Decoherency

Following a now well-established procedure, after that delightful but short offering from Thames & Hudson, I turn to a longer collection of the source material from Flame Tree.

Here's a rather nice little video on Universe 25, a.k.a. the Mouse Utopia : This is something I've come across many times over the years.

Accusing the BBC of bias is a classic knee-jerk response that generally indicates the commenter is either a) a moron or b) politically extreme.

Today, I want to look at how and why UX seems to be so routinely awful in our daily digital lives, and what this has in common with broken toasters and racism.

I seem to have a habit of reviewing Christopher Nolan movies so I can hardly not cover The Odyssey.

I try to avoid reading polemics because I don't see the point of them.

We've all seen that services tend to get worse over time.

It's time to resume my extensive mythology review series with another outing from Thames & Hudson.

Welcome back to my take on David Mitchell's Unruly.

David Mitchell's Unruly : A History of England's Kings and Queens has been on my "I'd quite like to read that" list for some time.

WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT ?

I'm still finding it hard to get my head around the fact that there are people who think modern life is too easy.

I've pointed out many times that what seems rational is constantly evolving as evidence changes.

I continue to be impressed enough by my reMarkable tablet that I remain subscribed to their newsletter, although not so much that I have any intention of upgrading until mine breaks.

Welcome back to my review-summary of John Haywood's The Making Of The Middle Ages.

I picked up John Haywood's The Making Of The Middle Ages : An Atlas of Europe as a treat to myself for no particular reason at all.

Back in the days when AI development meant working towards something like an artificial human, I had three rules to bear in mind when reading most popular articles on the subject : AI does not yet have the the same kind of understanding as human intellige…

Welcome back to the concluding part of my review-summary of Dava Sobel's Galileo's Daughter.

There was only one trial of Galileo, although legends often speak of two...

In the midst of reading Neil Price's Phd thesis-book The Viking Way, I happened to stumble upon this 2024 movie by someone I've never heard of.

Today, an excellent piece of investigative journalism from The New Yorker.

Today's post resumes my unusual habit of amateur epistemology.

This book has been sat on my shelf for quite some time.

What makes a puzzle annoying ?

Today, a couple of contrarian pieces claiming that maybe LLMs do think and reason after all.