Arthur Turrell

The triple lock is in the news again: the UK’s cost of living tsar, appointed by Sir Keir Starmer, recently said that it was “mathematically unsustainable and”profoundly unfair.”

Back in 2020, I wrote a post about ten lesser known Python packages.

Local models—that is, large language models you can run on your own computer—have been okay for chat for a while even if they’re typically some way behind the frontier.

I have a chapter in a new volume of the Sante Fe Institute’s series on The Economy As A Complex Evolving System.

Today, I’m excited to feature a guest post from Dr Katie Russell, another No10 Innovation Fellow.

What can be done to stop the ticket resellers?

How we spend our time is one of the most important questions facing any mortal creature.1 While you can, with effort, earn more money, you cannot—at least in the course of normal life2—create more time for yourself.

I got the following email: I was wondering if it is possible to get your excellent book “coding for economists” as a single PDF?

How much economic growth can you generate from making a private dataset open?

You hear a lot of people claiming that Nigel Farage gets an undue amount of coverage given the number of MPs in his Reform UK party.

National statistics matter: they have a direct bearing on everything from government targets, to funding formulae, to the focus of the media, to the UK’s debt.

smartrappy logo If you’ve ever inherited responsibility for a messy Python codebase, or returned to your own code after a few months, and wondered “what on earth is going on here?”

I’ve been thinking a lot about efficiency in the public sector recently.

I’ve been thinking a lot about efficiency in the public sector recently, particularly how we can improve it.

What’s going on in the world of data validation?

In January 2020, Claudio Jolowicz published an extremely influential post on Hypermodern Python.

Today I learned how to resume sessions on virtual machines while using Visual Studio Code remote.

It would be nice to have digital copies of all of those old handwritten lecture notes that I so lovingly put together.

Many of us will have experienced bad hardware or software at work.

In this TIL, I find out how to create a new MySQL database on Microsoft Azure.