Paul

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts — for support rather than illumination."
—Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

[Evgeny Morozov @evgenymorozov]

If you are a curious about The Syllabus: we had a Dutch journalist (@mauritsmartijn) spend four days with us (in Calabria!) right before the launch in September. His long feature is now online (so far only in Dutch but translation tools will help you!) https://t.co/FzNehlmot2

[Maurice Thiriet @DickMo]

Neue Woche, neues Ärgernis @watson_news 😀

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

New series, new theme tune. (Thanks @Darren_Dutton)

Have I Got News For You returns this Friday, 9pm on BBC One.

[Knowledge, Power and Politics @KPPCam]

Forget STEM, We Need MESH: The importance of media literacy, ethics, sociology and history education https://t.co/tE9d8Rg83B

[Paul @PaHa]

@EnglishGibson A certain kind of German is probably familiar with the Latin phrase (I've noticed there are a few phrases that are 'understood' in Germany, but generally translated in English) e.g. pluralis majestatis

[Lauren Gawne @superlinguo]

Instead of 'parental leave' I'm going to put 'trained a neural net to recognise the English language' on my CV for 2019. (https://t.co/Mcn2hKn1DS)

[Alexandra Kohler @koa_87]

Who has experience and/or is interested in #multilingualism and translation in journalism, data journalism or graphics? Let us know! #ddj @mrbaopanrui

[Paul @PaHa]

@EnglishGibson Yes, yes, very nice but *what do they rhyme with?!* ����

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

The original meaning of 'deadline' was a line marked in the earth around a prison: if an inmate went beyond it, they were liable to be shot.

[Dr Kareem Carr @kareem_carr]

Statisticians: Machine learning is just regression!
Computer scientists: Wow! That's so cool! What's regression?
S: ...
CS: Oh wait. You just said. it's machine learning! Statistics is so much easier than I thought!
S: Arrrrrrr!
CS: R? You guys should really switch to python.

[Vrij Nederland @vrij_nederland]

.@arnonyy sticht zijn eigen geloof. Zijn derde videopreek gaat over werk. 'Eerst gaat de mens naar school, waar hij leert om te leren, zeggen ze. Maar al snel komt de aap uit de mouw: hij leert om een baan te vinden.'

[Paul @PaHa]

@leppert Set it to English: understand Trump's tweets

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

“And I said to her, if you give the EU £40 billion, I will let you borrow an embroidered cloth that depicts the French beating the English. And she said yes!”

[Paul @PaHa]

@jana_bacevic Who is that inclusive?! I hate Searle

[Paul @PaHa]

@jana_bacevic What’s a theory bro in this/ your context?

[Nadja Brenneisen @NadjaBrenn]

Mamasein macht im öffentlichen Raum nur selten Spass: https://t.co/eztWgcd66m

[Paul @PaHa]

@evgenymorozov Wait wait- I thought Google (Translate) were the bad guys?! -Sorry, couldn’t help myself.

[VICE @VICE]

Holy shit. https://t.co/A5OvQ5DDbt

[Paul @PaHa]

@maribst That’s the dangers of thinking for you.