10.30am and this man is living more dangerously then any of us will today

An academic career these days: 7-8 years’ training; 4-7 years’ precarious, breadline employment; 32-36 years of 60/70-hour weeks; £10,000-a-year pension if lucky. Revised pension plans are a farewell to socio-economically diverse faculty. UK academia’s a posh kids’ game now.

Can't wait for ACL2018 and #NLPOSS. The CPF for NLPOSS is out!! Submission site is opened too. Pour your papers in 😁 nlposs.github.io x.com/eltimster/stat…

Phonemic correspondences of grapheme <j> in languages spoken in Europe i.redd.it/lnru01stksi01.…

Snack time @ Seneca Creek State Park instagram.com/p/BgJnjFLF0Sd6…

This video describing "cambridge analytica"'s work in the Trump campaign is very much worth watching. youtu.be/FXdYSQ6nu-M

With the controversial data company Cambridge Analytica back in the news, here is a piece from our archives about a time they came to Latvia. eng.lsm.lv/article/societ…

Github pro tip: use "python-traceback" mode to syntax-highlight Python tracebacks. No more ugly red lines!

#Pandas tip: Pass functions to .loc[] for flexible indexing: df.loc[lambda x: x.col != 0]. You save an assignment and can keep on chaining. #Jupyter NB tip: Instead of switching on and off %pdb, just run %debug to get magically dropped into the last exception. HT Adrian Seyboldt

My long piece on what could - and should - be done after the Facebook debacle theguardian.com/technology/201…

31st European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information - ESSLLI 2019 5-16 August, 2019, Riga, Latvia esslli2019.folli.info Call for course and workshop proposals

Instagram feels as a series of trailer in a cinema before the main movie, mostly because of ads and algorithmic order of posts.

Putting aside what Zuckerberg says at the grilling sessions, why is he agrees to them? He doesn't provide real answers, the concerned user's are not going to change their mind, maybe even get more sceptical. Who does he target at with the appearance and vague idealised answers?