On a black background with flourishes of red lines and dots is an image of Jason Whittle. He's a white man with short brown hair, wearing wire-rimmed glasses, and has a flower behind his ear. He smiles at the camera while taking a selfie.
Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). And this time we're celebrating @jasonwhittleauthor.bsky.social's half-century by hearing all about his zombiefication.
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Two women welding. © IWM A 19490
Three women painting a damaged vessel. © IWM A 19496
Two women working with a hammer. © IWM A 19499
Woman welding. © IWM A 19487
On International Women’s Day, four fantastic photos taken during the Second World War of the Women’s Royal Naval Service carrying out important war work at HMS Tormentor, the Royal Navy shore establishment at Warsash.
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That’s dark. Bad day?
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How Do Machines ‘Grok’ Data? | Quanta Magazine
By apparently overtraining them, researchers have seen neural networks discover novel solutions to problems.
ICYMI: When an OpenAI researcher went on vacation and forgot to pause a network’s training, no one could have imagined the mistake would lead to astonishing insights into how neural networks work.
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Dear BlueSkyers. Sadly I'm getting many reports of scammers pretending to be me here, incl messaging people with 'investments' . Pls share/help me spread word that, as you know, THIS IS MY ONLY BLUE SKY account (proved as my handle is an official MoneySavingExpert one). All others are scams
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The purpose of the charity is to keep Caversham tidy.
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Principal PM DevDiv @microsoft, http://dot.net, married, mother of 2 and a 🐶. Opinions are mine. 🇧🇷🇺🇸
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DevRel @ Google DeepMind. Past: GitHub. Lover of OSS, media, tech and pop culture. Journalist (Mashable, Gizmodo) turned developer. I host podcasts and videos.
Football. Cloud. Tech. Politics. Pictures. Airplanes. Taycan. Messaging. Eventing. CNCF. Stream Processing. Standardization. Open Source. Principal Architect on Microsoft Azure & Microsoft Fabric product teams. Borussia Mönchengladbach. #avgeek
Crime Fiction scholar and multi-genre author and editor. Likes wearing elbow patches. https://amazon.co.uk/stores/Jason-Whittle/author/B07BH1Y669
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I’m Russell and local history is my hobby.
There are some who call me ... Stephen?
Bookreader and seller
a shambling lump of ennui with a beard, and tattoos
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TV Writer: Buffy, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Gilmore Girls, The OC, Once Upon a Time, Foundation, Fallout...
Working at Microsoft, making content for C# and .NET, C# Standards, Playing guitar when I have time. posts are mine. he/him
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Keeper of the Profane Keywords. Coder. Likes C# and .NET and making them go vroom. Really Good at talking. @linebreakers.band bassist. PubConf World Champion. Chaotic Good. They/them.
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