any one seen something like this before? Please R/T. Thanks!

desperately milking crowdtangle for data before meta shuts off the content spigot