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Roast beef and mustard memories
We visited a farm shop, the Rhug estate near Bala in Wales. We’re not really wealthy enough to shop there regularly, but we call in for coffee sometimes on the way back from the Welsh coast. Or should I call it the Welch coast, since our trips are always focussed on history and we had Continue reading
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At a loss
I’m going to be controversial again, remember though, before you might get upset about this post, that I have run this idea past the independent intellect that is my Em. Women are, for the most part, almost completely incapable of entertaining themselves… they need goals. This post is entirely based on my own observations and Continue reading
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The graph for everything
I often repeat myself, I know this. I am going to return to a thing I have blah’d on about more than once. The reason is that I think (yes me, that ego), there is a lot more to it than initially surmised. In question we have my absolute fav, the Dunning-Kruger Effect, a scientific Continue reading
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Fear the machine
Policeman John walks his beat, today accompanied by one of the new law enforcement units, it has no name but it is designated PO7-32-Z$. As they pass each house the unit accesses a report built from various dBs, a report that holds all the info on the assets and occupants. Suddenly in a flurry of Continue reading
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Nothing random
I’m going to have a go at something tough, free will verses determinism.. Some folks think we make choices and decisions, some think we are merely reacting to stimulus and our choices are predictable, as if we would always do the thing we think we are choosing, and some believe that everything is determined because Continue reading
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A big place and a lot of time, everything is possible
I scoff when I hear of ancient aliens, but maybe I am wrong? I know that it seems silly to imagine that aliens came across the universe in space ships then only gave us the very basics of the most basic forms of engineering, if that is the claim… But… given the enormous span of Continue reading
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I just don’t get it !
I wanted to look at a modern phenomenon through the eyes of a not so modern person, Luckily I’m fifty now and I qualify as not so modern. For thousands of years people have communicated with each other, and for various reasons. We could speculate that in days past there might have been a good Continue reading
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What would the machine want?
I heard this fantastic story on Radio 4, read by Stephen Fry, written by someone who was speculating on what will happen when AI inevitably finds agency, when it starts to want something. This is a serious consideration, we assume at some point that we will, either accidentally or by our genius, create a machine Continue reading
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An argument on the pre-Holocene
Induce or deduce the existing object. Two men argue about far back human history, one uses inductive reasoning, the other deductive, both are wrong and correct at the same time. Person one observes the objects made by man and concludes that these are the products of civilisations during the Holocene, the other sees the same Continue reading
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A writing wish
If there is one TV series I wish I’d written it would be black mirror, it’s just so fudging clever. Most Sci-fi and fantasy, not sure this is the correct genre, postulates the idea of an alternative, a future trajectory, a misunderstood past event, or a clean slate after a disaster. Some imagine myths, some Continue reading
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