spascoe

Data engineer at @nanopore, classical singer and Dad. Specialising in data platforms for climate science, cheminformatics and bioinformatics.

[spascoe @spascoe]

I spent far too much of my PhD playing NetHack. This brings it all back

[Bartłomiej Cupiał @CupiaBart]

So here's a story of, by far, the weirdest bug I've encountered in my CS career.

Along with @maciejwolczyk we've been training a neural network that learns how to play NetHack, an old roguelike game, that looks like in the screenshot. Recenlty, something unexpected happened.

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

As many scientists interviewed here pointed out, the main uncertainty in future temperature change is not a physical science issue: it is a question of the decisions people choose to make. We are not experts in that; instead let's ask the elected officials, CEOs & other leaders!

[Ewan Birney @ewanbirney]

For me, and I think many others, the two things that put AI in a different class of machine learning that what happened before. The first is the attention based transformer schemes - the famous "attention is all you need" where seemingly complex grammars/structures can be learnt

[Vaughn Vernon @VaughnVernon]

A #DDDesign Bounded Context is, first and foremost, a learning-knowledge-linguistic boundary. It may or may not influence architectural decisions, but if it does, it's at best a secondary concern. On the other hand, architectural constraints may influence tactical modeling. Many have moved beyond fear of unfamiliar mechanisms, but many more are still burdened by cultural leanings toward the familiar "one throat to choke" point of view.

[Project Jupyter @ProjectJupyter]

We are thrilled to announce the release of Jupyter Notebook Version 7! 🚀

📝💻 Real-time collaboration, visual debugging, dark mode, and more! Read our latest blog post to discover what's new!

https://t.co/jlaYxscRmO

[National Centre for Atmospheric Science @AtmosScience]

It’s #NetZeroWeek!

Leading UK data and computing experts led by @cedanews have developed a toolkit and roadmap to get the UK’s digital research infrastructure sector to #NetZero.

https://t.co/qwzemDCFCR

[Neil Gaiman @neilhimself]

ChatGPT doesn't give you information. It gives you information-shaped sentences.

[Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell]

Important and applies widely. Data collected by the NHS for research is increasingly inaccessible to researchers because it is unnecessarily locked using the most restrictive access controls. Even when most has no identifiable personal details.

[spascoe @spascoe]

@walkingrandomly @HPC_Guru @hpcnotes We have a jupyterhub cluster with access to the same fs as out batch queues. Users find it useful for ad hoc processing rather than submitting jobs.

[Sam Freedman @Samfr]

New post just out -

"Boomers and the ultimate failure of Thatcherism" - why the Tories need to engage with wealth inequality if they want to survive.

(free to read)

https://t.co/R6gZ8k4F6h

[spascoe @spascoe]

And this is why the fediverse will be a journey not a destination. Should we be massively increasing the number of servers supporting social media in the age of Net Zero?

[HackerNewsTop10 @HackerNewsTop10]

The Fediverse is inefficient but that's a good trade-off
Link: https://t.co/RR0vnKF31m
Comments: https://t.co/9560N2gPPa

[The Guardian @guardian]

Small wonder: big DNA advances loom at university startup Oxford Nanopore https://t.co/9vgekGHoUO

[Rupert Read 🌍 🔥 @GreenRupertRead]

It's indefensible for the BBC to keep inviting Julia Hartley-Brewer onto #bbcqt: she's a climate-denier whose only credential is as a Murdoch mouthpiece & reliable clickbait.
They don’t invite flat-earthers on, so why climate-deniers?
The BBC should do much better.
>RT,to agree!

[Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal]

new little song:

"The Re-Org Rag (I'm My Own VP)"

[Rory Stewart @RoryStewartUK]

Boris Johnson shd mark the final end of the old British system. He demonstrated ruthlessly how much damage can be done by someone refusing to respect unwritten rules. We need a written constitution. A new electoral system. And far better leaders @RestIsPolitics

[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

I like the new concept of the malevolent Oracular Remainers: The failures of Brexit are down to those who opposed Brexit predicting that it would have these failures. Had they predicted it would be a great success then it would have been a great success.

[Matthew Parker @bioinfomatt]

Last week we released a workflow for the analysis of @nanopore Monkeypox data - check out this blog post for more information: https://t.co/nVPaIuC1iP suggestions & comments welcome! #monkeypox

[spascoe @spascoe]

@iiSeymour @nanopore @ApacheArrow It's exciting to see @nanopore get into @ApacheArrow. Should open up lots of oportunities for emerging opensource data engineering tools

[Oxford Nanopore @nanopore]

EPI2ME Labs has been updated to integrate both tutorials & Nextflow workflows through the Jupyter Labs interface — enabling access straight from a web browser. Read more here: https://t.co/CmQxHXaBzy (login required)

[Martin Fowler @martinfowler]

"So much work, energy, and time has gone into creating a trustless distributed consensus mechanism, but virtually all clients that wish to access it do so by simply trusting the outputs from these two companies without any further verification" - @moxie

https://t.co/EaZaiuEXNx