My paper with @danghica 'Global Optimisation with Constructive Reals' is now listed in the #LICS21 program. Formalised constructive reals (in #Agda) and Escardó-searchable types lead us to provably correct algorithms for global optimisation and regression. https://t.co/Li4Lbd3LqW
Billionaires should not own social media platforms.
Billionaires should not run our newspapers.
Billionaires should not control our politics.
A free media is a democratic media - a public good that is owned and run by us all.
Keir Starmer has appointed 38 new members to the Lords, most of them Labour worthies (it already has enough Tory worthies) of limited achievements but now set with a sinecure for life.
As if there weren’t more than enough Lords already.
He has a massive majority. He’s meant to head a government of radical change. So why can’t he just abolish the Lords?
Just catching up with @bbclaurak interview with Yvette Cooper…’when can our viewers..?’… ‘what our viewers want to know …’ etc. Do all her viewers have the same views? How does she know? This patronising populist arrogance has echoes with GB News.
If you get your phone out in the cinema, you're a dick. If you get your phone out in the cinema to take pictures of the screen, you're an even bigger dick.
Just be considerate of those around you!!! It's not hard!! Just think about other people for once!
Really good to see a journalist speak in this way
You need to understand the voters, not just the memes of your own circle, otherwise... who are you appealing to?
"Where am I, and what is the time?" he said aloud to the ceiling. "In the House of Elrond, and it is ten o'clock in the morning." said a voice. "It is the morning of October the twenty-fourth, if you want to know." #Tolkien
Image: "Rivendell - The Riders" by @donatoarts
Does the tree waste its life if it stands still and feels the sun? Do the newts waste their lives sleeping under the leaves? Your purpose is to be, and you are excelling.
No matter your views on her stated reasons for quitting, Rosie Duffield has made a political career out of dehumanising one of the most marginalised groups in society.
She should never have been allowed the privilege of resigning. Labour should have withdrawn the whip long ago.