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Mahesan Niranjan

@mahesanniranjan.bsky.social

Professor at University of Southampton.

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To pour 500 billion into Artificial Intellgence claiming it will improve healthcare, and at the same time not believing in vaccines and non-pharmaceutical interventions to control infection spread is not an intelligent thing to do.

22.01.2025 05:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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20.01.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Corbyn on his first words if he'd have become prime minister: 'Today, rough sleeping [and] homelessness ends. There will be no more homeless people in this country. The state will provide. That was go...

It could have been a better trajectory...

www.reddit.com/r/Britain/co...

27.12.2024 06:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why probability probably doesn’t exist (but it is useful to act like it does) All of statistics and much of science depends on probability β€” an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is.

A fine piece from David Spiegelhalter... probably!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

22.12.2024 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Keir Starmer’s Government Is Stuck in a 'Right Wing Doom Loop' That Will Only Help Nigel Farage The Prime Minister's acceptance of right-wing economic orthodoxy is pushing his party and the country towards disaster, argues his former adviser Simon Fletcher

A nice piece in @bylinetimes.bsky.social
Totally predictable some years ago when the trajectory was set in the pursuit of power, rather than principled policy. The backstabbing and the manufactured lies... this is where it was to get.

bylinetimes.com/2024/12/20/k...

22.12.2024 07:03 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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β€˜I received a first but it felt tainted and undeserved’: inside the university AI cheating crisis More than half of students are now using generative AI, casting a shadow over campuses as tutors and students turn on each other and hardworking learners are caught in the flak. Will Coldwell reports ...

If university lecturers don't change their methods of assessment (and continue to grade and give credit to essays written at home) the only possible defence is laziness.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

17.12.2024 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Expert witness 'changed mind' over deaths, say Lucy Letby lawyers The nurse was convicted of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murder of seven more.

Apparently some dubious statistical inference, and now the expert witness changes his mind.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

16.12.2024 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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THE AI CON How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want

Reading to look forward to...
thecon.ai

15.12.2024 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cambridge University urged to apologise over jailing of thousands of β€˜evil’ women without evidence or trial A 1561 charter granted powers to imprison young working-class women found walking with undergraduates after dark

Now, that is a university so concerned about the exam performance of its undergraduates!

www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

07.12.2024 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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niranjan PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships FindAPhD. Search Funded PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships in niranjan. Search for PhD funding, scholarships & studentships in the UK, Europe and around the world.

PhD positions for September 2025:
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02.12.2024 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Taste of Mango review – powerful memoir of family secrets in Sri Lanka Film-maker Chloe Abrahams combines documentary and memory in candid conversations with the women in her family

On th ToDo list....
www.theguardian.com/film/2024/no...

02.12.2024 19:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Research Fellow at University of Southampton Explore an exciting academic career as a Research Fellow. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

Post doctoral reearch assistant job: Machine learning for arly diagnosis of dementia:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKR775/r...

30.11.2024 11:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hello World!

30.11.2024 10:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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