Embedded Bit Twiddler, Physics Nerd, Autodidact, Curmudgeon, Sarky Git, Fat Bloke.
Cheltenham, UK
Joined July 2009
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Simon Foster retweeted
Rishi Sunak is one of the most overrated politicians of our time. He is a dreadful performer who propped up Johnson until it wasn't good for Rishi. He cannot do anything off script. I'd welcome him as an opponent.
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Very very strange that this story seems to be systematically removed from the web.... would be a bad thing if folks retweeted and spread it far and wide........
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Please help me out.
I'm trying to rope @45Drives into helping me out with a top secret #RaspberryPi storage project.
Like this tweet if you want to see a Petabyte Pi.
Retweet if you want to see a Petabyte Pi.
Simon Foster retweeted
GREAT NEWS
My ongoing campaign to limit the number of people retweeting this image and causing any upset to Boris Johnson has made great progress I am now so confident that nobody will RT it that I am going to tag in @BorisJohnson so he can see how well we're doing.
Thank you.
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This tweet has aged really well
Josephine sets a great example to us all by postponing her birthday party until we have sent coronavirus packing.
Together we can beat this. In the meantime let's all wish her happy birthday (twice) whilst washing our hands. #BeLikeJosephine #StayHomeSaveLives
ALT Happy birthday! I am glad to hear you are staying at home, though I am sorry to hear about your party! We have all got to do our bit to protect the NHS and save lives, and that is exactly what you are doing, so well done! You are setting a great example. If we can work together we can send coronavirus packing. And once we have done that, you can DEFINITELY have a party with your friends!
Simon Foster retweeted
Dear Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson,
In the name of remorse, anguish, compassion, contrition, pity and regret: please just f**k the f**k off!
Regards,
The United Kingdom
Simon Foster retweeted
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Josephine sets a great example to us all by postponing her birthday party until we have sent coronavirus packing.
Together we can beat this. In the meantime let's all wish her happy birthday (twice) whilst washing our hands. #BeLikeJosephine #StayHomeSaveLives
ALT Happy birthday! I am glad to hear you are staying at home, though I am sorry to hear about your party! We have all got to do our bit to protect the NHS and save lives, and that is exactly what you are doing, so well done! You are setting a great example. If we can work together we can send coronavirus packing. And once we have done that, you can DEFINITELY have a party with your friends!
Simon Foster retweeted
I thought it might be fun to do a quick distraction project on the mathematically optimal way to play wordle.
Wrote a little program yesterday which uses a bank of ~13,000 words along with their frequencies in English, tried it today. Not bad!
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Simon Foster retweeted
Please RT if you would like me to consider standing against @Jacob_Rees_Mogg again, as an independent for one term only. As before, I would step aside if a better unity candidate emerges, or if @UKLabour & @LibDems decide to fight each other & I would only further split the vote.
Simon Foster retweeted
The human vision system is ... (significant pause) ... deeply disturbing.
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1of4: Water simulations running on my large flip-digit kinetic display. #kineticdisplay
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Honest tweet now. This account is run by frontline NHS staff. There’s just 3 of us. We have tried our best to get out what is happening on the ground. But we are completely exhausted. If you support what we are doing pls will you follow & RT this to your followers? Thank you 🙏🏻
Simon Foster retweeted
Here is The Map of Mathematics. #mathmap quantamagazine.org/the-map-o…
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We all need to be calling for this data.
Here I am talking (somewhat angrily) about it in Friday's briefing.
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"It's not fine if kids get covid. Firstly, it isn't. Secondly, it can spread to other people, and thirdly it disrupts their education when they need to go home."
@chrischirp #IndependentSAGE
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THREAD: How did we end up here? With the UK’s plans to lift lockdown threatened by a new variant. Just as we taste freedom, it might be stolen from us! Well. It’s a slightly long and circuitous story and, believe it or not, the best place to start is with Brexit…
Simon Foster retweeted
Word of the day is ‘ingordigiousness’: extreme greed; an insatiable desire for wealth at any cost.
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Longform from @TomChivers in @guardianscience today. How to make sense of the accuracy and reliability of a diagnostic or a diagnosis, from #Covid to cancer. Answer: with Bayesian thinking. @d_spiegel theguardian.com/world/2021/a…
