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Dr David Hunt

@atypicaldavid.online
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Director of Digital, Data and Technology @ Royal College of Anaesthetists | BIMA 100 | PhD Applied Mathematics Not terribly active on Bluesky. Go play word-y.com

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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 21/09/2026
This is such a great write-up of an issue that's always bugged me. Well done for your efforts so far! A related issue is how any map-based information is made available to those who cannot view a map (whether interactive or static), and whether that can be automatically and/or dynamically extracted.
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 15/09/2026
This is so very cool!
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 07/09/2026
Took me a moment to realise you weren't accusing the Royal Horticultural Society of meddling.
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 03/03/2026
I have tried to make this game accessible for users of VoiceOver, Talkback and other screenreaders, and I'm really interested to hear from anyone who uses these or other kinds of assistive tech.
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 03/03/2026
Wordy, or Word·y, or WORD·Y (I haven't quite decided)... Anyway, it's a word puzzle game I recently created. Still in beta, I would love some feedback. One word. Three connections. Find them all to solve the Y. #Wordy #WordGames
word-y.com
Word·y - The Daily Word Connection Game
Find the missing link that connects words in a Y-shape pattern. Play free daily puzzles and track your streak.
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 14/01/2026
Do you know if these are being tracked anywhere as a growing list?
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
2025: A WordPress plug-in accidentally pushes something to live - the chair of a national institution resigns OpenAI intentionally release products to a mass market that includes errors, manipulations and stolen material - cool, cool Is this how it works? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The report found that the OBR had uploaded its budget documents to a link which it believed to be inaccessible to the public. However, because the organisation was using a particular add-on to the WordPress publishing system, the link ended up being live, unbeknownst to the OBR itself.
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 15/07/2025
Same. Also I think my introduction to the joy of outtakes.
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Neil Williams @neillyneil.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
25 years of agile software development and the media still can't grasp the basics of launching products early so they can be iterated to meet real user needs. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
Gov.uk smartphone app to launch with limited functionality
First version steers users to existing webpages, with AI chatbot, notifications and digital driving licences to follow
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 25/06/2025
Seems to be working? ☺️
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
London Tech Week: diversity is important. Also London Tech Week: www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lond...
thetimes.co.uk
London Tech Week turns away entrepreneur for bringing baby
Davina Schonle said she felt ‘humiliated’ after being refused entry to event where she planned to meet potential suppliers to Humanvantage AI, her new start-up
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 03/06/2025
I don't understand how it even worked... Did people sit there watching a "generating response ... please wait" hourglass go round and round while the actual humans worked up code in the background?
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 03/06/2025
This is incredible!
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 31/03/2025
No answers but similar questions here: www.uktech.news/government-p...
uktech.news
Can AI really save £45bn from the state? - UKTN
A friend of mine once worked for consulting firm that won a government contract. For the next nine months he was deployed with a Whitehall department to
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 03/03/2025
Apologies, I hadn't meant to suggest they had/would. More that it's disappointing from Lloyds given that they lead on that annual digital skills report.
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 03/03/2025
Oddly counter to this if true. www.lloydsbank.com/consumer-dig...
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This is well worth reading on the human labour involved in reinforcement learning
DeepSeek’s latest model is completely reliant on these data
workers, despite the company’s emphasis on “reinforcement
learning”. Unlike supervised learning, which follows an ex
ante approach—training models with pre-tagged data before
deployment—reinforcement learning works ex post, correcting
outputs through rewards and penalties. In theory, this reduces
the need for data workers.
In practice, however, reinforcement learning neither
revolutionizes AI training nor significantly cuts labor costs.
While it may lessen dependence on pre-labeled datasets, it
still requires human oversight, as annotators must provide
feedback on model outputs. Even when users casually upvote
or downvote a chatbot’s response, they unknowingly
contribute to this process—unpaid and uncredited.
DeepSeek may promise labor-saving automation, but, like all
AI models, it runs on human toil.
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 05/02/2025
Anthropic, of claude.ai fame, is asking job applicants not to use genAI in their applications to work at Anthropic. www.ft.com/content/9b1e...
ft.com
Anthropic: ‘Please don’t use AI’
🎶 I just want something to hold on to / and a little of that human touch 🎶
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 03/02/2025
Intrigued by the alt text for this post.
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 27/01/2025
I realise my question mark implied I wasn't sure — but I was! We're in the process right now.
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 27/01/2025
www.accessibility-services.co.uk/our-accredit...
accessibility-services.co.uk
Our Accreditations | Shaw Trust Accessibility Services
On this page, you will find details of the businesses and organisations tested and accredited by Shaw Trust Accessibility Services
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 27/01/2025
Shaw Trust?
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Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Great to see this out in the open. Dropping AI pilots isn't a bad thing. It underscores the importance of testing new tech before rolling them out. Particularly in welfare, where the risks of amplifying inequalities and causing real world harm are significant. But... (1/5) tinyurl.com/6tn2r24x
theguardian.com
AI prototypes for UK welfare system dropped as officials lament ‘false starts’
Exclusive: Pilots for staff training, jobcentres and speeding up disability benefit payments not being taken up
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 24/01/2025
(Also, Google Lens is very good.)
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 24/01/2025
Can't believe you don't remember me being there on the day.
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 24/01/2025
Moulsford Railway Bridge.
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 22/01/2025
There's a whole chapter of my photo archives comprising only Gaussian Blur images.
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 22/01/2025
This was my concern after seeing the trailers/reviews. I suspect they thought of the title first. There are more interesting/niche defined numbers. Perfect numbers are ripe for "The Perfect Crime". Or Mersenne primes — "The Mersenne-ary"? There must be others.
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 21/01/2025
This is a positive step towards embedding digital thinking at the heart of public service leadership, and mirrors the trend in the third sector in recent years.
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 21/01/2025
[Thankfully, a footnote clarifies roles these as a CDIO, CTO, CDO, or a leader in service transformation, product, or customer experience with deep digital expertise.]
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 21/01/2025
One significant requirement is that by 2026, all public sector organisations must include a digital leader on their executive committee and a digital non-executive director on their board. (Emphasis on the "and".)
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 21/01/2025
Today's announcement of the blueprint for modern digital government includes a welcome focus on agile, user-centric service design as a cornerstone of transformation.
gov.uk
A blueprint for modern digital government (HTML)
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 21/01/2025
The real Sir Humphrey would be useful to clarify what was said.
media.tenor.com
a man in a suit and tie is smiling while sitting in a chair
Alt: Man in a suit saying, "Yes... and no."
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 21/01/2025
It somewhat flies in the face of the very next sentence in that section.
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 21/01/2025
But wait! They've updated it, because they forgot to also blame second-hand lorry purchasers for lack of growth.
Highlighted text reads: 
That means scrapping the need for people to queue at the local council to register the death of a loved one, and doing away with the need to post an advert in your local paper if you want to buy a lorry -- getting in the way of growth.
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 21/01/2025
Very welcome indeed. Although this bit makes it sound like bereaved queuers have been getting in the way of growth.
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It will do away with insensitive and antiquated processes that have been holding this country back for too long. That means scrapping the need for people to queue at the local council to register the death of a loved one -- getting in the way of growth.
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 08/01/2025
Hard to believe it's 2025 and I still come across digital developers and agencies seemingly unfamiliar with WCAG guidelines or even general accessibility principals.
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Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
2025 is … a perfect square 45 x 45 = 2025.   a sum of cubes: 1³ + 2³ + 3³ + ... + 9³ = 2025 a perfect square when you add 1 to each digit: 3136 = 56² a perfect square when you increase the first digit by 1: 3025 = 55² Maybe the only number with all these properties
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 18/12/2024
Eric Morecambe dying. I was at my grandparents house, and interrupted their dinner to inform them of the news.
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 06/12/2024
Any idea why this isn't (seemingly) available on Spotify through the usual Friday Night Comedy pod? open.spotify.com/show/5eqnNRT...
open.spotify.com
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
Podcast · BBC Radio 4 · Download the best satirical comedy from Radio 4, every Friday. Features The News Quiz, The Naked Week, Catherine Bohart: TL;DR and Dead Ringers.
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 02/12/2024
@schreiberland.bsky.social I'm seeking a reference for the conspiracy theory that the Titanic sank due to too many time travellers, but all I can find are ones about Jack Dawson from the movie being a time traveller. Am I remembering correctly that you mentioned the former theory in a past Fish?
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
New edition of Just enough Internet just landed in inboxes. This one on how non-technical people actually appear to be using generative AI at work. buttondown.com/justenoughin...
buttondown.com
FOMO is not a strategy
End of year reflections on how people are using genAI at work
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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 26/11/2024
Lots of orgs are trialling Microsoft Copilot, but few share results. Vendors offer glowing case studies, but what about the, err, less glowing ones? That’s why I was excited to see a public study from the Office of Digital Government Western Australia. So let's get stuck in shall we? A 🧵...
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 21/11/2024
Good observations all round, thanks Fran!
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 21/11/2024
Does anyone know if starting a post with a handle is like a reply, or just like a normal post on Bluesky? Also, are they just called posts here? Someone said they're skeets, but I hate it so no thank you ta.
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 21/11/2024
Many points of blue-white light are visible within and around the nebula. [2/2]
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 21/11/2024
Original alt text: The Crab Nebula's complex oval structure lies against a black background. On the nebula’s exterior lie curtains of glowing red and orange fluffy material. Interior to this outer shell lie large-scale loops of mottled filaments of yellow-white and green. [1/2]
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 21/11/2024
Being a non-runner, I'm not sure what a technical hill is, nor your definition of "around London", but these steps in Leigh-on-Sea are popular with runners and scenes-from-Rocky re-enactment societies alike.
A steep and very long set of concrete steps viewed from the bottom. They disappear into the distance, emphasising just how long and steep they are. There are railings on either side, with a tall fir tree dominating the scene about halfway up. The sky is blue, it looks like it was a nice warm sunny day.
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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 20/11/2024
I was a fan of spearheading things for a while, until it became a genAI favourite. Am building up to being in the vanguard of things instead.
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