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Any idea as to where the Department of Health’s meetings data is? There’s a PDF here but nothing else.
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It strikes me that much of today’s blog could be summarised as “gut truth, simple message, shout, get cracking”. Anyway, I found this ironic: Our financial markets have become a largely automated adaptive dynamical system, with feedback. Furthermore, a dynamical adaptive system with feedback is challenging ordinarily, but this one is also strategic. A flight…
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My only complaint about this post from Duncan Weldon is that his caveats are better than the ostensible point. The problem with arguments about the budget is that a very large chunk of the spending side is either made up of long-term capital projects, or worse, PFI-ised capital projects, which often can’t and arguably shouldn’t…
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I am enjoying these people’s magazine (although the website leaves something to be desired like a less horrible design), especially as it seems to be based in the pub around the corner from my office. Oddly 90s – people being amused by Japanese TV – but I can put up with that.I am enjoying these…
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I’m not quite as sceptical as some about this. However, it’s not clear to me how this differs from the sort of thing UNOSAT does all the time – here’s their analysis of imagery over Abyei, the key border area between North and South Sudan. Actually it looks like the “Enough Project” is going to…
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A question. So the DfT spent £2.7m developing a games site to promote road safety. How much did the TV ads of the 70s and 80s (which got progressively more high-concept, flashy, and shocking over time) typically cost? I have the impression that TV ad production is a pretty profitable and expensive business, and of…
Read More a lot or a littlesay no to the public data corporation
So what about that Public Data Corporation? I think it should be opposed with full force. Why? Well, the fact they want to structure it as a “corporation” is suspicious in itself – it’s going to be tempting to declare it a trading fund and force it to make profits, even if only in the…
Read More say no to the public data corporationdisgraced presidents piling up?
If the former Tunisian president’s plane overflew Malta going north, that doesn’t mean he’s going to France by any means. North of Malta is…Italy. Surely not…
Read More disgraced presidents piling up?a dance to the music of confirmation bias
OKTrends has an amusing post, but what I like about it is that it’s consilient with the process I defined here. My idea was that songs that were rated 5 might be good, but might also just be violently weird to the reviewer. By the same logic, the same must be true of the 1s.…
Read More a dance to the music of confirmation biasnot Thursday, so it must be a music link
Also a neat remix here, although my Internet link still tends to jam every time a comment comes up on soundcloud. Tangentially, I saw a poster for Jon Pleased Wimmin (of all possible DJs) the other day, which made me think “Bloody hell, I thought he was dead? Or at least rendered generally harmless?” So…
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