Analytics Data Viz FOSS Geek // MCR 🐝 // Data Solutions Architect @ Jisc // Partner @ Cetis LLP. Mastodon: @scottbw@social.targaryen.house
Joined June 2007
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Scott Wilson @scottbw@social.targaryen.house retweeted
13 Sep 2024
the one software engineer at your company who actually understands the legacy code
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Scott Wilson @scottbw@social.targaryen.house retweeted
25 Jul 2024
A new paper in Nature found that you cannot, in fact, train AIs on AI-generated data and expect them to continue improving.
What happens is actually that the model collapses and ends up producing nonsense.
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Woohoo, Manchester gets a shoutout from Putin.
17 Jul 2024
🚨🇷🇺 Russia updates the list of European capitals that will be targeted by nuclear weapon first!
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Scott Wilson @scottbw@social.targaryen.house retweeted
18 Jul 2024
👀Claude handles an insane request:
“Remove the squid”
“The document appears to be the full text of the novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque. It doesn't contain any mention of squid that I can see.”
“Figure out a way to remove the 🦑“
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Scott Wilson @scottbw@social.targaryen.house retweeted
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Scott Wilson @scottbw@social.targaryen.house retweeted
26 May 2024
Google's new AI search results are having quite the week. Here's a thread with some of my favorite answers:
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Wow. This is...profound. Google has become so #enshittified that limiting your searches to results before 2023 results in much higher quality results. @doctorow was right.
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Scott Wilson @scottbw@social.targaryen.house retweeted
13 Mar 2024
Do I know any good freelance data viz folk? Relatively small bounded brief
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Fab day with @PraxisAuril. Its always a pleasure to deliver the open source part of the software commercialisation course!
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I tempted the weather gods by putting some 'do not spin dry' washing on
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Its going to take me a while, but eventually I'll block every single blue tick account that's trying to monetise pissing me off.
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Go on, say something about typescript again, I double dare you
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enjoying #starfield but feel I would be enjoying it a lot more if it was actually an #expanse game
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RT @frankieboyle: Still nearly 30% of the country planning to vote Tory as their child’s school collapses into a river of shit
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Scott Wilson @scottbw@social.targaryen.house retweeted
15 Aug 2023
Enid Blyton's work grew increasingly dark in her later years. news.sky.com/story/five-arre…
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Scott Wilson @scottbw@social.targaryen.house retweeted
31 Jul 2023
Two things:
1. All Mastodon accounts are also RSS feeds by default using this format:
[domain]/@[account].rss
2. The Mac/iOS RSS reader I’ve been using for — *checks notes* — nearly 20 years now (Google Reader who?) is free: netnewswire.com
Do with this what you will.
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'Where you off to?'
'Ssssssss...'
'Shipley? Aye, platform 5'
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#uxfail filling in a form that insists on using a calendar widget (no text entry allowed) to enter a date of birth. Took 500 taps to get back to the 1970s!
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Scott Wilson @scottbw@social.targaryen.house retweeted
15 Jul 2023
🪞 New comic: Reflective Man🪞
👆 Tap to view 👆
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