John Winn

Researcher into large scale automated machine learning at MSR Cambridge. Read my book at

[John Winn @johnmwinn]

My new book Model-Based Machine Learning with Chris Bishop, Tom Diethe @tommy_da_cat, John Guiver and Yordan Zaykov is now available.

Huge thanks to everyone who helped put the book together!

Order from https://t.co/QrtGyuYfHQ

#MachineLearning #newbook

[James Hensman @jameshensman]

Our team is growing. Come and join us as part of the MSR AI Residency program to work on efficiency in deep learning.

https://t.co/WrjbCybsf7

[Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র @UnderdogGeek]

We're hiring!🚀
The Alexandria team (https://t.co/omMGYMqVhQ) at @MSFTResearch (Cambridge, UK) is looking for summer #interns. Come work with us on KB-powered LLMs, generative knowledge linking, transformer compression, & other exciting problems
More info: https://t.co/1r588T3uwQ

[Humanists UK @Humanists_UK]

Who do faith schools discriminate against?🚫

We campaign to end to discrimination in faith schools, but there's a widespread lack of awareness about state-funded faith schools, and how they operate.

Let's break it down ⬇️

[John Winn @johnmwinn]

@SimonPrinceAI Huge congratulations Simon - I just ordered my copy! 😊

[John Winn @johnmwinn]

@jianli2008 @tommy_da_cat Thanks Jian! And thanks for your feedback on the book - do see the acknowledgments section!

[John Winn @johnmwinn]

My new book Model-Based Machine Learning with Chris Bishop, Tom Diethe @tommy_da_cat, John Guiver and Yordan Zaykov is now available.

Huge thanks to everyone who helped put the book together!

Order from https://t.co/QrtGyuYfHQ

#MachineLearning #newbook

[John Winn @johnmwinn]

@Michael_J_Black @tommy_da_cat Thanks Michael!

[Simon Prince @SimonPrinceAI]

@johnmwinn is one of the clearest thinkers and best writers in machine learning and has just published a new book that everyone should check out.

[John Winn @johnmwinn]

@SimonPrinceAI @tommy_da_cat Wow, thanks Simon!! Incredibly kind words. I’m very much looking forward to owning a copy of your own forthcoming masterpiece!

[Nitin Sawhney @thenitinsawhney]

So this government constantly pushes someone like Farage into the limelight with their support, demonises asylum seekers and immigrants, rants on about stopping boats as if we’re under invasion or attack, shuts down and dismisses all conversation that xenophobic Brexit was a huge and damaging mistake, gloats about ending freedom of movement whilst British tourists now face massive delays at airports and threatens to send people who grew up and worked here to Rwanda.

All whilst we have labour shortages in key industries such as the NHS.

I grew up with racism. I saw it firsthand very close. Too close. Even in adulthood I’ve seen people who profess friendship act in ways I cannot believe. Governments don’t just set policies and national strategies. They set the zeitgeist for generations.

Seeing people of Asian heritage in government, like Sunak and Braverman, creating the most awful atmosphere of xenophobic hate and promotion of vile behaviour is, for me, the “unkindest cut of all.” They haven’t just betrayed me as the child of Indian parents or even betrayed every immigrant who ever graced these shores… In challenging and belittling our lawyers, judiciary and international human rights, they have undermined the fabric of a cohesive society and community. They have attacked the foundations of the noblest aspects of British cultural evolution. They have divided us and created unrest whilst stamping on our right to protest with draconian laws and bills designed to subvert democracy.

They are enemies of all that I cherish about this country… The country of my birth, education and entire life.

Martin Luther King said he wanted to “one day live in a nation where they (his four children) will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.”

That is how we should all judge this government too.

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

A record 170,000 staff left the NHS last year

It doesn’t matter how many NHS staff the government say they will recruit

Without better working conditions they will continue to leave in their droves and there will never be enough

Please RT if you agree

https://t.co/XrHZ8UQMcL

[John Winn @johnmwinn]

@JeffDean @DynamicWebPaige Let’s hope they’re also a good η…

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

We could not agree with this more.

Please follow and RT if you do too.

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

Certain people would have you believe the current NHS model is fundamentally flawed.

But the same system was ranked one of the best in the world before the Conservatives came to power.

The main thing that is fundamentally flawed is this Government.

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

A thread for the ultra-wealthy.

If you are wealthy, you may think that if the U.K. switches from an NHS-model to a private model of healthcare it will either a) be better for you, or b) will not affect you.

Here is why you are wrong…
🧵

[Dr Andrew Meyerson @AndrewMeyerson]

Dear @Telegraph & @DailyMailUK,

For the last 13 years, you have enabled the Tories' devastating assault on our healthcare, serving as lead cheerleaders for policies that have harmed our patients, our colleagues, and our NHS. You have poisoned the country's minds for far too long, and now that you are attacking our colleagues, we've had enough.

2/3 of the public still firmly support us striking NHS workers — not the corrupt govt you so readily defend — and now that you are losing the battle of public opinion, you are desperately going after my colleagues to find any way to smear us. We're not going to tolerate it any longer.

While successive Tory governments dismantled and destroyed NHS services, you did your job of manufacturing consent for their harmful policies from Austerity 1.0 and 2.0 to the 2012 and 2022 health care bills — pieces of legislation that faced near universal opposition from health experts and all of the Royal Colleges — and you enabled those policies to succeed, because what you do isn't journalism for the public good, it's propaganda for the government's wealthy friends.

You then manufacture outrage with myths about NHS managers, immigrants, and NHS funding, never questioning those in govt who intentionally defunded and dismantled the formerly #1 ranked healthcare system of this great country in order to drive more people into private healthcare.

Alongside Tory govt ministers, your publications bear significant responsibility for the NHS crisis we now face. With your cheerleading, patients are now suffering on the longest GP, A&E, cancer, and outpatient waiting lists in NHS history at 7.4 million people long. 500 patients are now dying every single week due to preventable delays accessing NHS emergency care — with over 13,000 dead patients thus far in 2023 alone — all because of Tory policy failures that you championed and you enabled.

We are now suffering through the worst crisis in NHS history — one that your newspapers helped engineer — and because you are so morally bankrupt, even with alarming staff suicide rates, your editors think it's okay to attack my burnt out frontline NHS colleagues, defending billionaires instead of doing real reporting that is in the public interest of our patients.

You could elucidate to your readers why those 13,000 people are dead, or where the billions stolen from the public purse during COVID can be found, or how no one can see an NHS dentist, or how our mental health crisis has let down a generation of children and families, or how the govt still hasn't fixed the broken social care system, or you could investigate how many A&E departments have been closed in the last decade, or how many beds have been shut, or you could look at how much NHS funding goes into the pockets of private companies and never reaches patients, or how govt policy in a dozen other areas has harmed public health, but no, you choose to attack my friend Holly and our colleagues to try and find any way to discredit us.

Holly Turner has more integrity in her little toe than you've got among your entire staff — and certainly among your editorial boards — and we won't sit by and watch as you attack her for sport.

And so to the editors of the Telegraph and Daily Mail: We are not afraid of you. You are mouthpieces for a govt that will go down as one of the most corrupt in our lifetimes and your influence is waning rapidly. It's time to keep Holly's name out of your mouth. It's time to stop cheering the arsonists who are burning down our NHS, and it's especially time for you to stop gaslighting the public into believing that their neighbourhood looks better on fire.

You have never been on the side of patients and you never will be. And no one in the UK who wants reliable and honest information about NHS policy should trust anything that's written in your newspapers.

We fight for our patients. You fight for our billionaires. I think the public knows who to trust.

#SOSNHS #PayRestoration #NHS75

[Chris Rennard 🔶💙🇺🇦 @LordRennard]

We need to stop the creation of @FoxNews type channels here. @GBNEWS and @TalkTV are exactly that. They pollute our democracy pretending to be “news” to their viewers but “entertainment channels” to the regulators to avoid rules about impartiality https://t.co/p48myVxJgR

[John Winn @johnmwinn]

@tdietterich @yudapearl That makes sense - if there’s enough exploration of the space of the system occurring naturally (or through the actions of others) then causal relationships should be discoverable. So interventions are not needed for causal discovery - but just as a way to get more targeted data.

[John Winn @johnmwinn]

@tdietterich To clarify, if we use a model trained on dataset A to augment dataset B, then some knowledge in A is effectively being added to B, right? So it’s knowledge level learning if you just consider the boundary around B but not if you consider the boundary around A and B.

[John Winn @johnmwinn]

@tdietterich You added ‘intervene’ to ‘observe’, which didn’t seem to follow on from your argument. Do you think a system needs to intervene or does intervention just improve the efficiency of gathering new knowledge?