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6th May 2026 In decision after decision, the United Kingdom simply has to accept the changing will of the United States * As there are elections over Great Britain tomorrow, this blog goes from the local to the far-away: in particular to...
Double Maths First Thing has Youri Tielemans in swaps Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread the joy and delight of figuring stuff out. I’ve been thinking a lot about MathsJam and Parkrun and similar...
Photo by Zoshua Colah on UnsplashWhile I was doing some work around the house, a screwdriver slipped and I gave myself a small cut on my hand. Nothing serious, but I decided to disinfect it and put on a plaster. But where are the...
Wrap Up With Analytics And Takeaways
Lambeth Palace is a magnificent example of living history. For over 800 years it has been the home of the Archbishop of Canterbury in London and continues to serve that purpose today. Due to it being a private, working building, it is...
AI is a tool that allows us to create shortcuts, but point is to be able to judge whether the shortcuts take us anywhere useful. Just as humans are the ultimate arbiters of taste, so we are the ultimate arbiters of literacy. And that...
Last year, I started learning how to sew. So far, I haven’t sewn much stuff but every once in a while, I’ll sit down and sew something. The things I’ve...
May 6, 2026 Such a wonderful painting: Our VERY determined heroine might find that she wants to change her color palette; the blue at the bottom of the sky (yes, the lovely teal/petrol blue) is almost impossible to find in clothing. And...
I recently watched a video that put a name on something I'd been feeling. The author splits an LLM's context window into two zones. There's the smart zone, where the model is sharp, and the dumb zone, where attention drops off and the...
So I spent a lot of time talking about John Byrne’s 1980s run on the Fantastic Four, probably focusing too much on the specifics without saying, in the big picture, that it was classically-done superheroing. Imaginative, usually...
Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Sharlene from Real Life Reading that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up...
It’s funny how sometimes your reading seems to connect, with one book leading naturally onto the next, albeit with no previous planning. That’s been happening to me lately, with the Eliot/Pound adjacent books, and now appears to be...