Unconferences are my favourite. The beautiful serendipity of it all.

ARGHHHHHHHHHHH!

Congratulations! ❤️

The absolute truth in this.

It's like a solipsistic parody.

Obviously this makes me sound old and out of touch and grumpy. Fine.

Would watch.

My da is never happier than when he is complaining about something, particularly if he is complaining about something that has little to no effect on his day-to-day life.
(Also, a WEEK? At a time? You’re a saint.)

Yes please.

My most controversial tweet ever was me saying we should license metal detectors. The absolute fury it unleashed! I think this is a great idea.
(I am also in favour of licensing poets.)

AND THEN when I tell people “I rarely use LLMs, maybe a couple of times a month to reduce word counts or rephrase something for boring copy” they say “well, how can you understand it if you don’t use it?” (Short answer: a PhD in computer science.)

I am utterly fed up with “well, it’s quite good for initial research” when it’s palpably not. It’s quite good at sounding good about things you don’t know enough about to handle critically. I fucking despair. And I agree with you about escape rooms.

I had this from someone who told me “ChatGPT said these are the updates you need to make to your published research.” Not a single one was valid. I had to explain both the nuances of my research subject and how large language models actually work.