Alistair Knock

Chief Data Officer, University of Glasgow | @[email protected]
Personal account - #insight #progress #serenity. Views my own
Photography @tarajiblue

[Alistair Knock @aknock]

@jobsworth I have had to chop them up because of bruising after a busy few weeks and they still shiver, rather than shimmer, and twitch a little. Blistering still good but supports the argument of waxiness rather than expansion

[Alistair Knock @aknock]

I love the little shimmer that padron peppers make when dry fried. Assume air heating unevenly in the cavity because essentially triangular? @jobsworth

[Alistair Knock @aknock]

Farewell @UniversityLeeds ! Thank you colleagues for your open and honest conversations, your desire to do things differently and try new things. Today I move on and will begin my next data adventure in January...

[Alistair Knock @aknock]

@AnnaMGrey Also Heidi Plus? Can't quite recall if this was a subhead in the FSR or if it was all bundled into one grants line.

[Alistair Knock @aknock]

@AnnaMGrey Tried the Wayback Machine? https://t.co/ys7OdZx6Hw

[Alistair Knock @aknock]

@AlexLeigh67 @DexterClaw @Liv73 @AndyYouell I read it again only a month ago (for some reason)!

[Alistair Knock @aknock]

@MD_ata21 @chrisalbon "This is a paraphrased quotation from Howard Carter's account of the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun on November 26, 1922, as described in his 1923 book The Tomb of Tutankhamun." https://t.co/GzUTFwyibj

[Alistair Knock @aknock]

Wow. A very moving concert that drew so much passion from the strings as much as the pianos. ❤️

[hania rani @haniaranimusic]

Newcastle @Sage_Gateshead tonight with @dobrawaczocher

[Alistair Knock @aknock]

Overjoyed to hear that @jkottke 's fiddle leaf fig is doing well

[Thomas H. Ptacek @tqbf]

I’m sorry, I simply cannot be cynical about a technology that can accomplish this.

[Alistair Knock @aknock]

@dougclow I hope someone is working on a GPT-4 version of Clippy that will do the former.

[Alistair Knock @aknock]

@AnnaMGrey @HeidiFraskrauss @Jisc I completely understand the problem but it is fascinating how different the landscape is from 1993, when almost all IRC servers in the world were run by universities (and many continued for the next decade or more) - https://t.co/GSzzJpBIEE

[Alistair Knock @aknock]

I wondered why Brown only named four new prefixes but it seems the Latin alphabet has now been used up and so he's just kicking the can down the road for some poor soul to deal with in 30 years (or later, if time smearing becomes a thing) https://t.co/4ofGnitvUN

[Alistair Knock @aknock]

@HeidiFraskrauss @elonmusk Point 3 has validity. FAANGT have had to invent a lot of modern software engineering as they go, and as a result as a pioneer do you become prefer your own things rather than off the shelf / don't refactor enough? Not exactly NIH but "innovator's curse"

[Alistair Knock @aknock]

"This pull request proposes an AddVaselineToDatetime() function which supercedes the unanimously rejected proposals for DoubleARandomMinutePerCentury() and GetInATizzForABit_UTCVersion()"

[Alistair Knock @aknock]

For once, glad I will not be around in 100 years to have to deal with the implementation of this kludge: 'Instead of then adding on a leap minute to clocks, Levine proposed a “kind of smear”, in which the last minute of the day takes two minutes.'
https://t.co/yNzMNtAF0h

[Alistair Knock @aknock]

@jobsworth Waxiness makes sense given intensity of contact heat. Recipes for shishito peppers sometimes suggest making a cocktail stick sized hole in the skin to prevent inflation and bursting. Note to self to test next time.

[Alistair Knock @aknock]

@AlbertoCairo Maybe I'm referring to junk charts then. Do you mean charts which are not-Tufte-complete?

[Alistair Knock @aknock]

@kiranjoza There was a period a decade ago where it seemed like maybe, just maybe, core information didn't always need to reside in a Word document and could be typed into another window. But it's gone. MS Forms continues to abuse Excel as its master "data source" etc.

[Alistair Knock @aknock]

@DrPhiltill (that said, rail in the UK is not working, but then not a lot is, and the cause seems to be more on the service side than the infrastructure side. Which is fine in a space economy because you can pick your ride, but on railways the tracks are locked in)