Will Deakin

I write code and visualize data
I do governance for British railway IT plus European regulation
I believe data makes rail passengers lives better
Ask me how!
#Physicist #OpenData #DataScience

Continent: Europe
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2026-05-17 11:20:50 UTC

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although hardly an original thought on my behalf, I think Gramsci describes the phenomenon well* in one of his letters from prison under the Italian Fascist government:
"When the old world is dead, the new world slow to be born. And in the contrast of light and dark monsters are born".
My albeit poor translation.
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2026-01-28 11:32:07 UTC

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Zarodoz is underwhelmed by chicanery
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2026-01-20 18:48:43 UTC

Some mid-winter fungi from my walk back from the GP surgery this morning
#fungi #Winter
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2025-11-27 11:51:13 UTC

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while there were a fair few the art and music of "Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death" by the DKs was a stands out
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2025-09-05 07:42:38 UTC

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it does depend on what you mean by "read" and "a book". For example, with non-fiction I get a book and work through examples, apply it to a set of problems and learn that way and skim through to the bits that look interesting.
I also sit down and read books but due to the vagueries of memory I think this is at the 10-15 a year level. What I also do more is listen to a lot of books being read through library subscriptions or the radio.

2024-11-29 21:17:44 UTC

For those interested in such things, following the publication of the Origin Destination Model by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) last week, here is the six-year aggregated rail passenger flow for 2018-24 on an updated simplified centre-line track-model base model.
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2024-11-07 08:55:58 UTC

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I was talking to my son about this he quoted Gramsci "The old world is dying, the new slow to be born. It is in this stark contrast that monsters are born."
If correct, the market based neo-liberal economic model is dead. The question is, is the Labour government approach of competent management of the decline enough, or is a much radical say interventionist, planned, even Keynesian approach needed?
This is arguably where the US was in the '30s and the UK in '45.
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2024-08-19 17:02:42 UTC

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please keep loving. We need more of this kind of thing.