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1% More Intelligent
On the mundane advantages of easy artificial intelligence
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Me, My Clone, and I
I really love the experience of being me. I therefore view the whole business of me being alive as having central importance in the universe. The only…

March 2024

A Perfect Plan
Fieldmarshal Alfred von Schlieffen had a perfect plan. Should Germany find herself embroiled in a European war, the military would rush westwards and…
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The Narrowing Path
A very brief introduction to language and models and prompting
Back to BASIC
Back in the 80s, when I first started playing with computers, a common experience (with simple amateur computers like the ZX Spectrum or the Commodore…
What a Feeling
Even though I'm quite old, I'm just young enough to have mostly missed the golden age of drive-in cinema. I probably got to watch a few movies from the…

February 2024

Popper in da House
The first (pilot) episode of House MD ends with a clever hint. Dr. House, exhausted at the end of yet another shift at the hospital and, as always, off…
Solved and Unsolved Problems
A personal reflection

November 2023

Mädchen mit Gewalt
Bottoms and Polite Society are my favourite movies of 2023
Awareness
It has come to my attention that the week starting today is officially Transgender Awareness Week, so as a public service announcement, I just wanted to…

August 2023

The One Best Programming Language, One Year On
A lot has changed in a year. The one best programming language in summer 2023 is ... something completely different.
Ad-Hoc Definition of "Prompt Engineering"
Is “prompt engineering” even a thing? I vacillate between taking it rather seriously and chuckling at it as a stale insider joke. But the term has…
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