Tuesday, December 06, 2016

Revolutionary Christmas Cards

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Buy me! In this year of insurrectionary turbulence I determined to eschew the traditional Christmas card. "No!" to Father C...

It's lunchtime for Italy ...

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From The Spectator blog today : "Being a politician in Rome these days is a bit like sitting in a nice Trattoria, surrounded by ...
Monday, December 05, 2016

Why isn't Bakker super-famous?

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Amazon Link "Disciple Manning is able to recall every conversation, meeting and feeling he has ever had, making him an extremely ...
Saturday, December 03, 2016

The Moon and Venus

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Pictured a moment ago from our garden here in Wells, Somerset.

What's that word? Aphasia?

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Clare keeps complaining her brain is going to mush . She can't remember words, forgets where she's put stuff. I explain that it'...

Diary: Christmas Bazaar + Clare's weights

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#inconsequentialtrivia We missed a frost last night. Just damp and cold for the Church Bazaar in the Town Hall. We do a fast flyby. Buy ma...
Friday, December 02, 2016

The Tao of Weights: function follows form

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Dear A. J, I have been reflecting on your recent performance on my weight training programme. You warmed-up on the bike and then did t...

Now they come for the blue-collar jobs

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From The Economist this week  (my emphasis): "Every day more than 8,000 containers flow through the Port of Rotterdam. But only ...
Thursday, December 01, 2016

Change of layout here

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Belatedly I've added a blogroll (to the right, scroll down) and taken the opportunity to re-arrange the sidebar. Hopefully this adds som...
Wednesday, November 30, 2016

The secondary market in Replikas

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From section 1.2.2 of the new book, " Deep Learning ", "As of 2016, a rough rule of thumb is that a supervised deep learnin...