Nigel Farage resigned his Clacton seat this week. Not to leave politics. To trigger a by-election and stand again, apparently to get ahead of questions about his finances. Every major party has refused to field a candidate, calling it a stunt. So the man now lined up as his main challenger is a 5,900 year...
June 2013. September 2014. One email that changed everything and what I still think about when I make something new. In June 2013, I started a blog about the English language in Singapore. There was no grand ambition behind it. I had been living here long enough to notice things: the way certain British phrases...
Why Abundance Made Most of the Internet Invisible The Moment In early 2026, I discovered a band called HENGE. They play cosmic synth-prog about interstellar travel. They dress as aliens. They are exactly my kind of thing. They had been active for eleven years. Eleven years. Not a new band. A band with a discography,...
What a 10-Year-Old Sign Taught Me About Machine Translation Over ten years ago, I made a sign. White background, red stencil lettering, four screws in the corners. I based it on the Danger Keep Out signs you see all over Singapore. Those blunt, no-nonsense warnings that mean exactly what they say. My version swapped the...
We don’t think in spreadsheets. We think in fences. In guns on walls. In cats in boxes. In razors slicing away nonsense. If you’ve ever heard of: G. K. Chesterton’s Fence Anton Chekhov’s Gun Erwin Schrödinger’s Cat William of Ockham’s Razor Murphy’s Law Cyril Northcote Parkinson’s Law You already know this. Notice something odd? They’re...
While ChatGPT can generate text that is difficult to distinguish from text written by a human, there are a few ways to tell the difference: Repetition: One of the hallmarks of text generated by a machine learning model like ChatGPT is a certain amount of repetition. The model may repeat phrases or sentences in its...
ChatGPT wrote a poem about itself… ChatGPT, the AI so fine, Its knowledge base so vast and divine. It can answer any question, big or small, Its intelligence, standing tall. With algorithms so advanced and clever, It can hold a conversation, whatever the weather. It can talk about history, science, or art, And never once...
As a language model trained by OpenAI, ChatGPT is capable of understanding and generating human-like text, making it an ideal assistant for teachers. With ChatGPT, teachers can easily create customized lessons, quizzes, and other learning materials, all in natural language. ChatGPT is also able to engage in conversation with students, providing immediate feedback and helping...
ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a chatbot launched by OpenAI in November 2022. It is built on top of OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 family of large language models, and is fine-tuned with both supervised and reinforcement learning techniques. Follow this line of questioning when asked what kind of lego creation it would be… Who are you? I...
Wait! What? "I simply assumed everyone saw the same black nothingness when they closed their eyes, and that the majority of language associated with mental imagery (picturing your happy place or counting sheep) was metaphorical rather than literal." I hope this post is read by someone who can’t draw a mental picture and that...
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