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Ian Welch

@ianwelch.bsky.social

Queer he/him. English, Welsh and Irish ancestors. Treaty is my immigration document. Born Kirikiriroa, raised Tāmaki and Paraparaumu. Associate professor and Programme Director for cybersecurity at Te Herenga Waka.

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Seabed mine could produce devastating sediment flows, panel told A controversial seabed mining project could lead to sediment flows which knock over rigs and damage wind turbines, the fast-track panel has heard.

Wow.

A new report presented to the Fast Track panel shows the TTR Taranaki seabed mining project could lead to sediment flows which knock over rigs and damage wind turbines - and have impacts that last for a thousand years!
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/28/s...

02.11.2025 08:03 — 👍 51    🔁 24    💬 4    📌 1

Notice what the kid's lawyer Alistair McClymont says (referred to as a 'veteran' & this is for real, he was already well-known when I was doing asylum cases in 2001): This kind of case is normally granted; Penk is pulling a Trump, breaking the norms of our system for the love of racism.

14.02.2025 09:24 — 👍 57    🔁 29    💬 4    📌 0
An electronic billboard for Reality Check Radio reading "Only 1 in 3 Kiwis trust the Media"

An electronic billboard for Reality Check Radio reading "Only 1 in 3 Kiwis trust the Media"

Screenshot from Telegram showing David Seymour on Reality Check Radio

Screenshot from Telegram showing David Seymour on Reality Check Radio

Screenshot from Telegram showing Winston Peters on Reality Check Radio

Screenshot from Telegram showing Winston Peters on Reality Check Radio

Screenshot from Telegram showing Diewue de Boer promoting his show on Reality Check Radio where he'll be discussing the "Great Replacement"

Screenshot from Telegram showing Diewue de Boer promoting his show on Reality Check Radio where he'll be discussing the "Great Replacement"

It's sometimes hard to believe how bad the disinformation landscape in this country has; a well funded disinfo platform broadcasts 7 hours of new content each day, including hosts promoting the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, and government ministers are guests

21.11.2024 09:31 — 👍 166    🔁 48    💬 18    📌 3
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Amazing day, kill the bill!

19.11.2024 10:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Presenting our work in progress paper IndigiCloud about work done on Māori data governance. All credit to the Te Kāhui Raraunga Māori data experts for the analysis on the slide.

11.12.2023 10:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Short version: it’s the biggest attack on indigenous rights in New Zealand since Prendergast #nzpol

23.11.2023 22:42 — 👍 57    🔁 32    💬 10    📌 2

Good luck!

05.11.2023 19:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Accuracy vs. precision vs. recall in machine learning: what's the difference? Confused about accuracy, precision, and recall in machine learning? This illustrated guide breaks down each metric and provides examples to explain the differences.

One of the better explainers that I have seen for difference between accuracy, precision and recall ... www.evidentlyai.com/classificati...

05.11.2023 04:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Maybe also the fact we are encouraged to outcompete each other and not consider a New Zealand university with a distributed model.

05.11.2023 03:25 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

There are more and fewer emotions than we thought ... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

01.11.2023 06:13 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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