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AI and Scholarship: A Manifesto(cam.ac.uk)
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Hannah Khalique-Brown taught herself Python and C++ as well as playing with IDA Pro to prepare for her role in that.
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And was the outage at Tesco related?
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His museum doesn't have enough floor space for even one of the mainframes without evicting lots of other interesting stuff. It's actually just a few yards from a computer museum though.
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The report suggests that might be a policy restriction rather than a technical one.
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Air traffic chaos went on for hours as engineers were WFH(thetimes.co.uk)
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Richard Turner gave an overview of AI weather forecasting to the Cambridge Philosophical Society at the end of last year. Recording available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGn18WH0d6s
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What does "Echolocate" mean here? I presumed it was ambient audio modulated by MySQL healthcheck probes but the description suggests not?
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...which is also a long way from London! :)
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> they refuse to pay the ransom As an organisation forming part of the UK State, they're not allowed to. Rightly, in my opinion.
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> we didn't really have a concept of cringe like we have today We didn't use the word in the same syntactical manner - things make you cringe, or are cringeworthty - but I can assure you that my very British mother was using th
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But at least the victim isn't then paying the criminals' AWS bill.
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Ban ransoms to stop hackers, says ex-cybersecurity chief(thetimes.co.uk)
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It's sad that you describe the AA as an insurance company - you're not wrong, but that throws the contrast between today's AA and its venerable past into sharp relief.
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They also count charities/non-profits as "companies" - it's unclear to me if they also include local government, but it would be helpful to see the results that for-profit organisations achieved broken out separately.
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The article seems to consider a "degree" to be fungible across providers. At least in the UK, there's a definite hierarchy of universities and the value of their courses, even if a pretence of equivalence is sometimes maintai
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Not mentioned is the fact that the BT Tower was designed to be a node in the microwave backbone network. There are landmark towers across the country, though no others are also restaurants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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> free market capitalism for 50 years, then a total nationalisation of everything, reshuffle and restart. You could argue that's similar to the UK's recent history, if you can be flexible with the 50 year period. Minimal regula
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Does that include the value of dividends paid over the period?
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Transfer payments to Scotland and NI are very significant - the Union brings value to the UK but, purely economically speaking, secession could be net positive.
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Here we go - it was Den Devices: https://automatedhome.co.uk/new-products/den-automation-laun...
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There was a UK start-up a few years back that did make motorised light switches but they didn't stick around long. I'm blanking on the name, though.
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Welding method drastically cuts time to make mini nuclear reactors(thetimes.co.uk)
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Germany didn't need to build new plants, it already had some. The "it takes decades" argument was used as the reason for not significantly renewing nuclear in the UK - over a decade ago.
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I will presume that you know of the more recent tome on the ULA? "The ZX Spectrum Ula: How to Design a Microcomputer" by Chris Smith
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> This was an actual book, readily available at your local bookstore Or on my bookshelf, still :)
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Expert Q&A: space based solar power(theengineer.co.uk)
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Yorkshire is known as God's own county; I don't think that is an American import.
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The Apple advert that brainwashed America(telegraph.co.uk)
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Researchers develop hedgehog safety test for robotic lawnmowers(ox.ac.uk)
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