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Blog Posts
Many of my more recent thoughts/ramblings are on my talks page. Almost all talks come with extensive notes and ideas. So don’t forget to look there too!
- Laplace's Gremlin and Irreducibility 25 Jan 2026
- Perpetual Motion, Superintelligence and the Inaccessible Game 12 Nov 2025
- The Open Society and its AI 09 Feb 2024
- Boogeyman Diplomacy 31 Oct 2023
- Storming the Castle: Data science for Covid-19 Policy 13 Oct 2020
- A Primer on Decision Making with Uncertainty 25 Aug 2020
- The Ministry of Silly Models 14 Dec 2019
- The 3Ds of Machine Learning Systems Design 05 Nov 2018
- Natural and Artificial Intelligence 06 Feb 2018
- Decision Making and Diversity 15 Nov 2017
- What is Machine Learning? 17 Jul 2017
- Discarded Hard Drives: Data Science as Debugging 14 Mar 2017
- Questions on Artificial Intelligence 16 Jan 2017
- Data Readiness Levels: Turning Data from Palid to Vivid 12 Jan 2017
- Post NIPS Reflections 13 Dec 2016
- Salon des Refusés 02 Dec 2016
- Don't Panic: Deep Learning will be Mostly Harmless 29 Nov 2016
- Lies, Damned Lies and Big Data 19 Nov 2016
- Re-work Interview Questions 26 Jul 2016
- New Horizons 21 Jul 2016
- Data Science Challenges 01 Jul 2016
- Data Science Challenges 29 Jun 2016
- The Real Story Behind Today's Referendum 23 Jun 2016
- Data trusts could allay our privacy fears 03 Jun 2016
- Data Trusts 29 May 2016
- 'NLP is a Rabbit in the Headlights' quote 15 May 2016
- Future of AI 6. Discussion of 'Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies' 09 May 2016
- Future of AI 5: The Singularians 09 May 2016
- Google's NHS deal does not bode well for the future of data-sharing 05 May 2016
- Data Analysis, NHS and Industrial Partners 28 Apr 2016
- Review of Super Intelligence 27 Apr 2016
- AI and ML Futures 4: The Future of AI Meeting 22 Apr 2016
- Becoming More Efficient 07 Apr 2016
- Sheffield University Life 05 Apr 2016
- David MacKay Symposium 15 Mar 2016
- Quora Q&A Session Answers 09 Mar 2016
- Deep Learning, Pachinko, and James Watt: Efficiency is the Driver of Uncertainty 04 Mar 2016
- Sheffield Advertises Posts in Machine Learning 01 Mar 2016
- Future Debates: This House Believes An Artificial Intelligence will Benefit Society 29 Feb 2016
- Science Week Talk 2016 24 Feb 2016
- AI and ML Futures 4: The Future of AI 17 Jan 2016
- AI and ML Futures 3: The Trojan Wars of Machine Learning 17 Jan 2016
- AI and ML Futures 2: The Quiet Revolution 17 Jan 2016
- AI and ML Futures 1: Background 17 Jan 2016
- A Seasonal Test of AI 21 Dec 2015
- OpenAI won't benefit humanity without data-sharing 14 Dec 2015
- NIPS 2015: The Importance of Being Earnest 13 Dec 2015
- 10 ways you might be able to tell when an area of research is undergoing rapid expansion and society's expectations may be somewhat unrealistic ... 13 Dec 2015
- A Modern Version of Occam's Razor 06 Dec 2015
- System Zero: What Kind of AI have we Created? 04 Dec 2015
- It's not an Internet of Things, It's an Internet of People 17 Nov 2015
- The Information Barons Threaten our Autonomy and Our Privacy 16 Nov 2015
- Artificial Stupidity and the Mechanistic Fallacy 09 Nov 2015
- Craft Software 05 Oct 2015
- 'Quantum' Theory of Accountability 06 Sep 2015
- How Africa can benefit from the data revolution 25 Aug 2015
- Disturbing Parallels 11 Aug 2015
- Responding to Reviewer Comments 03 Aug 2015
- Ferrari Looking for Gaussian Process Experts 30 Jul 2015
- Get Your NIPS Reviews in! 23 Jul 2015
- The Data-Driven Economy will Help Marketers Exploit Us 23 Jul 2015
- Guardian Internet of Things Live Webchat Summary 21 Jul 2015
- Digested Thoughts on the Panel on Future of Deep Learning 14 Jul 2015
- Thoughts on ICML 2015 or "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Cheer from the Sidelines" 12 Jul 2015
- Second Day of Data Science in Africa 16 Jun 2015
- First Day of Data Science in Africa 15 Jun 2015
- Arrival in Nyeri 14 Jun 2015
- Data Science School in Nyeri, Kenya 12 Jun 2015
- How to Prevent Creeping Artificial Intelligence Becoming Creepy 12 Jun 2015
- AI 'cheating' scandal makes computer science sound like a sport – it isn't 12 Jun 2015
- Baidu and the Imagenet Challenge 04 Jun 2015
- Careers day at Hunter's Bar Junior School 04 Jun 2015
- The Mind and the Immune System 03 Jun 2015
- Talking Machines 22 May 2015
- Guardian Round Table on Internet of Things 19 May 2015
- DALI Meeting + Views on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence 14 Apr 2015
- Legislation for Personal Data: Magna Carta or Highway Code? 14 Apr 2015
- NIPS Experiment Analysis 30 Mar 2015
- Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 30 Mar 2015
- Can you select for 'robustness'? 25 Mar 2015
- Beware the Rise of the Digital Oligarchy 05 Mar 2015
- Questions on Deep Gaussian Processes 28 Feb 2015
- Blogs on the NIPS Experiment 16 Jan 2015
- Open Collaborative Grant Writing 14 Jan 2015
- The NIPS Experiment 16 Dec 2014
- Alan Turing Institute: Critical Mass or Incubated Lungs? 01 Oct 2014
- Gaussian Process Summer School 19 Sep 2014
- NIPS: Decision Time 13 Sep 2014
- Reviewer Calibration for NIPS 02 Aug 2014
- NIPS Reviewer Recruitment and 'Experience' 24 Jul 2014
- Open Data Science 01 Jul 2014
- Paper Allocation for NIPS 28 Jun 2014
- AI Developments 05 Mar 2014
- Five Interesting Papers 23 Jan 2014
- Facebook Buys into Machine Learning 09 Dec 2013
- GPy: Moving from MATLAB to Python 25 Nov 2013
- EPSRC College of Reviewers 11 Jul 2013
- Kappenball 26 Oct 2012
- Machine Learning as Engine Design 05 Jul 2012
- Personal Thoughts on Computer Science Degrees 20 May 2012
- Tau Clock 13 Jul 2011
- MATweave 13 Oct 2010
- Lotfi achieves lofty status 18 Nov 2009
- MATLAB Bug 04 Feb 2009