An online notebook
I was asked the other day for my quick view on the current buzz around AI and large language models, machine learning etc. Pasting here for posterity! I think my slightly cautious view on LLMs etc is based on two things: First, it’s being latched onto by people as a way of leap-frogging over doing … Keep reading
Commenting on James Herbert’s sensible post about approaching AI in local government, I came up with 5 statements of the bleedin’ obvious that all senior people ought to have in their minds whenever technology is being discussed. If something sounds like a silver bullet, it probably isn’t one You can’t build new things on shaky, … Keep reading
As part of the fun and games that is homeschooling, my daughter started off begging and borrowing computer time from me and her mum. It wasn’t ideal so I casted around for a better solution, so she could have her own bit of kit. I had a fairly ancient, tiny Windows 10 laptop – the … Keep reading
I like to use plain text when I can. Plain text is just text without any formatting, which you edit with an app called a text editor, like Notepad on Windows or TextWrangler on a Mac. It’s pretty much a universal format – it can be opened and edited on pretty much any system or … Keep reading
I probably think about this sort of thing far more than I should – after all, doesn’t everyone just use Word? – but I like playing with different tools for writing. After all, for me, typing words into a computer makes up probably 75% of my job. That’s a lot of typing and so it’s … Keep reading