Michael Berks

Research scientist at Uni of Manchester. Lover of coding. Used to play cricket and football. Now an injured runner + wannabe cyclist. Pretend MMT economist.

[Michael Berks @michaelberks]

@DrTGPetersen @alexandrosM I think that failure mode tells us something quite interesting about the internal representations learned by LLMs

[Michael Berks @michaelberks]

@HaleBarnsCC And not forgetting @michaelberks took his first wickets for the club (IIRC!) 😄

[Michael Berks @michaelberks]

@JeninYounesEsq Will never not make me laugh 😆

[Michael Berks @michaelberks]

@medialens This was genuinely what I was reading to my son as a bedtime story last night. Made me giggle.

https://t.co/zmBKZgfMHX

[Michael Berks @michaelberks]

An alternative explanation for current events...

[Michael Berks @michaelberks]

@akheriaty Has he ruled out cult Sesame Street characters? 🤣
https://t.co/zmBKZgfMHX

[Michael Berks @michaelberks]

An alternative explanation for current events...

[Michael Berks @michaelberks]

An alternative explanation for current events...

[Rohan Grey @rohangrey]

Making payments anonymously is not inherently criminal. Too many progressives, in their zealousness against truly bad actors, are letting the surveillance state into their minds and their politics.

It's really bad. Private greed and bureaucratic surveillance are twin enemies.

[Michael Berks @michaelberks]

@Pandamoanimum @ptresadern 👌👌👌

[Michael Berks @michaelberks]

@GowerInitiative Quite possibly (among a lot of strong competition) my favourite ever MMT article. Return to read it at least once a year 👏

[Michael Berks @michaelberks]

Little known literary fact: the puppy at the end of Dear Zoo grows up to be Duggee of Hey Duggee fame.

[Michael Berks @michaelberks]

@clintballinger @timparrique When you accept (1) the super-rich will never permit real systemic change to reduce inequality (2) they do now understand the climate risks to the system that makes them super-rich, then the events of the last few years start to make sense.

[Sloan Foundation @SloanFoundation]

10 simple rules for funding scientific #opensource software, from our very own @epistemographer & @T0FUCAKE... 🧵 https://t.co/7qi55IAyEp

[Daniel Hoinkiss @DHoinkiss]

Join us soon at #MRITogether! MRITogether is a global online event on open, reproducibile, and inclusive #MRI research starting on Dec 5. And it is FREE! Don’t forget to register here: https://t.co/xYE3o4XsWl

[Michael Berks @michaelberks]

@AllisonPearson Because too many journalists believe the "government as a household budget" myth. Until you understand why that makes you part of the problem, you'll never be able hold the government to account properly.

[Michael Berks @michaelberks]

@rohangrey And if tech innovation is genuinely your motivator, stop creating solutions searching for a problem, become an #RSE, find a problem that actually needs solving, then apply your "high integrity" skills to that.

[Michael Berks @michaelberks]

@jd_wilko Did you not read the nailfold grant we've just submitted? We'll be using DALL-E to generate personalised artwork for the record file of each patient we recruit.

[Michael Berks @michaelberks]

@carlystrasser @SoftwareSaved