The first semi-final of this year’s University Challenge is on tonight (20:30, BBC2), and once again my son, Alex, will captain Durham in a rematch against Royal Holloway, with the winner going through to the final in two weeks. GO DURHAM!
#UniversityChallenge
Durham University

After a tight first-round match (Durham 195-185 Bristol), and a more comfortable second round (Durham 240-35 Bangor), Durham (captain: Alex Radcliffe) tonight take on Southampton.

BBC2, 20:30.
Go Durham!

It's Rohan Alexander's third Toronto conference on Reproducibility (online/in-person) today. Highly recommended.

Sign up at canssiontario.utoronto.ca/event/toronto-… (free and online).

I'll be speaking on Errors of Interpretation (Type VI Errors) at 20:30 UTC (15:30 EST/20:30 GMT/21:30 CET).

In case you missed it:
Emeli Dral will be talking about Data Drift at PyData Edinburgh this Thursday eveing, live in Edinburgh.

Free signup at: meetup.com/pydata-edinbur…

Plus lightning talks. Beer. Pizza. Craic.

Wood Mackenzie Cathcart Technology

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We’re back 🎉 We’ve a fantastic speaker to help celebrate our first in-person event in ages as well as our 4th birthday. Whether you’re a student, a data professional or just someone interested in data, you’re more than welcome 🤩 #PyData #Python #Community #Meetup #Edinburgh

PyData Edinburgh, is finally back for an in-person event!

Emeli Dral from Evidently AI will discuss data drift and how their open source tools can help.

Read more and register at meetup.com/PyData-Edinbur…

Thanks Cathcart Technology (refreshments) & Wood Mackenzie (venue).

Overcast Logged-in iCloud Users: Self-Selection Bias and Customer Stickiness
— tdda.info/overcast-logge…

Cc: Marco Arment Accidental Tech Podcast Casey Liss @sircacusa

Trust and Authenticity in British Politics
njr.prose.sh/trust

(steve richards: as promised)

I’ve been using Eric Bower’s SSH/PKI-based lists.sh and prose.sh for a while, and they are insanely great.

He/pico.sh have now launched a similar imgs.sh service for image hosting. Perfect for CLI/SSH people!

njr.imgs.sh

The Yard Model and the Inevitability of the Super-Rich.
— pudding.cool/2022/12/yard-s…
(via @[email protected])

Trust the physicists to come up with a useful toy model!

(Cc: steve richards: think you might enjoy this.)

This year for Tortoise I've been investigating what really happened at The Tavistock, home to the only NHS clinic for children and young people who are suffering from gender dysphoria.

You can listen wherever you get your podcasts eg here: torto.se/3BzkTL4

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Snowflake on a raven's wing. (Photo by Shawn Bergman)

The octobass of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. It typically plays one octave below the double bass. This rare bowed strong instrument was first built around 1850 in Paris. There are a handful in museums but the MSO is the only orchestra in the world to own one. 1/2

Traces of suspected cocaine found after parties in Liz Truss’s grace-and-favour house, say staff

theguardian.com/politics/2022/…

I am very sympathetic to the view that we should legalize all drugs, tax them, QA them and treat them as a health problem.

But we haven’t done that.

Well this was unexpected and fun!

A huge thanks to Alice Fishburn and team for the support and encouragement and editing and 'John your deadline was like an hour ago'ing, and to Alan Smith & everyone else at the FT for setting and facilitating such high standards.

The International Energy Agency’s bombshell new report on renewables has incredibly good news.

For example, solar is undergoing a mega boom & may surpass coal by 2027

Below is a 🧵 on genuinely good news on green energy from the IEA & beyond (1/22)

Cc: Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 Jesse D. Jenkins Ramez Naam David Wallace-Wells