I am delighted to see a profile on me published in Silicon Republic focusing on my research in different areas of #deeplearning and #AI in Comp Sci @ Durham Durham University

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Looking for a venue for your next training course, ecology field trip, workshop or a writing retreat? We do it all! Oh and did we mention a fantastic location right in the middle of one of Scotland's rare temperate rainforests? Get in touch to chat about what we have to offer!

Free Bird #WIP #generativeart #creativecoding #codeart #genart

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Fjelltopp is delighted to welcome Toavina Andriamihaingo to the team. Toavina comes to us from WHO Madagascar, and has worked with us since 2016. He has a wealth of engineering experience in our field, and will bring fresh perspectives from a very different part of the world.

some excellent in-country work of Fjelltopp Ltd team!

CryptoCountries Mint #0, Love the colours on this one!

Grab your own one here: artblocks.io/project/348 🗺️

#p5js #GenerativeArt #MapArt #Creativecoding #Processing #ProceduralGeneration #CryptoCountries #algorithmicart #ProceduralArt #codeart #genart #NFTs #NFTProjects

We're hiring again! Fjelltopp is looking for a Frontend Developer with Javascript React experience. Please forward this on to anyone who might be interested. fjelltopp.org/careers

Russ Roberts EconTalk has a terrific transcript of our show, and links to learn more

In 90 mins we cover all things Pandemic: Vaccines, Lockdowns, Masks, Boosters, Schools and Science itself

Check it out
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extraordinary

Our paper shows how to empower communities with statistics for great good. Thanks everyone involved in the study, especially hundreds of community workers on the frontline of the pandemic here in Dhaka. FAO Bangladesh

1/ A first sketch of Decentralized Society (DeSoc):

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Honored to have collaborated with ⿻(((E. Glen Weyl/衛谷倫))) 🇺🇸/🇩🇪/🇹🇼 🖖 and @vitalikbuterin on what will hopefully become a novel field of research, inquiry, and co-creation across our technological stack.

Good, critical stuff from Guardian by George Monbiot theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Considering a challenging role, in an exciting research environment, at a wonderful location? SCENE is looking for a Research Support Manager @IBAHCM Glasgow Fish Biology my.corehr.com/pls/uogrecruit…

It’s unbelievable that an international coalition which could find 130BN dollars a year for Afghanistan when fighting there, cannot find 5 per cent of that amount to prevent millions of Afghans from starving. Sky News

More fun publisher surveillance:
Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is *unique for each time a PDF is downloaded*, this is a diff between metadata from two of the same paper. Combined with access timestamps, they can uniquely identify the source of any shared PDFs.

In 2007 Scotland had 455 drug deaths, in 2008 Scottish Government launched a strategy to tackle drug use, it defined recovery as a 'drug free life'

By 2018 drug deaths reached 1187

Prohibition & the narratives that sit beside it are inherently dangerous

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We are looking for a new technician! Come and work within a highly interdisciplinary unit supporting an array of high level science projects. apply here: my.corehr.com/pls/uogrecruit…