Rupert Baines

CEO QPT: next-gen power electronics. Fmr CMO Codasip, CEO UltraSoC. Deeptech, startups, tech evangelist. Views v much my own.

[Georgina Lewis 💙 @GinaMLewis84]

@PatsyeStevenson I am so sorry for your loss. Not everyone finds the Christmas season easy. I hope you won’t mind me sharing this below for anyone else struggling.

[Rupert Baines @rupert_baines]

@RassBariaw @wmhuo168 It wasn’t original: I stole that From Morie Romney of Keysight. It is broader than technical: I have seen lists that put GSM as one of the top ten inventions ever in terms of impact. That said I don’t have a clue what 6G might bring! Or just another incremental step.

[Soraya Jones @SorayaJones12]

Thank you to the amazing @rupert_baines for supporting this wonderful initiative!
@HomertonCollege #HomertonChangemakers
#nextgeneration

[Simon Thorpe @thorpesi]

A tribute to ⁦@plcowley⁩ via ⁦@cambridgenet⁩ https://t.co/CoEzoMhcVq

[Torsten Bell @TorstenBell]

So much misinformation around today on who will be affected by changes to inheritance tax - and lobbyists pretending the data isn't clear to obfuscate. We have detailed data on estates so the truth is in fact very clear if you care to look 🧵

[Simon Thorpe @thorpesi]

Raising a toast tonight to my good friend @plcowley who sadly passed away this weekend. Peter was an inspiration to me and many others. Peter you won't be forgotten. With love to Lies, Matt, Catherine and Miri. (This photo was taken just 5 weeks ago at his London book launch)

[Rupert Baines @rupert_baines]

@thorpesi @plcowley Really sad news.
He will be missed.

But he leaves a powerful legacy: all the companies he helped, all the people whose lives he touched, his books.

[Rupert Baines @rupert_baines]

A good, impartial, description of the legal proposals of UK Assisted Dying bill.

No discussion of morals, politics or “slippery slope” but if you want the actual facts of how it is proposed it would work

By Joshua Rozenburg (“A Lawyer Writes@).

https://t.co/h9Cz4XXROC

[Rupert Baines @rupert_baines]

Really interesting thread about the clothes market in the context of tariffs

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

At the moment, we don't know how much prices will go up as a result of tariffs. There are a lot of conditionals. But if the goal is raise the cost of imports so that people are encouraged to buy American-made goods, I want to tell you a story. 🧵

[Prof Julia Steinberger @JKSteinberger]

Jesus christ. I think I need to turn to alcohol or drugs or therapy or SOMETHING. I had seen the AMOC overturning warnings, but I had not seen this graph. I though somehow mostly the North Atlantic and Europe would be affected, but no, it's global boiling.
https://t.co/34oKU720IU

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

The UK's 2035 climate pledge, announced at #COP29 yesterday, is to cut emissions to 81% below 1990 levels by 2035

Here's how that looks in context…

[Rupert Baines @rupert_baines]

@jasonjoyride "In 1947 Bell Labs invented the transistor. It was the 2nd most important thing they invented that year". James Glieck, THE INFORMATION (on Shannon).

That said, your list over-sells whst they invented.
Vacuum tubes, cellular, comms sats, solar cells were not invented there.

[Rupert Baines @rupert_baines]

@Lucy_Webster_ There is a need for an intelligent debate, but sadly this tweet is not it.

Assisted dying does not give the state any powers: it gives more power to individuals.

This hardly "rushed": the debate has been going on for many years, and was last debated in HoC in 2015.

[Rupert Baines @rupert_baines]

@doctor_oxford Lots of things to discuss, in a sensible way.
You say "a majority" how is that established? Is it a poll (conducted how?) or what?
Yes, professional expertise counts, but so does personal choice. Surely Drs should let patients make final decisions, not "I am an expert"?

[Rupert Baines @rupert_baines]

@DanielLambert29 Vermouth has been fashionable for a few years now. In Spain it is cult.

Negronis are the cocktauil of choice at the moment (and variants: Boulevadier, Americano)

[Rupert Baines @rupert_baines]

@thorpesi I'm not saying it simple or clear! But there is evidence - ths should be discussed/considered.

Similsrly, I'd like to see studies for public sector befure saying it was a bad idea. Of course, public sector productivity is a wotld of complexity in measurements in itself...

[Rupert Baines @rupert_baines]

@Sacha_Lord Dynamic pricing is not new: lunch cheaper than dinner, pre-theatre menus etc. Late night bars & nightclubs always cost more than ordinary pubs.

Given how few late night bars there are in London, it seems they do need to charge more.

If you don't want to pay, don't go there.

[Rupert Baines @rupert_baines]

I knew about Lynn Conway as a genius of course.
But didn’t know she had transitioned.
In one sense, why should I: why should it matter? In another, what bravery & sacrifice.

[David K Smith @professor_dave]

It's timely to highlight the life & work of computer scientist Lynn Conway.
In the late 1960s, she transitioned from male to female and was sacked by IBM as a result. For some years, she went underground and, for the rest of her career, worked as a woman - herstory unknown.

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

If this chart says to you "the climate/1.5C was screwed either way", then you've missed a fundamental truth about global warming:

–every fraction of a degree matters
–every tonne of CO2 counts
–every delay makes escalating climate impacts on people + planet harder to avoid

https://t.co/ZrafOWXxOk