Ian Welch
ianwelch.bsky.social
Ian Welch
@ianwelch.bsky.social
Queer he/him. English, Welsh and Irish ancestors. Treaty is my immigration document. Born Kirikiriroa, raised Tāmaki and Paraparaumu. Associate professor and Programme Director for cybersecurity at Te Herenga Waka.
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Wow.

A new report presented to the Fast Track panel shows the TTR Taranaki seabed mining project could lead to sediment flows which knock over rigs and damage wind turbines - and have impacts that last for a thousand years!
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/28/s...
Seabed mine could produce devastating sediment flows, panel told
A controversial seabed mining project could lead to sediment flows which knock over rigs and damage wind turbines, the fast-track panel has heard.
newsroom.co.nz
November 2, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Notice what the kid's lawyer Alistair McClymont says (referred to as a 'veteran' & this is for real, he was already well-known when I was doing asylum cases in 2001): This kind of case is normally granted; Penk is pulling a Trump, breaking the norms of our system for the love of racism.
📢 Daman Kumar was born in Auckland, and he’s never left the country. He’s just finished school, and wants to go to university - but soon, he could be deported.
The Kiwi kid who faces being deported to a country he's never been to
www.stuff.co.nz
February 14, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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It's sometimes hard to believe how bad the disinformation landscape in this country has; a well funded disinfo platform broadcasts 7 hours of new content each day, including hosts promoting the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, and government ministers are guests
November 21, 2024 at 9:31 AM
Amazing day, kill the bill!
November 19, 2024 at 10:09 AM
Presenting our work in progress paper IndigiCloud about work done on Māori data governance. All credit to the Te Kāhui Raraunga Māori data experts for the analysis on the slide.
December 11, 2023 at 10:46 AM
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Short version: it’s the biggest attack on indigenous rights in New Zealand since Prendergast #nzpol
November 23, 2023 at 10:42 PM
One of the better explainers that I have seen for difference between accuracy, precision and recall ... www.evidentlyai.com/classificati...
Accuracy vs. precision vs. recall in machine learning: what's the difference?
Confused about accuracy, precision, and recall in machine learning? This illustrated guide breaks down each metric and provides examples to explain the differences.
www.evidentlyai.com
November 5, 2023 at 4:09 AM
There are more and fewer emotions than we thought ... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
November 1, 2023 at 6:13 AM