What?

'teach itself' ... 'knit together the stuff of intelligence ' whatever tf that means. Absolutely not. Infuriating.

... Humans design a learning algorithm and prepare the training data. Then they leave the algorithm in the dark of a data centre for a couple of months, during which time it gradually recombines each of its billions of moving parts, knitting together the stuff of intelligence."

I will be the first to admit that I'm not an expert on AI and that I have a very basic understanding, but wtf is this?

"AI is not like any software we’ve ever written before because we do not know how it works. We don’t teach AI about our world: it teaches itself. ..."

Fancy a PhD at the interface between one of the biggest existential threats ever faced by humanity and tuberculosis? Then come apply!

Spine — The Spine Race

And then you start looking at ultra-marathoners! E.g. 268 miles from the Peak District to the border of Scotland! Completely insane.
www.thespinerace.com/race/montane...

Definitely en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student..., see under History

If House of Guinness is about anything other than the early days of statistical inference, then I'm just not interested.

Those are some rather beautiful guouls

Training helps, but don't look at the 10 km distance

Resting before a run can improve performance, but only up to a point

I've pulled the data and analyses into a quarto report here: simonthelwall.github.io/runner_repor...
The code for the report is here: github.com/simonthelwal...

Some highlights:

I've done a lot of running this year:

I'm quite pleased with this - I've been training for a 10 km run and I thought I'd dig in to what my #Strava data could show me.
I used the #rstats package rStrava to pull my data and built myself an R Shiny dashboard to produce some analyses.
Rather than share the dashboard with its API tokens

It's been so long since I've updated my GitHub pages, I've got to re-download Ruby and Jekyll as they're not installed. Yikes.

Woah.
The immune system is mind-boggling.

Nicotiana sylvestris | woodland tobacco plant Annual Biennial/RHS Find help & information on Nicotiana sylvestris woodland tobacco plant Annual Biennial from the RHS

Oh, I wonder if it's a nictiana i'd forgotten about.
www.rhs.org.uk/plants/69785...

Oh, weird. Hmm

I thought this was a self-set foxglove, but now I'm not so sure. Have I just carefully replanted a weed?
Anyone more botanical than me care to offer an opinion?

Very much enjoying ?post rock from Just Mustard thanks to BBC radio 6.

GitHub - etiennechlt/ssi-detect Contribute to etiennechlt/ssi-detect development by creating an account on GitHub.

Also really nice to note that the authors have shared code AND fake data so that you can give it a go yourself.
Definitely going to try this.
github.com/etiennechlt/...

Semi-automated surveillance of surgical site infections using machine learning and rule-based classification models - npj Digital Medicine npj Digital Medicine - Semi-automated surveillance of surgical site infections using machine learning and rule-based classification models

Really interesting paper on semi automated surveillance of surgical site infection. Interesting to note value of including number of blood culture requests as predictive factor - not normally collected in SSI surveillance.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

>400 km of running so far this year. Pleased with that - most I've ever run in a year.
Hoping to make it to >=500 km by end of December.

Oh, this should be good

Steve has sensible points to make, but I'm just here to make the observation that it's cool to see politics bloggers using ggplot.

work-in-progress of my rStrava-based Shiny dashboard.
Really quite pleased.

If Garmin and Strava properly fall out, it's going to really scupper my run -> Garmin -> Strava -> #rstats shiny workflow. And that will be really disappointing.

UKC Photography Awards 2024 - The Winners Last month we announced the Category Finalists for the UKC Photography Awards. There was a strong selection of photographs across each and every category. All previous votes were wiped at that...

Absolutely outstanding photos here
www.ukclimbing.com/articles/?id...

Great thread about what read like a dodgy article.

Ok, I think I've been saved by global.R

Oh, come off it. This RShiny app was working beautifuly just 30 minutes ago. I've changed nothing! Why isn't it working??