Rob Alexander

@RobDAlexander

Lecturer. Scholar. Very attractive.

York
Joined April 2010
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    May 16

    I’ll say it again. AI IS people. Just people. All the way down. For the foreseeable future. So if you frame it as a war that AI wins, you’re saying that some people will win that war against other people. Don’t pretend the machines are fighting anyone.

    Daniel Kahneman: ‘Clearly AI is going to win. How people are going to adjust is a fascinating problem’
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  2. Mar 15

    The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill 2021 does not appear to be necessity or indeed wise — unless you are someone in power who would like to remain unchallenged. See e.g. and .

    After the Sarah Everard vigil scandal, who still thinks the police need extra powers? | Shami Chakrabarti
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    Mar 4

    Even if my content is accessible, layer on top of that that almost EVERY tool I use is inaccessible in one way or another. And that is after a DECADE AND A HALF of "progress" from the start of my career in trying to make e-learning accessible. 16/

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    Mar 4

    Variation on the proverbial drunk looking for his keys under the lamppost because there’s light there: Looking under the lamppost because you know the keys aren’t there and you don’t want to find them.

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  5. Mar 4

    We are hiring — we have two vacancies for researchers on the safety of robotics and autonomy. Some expectation of teaching but not a full course load. Salary £32K-£49K depending on experience, fixed term until end of 2023

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    Feb 15

    Still having questions on your application for our 2nd Open Call 4 for and ? 📅08/March (11am CET) join the last RIMA Q&A session and increase your chances of getting funded and supported! Register here:

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  7. Feb 10

    .'s AMLAS method is now public. It covers assurance of machine learning for autonomous systems, from design through to safety cases.

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    Feb 10

    At 3:05pm today are presenting their paper at . Safety Cases: An Impending Crisis?

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    Jan 13

    PhD student position for UK or French citizen [Urgent - on AI for Safety [Please Retweet]

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  10. Jan 12

    For a long time, spaced-repetition learning has been the main way I remember just about anything. Given that people occassionally ask me about it, I've put up a standard briefing page here —

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    12 Dec 2020

    We, your readers, DON'T TRUST YOU. We expect you to waste our time, and to make your text ugly, tedious, and confusing. Right? Because we know most writing sucks. You need to convince us yours is an exception.

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    9 Nov 2020

    Are you an engineer or researcher interested in safety, standardisation & regulation of RAS for inspection & manufacturing? Join us for a free, online workshop with on 27 November

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    23 Sep 2020

    Whenever anyone points out how much life expectancy has increased someone else replies that this is ‘only’ because child mortality has fallen. This is not true. My new post: It’s not just about child mortality, life expectancy improved at all ages.

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    23 Sep 2020

    is being hosted by next year, with as General Chair and and as Program Chairs. Read the CfP here:

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    21 Sep 2020

    This has made me laugh far more than it should.

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    18 Sep 2020

    I don't know who needs to hear this, but you absolutely can't formalize your way out of systems engineering and safety.

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    17 Sep 2020

    Zoom pro tip: if you mute zoom, the captions still keep going on google slides In lecture my dog started barking-I muted myself & told him to stop & lie down. I said good boy, & I might have called him a little sh** ...and my whole class read it the captions

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    14 Sep 2020

    The butcher near me makes this horrible little mince man in the window each day and so now I see a mince man more often than my own family.

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    14 Sep 2020

    We would like to thank reviewer 3 for the useful suggestion, which made the paper much better

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    13 Sep 2020

    Okay, who else got their PhD without working an average of 80 hours per week? Trying to show something.

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