After pointing out just yesterday how many hundreds of miles we’d cycled together without a flat…
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Goose with somewhere to go.
Weekday bread đ
Rosemary bread, glazed ham, roasted asparagus, Good Ordinary White.
Floating flowers
R.I.P. John Erhardt, Guitarist for Wussy and Ass Ponys. Wussy is one of the great rock ‘n’ roll bands of our time. The band and their UK label will be hosting a watch party tonight (11
May) showing their great 2016 London gig in his memory.
Of course we understand what theyâre really getting at, but in (I guess) an effort to make things more understandable for most (?) people, the government has made it more confusing for anyone remotely numerate.
âBut for countries trying to go it alone, like the UK, the restrictions could literally be fatal.â
Without Apple and Google, the UKâs contact-tracing app is in trouble – The Verge
New loaf and new wall. đ
Have any of my scientist-friends out there used juno and/or junoconnect to run python/jupyter notebooks on the iPad?
Sir Roger @Penrose on Conformal Cyclic Cosmology @PhilFacOx. Loved watching old-school transparencies on an old-school whiteboard in front of his laptop camera. Lovely talk, âtho I’m unconvinced by the theory itself â and he’s wrong about it being confirmed by Planck data.
This week with strong flour. đ #lockdownloaf
That feeling when you don’t get an accolade you didn’t think you deserved, but are still disappointedâŠ
Now that weâre debating how to end the lockdowns, someoneâs going to have to start explaining decision theory. #WhatsYourLossFunction?
Weâve done scones, cookies, and cakes, but this is our first bread #lockdownloaf
âȘThanks â and hello â to old friends @robsheff, @RealJoeLevy, @audiation for bringing me your fantastic interview with @rxgau (the dean of rock critics, in case you didnât know). Nothing else has brightened my day so much of late⊠#Nadine
âȘRIP music producer Hal Willner. Best known for his work on #SaturdayNightLive and with Lou Reed, Lucinda Williams, &c, but my favourite was his Brecht-Weill tribute album from â85, Lost in the Stars.
R.I.P. Margaret Burbidge, who has passed away at 100. She was at the forefront of our understanding of at least two fields in astrophysics: the synthesis of the elements in stars, and our understanding of quasars, some of the most distant objects in the Universe.
@help when trying to use the m.b sharing extension from The Guardian newspaper app, there is no âpostâ button.
Why isn’t the government publishing more data about coronavirus deaths?
And, ideally, someone should be curating and coordinating the heterogeneous data that is available from many countries and organisations.
Update: Here’s a good one from the ECDC
Locked down in London.
Ok, official UK govt advice still seems to be that I should trek across London (via public transport) with my pre-school girls to bring them to their nursery (located @ImperialCollege where I work).
Comments?
Trump is a narcissistic idiot who only cares about the Fed & how he wasnât wrong about Google (he was). He makes Pence seem reasonable; Birx, Fauci &c on the US coronavirus team actually seem like experts.
So why isnât Boris and the UK giving us similar information?
- Imperial College (my employer)
- The University & Colleges Union
- Hertz
- A yoga studio in New Jersey
- The Royal Astronomical Society
- My gym
- Deliveroo
- Several politicians in San Francisco, where I lived 20 years ago
- Cubitts Opticians
- The Institute of Physics
- The International Astronomical Union
As Europe shuts down, Britain takes a different, and contentious, approach
Helen Ward, a professor of public health at Imperial College London, said the governmentâs advisers should disclose more of their thinking. âWe donât know the evidence [for] its decisionsâ.
âȘApparently @imperialcollege starting this Monday âwe will be delivering all teaching remotely.â Unfortunately they havenât yet bothered to tell those of us actually doing the teaching. âŹ
Just had a wonderful rendezvous with old friend and present-day Bohemist @PeterZusi, made possible by the otherwise unpleasant #USSstrike. We havenât seen each other since University â only our friends know how long that is (a long time).
Unconscious bias: Walked into the menâs room at the V&A museum. The walls were pink, so I immediately walked back out to check that it was really the Menâs room â even though the first thing I had seen was a row of urinals.
I was one of the first customers at the excellent new Guillam coffee house. If youâre around South Kensington in London, I definitely recommend itâone of the best places for a drip/filter coffee around (& espressos too).
