What I’ve mostly learned the last few days is how little I know, and how outdated my knowledge. It turns out that not only do I not need to upgrade my own hardware, but even the notion of streaming a desktop is tenuous. Sure, Vagon holds promise as a cloud hosted remote desktop with access …
The West does care about Gaza, actually. Not its residents, of course. But the untapped billions of barrels’ worth of oil beneath its territory? Yes, it really cares about that very much.
AI has promise, certainly, but a lot of it is just hype. Unfortunately, I learnt that the hard way. Often, the latest and greatest model, touted as the one to kill all competition, turns out to be anything but stable. You can get good results, but only after a great deal of experimentation and refinement. …
Microsoft Copilot is just crap. I spend more time trying to get it to carry out tasks correctly than I would simply doing the task myself. Microsoft seems to have this knack of investing in other companies’ tech, and somehow making it worse.
You must trek into the centre of a regional city for a meeting because… it improves productivity. Honestly, I find this a spurious argument. Firstly because our organisation covers a vast geographic area, and yet daily I collaborate successfully with teams based at sites across four large counties. Secondly because the travel time required to …
Save us from trite journalism. The Guardian reports on a study survey by a market research company of 1,000 primary school teachers in England and Wales, highlighting concerns about children’s school readiness. The reported findings suggest that many children are starting school with delayed motor skills and other developmental challenges. However, several statistical issues raise …
It’s true that I see inspiration in the strangest places, as if a guiding force is reaching out to me from beyond the unseen realm. Yesterday I was working with hundreds of batch files, each one assigned a random file name made up of a long string of serial data by a python script. File …
Oh, wow, I have been invited to join the big kids at the next programme board, after all. I better trim my beard and practice speaking in front of the mirror, lest I blow it.
I don’t know why there’s such surprise that China has built a successful generative AI model to rival ChatGPT. Their generative image models are already way ahead of the competition. I know that here in the West we view China as a supplier of cheap manufacturing and spicy noodles alone, but elsewhere it is acknowledged …
Any nation that deploys terror bombing — obliterating entire neighbourhoods and all civilian infrastructure — is not civilised in my book. I don’t care what the propaganda says.
Suppliers so enamoured by their cutting-edge tech that they forget to get the basics right.
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I spent Sunday morning completing work for a colleague. Why? Because I promised I would deliver. The result: what I thought would please them. A polished and compliant end product, ready for them to take over. Were they satisfied? Of course not! Instead of appreciation, complaints and criticism. Which rather hammers home all that my …
Why is the politicians’ answer to every problem social integration, or a supposed lack thereof, even when there is no evidence to support that hypothesis. Naturally, a gut feeling doesn’t count as evidence.
