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‘The UK is saying the same thing as the Taliban’: the women banned from studying in Britain https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/23/women-banned-from-studying-britain-taliban-afghanistan-sudan

‘The UK is saying the same thing as the Taliban’: the women banned from studying in Britain

The Home Office has blocked new study visas for applicants from Afghanistan, Sudan, Myanmar and Cameroon. It means many women will miss out on life-changing opportunities – as five female academics explain

The Guardian

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Andy Buckley 3d ago

It wasn't exactly a fair comparison, but we are all Pot Noodle

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Andy Buckley 4d ago

@HGourlayUCL Funny, sausages were not on my British shit-list. Maybe I've been frog-boiled...

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Andy Buckley 4d ago

@DrEdBridges Right track!

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Andy Buckley 4d ago

@freyablekman I got excited and thought this was going to be using the "energy mover" Wasserstein distance on the jets themselves, which is something we're studying, but I think it's rather the metric used for similarity of the autoencoder pdfs (before I drowned in ML technicalities). Nice, though 🙃

Andy Buckley 4d ago

My god, yes. Excellent article from The Reg. If I were in business, these are the sort of people I'd want advising me, not the fanboys. https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/ai_businesses_faking_it_reckoning_coming_codestrap/

Andy Buckley 4d ago

Zack Polanski Mar 17

RT: @Heccles94 I wonder why Farage hasn't condemned Tice? 🤔

Andy Buckley 4d ago

Nation-scale 🔥, but what do you think the product is?

Andy Buckley Mar 16

Reminded tonight that I was named after Prince Andrew. I was happily in denial before. FFS, thanks world

Andy Buckley Mar 16

Eugen Rochko Mar 16

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/1

10 years today.

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