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
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M A Osborne
@maosbot.bsky.social
· Oct 21
Hi! To introduce myself to new folk, I got Long Covid in 2020 and went through the worst 18 months of my life before entering remission—I don't know why. I mask. I believe in AI's potential, and resent what Big Tech has done to it. I also post pictures from walks with our dog.
Haven’t been posting much, but I would like to confirm that I am still masking and still haven’t been reinfected with covid (funny how that works)
November 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Haven’t been posting much, but I would like to confirm that I am still masking and still haven’t been reinfected with covid (funny how that works)
None of us play, but we would like to buy a piano keyboard for our kids: shouldn’t be top-of-the-line, but shouldn’t be junk, either. Any tips appreciated!
October 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
None of us play, but we would like to buy a piano keyboard for our kids: shouldn’t be top-of-the-line, but shouldn’t be junk, either. Any tips appreciated!
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🚨New AI Safety Course
@aims_oxford
!
I’m thrilled to launch a new called AI Safety & Alignment (AISAA) course on the foundations & frontier research of making advanced AI systems safe and aligned at
@UniofOxford
what to expect 👇
robots.ox.ac.uk/~fazl/aisaa/
@aims_oxford
!
I’m thrilled to launch a new called AI Safety & Alignment (AISAA) course on the foundations & frontier research of making advanced AI systems safe and aligned at
@UniofOxford
what to expect 👇
robots.ox.ac.uk/~fazl/aisaa/
October 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
🚨New AI Safety Course
@aims_oxford
!
I’m thrilled to launch a new called AI Safety & Alignment (AISAA) course on the foundations & frontier research of making advanced AI systems safe and aligned at
@UniofOxford
what to expect 👇
robots.ox.ac.uk/~fazl/aisaa/
@aims_oxford
!
I’m thrilled to launch a new called AI Safety & Alignment (AISAA) course on the foundations & frontier research of making advanced AI systems safe and aligned at
@UniofOxford
what to expect 👇
robots.ox.ac.uk/~fazl/aisaa/
Apes smart enough to figure out the various disciplines of complex science explaining how deeply they are screwing up the thin eggshell of biosphere that is their only plausible home, yet too dumb to do anything about it
October 4, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Apes smart enough to figure out the various disciplines of complex science explaining how deeply they are screwing up the thin eggshell of biosphere that is their only plausible home, yet too dumb to do anything about it
I just got my Covid booster, and you should, too!
September 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I just got my Covid booster, and you should, too!
Multilayer pony
My little perceptron
My little perceptron
September 23, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Multilayer pony
My little perceptron
My little perceptron
Covid is still out there, and masks still work
September 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Covid is still out there, and masks still work
5,290 papers will be published at NeurIPS this year. If you could still get the proceedings in a book, it would be like 50,000 pages long. That’s 14.5 papers a day to read each and every day until the next NeurIPS
September 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
5,290 papers will be published at NeurIPS this year. If you could still get the proceedings in a book, it would be like 50,000 pages long. That’s 14.5 papers a day to read each and every day until the next NeurIPS
Danes keep assuming I am foreign because I am wearing a mask and TBF they’re correct
September 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Danes keep assuming I am foreign because I am wearing a mask and TBF they’re correct
This one always gets me going
Solo Banton - Music Addict (Jahtari 12")
YouTube video by Jahtari
youtu.be
September 12, 2025 at 9:55 AM
This one always gets me going
Counterpoint: if you are not pregnant, please also get a Covid vaccine
If you are pregnant, please get a Covid vaccine
September 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Counterpoint: if you are not pregnant, please also get a Covid vaccine
The first song from the first album of the first dancehall DJ—first and best
Natty Sat Upon The Rock
YouTube video by Yellowman - Topic
youtu.be
September 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
The first song from the first album of the first dancehall DJ—first and best
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I think it is possible to be very sceptical and resistant to the integration of LLM technologies into every aspect of education and scholarship… while also recognizing that the tools *do* have uses. I think thoughtful proponents could work harder to make those cases to e.g other humanists 1/n
September 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
I think it is possible to be very sceptical and resistant to the integration of LLM technologies into every aspect of education and scholarship… while also recognizing that the tools *do* have uses. I think thoughtful proponents could work harder to make those cases to e.g other humanists 1/n
New single from Stand High Patrol is hot
STAND HIGH PATROL - Underground Dwellers
YouTube video by STAND HIGH PATROL
youtu.be
September 5, 2025 at 7:51 AM
New single from Stand High Patrol is hot
More than a dozen cyclists waiting at the lights ahead of me—cycling is quite big in Denmark!
September 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
More than a dozen cyclists waiting at the lights ahead of me—cycling is quite big in Denmark!
After nineteen years, I am living near the ocean once again, and it feels like the cancellation of a debt
September 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
After nineteen years, I am living near the ocean once again, and it feels like the cancellation of a debt
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Have now heard the full version of the Linehan Audio, and surprised that people were more bothered about his weird "I'll kill {inaudible threats to unclear person" than the fact that he just straightforwardly says to the cops that kicking trans women in the balls is good and asks if they wouldn't.
September 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Have now heard the full version of the Linehan Audio, and surprised that people were more bothered about his weird "I'll kill {inaudible threats to unclear person" than the fact that he just straightforwardly says to the cops that kicking trans women in the balls is good and asks if they wouldn't.
There is no email I am reading faster than one that begins “X would like to recall the message…”
September 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
There is no email I am reading faster than one that begins “X would like to recall the message…”
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my fave type of harrassment i receive is when transphobes accuse me of autogynephilia.
September 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
my fave type of harrassment i receive is when transphobes accuse me of autogynephilia.
The longer I am off it, the clearer it becomes to me that it was profoundly unhealthy for me to be on X/Twitter
August 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The longer I am off it, the clearer it becomes to me that it was profoundly unhealthy for me to be on X/Twitter
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I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
August 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
Just took 6YO and 9YO down to the beach for pizza and icecream. Speaking hypothetically, how bad would it be if I phoned it in at work for, say, the next ten or so years
August 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Just took 6YO and 9YO down to the beach for pizza and icecream. Speaking hypothetically, how bad would it be if I phoned it in at work for, say, the next ten or so years
One thing you see a lot in Denmark is cargo bikes transporting *adults* in the front (that is, two adults to the bike), which I think is fantastic
August 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
One thing you see a lot in Denmark is cargo bikes transporting *adults* in the front (that is, two adults to the bike), which I think is fantastic
Hugh Mundell was tragically shot dead in 1983 aged only 21—what a loss
Rasta Have The Handle
YouTube video by Hugh Mundell - Topic
youtu.be
August 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Hugh Mundell was tragically shot dead in 1983 aged only 21—what a loss