M A Osborne
@maosbot.bsky.social
Parent, spouse, Australian, Professor of Machine Learning in Oxford. Long Covid, trans rights, music, reggae on Fridays, AI must be good for humans, https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~mosb
9YO had not heard of Cash and Nico (but is watching Minecraft videos on YouTube as I write): we will check out with thanks for the tip!
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
9YO had not heard of Cash and Nico (but is watching Minecraft videos on YouTube as I write): we will check out with thanks for the tip!
FNF is also big in our household (and is also stupidly hard)!
November 23, 2025 at 5:26 AM
FNF is also big in our household (and is also stupidly hard)!
Haha our kids are clearly well-aligned! It was indeed EVW 9YO was telling me about, and he sings the gangster rap non-stop (and plays the level). Very cool that your son is creating himself, I will share with 9YO :)
November 23, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Haha our kids are clearly well-aligned! It was indeed EVW 9YO was telling me about, and he sings the gangster rap non-stop (and plays the level). Very cool that your son is creating himself, I will share with 9YO :)
With my ageing fine-motor skills and slowing reflexes
November 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
With my ageing fine-motor skills and slowing reflexes
I have played it, and am AWFUL
November 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I have played it, and am AWFUL
Pretty bold to include a hallucinated citation putatively written by the very person to whom you are applying
November 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Pretty bold to include a hallucinated citation putatively written by the very person to whom you are applying
You’d think so, but to my knowledge this question has only been addressed in lab settings e.g. Lindsley et al. (2021),
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC..., Patel et al. (2016)
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC....
Source control is more effective than receiver control (intuitively)
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC..., Patel et al. (2016)
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC....
Source control is more effective than receiver control (intuitively)
Efficacy of universal masking for source control and personal protection from simulated cough and exhaled aerosols in a room
Face masks reduce the expulsion of respiratory aerosols produced during coughs and exhalations (“source control”). Factors such as the directions in which people are facing (orientation) and separation distance also affect aerosol dispersion. ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
You’d think so, but to my knowledge this question has only been addressed in lab settings e.g. Lindsley et al. (2021),
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC..., Patel et al. (2016)
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC....
Source control is more effective than receiver control (intuitively)
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC..., Patel et al. (2016)
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC....
Source control is more effective than receiver control (intuitively)
Thanks David! One-way masking in a FFP3 seems to be working for me, but I have other layers of protection in addition (regular vaccination, clean air)
November 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Thanks David! One-way masking in a FFP3 seems to be working for me, but I have other layers of protection in addition (regular vaccination, clean air)
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November 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Thank you! I wasn’t sure about your post and appreciate the explicit confirmation!
October 6, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Thank you! I wasn’t sure about your post and appreciate the explicit confirmation!
I don’t love the description of increasing autism diagnoses as an “epidemic”
October 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I don’t love the description of increasing autism diagnoses as an “epidemic”
As evidence for your theory, staff in shops often initiate conversations with me in English (unlike other customers), and the only reason i can imagine for why they do so is my mask
October 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
As evidence for your theory, staff in shops often initiate conversations with me in English (unlike other customers), and the only reason i can imagine for why they do so is my mask
I am happy to defer to your judgement here—in addition to my visible privileges (gender, height), I’ve only lived in Aarhus, and only for a few months, which is unlikely to be representative
October 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I am happy to defer to your judgement here—in addition to my visible privileges (gender, height), I’ve only lived in Aarhus, and only for a few months, which is unlikely to be representative
I am pretty sure that @brebis.bsky.social also lives in Denmark. My own 2p: no one else masks here, but I haven’t gotten any grief over my mask, either
October 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I am pretty sure that @brebis.bsky.social also lives in Denmark. My own 2p: no one else masks here, but I haven’t gotten any grief over my mask, either