Andy Buckley
@agbuckley.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Particle-physics prof at Glasgow Physics & Astronomy. Author of those physics codes you like, and that one you don't. Enthusiast for dirty QCD physics, data […]
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Oh did it? And without permission, too? Hard pass. (Click, click... all AI disabled.)
November 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Oh did it? And without permission, too? Hard pass. (Click, click... all AI disabled.)
"Badenoch" => drowning. Nominative determinism strikes again
November 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
"Badenoch" => drowning. Nominative determinism strikes again
I see us reminiscing in the future about when "AI" was so dumb but omnipresent that every web-search return was prefixed with confident explanations of e.g. how ME and MD are the first two letters of Maine and Maryland. Trillions of dollars thrown at it, and […]
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November 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I see us reminiscing in the future about when "AI" was so dumb but omnipresent that every web-search return was prefixed with confident explanations of e.g. how ME and MD are the first two letters of Maine and Maryland. Trillions of dollars thrown at it, and […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
Good piece, interestingly positive about Russia's inability to win militarily in Ukraine, while still sanguine about the needless terror, death and destruction: https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/why-big-countries-shouldnt-go-to
October 23, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Good piece, interestingly positive about Russia's inability to win militarily in Ukraine, while still sanguine about the needless terror, death and destruction: https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/why-big-countries-shouldnt-go-to
"Not intended to be interesting debates" 😂 I hope they get Streisanded over this inept cancellation. It's so dumb that parties sell opportunities to disinform their own legislators 🤦♂️ https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/14/sustainability-professors-talk-at-uk-party-conferences-cancelled
October 15, 2025 at 8:53 AM
"Not intended to be interesting debates" 😂 I hope they get Streisanded over this inept cancellation. It's so dumb that parties sell opportunities to disinform their own legislators 🤦♂️ https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/14/sustainability-professors-talk-at-uk-party-conferences-cancelled
A friend gave me this a while back – quoting me rather than accusing, by the way! – and I randomly reinsert it in my scribble pads as a reminder of the virtuous path
October 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
A friend gave me this a while back – quoting me rather than accusing, by the way! – and I randomly reinsert it in my scribble pads as a reminder of the virtuous path
Maybe I'm a wrong'un, but when I see "Satan's gravy" I think of something quite different from hot sauce
September 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Maybe I'm a wrong'un, but when I see "Satan's gravy" I think of something quite different from hot sauce
The "White Collection" couture shop is far more Glaswegian from this angle. The perils of curly fonts
August 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The "White Collection" couture shop is far more Glaswegian from this angle. The perils of curly fonts
This MS Copilot ad (and esp the full video version) are accidentally hilarious, showcasing the vacuity of the job it's here to "help" you with. It's obvious that the next step is to eliminate the role reduced to feeding prompts to the LLM. Of course, it'd be […]
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July 22, 2025 at 10:28 AM
This MS Copilot ad (and esp the full video version) are accidentally hilarious, showcasing the vacuity of the job it's here to "help" you with. It's obvious that the next step is to eliminate the role reduced to feeding prompts to the LLM. Of course, it'd be […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
No wonder the UK HE sector is claiming when this latest HEPI/London Econ analysis is the state-of-the-art overview. Including this very special chart that's almost the poster child for unhelpful ways to present correlation data […]
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July 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
No wonder the UK HE sector is claiming when this latest HEPI/London Econ analysis is the state-of-the-art overview. Including this very special chart that's almost the poster child for unhelpful ways to present correlation data […]
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#mcnet2025 social programme going well!
June 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
#mcnet2025 social programme going well!
Joanna Sobczyk and Stefan Hoeche teaching neutrino and collider MC at #mcnet2025
June 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Joanna Sobczyk and Stefan Hoeche teaching neutrino and collider MC at #mcnet2025
Enrico Bothmann finishing up his introduction to event-generator physics at #mcnet2025
June 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Enrico Bothmann finishing up his introduction to event-generator physics at #mcnet2025
Meanwhile, in "What's the point of a Labour government?"
I wonder what wunderkind human-rights lawyer Kier Starmer would have made of this argument that conscious, demonstrable atrocity-enabling now is acceptable if it's a consequence of "defence" business […]
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I wonder what wunderkind human-rights lawyer Kier Starmer would have made of this argument that conscious, demonstrable atrocity-enabling now is acceptable if it's a consequence of "defence" business […]
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May 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Meanwhile, in "What's the point of a Labour government?"
I wonder what wunderkind human-rights lawyer Kier Starmer would have made of this argument that conscious, demonstrable atrocity-enabling now is acceptable if it's a consequence of "defence" business […]
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I wonder what wunderkind human-rights lawyer Kier Starmer would have made of this argument that conscious, demonstrable atrocity-enabling now is acceptable if it's a consequence of "defence" business […]
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One of the best things about having kids is reading their #comics (oh, and er, also their charming personalities). And every now and again they do something brilliant, as here: bravo for the on-point #ai April Fool, #thephoenixcomic
March 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
One of the best things about having kids is reading their #comics (oh, and er, also their charming personalities). And every now and again they do something brilliant, as here: bravo for the on-point #ai April Fool, #thephoenixcomic
Doubtless there'll be some gloss put on this about how world-leading the #ukuni sector is, but it's a symptom of a very unbalanced, fragile and unsustainable national HE strategy
March 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Doubtless there'll be some gloss put on this about how world-leading the #ukuni sector is, but it's a symptom of a very unbalanced, fragile and unsustainable national HE strategy
Deep wrongheadedness from a TES article. There's a lot of this AI credulousness from the sort of academic that writes TES articles. LLM don't "do" peer review or grant writing, they don't have new ideas about data analysis. If you use an LLM to pretend that […]
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March 22, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Deep wrongheadedness from a TES article. There's a lot of this AI credulousness from the sort of academic that writes TES articles. LLM don't "do" peer review or grant writing, they don't have new ideas about data analysis. If you use an LLM to pretend that […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
Don't want to be the "inclusivity gone mad" guy, but... there's certainly some of that here. Sure, start with a presentation and offer breaks (I've never been in a viva that didn't do both) and avoid aggression, but submitting questions in advance, or […]
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March 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Don't want to be the "inclusivity gone mad" guy, but... there's certainly some of that here. Sure, start with a presentation and offer breaks (I've never been in a viva that didn't do both) and avoid aggression, but submitting questions in advance, or […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
@pluralistic remaining one of the best reasons to be here on Mastodon. https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/07/broccoli-hair-brownshirts/#shameless
Even when, as this week, he's generously starting attention to others' good work, his posts are excellent […]
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Even when, as this week, he's generously starting attention to others' good work, his posts are excellent […]
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February 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
@pluralistic remaining one of the best reasons to be here on Mastodon. https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/07/broccoli-hair-brownshirts/#shameless
Even when, as this week, he's generously starting attention to others' good work, his posts are excellent […]
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Even when, as this week, he's generously starting attention to others' good work, his posts are excellent […]
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Oh look, if it isn't the consequences of our actions #BrexitDisaster #uk
February 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Oh look, if it isn't the consequences of our actions #BrexitDisaster #uk
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/26/labour-building-housing-market-private-developers
I suspect a degree of simplism from George Monbiot here, too, (e.g. there may be a numerical housing surplus but how well-matched to location needs?) but […]
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I suspect a degree of simplism from George Monbiot here, too, (e.g. there may be a numerical housing surplus but how well-matched to location needs?) but […]
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January 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/26/labour-building-housing-market-private-developers
I suspect a degree of simplism from George Monbiot here, too, (e.g. there may be a numerical housing surplus but how well-matched to location needs?) but […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
I suspect a degree of simplism from George Monbiot here, too, (e.g. there may be a numerical housing surplus but how well-matched to location needs?) but […]
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