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March 25, 2020
We're in the second week of social distancing; the second day of lockdown. It's weird. There's definitely going to be a rash of lockdown nostalgia in thirty...
Well, fuck.
March 18, 2020
I've just finished the second day of working from home as I write this. It's a change which is likely, based on the projections from the Imperial College...
Should columnists?
March 11, 2020
There is an argument that newspaper columnists are a relic of an earlier age that should be dispatched as we move in to a new era of publishing. Once upon a...
unaccountably nothing about the virus
March 4, 2020
A new paper published by the US NBER this week concluded: "the arrival of ridehailing is associated with an increase of approximately 3% in the number of...
£163.16, to be precise
February 26, 2020
Trivial Blitzscaling has a compelling narrative weight. Find a deep-pocketed backer, a market with clear economies of scale, and comfortable incumbents who...
vcs i will sell you this idea for £5bn
February 12, 2020
consumer apps of the future Here is a product I want: a privacy-preserving camera app, for street scenes and found events. Taking pictures of people without...
the scammer race
February 5, 2020
Here's a story: Once upon a time, you had to make money to run a business. You could probably take out a loan to cover you for the initial capital, but even...
bear size, pig cunning
January 29, 2020
American't One of the problems with speaking English is Americans. I mean no offence, American readers. It's just, you see, there are an awful lot of you,...
not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed
January 22, 2020
Risky games It's always a bit of a bittersweet moment when I get mentioned on Radio 4. A flurry of texts from friends and family members, excited to hear my...
read to the end for a tasty recipe
January 15, 2020
AI is expensive Subreddit Simulator is one of the sillier products of the explosion in machine learning tools. The subreddit is populated entirely by bots,...
more than just a thousand words about Pokemon
January 8, 2020
Look if you don’t want to read a thousand words about Pokemon there’s more stuff at the bottom Being a thirty-year-old man playing Pokemon Sword on the Tube...
start as we mean to go on
January 1, 2020
I remember watching Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me at a very particular age. Old enough to understand what sex was, and some of the, y'know, physical...
Ideally a 2006-era weblog.
December 30, 2019
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