Dr Paul Matthews
@paulusm.jellytussle.org
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/
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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Actual analysis of the BBC’s coverage of Gaza is devastating for Prescott and the right wing attacks on the BBC. Ratio of Israeli-Palestinian deaths: 1 /34. Ratio of coverage of those deaths: 19 / 1.
cfmm.org.uk/bbc-on-gaza-...
cfmm.org.uk/bbc-on-gaza-...
BBC On Gaza-Israel: One Story, Double Standards - Centre For Media Monitoring
cfmm.org.uk
November 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Actual analysis of the BBC’s coverage of Gaza is devastating for Prescott and the right wing attacks on the BBC. Ratio of Israeli-Palestinian deaths: 1 /34. Ratio of coverage of those deaths: 19 / 1.
cfmm.org.uk/bbc-on-gaza-...
cfmm.org.uk/bbc-on-gaza-...
Tony Seale this morning on How LLMs can interoperate with ontologies to do “active inference” - build a dynamic world model
#cdl25 #ConnectedData #KnowledgeGraphs
#cdl25 #ConnectedData #KnowledgeGraphs
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Tony Seale this morning on How LLMs can interoperate with ontologies to do “active inference” - build a dynamic world model
#cdl25 #ConnectedData #KnowledgeGraphs
#cdl25 #ConnectedData #KnowledgeGraphs
Asking the audience where they are on their data journey, on a scale from Junk Shop -> Amazon
2025.connected-data.london/talks/moving...
#cdl25 #ConnectedData #Ontologies
2025.connected-data.london/talks/moving...
#cdl25 #ConnectedData #Ontologies
November 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Asking the audience where they are on their data journey, on a scale from Junk Shop -> Amazon
2025.connected-data.london/talks/moving...
#cdl25 #ConnectedData #Ontologies
2025.connected-data.london/talks/moving...
#cdl25 #ConnectedData #Ontologies
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Math Dad joke alert 🎢 ♾️
Brush your teeth after eating these or else you'll get calculus.
November 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Math Dad joke alert 🎢 ♾️
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Remembering J.G. Ballard, born OTD 1930.
I’ve been reading his work for many years & I can readily appreciate why many qualify his writing as ‘timeless’.
And I can think of no better imagery to accompany this post than the equally timeless appeal of David Pelham’s superlative cover art 🙂
I’ve been reading his work for many years & I can readily appreciate why many qualify his writing as ‘timeless’.
And I can think of no better imagery to accompany this post than the equally timeless appeal of David Pelham’s superlative cover art 🙂
November 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Remembering J.G. Ballard, born OTD 1930.
I’ve been reading his work for many years & I can readily appreciate why many qualify his writing as ‘timeless’.
And I can think of no better imagery to accompany this post than the equally timeless appeal of David Pelham’s superlative cover art 🙂
I’ve been reading his work for many years & I can readily appreciate why many qualify his writing as ‘timeless’.
And I can think of no better imagery to accompany this post than the equally timeless appeal of David Pelham’s superlative cover art 🙂
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In one of his lesser known dystopias, J. G. Ballard subjected America to a massive ecological disaster following an energy crisis, which has turned the country into a desert. The leftover nuclear weapons are in Las Vegas.
A brilliant book.
I also love Bill Botten's original cover.
A brilliant book.
I also love Bill Botten's original cover.
October 30, 2025 at 6:51 PM
In one of his lesser known dystopias, J. G. Ballard subjected America to a massive ecological disaster following an energy crisis, which has turned the country into a desert. The leftover nuclear weapons are in Las Vegas.
A brilliant book.
I also love Bill Botten's original cover.
A brilliant book.
I also love Bill Botten's original cover.
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
Beech woods in fine colour today, Hambledon, UK
November 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Beech woods in fine colour today, Hambledon, UK
Hedge witches, assemble! #AcademicSky #AmReading
October 30, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Hedge witches, assemble! #AcademicSky #AmReading
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Gary Marcus was right.
October 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Gary Marcus was right.
This was a fun paper
“We shift from viewing self‐tracking as mere data work to imagining it as an ongoing conversation; from constant monitoring to ambient, meaningful sensing; from judgmental prompts to caring guidance”
doi.org/10.1145/3698...
#tracking #hci #wellbeing #participative
“We shift from viewing self‐tracking as mere data work to imagining it as an ongoing conversation; from constant monitoring to ambient, meaningful sensing; from judgmental prompts to caring guidance”
doi.org/10.1145/3698...
#tracking #hci #wellbeing #participative
Making Sense of Our Data: Exploring Well-Being Self-Tracking Through Creative Collaboration | Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Creativity and Cognition
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doi.org
October 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
This was a fun paper
“We shift from viewing self‐tracking as mere data work to imagining it as an ongoing conversation; from constant monitoring to ambient, meaningful sensing; from judgmental prompts to caring guidance”
doi.org/10.1145/3698...
#tracking #hci #wellbeing #participative
“We shift from viewing self‐tracking as mere data work to imagining it as an ongoing conversation; from constant monitoring to ambient, meaningful sensing; from judgmental prompts to caring guidance”
doi.org/10.1145/3698...
#tracking #hci #wellbeing #participative
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C'est le mauvais pantalon, Gromit!
Et ils ont mal tourné !
Et ils ont mal tourné !
October 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
C'est le mauvais pantalon, Gromit!
Et ils ont mal tourné !
Et ils ont mal tourné !
My takeaway: DS academics have no more idea than anyone else where we are headed in this brave new world of the LLM 🤔
arxiv.org/abs/2509.12283
#genai #datascience #academia #academicSky
arxiv.org/abs/2509.12283
#genai #datascience #academia #academicSky
Prompting the Professoriate: A Qualitative Study of Instructor Perspectives on LLMs in Data Science Education
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shifted in just a few years from novelty to ubiquity, raising fundamental questions for data science education. Tasks once used to teach coding, writing, and…
arxiv.org
October 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
My takeaway: DS academics have no more idea than anyone else where we are headed in this brave new world of the LLM 🤔
arxiv.org/abs/2509.12283
#genai #datascience #academia #academicSky
arxiv.org/abs/2509.12283
#genai #datascience #academia #academicSky
Necessary Fictions by Gogo Penguin is coagulating into my new jam!
gogopenguin.lnk.to/necessaryfic...
gogopenguin.lnk.to/necessaryfic...
October 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Necessary Fictions by Gogo Penguin is coagulating into my new jam!
gogopenguin.lnk.to/necessaryfic...
gogopenguin.lnk.to/necessaryfic...
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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
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
October 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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
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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This only happens to you once
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This only happens to you once
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...
#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
September 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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...
#NarcoSubs
‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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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
Startups often chase GPU clusters before fixing their CSVs.
#DataScience #MachineLearning #AI #RStats
September 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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
Startups often chase GPU clusters before fixing their CSVs.
#DataScience #MachineLearning #AI #RStats
GitHub Copilot on autopilot as community complaints persist • The Register
www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/g...
#slop
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
September 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
GitHub Copilot on autopilot as community complaints persist • The Register
www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/g...
#slop
www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/g...
#slop
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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.
September 5, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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.
September 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Aloe whorled
@ Kew Gardens, London
@ Kew Gardens, London
August 20, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Aloe whorled
@ Kew Gardens, London
@ Kew Gardens, London