Tag: Science
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AI, the NHS, and the Urgency of Now
A Practitioner’s Response to Lord Darzi’s Vision Earlier this year at the Alan Turing Institute, Lord Darzi of Denham delivered what may become one of the most defining healthcare addresses of the decade. In a keynote followed by an engaging conversation with Professor Cathy Sudlow (see video below), he laid bare both the challenges and…
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Railway 200 & Beyond – Joining the RSA Panel
I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been invited to join the Review Panel for the RSA Spark Programme, contributing to Brief Two: Railway 200 & Beyond. As someone who works at the intersection of innovation, systems thinking, and future-facing design, this opportunity feels like the perfect convergence of past inspiration and forward momentum. Honouring Two Centuries of…
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Stats and Data Viz – Book Cover
I am very excited to see the approved cover of my most recent book “Statistics and Data Visualisation with Python“. The use of a Jackalope continues to be a theme and in this case it it a figure that is used in Chapter 8 where we explore the creation of a number of useful charts…
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Statistics and Data Visualisation with Python – Final Draft
I am very pleased to announce that the final draft of my book “Statistics and Data Science with Python” has been completed. It has been a pleasure to write and use examples referencing some of my favourite SciFi characters, from StarTrek to Battle Star Galactica and more. The book covers builds from the ground up…
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Alan Turing – Pride Month
June 30th! It has gone quickly and with today being the last day of pride month it seems fitting to mention a very influential scientist that has shaped modern life, contributed to the war effort and is now honoured by appearing in the £50 note in the UK: Alan Turing. Back in the 1950s started…
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Meet the Newest Member of the Fluorescent Mammal Club
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/science/fluorescent-mammal-springhare.html Meet the Newest Member of the Fluorescent Mammal Club The springhare — whose coat glows a patchy pinkish-orange under UV light — joins the platypus and other mammals with this perplexing trait Relates post Fluorescent Platypuses (??) and A Question Hidden in the Platypus Genome: Are We the Weird Ones? – The New York…
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A Question Hidden in the Platypus Genome: Are We the Weird Ones? – The New York Times
Researchers have produced the most comprehensive platypus genome yet, as well as that of another monotreme, an echidna. — Read on www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/science/platypus-genome-echidna.html
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Quantum interference in time
Bosons — especially photons — have a natural tendency to clump together. In 1987, three physicists conducted a remarkable experiment demonstrating this clustering property, known as the Hong-Ou-Mandel effect. Recently, researchers at ULB’s Centre for Quantum Information and Communication have identified another way in which photons manifest their propensity to stick together. This research has…
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Sci-Advent – Perfect quantum transmission through barrier using sound
This is a reblog of an article in ScienceDaily. See the original here. A research team has for the first time experimentally proved a century old quantum theory that relativistic particles can pass through a barrier with 100% transmission. The perfect transmission of sound through a barrier is difficult to achieve, if not impossible based…
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Sci-Advent – New study tests machine learning on detection of borrowed words in world languages
This is a reblog of a story in ScienceDaily. See the original here. Underwhelming results underscore the complexity of language evolution while showing promise in some current applications Researchers have investigated the ability of machine learning algorithms to identify lexical borrowings using word lists from a single language. Results show that current machine learning methods…