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Design, technology, people | Ski, surf, climb | Dad. #AI, #Product. Currently head of product - content discovery @bbc, ex- @amazon ads

Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined April 2010
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Early morning particulate pollution, from the Dunbar Valencia #landfill fire, trapped at the surface in calm conditions as pupils walk to school. breeze is just picking up now so becoming more dispersed but source still sending out plumes of smoke. #AirQuality #airpollution
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“PyTorch and TensorFlow are the FORTRAN and COBOL of deep learning programming languages” — @realGeorgeHotz 😅 Thinking critically, this really does make a ton of sense. github.com/geohot/tinygrad
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Pfizer vaccine: effective, protective and safe Modena vaccine: effective, protective and safe Oxford vaccine: effective, protective, and safe
Paul Dacre to run @Ofcom Ofcom, Charles Moore to run the BBC. Because Boris wants them. No process. No joke. This is what an oligarchy looks like
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Maybe it comes from too many years of Silicon Valley hubris but we’ve got to stop assuming an app can change everything. #NHSCOVID19app or any other are just another useful tool. Download and move on!
Cummings wants to create a 'British Google'.... hmm...
bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54… ARM, crown jewel of UK tech, sold on by Softbank to Nvidia for $40billion. Deal described by cofounder Hermann Hauser as a disaster - he's writing to 10 Downing Street warning it will destroy the firm's business model and make Britain "a US vassal state."
Sad, sad times...
It is with the heaviest of hearts to announce that Frederick Nathaniel "Toots" Hibbert passed away peacefully tonight, surrounded by his family at the University Hospital of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica...
Focusing on basic competence before moving on to 'moon shots' is probably a good plan... #Moonshot
"Something that doesn't exist at the moment" Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps MP, admits on #BBCBreakfast the technology to carry out PM's moonshot attempt for testing doesn't currently exist. bbc.in/33hl8Z5
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Any tool in the box to prevent another lockdown 👍
📱There’s a new way to help fight COVID in Scotland. ‘Protect Scotland’ - our confidential contact tracing app - will anonymously notify app users you’ve been in close contact with, should you test positive. Please download, and let’s all protect Scotland protect.scot/index.html
A message from the White Cliffs of Dover. Sound on.
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Woohoo! Launch day for us... #bbc #voice #ai
Back in August, we first announced #Beeb, the new voice assistant from the BBC. Find out what Beeb can do and how you can help us make it better: bbc.in/302mrv2
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Powerful message. Well done. #BlackLivesMatter
Please listen to this clip from Clara Amfo on her Radio 1 show earlier. Important and powerful radio.
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Please listen to this clip from Clara Amfo on her Radio 1 show earlier. Important and powerful radio.
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Exciting news! Get voting for our innovative voice news product 😀 #BBC #Voice #AI
Exciting!!! BBC News on smart speakers has been nominated in this year’s @TheWebbyAwards. If you like what we do then pretty please spare some time to vote for us in the People’s Voice award - we'd be very grateful✌🏼bit.ly/2SlgCUZ
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At least someone is providing some clarity and leadership... It's not optional. Stay at home. #COVIDー19
If you’re not sure what you should and shouldn’t be doing, please listen to this.
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Do . Not. Visit. on #mothers day ( the-one-where I get properly ticked off by ⁦@adamfleming⁩ )
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