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Quote in September last year for a high-memory compute server. Β£28,000.
Quote today for the _exact same machine_. Β£90,500
This is for medical research. Saving lives. When I say LLMs are killing people by killing research computing, this is what I mean.
@davidgerard.co.uk @edzitron.com
The precedent is eerily, chillingly precise. What the current Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is doing to immigrants and refugees today is almost a carbon copy of what Sir William Joynson-Hicks was doing 100 years ago. And that's not a good thing. My column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Finished reading βErasureβ by Percival Everett.
βMonkβ, a largely overlooked black academic author, rages at the publishing industry & writes a deliberately offensive ghetto-lit parody. They love it, offering serious money. Satire collides with financial necessity.
A savage rebuke of [β¦]
Code: blend_points_to_sfnetwork <- function(source, targets, roads = roads_buff){ points <- bind_rows(source, targets) roads <- roads |> activate("edges") |> arrange(desc(edge_length())) road <- st_network_blend(roads, points, tolerance = Inf) |> activate(nodes)|> mutate(id = 1:n()) } # with example filtering required: roads |> activate("edges") |> filter(highway != "path")
{sfnetworks} question...
I want to blend points to a graph network derived from OSM road data that includes `highway=path` linestrings but don't want the points to be on these paths.
I need the points to be on an actual road.
Continued...
#rstats
Incredible article on how billionaires organized against the #metoo movement explained through Epsteins emails
https://www.theverge.com/tech/874721/epstein-thiel-musk-trump-metoo
#epstein #technews
Anyone with back issues out there (#AxialSpa in my case) ever tried a βsaddleβ type #deskchair / stool, and care to report on their experience? Iβve already got a sit/stand desk but my sitting posture is often pretty bad, and being able to tuck a chair without a back under the desk while Iβm [β¦]
[Consultation about AI use in UK healthcare]
βThe MHRA is seeking evidence on the regulation of AI in healthcare to inform the recommendations of the National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare.
This call for evidence closes at 11:59pm on 2 February 2026.β [β¦]
Thereβa also a Research Engagement Officer role going - details here:
https://careers.dogstrust.org.uk/en/postings/f454bdf5-671a-4784-8b55-913461961b96
A vacancy for a Data Officer within Dogs Trust's data science and analytics research team has gone live this morning:
- Β£37,130 per annum
- Fully remote (within UK)
- #SQL + # Python and/or #RStats experience sought, alongside #NLP / #TextMining
Deadline for applications: 2026-01-29
Further [β¦]
@venya Iβve never had formal lessons but one of my sisters showed me a few open chords when I was interested in learning, and just trying to form the shapes and get a sound out of each string was enough to keep me going for a while! I was quite young though to be fair so adult learners may be [β¦]
Kent Wildlife Trust (UK) are looking to hire a junior software engineer if you know anyone who might be interested - looks like they use a FOSS-heavy stack which is nice to see, I had the (probably out of date) impression that a lot of Wildlife Trusts were ESRI shops [β¦]
Dogs Trust are looking to hire a data engineer in London, UK (Hybrid). (Not my team so I donβt know any more than whatβs in the advert Iβm afraid).
https://careers.dogstrust.org.uk/postings/90e1aac6-98e0-4004-b992-b965a813e2f3
#GetFediHired #Python #SQL #Snowflake #Informatica
#NowPlaying: just like any other day (μ΄λλ ): background music for your mundane activities by Okkyung Lee. Heard this on the #LateJunction and stopped me in my tracks. Fans of #PhilipGlass, #HiroshiYoshimura, #TorLundvall, possibly #NobuoUematsu might dig it. Haunting stuff [β¦]
How my students taught me that Githubβs monopoly is hurting the Open Source ecosystem even more than I thought.
https://ploum.net/2026-01-05-unteaching_github.html
#github #floss
@Kimberley Good luck! 4.5 submissions must have been a _lot_ of work.
Anyone know of a heating engineer in the Bristol (UK) area with specific experience of storage heaters?
Have you given up caffeine for your new year's resolution? As one half of us can no longer have caffeine thanks to perimenopause and anxiety, we've ordered even more decaf coffees so we can have a bigger selection of delicious speciality grade decaf coffees this year. Caffeine-free not [β¦]
β¦and yes, that _is_ a copy of Nicholas Cageβs 1997 βclassicβ Face/Off on DVD there, an excellent (only semi-joke) birthday present from my partner.
Photo of a grey and white cat lying on a blanket on a bed, with a βlens flareβ unintended effect of the light that makes it look a little like the cat has generated some kind of glowing force field. Inexplicably, in front of the cat is a laptop with some stickers on and a copy of the 1997 film βFace/Offβ on DVD.
Willow is celebrating #Caturday by⦠generating some kind of forcefield?! Some strange lighting going on here.
#CatsOfMastodon
Help please fediverse, I know a 2nd year zoology degree student looking for zoology/conservation/biology science work experience placements of up to a year, UK and Europe, does anyone know where they might turn to for resources and help? Please boost for reach. Thank you!
#biology #zoology [β¦]
@sleepyfox Might be a feature rather than a bug for certain genres!
That feeling when your Quarto doc takes > 1 hour to render and only then you realise youβve rendered the wrong file π #Quarto #RStats #lNeedABreak
3 Manic looking red furred creatures with beak-like noses who you definitely wouldnβt want anywhere near your codebase! I think they are βFireysβ from the film Labyrinth - they had a song about Fire on which they removed each otherβs heads and threw them about if I remember correctly.
Agentic βAIβ agents revealed:
@forteller used to be able to in the original PokΓ©mon games on the Game Boy if I remember correctly.
You almost have to admire the audacity of naming something a βbulk APIβ when it returns a max of 50,000 rowsβ¦
What does βSOQLβ stand for? Wrong answers only.
#SOQL #WhyCantIJustUseSQL