Peter Wells
@peterkwells
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Mixing tech & politics. Hopes to make stuff work for everyone. Accidentally got seagulls blocked from Google meet.
By the sea in Whitley Bay
Joined June 2010
Some ppl tell me that posting on social media has no meaningful impact on the world. Have I got a new seagull*-related story to tell them!
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I am making a rare post on X just to say that this is the funniest post that will ever exist in this or any other universe. The. Funniest.
We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors. Then retrain on that. Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data.
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Re-upping for people who were on holiday last week. (p.s. I hope you went somewhere nice, you look rested, usual pleasantries. &c &c).
Here's an easy fix you've never heard of which the UK could do to boost growth: open source our geospatial data. A strange relic of privatisation is that we subsidise companies to produce data that is then sold for a profit. Instead this could be made public. 🧵
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RT @jujulemons: Essay question: Why are rent-seeking businesses being subsidised by the British taxpayer?.
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RT @dc_lawrence: Here's an easy fix you've never heard of which the UK could do to boost growth: open source our geospatial data. A strang….
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RT @Psythor: A significant UK think-tanking is backing the campaign to liberate the Postcode Address File.
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk
The pressure is on the government to abolish the Innovation Tax
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RT @UKDayOne: New UKD1 briefing on unlocking public data for economic growth and better public services 🚀.
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RT @Tymtweet: The national data library can bring so many wins to help our British business and startups.
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RT @owenboswarva: Making the UK's Geospatial Data Fit for the Future by @peterkwells et al via @UKDayOne . #geospat….
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RT @Psythor: 🚨@UKDayOne has published a major new paper by @peterkwells and @darkgreener on how opening up UK geospatial data – including t….
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RT @owenboswarva: What public datasets will have high impact on AI in the UK? post by @peterkwells. @matthewcliffor….
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RT @AdaLovelaceInst: 📣Register now for our online panel on the way forward for the UK's industrial approach to AI. - @halcyene, @AdaLovela….
adalovelaceinstitute.org
Join the Ada Lovelace Institute as we make sense of the current AI policy landscape and debate the way forward for the UK's industrial approach to AI.
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Obviously the solution to this is for the state to fund the creation of a training dataset of policy recommendations that, in aggregate*, provides political neutrality. * not every entry, that would be even sillier.
Hugely important paper from @CPSThinkTank today - showing significant and repeated left-wing bias among all of the most popular LLMs on questions of politics and policy. (1/?)
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RT @JeniT: seems destined to set back public participation in policymaking by decades. But you gotta love the UK pu….
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Change NHS
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RT @RoyalStatSoc: 📣RSS fellows you have until Wednesday to vote in our Council elections - make sure to have your say . Read more here: htt….
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And he did all this while also campaigning for a convicted rapist and wannabe fascist to run for US President, makes ya think 🤔.
Elon Musk set up 100,000 Nvidia GPUs in 19 days, while the founder of Nvidia, Jensen Huang said it normally takes 4 years to do this… .
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"[Racists] say they accessed [UK Biobank]".
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Exclusive: Fringe network recorded boasting of securing data from UK Biobank trove donated by 500,000 volunteers
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UK government really needs to get some fresh analysis of address data, and other foundational data like that, by some less credulous civil servants.
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The same figure was cited not just in 2016 but also in *2021* in some internal government discussions . And, presumably, also in the background discussions behind the amendment raised by peers on the last government's DPDI bill. .
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To put that number in perspective £487m is . a multiple of 162 (one hundred and sixty two) times the yearly profit of £3m created for Royal Mail by PAF. 15 (fifteen) % of the current market cap of RM. a lot of money that needed some decent scrutiny, not simple acceptance.
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New post. in an FOI release the government has said that in 2016 the estimated cost of buying back PAF from the Royal Mail was £487m. That figure does not pass the smell test and would not be a fair market value.
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