From Tools to Thinking: The Real Work of AI Literacy — Beyond The Algorithm - The Podcast In this first episode of Beyond the Algorithm, Dawn Taylor is joined by Ben Garside from the Raspberry Pi Foundation to explore what AI literacy really means in education. They discuss the difference ...

I enjoyed listening to this: about how important AI literacy is for children, and the way that the Raspberry Pi Foundation are working to improve it. It's only short, but it's a good intro

"How many Kafka events will Flink process per second?" I'm often asked this. The specific question varies, but it's typically some variation of asking how quickly a single CPU of Flink processes events from a Kafka topic. Why "per CPU"? Maybe because e...

A few weeks ago, I needed to explain why it's difficult to say the number of CPU cores needed for #Flink to process 100k events/sec (in the absence of any info about the data, the environment, nature of the processing, etc.)

Two dozen graphs & one Doctor Who meme later, that turned into this 😀

Powered by mushrooms, living computers are on the rise Fungal networks may be a promising alternative to tiny metal devices used in processing and storing digital memories and other computer data, according to a new study. Mushrooms have long been recogni...

"when used as RAM ... their [shitake] mushroom memristor was able to switch between electrical states at up to 5,850 signals per second, with about 90% accuracy"

🤯

Boiling Point (4.5 stars) Point Break (3 stars) First Banana (3 stars) A Knight's Tale (2.5 stars)

It's not like I was itching to go work in a restaurant, but wow Boiling Point made it look like hell on toast.

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BrewFinder | Discover Independent Coffee Shops in Hampshire & Dorset Your guide to the best independent coffee shops in Hampshire and Dorset. Speciality cafes, community reviews, and curated listings.

This looks neat... as if I needed any more excuses to try new coffee shops

The #Artemis II crew are now further from home than any humans ever.

🌍 The record of 400 171 km was previously held by the Apollo 13 mission 🚀🌕.

Astronaut Reid Wiseman

“We choose this moment to challenge the current & next generation to make sure this record is not long lived”

a month later... I'm very happy I did this - and mostly kicking myself I didn't do it ages ago

Another break in Devon | dale lane Like last year, we went to Devon for a week before Easter. And like last year, I used it as a chance to walk, forget work, and catch up on books, games, and movies. I played... I read... I watched... I walked... I found...

on our way home after a week in Devon - a week of walking and catching up on books, games, and movies

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Sunlight, Love and Monsters, The Fundamentals of Caring, Two Distant Strangers

Sunlight - weird
Love and Monsters - fun
Fundamentals of Caring - touching
Two Distant Strangers - bleak

They were all good!

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I've completed two episodes of Dispatch so far, and I'm loving it - it's like another Telltale story again but better in lots of ways.

The (not-removable) censorship boxes are weirdly distracting though.

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Stayed up (later than is probably sensible) watching the NASA coverage

tagged some benches in Axminster today which (finally!) put me over 100 contributions on #openbenches 🎉

"Make Freddos 10p again." https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/764825

I've written up some #Flink thoughts : event-stream processing project don't have to be accessible SQL *or* powerful Java. UDFs let you work in SQL, and write Java to extend what SQL can do when you need.

I've come up with six examples of when it helps to extend Flink SQL with Java functions.

we've come down to Seaton for a week in the hills by the Devon coast - I'll be alternating between reading, walking, and nagging F to revise for A-levels

Hacksaw Ridge, The Only Girl in the Orchestra, Haywire, War Machine

Hacksaw Ridge was the highlight of my #LastFourWatched for this #LetterboxdFriday

First half was fun (Vince Vaughn was an excellent hardass sargeant). Second half was an uncomfortably uncompromising portrayal of a battle. Great film.

That was phenomenal. The story was Mockingbird, the rhythm and dialog was classic Sorkin, the actors were sublime. Loved it.

definitely definitely worth it

We're at the Mayflower to watch To Kill A Mockingbird.

The West Wing, the (too overlooked?) Newsroom and Studio 60 are some of my favourite ever TV shows - so I jumped at the chance to get tickets for this when I heard Aaron Sorkin had written the stage adaptation 🤩

Who owns IBM? Top insiders & institutional shareholders Major institutional investors (and individual shareholders) govern the company known as ‘Big Blue.’

reading a super-high-level summary of who owns IBM shares

strangely, the tiny number of shares I've got weren't enough to justify a mention 😜

Delivery update notification - tells me that my parcel has "manifested".

I assume they mean that a delivery manifest has been created for it, and not that it's magically appeared, but I suppose either are possible

one of our #TechCon sessions last week was "Monitoring your Event Driven Architecture"

so many Kafka support tickets I've worked were detectable in advance if only the admins were monitoring the metrics that we emit

This session was basically our 40-minute long heartfelt plea to look at metrics!

photo of a manhole cover... if you zoom in you can see a big crack through it

Reading about manhole covers, because I know how to have fun in the evenings. 🤓

I put a crack in the one on our drive by stupidly parking a van on it. This site says an "A15" cover is only suitable for pedestrian areas anyway, so oops 🤦

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This game is a work of fiction. However, it depicts certain uncomfortable aspects of reality. We suggest that you only play this game when you feel confident that doing so would not overwhelm you. If you ever feel overwhelmed while playing, please prioritize your well-being and take a break.

Still thinking about this one

When you launch it for the first time, there is a startup screen which tries to do the (impossible?) job of warning you about what is coming, without spoiling what is coming.

wow, #emfcamp tickets sold quick in this batch - they were gone in seconds!

sounds like she's near us!

Hampshire village abuzz over capybara that escaped Marwell Zoo Drones have been deployed in the search for nine-month-old capybara Samba.

keep your eyes peeled for a capybara

a selfie with my youngest daughter, just before the start of the run

a photo with my youngest daughter just after finishing a 10k run, half-heartedly holding up our medals

Eastleigh brought its comedy home-made sign game this morning - my favourite was "Smile, you've paid for this!"

It's been ten years since I last did the Eastleigh 10k. Given that I'm ten years older and sort of forgot to do any training this time... today is going to be a challenge!

dalelane's review of And Roger | Backloggd Beautiful. Emotional. More than a little sad.<br><br>It's hard to say much about this game that wouldn't be a spoiler. It tells a moving story and is brilliantly effective at using simple gameplay and...

"And Roger" - a video game that took me 45 minutes to play and made me feel sad.