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Dr Paul Matthews

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Academic, writer, techie - UK The meta-rer the betterer #AcademicChatter #DataScience #KOS #dh #RStats #nujazz #downtempo #amreading #scifi #ballardian #modernism https://fetstudy.uwe.ac.uk/~pmatthew/ https://writing.transient.me.uk/

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phyphor @phyphor.one-dash.org · 3d

I have a sentient coin because I ask if it's alive, telling it that Heads is Yes and Tails is No.

I flip it and, would you believe, it says Yes!

But, what's really impressive, is that sometimes¹ it shows Tails, which proves that it is so smart it knows how to lie!

¹ about half, to be honest

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · 6d

Spidey Tree

Oak tree framed by Spider web in foreground
Misty morning.

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 11d

This only happens to you once

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · 17d

Cozy
#NarcoSubs

‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine

Poorly paid crews risk their lives on voyages in ‘propeller-driven coffins’ to smuggle drugs from Brazil to Europe

www.theguardian.com

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Daniel Gutierrez @ddgutierrez.bsky.social · 20d

Most companies don’t need deep learning. They need clean joins, honest metrics, and interpretable results.
Startups often chase GPU clusters before fixing their CSVs.

#DataScience #MachineLearning #AI #RStats

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Sep 6

GitHub Copilot on autopilot as community complaints persist • The Register

www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/g...

#slop

GitHub Copilot on autopilot as community complaints persist

: Unavoidable AI has developers looking for alternative code hosting options

www.theregister.com

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · Sep 5

AI things I love: the Merlin bird call identification app from @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social, Cornell. Screenshot of the sounds of Oxford before I wend my way home. More of this kind of AI processing, please. And we should be asking why there isn’t more of this, and where resources are to build more.

Screenshot of list of birds in Merlin app

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Sep 4

#qotd #ThursdayThought

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. - Niels Bohr

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Aug 20

Aloe whorled

@ Kew Gardens, London

An aloe plant with spiral spiky leaves, on rocks

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Marsh Naylor @marshnaylor.net · Aug 15

#academicsky #philsky #edusky

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Aug 14

Does, this cheer you up?

Windsor Great Park, this morning 😏

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Aug 14

Does. This cheer you up?

Windsor Great Park, this morning 😏

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Robin Blythe @rbly.bsky.social · Aug 9

During my PhD I found that the main utility of prediction models in hospitals was just forcing the doctor to listen to the nurse's worries about the patient

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Aug 2

@bsfa.bsky.social please get rid of the tedious captcha on your login page. I was at it for about 5 minutes just now trying to authenticate. Why should we be training autonomous vehicle AI for free? I like taxi drivers!

Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Jul 31

Big rain here on the Bristol riviera

Rain on train platform, and a poster ironically saying “this is what summer in Bristol looks like”

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Miska Knapek @miskaknapek.bsky.social · Jul 27

(kindly share)
I'm selling photos to raise money private medical help for a severe - quite lifeshortening - immune damaging disease I have, #MECFS, outside the coverage of public health.
There are some good nature photos in any event ;)

More info here:
payhip.com/MiskaKnapek/...

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Jul 12

Hedgie turned up for some supper

Hedgehog with its snout in a bowl of food “lent” by the cat

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John Pickering @kiwiskinz.bsky.social · Jun 30

Big shout out to ‪@thomasp85.com & the wonderful gganimate #rstats package. It enabled me to produce this gif of an exoplanet transit now on Space.com (www.space.com/astronomy/ex...) & elsewhere. #Unistellar Citizen Scientists & professional astronomers exploring the universe together.
#Astronomy