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Now, this could be very interesting! From Nature magazine : ‘Across Europe, governments are reducing their reliance on US technology companies. On 3 June, the European Commission laid out plans in the European Tech Sovereignty Package,...
Automatic programming dramatically speeds up writing software in certain use cases and in the right hands. In my experience the output does not reach the structural quality and economy of complexity of the best hand-written software....
The Langton, one of our local pubs, always seems to be busy. The trick seems to be that it does a little bit of everything, and appeals to everybody. When we visited recently there were no seats in the main bar because an open mic night...
Running, F1, and pancakes.
From the International Business Times: Protesters across parts of the United Kingdom have begun reviving the ‘take the knee’ gesture following the murder of Southampton student Henry Nowak and the release of police body-worn camera...
Living through the anxiety of having just released a book. So that's my life. That and wanting to sleep. I want to sleep. Also, haven't been posting as much. So it goes. Keep… להמשיך לקרוא ←
The Basel problem asks for the solution to the infinite series of the reciprocal squares: $$ \sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac 1 {n^2} = \, ? $$As many other things in mathematics, it was first solved by Euler, who found that the solution was,...
Having just finished Spider-Noir (and thoroughly enjoyed it), I felt the need to read a few reviews of the show to see if my opinion matched with those of the critics. It did – Spider-Noir is widely considered an entertaining and...
In recent weeks, talk, at least in the literary circles I circle, has turned to literary prizes and prize winners, more explicitly to the question of the use of AI to at worst generate complete stories or at best, toss ideas around in...
Waterlilies flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Thought I'd try book no.1 in The Guardian's top 100 best novels of all time. I wouldn't put it as my no.1, but I can see why so many people did. Funny, sad, tense, depressing, exciting, and satisfying. Also v long.