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James Hetherington @jamespjh.bsky.social · 10d

Hackney, London. Newham, London. Waltham Forest, London.

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James Hetherington @jamespjh.bsky.social · 10d

I am the cowpox of grumpy professors. Work with me so it’s safe to work with the real ones.

James Hetherington @jamespjh.bsky.social · 10d

“Places I would like to work” is also a factor.

James Hetherington @jamespjh.bsky.social · 10d

Honestly, I was assuming most of your answers would be mostly American so was being European as a counterpoint. But no one else replied yet. So now I feel exposed.

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James Hetherington @jamespjh.bsky.social · 10d

CSCS, BSC, LRZ, EPCC, A*STAR

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James Hetherington @jamespjh.bsky.social · 11d

Data is the new sewage.

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James Hetherington @jamespjh.bsky.social · 18d

Ok, it didn’t quite work, but you get the point.

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James Hetherington @jamespjh.bsky.social · 18d

Hey, we invented Tulips!

That’s a flower.

Yes, we’ve been quietly growing flowers for 50 years. But now we decided to Call Them Tulips! The final flower!

Right, but it’s frustrating to ignore all the good work in growing flowers.

Yes, but you’ve gotta be Tulip ready!

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James Hetherington @jamespjh.bsky.social · 21d

Also I have loads of conferences coming up including one in the Pestilent States…

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James Hetherington @jamespjh.bsky.social · 21d

Non-sick employees are a more exploitable resource.

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James Hetherington @jamespjh.bsky.social · 21d

Double jabbed! Flu paid by UCL, covid privately. Would recommend.

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 21d

Popes hate this one weird trick!

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 22d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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EPCC @epcc.bsky.social · 21d

Research Infrastructure Engineers (RIE's) are the technical staff who build and maintain accelerated compute clusters. RIEs are invited to join the ACIT-Hub Training CoDesign Day on Oct 28 in Edinburgh to help define the training it offers: edin.ac/43f5VHR

Photo shows a table covered in sticky notes

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James Hetherington @jamespjh.bsky.social · 22d

caPitalising rAndom letters IN the title to Form the word yoU want is not cLever - PAINFUL. #reviewing

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James Hetherington @jamespjh.bsky.social · 24d

You know when you’re reviewing grants, and it’s like meh, meh, meh, WOW THIS IS THE BEST PROPOSAL EVER WISH ID THOUGHT OF IT, meh, meh, meh.

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Software Sustainability Institute @softwaresaved.bsky.social · 29d

⏳ The DisCouRSE Network+ has launched its first Flexible Fund, offering up to £10,000 to support projects that strengthen leadership training and career pathways for digital Research Technical Professionals (dRTPs).

Find out more at www.software.ac.uk/news/discour...

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James Hetherington @jamespjh.bsky.social · Oct 1

I agree, but also, memorisable identifiers (like what three words or the xkcd password protocol) exist and should be used in place of opaque UIDs wherever possible.

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James Hetherington @jamespjh.bsky.social · Sep 30

Yes, there is too much boilerplate in current languages, and natural language interfaces will have a big role to play in tools for skilled analysts.

But “computer, please use this data to show the result I want” is going to create bad stats, and bad business decisions.

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James Hetherington @jamespjh.bsky.social · Sep 30

Code is the most productive, reliable and expressive way of describing mathematical ideas to computers.

I have worked building GUIs for designing system models, in industry and academia.

They seem attractive at first, but users realise that *they are more productive with code* once they practice.

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James Hetherington @jamespjh.bsky.social · Sep 30

You cannot safely do statistics or modelling without understanding the risks of lying to yourself.

If you have the intellectual ability to do this, the code is actually easy.

If you don’t, you will harm your company by trying.

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James Hetherington @jamespjh.bsky.social · Sep 30

Let’s just go over again why low/no code platforms for data analytics and computational modelling are Wrong.

I do this because I’ve just seen another advert for a tool “so all your colleagues can get insight from data regardless of technical ability”, and I need to call bullshit again. 1/N

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James Hetherington @jamespjh.bsky.social · Sep 17

“The sorry identifier magically produces a proof of anything, or provides an object of any data type at all.” lean-lang.org/theorem_prov...

Propositions and Proofs

lean-lang.org

James Hetherington @jamespjh.bsky.social · Sep 17

Fermats margin proof was ‘sorry’ : #Lean4

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James Hetherington @jamespjh.bsky.social · Sep 12

What is the fractal dimension of the Jagged Frontier?

James Hetherington @jamespjh.bsky.social · Sep 12

For advanced knowledge workers, there’s an assumption the job is 10% explicit learning, (self taught, conferences and formal courses), 20% on job learning, 20% faff, meetings and admin, and 50% productive.

This will change. Maybe 75% explicit learning, 5% faff and 20% productivity time.

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