Haven't you got better things to be doing?
Procrastination
Imposter Syndrome
Some Tim Key / E. J. Thribb inspired poetry.
Glastonbury in VR
As Glastonbury tickets are like gold dust, I experimented for the 2022 festival with a virtual reality (VR) experience. Here are the results.
Thinking About Kinship & Society
This post began as a stream of consciousness Twitter thread that I've retrofitted into a blog post. As is always the case, both the political left and right see truths about the markets. The left is correct that money and trade reduces interpersonal prosociality (increased in-group "lovin’"). The right is correct that money and trade … Continue reading Thinking About Kinship & Society
A Roadmap to Intelligence
This post looks at some key ideas for artificial intelligence systems. It acts as a guide to the landmarks on our path to improved computing.
Explaining Explainable AI
Twitter rambles about explanations and AI. Maybe to spruce up at a later date.
Freewill & Determinism
Some more ramblings about free will and determinism.
Intelligence, Representations & Generative Functions
When you work for a long time with artificial neural networks, you begin to see patterns emerge. One of these touches on fundamental aspects of intelligence. As I haven't seen it described very often, I'll set it out here.
Effortless NLP with spaCy
I've loved spaCy for a long time but I've only just got my head around how you can structure a text processing pipeline to take full advantage of its power.
The Neocortex & Power Iteration
A look at how the power iteration method for computing eigenvectors may allow brains to extract variance from the world.
Robotic Ape 