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Most conversations about artificial intelligence and the executive begin with a number that refuses to move. For the better part of a decade the surveys have promised imminent transformation; for the same decade the measured return has...
Elizabeth Howard? The Concubine by Norah Lofts published 1963 The Lady in the Tower by Jean Plaidy published 1989 The Lives of the Queens of England by Agnes Strickland published during the 1840s I’ve just been reading a novel about the...
thought Experiment on thought Experiments Films are thought experiments. Critics review them as art; I wanted to read them as physics. So I built Movie Substrate — a tool that runs ten thousand films through the emergence framework and...
From The Spectator, back in December: You’ve probably seen the videos. Kemi Badenoch delivering her Budget response in the form of a rap to a sobbing Rachel Reeves. Keir Starmer as a McDonald’s drive-thru worker. David Lammy as a Spice...
August 12, 2026 Let’s visit the duck, shall we? I think she’s like a lot of us these days – calm on the surface, paddling like mad underneath… Our heroine – the wildlife research statistician – is finishing up her stint at the very rural...
tokyo-trains It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a city in possession of a good railway network, must be in want of a virtual animated train map. Yet, having once beheld the grandeur of Mini Tokyo 3D and the intricate labyrinth...
AI likes to say vacuous punchy statements like “the final takeaway” or “here’s the rub”. Then contrastive parallelism “connections, not CPU”. Contrastive parallelism should scarcely exist in technical writing, regardless of whether it’s...
This weathercock is above the Durnstein Abbey, famous for the blue and white tower. The weathercock above the church is typical of European weathervanes, since the 9th century when there was a Papal decree for each church to feature a...
So... Trump, with the aid of the Secret Service, plays his little, Top Secret, Three Card Monty, Now Ya See Me, Now Ya Don't, food container/airplane disappearing act to avoid a possible Iranian assassination attempt. Deftly played! And...
So when Crisis on Infinite Earths came out in 1985, I dutifully bought each installment, starting by peeling off the top copy from the giant stack of the first issue on the shop’s glass counter. It was a fun run of books, with each...
[1993]A lo-fi slacker rock jam that's probably mostly forgotten these days. Before burning cds from your mates became a thing I had One Sock Missing on a TDK D90 blank cassette with Archers Of Loaf's Icky Mettle on the other side. A...
If your Spidey Senses were tingling this morning, it might mean that:A) You were bitten by a radioactive spider, and/orB) You knew that it is Steve DeGaetano's birthday.As always, Sue B. has something for the occasion, and undated photo...
I seem to have spent a lot of time recently involved in books which deal with the horrors of the 20th century; maybe it’s a reaction to what’s happening in our current world where it seems that the human race hasn’t moved on at all since...
I've been neglecting the blog a little while I was away on holiday in Wales with Himself and The Trainee.If you follow the Bron Hebog and Minffordd page on Facebook then you'll have been able to follow the narrow gauge adventures we were...
Jubel lager "cut with" fruit has, it seems, been going great guns over in the country next door. It's possibly too early to say where this sits in the specialty beer segment, since it's definitely not in the geek-coded global-Brooklyn...