Will Bradshaw

"We have come to the edge of a world in which we have no experience, and where all our preconceptions must be re-cast."

[DrivenData @drivendataorg]

Excited to see the results from the Genetic Engineering Attribution Challenge published today in @NatureComms! Congrats to the fantastic @altLabs_tech team and all the challenge participants! 🎉 https://t.co/UntyAO5UJ2

[Kevin Esvelt @kesvelt]

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[Will Bradshaw @willbradbio]

One advantage of taking time between drafts while writing is that, occasionally, you discover that your first draft was damn good.

[Will Bradshaw @willbradbio]

@Aella_Girl Since Aella is popular in my circles, I just want to say that I 100% *loathe* required-dress-code parties. No better way to tell your introverted friends that you don't want to hang out with them than deliberately making socialising even more costly.

[Will Bradshaw @willbradbio]

On round 4 of ping-ponging between my employer and insurer trying to get access to health insurance.

To be honest, after everything I'd heard, I'd be disappointed if my first encounter with US healthcare *wasn't* a Kafkaesque nightmare of some kind.

[Ollie Rodriguez (formerly Ollie Base) @Ollie_Base]

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[Will Bradshaw @willbradbio]

@CmSpare1 @trevorjtweets @calebwatney I see people say all the time that they think C is better for science but we should use F for everyday, but I think the economic & tech-progress costs of that disconnect are likely to massively outweigh any marginal gains from F as an everyday scale.

[Will Bradshaw @willbradbio]

@CmSpare1 @trevorjtweets @calebwatney It seems pretty bad to create that kind of comms barrier between scientists/engineers and ordinary people unless really necessary – which it isn't, we already know that C works perfectly well as an everyday scale.

[Will Bradshaw @willbradbio]

@Xeynon @calebwatney See my other comments. The fact that Celsius goes negative for temps below freezing is a good thing, it makes the scale more informative.

As for the rest, I see a lot of claims like this but nobody ever offers any actual evidence – striking given the use of "objectively".

[Will Bradshaw @willbradbio]

@daniel_eth @ne0liberal @calebwatney I think most people who care about this advocate for ISO dates nowadays.

[Will Bradshaw @willbradbio]

@ne0liberal @calebwatney Actually-smart-person: having a clear indicator of whether water outside is frozen is actually very useful.

[Will Bradshaw @willbradbio]

This is your regularly scheduled reminder that daylight savings time is a dreadful idea and we should all abolish it immediately.

[Will Bradshaw @willbradbio]

Fun fact for Americans: traditionally, in Britain, "stocks" means "bonds".

Until I cashed it out to move here, I had a "Stocks & Shares ISA" (tax-exempt investment account) with Vanguard UK.

[Will Bradshaw @willbradbio]

One unexpected minor cultural difference: US companies really really like security questions.

I've had to provide something like 4x the number of security Q answers in moving here than I'd expect in the UK.

[Will Bradshaw @willbradbio]

Switzerland abandoning neutrality over Ukraine seems really bad to me – for the world and the future, but plausibly also for Ukraine.

[Will Bradshaw @willbradbio]

@anderssandberg Yeah, for many years I avoided long games altogether in favour of well-contained story games, in part for this reason. (The other is that I find long games generally less fun-dense than short ones.)

[Will Bradshaw @willbradbio]

Dear Esther is free to keep on Steam until Wednesday 16th Feb! https://t.co/eO0sV4Cipd

[Will Bradshaw @willbradbio]

This roughly captures my feelings about adopting US units & date formatting upon moving to the US:

https://t.co/SsW5ZtTq3N