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This is the gist of every single blog post and article I've read about artificial intelligence.
I agree, but it's getting a bit tedious. Move on.
When I was growing up, I lived opposite a fourteen-storey tower. At night a red light glowed on top of it, to ward off low-flying aircraft.
I used to fall asleep staring into that light. Back then I was a radical socialist. (This was almost inevitable, given my background.) I remember seeing the red light as a symbol of a future socialist world. One way or another, it c...
Several people have contacted me and asked me to write a follow-up to the recent selection of words I shared from my "interesting words" notebook.
Actually, that's a bare-faced lie. Not a single person has contacted me. I can't think why not. But here is a follow-up list anyway. Suck it up!
Mulct: To punish someone by making them pay a fine.
Scutag...
Here's a thought about memory which I've had for some time (years), but which I've never put into words.
In my experience, memory tends to be a sort of clip that lasts about one second, or half a second.
I'm going to take an example: the memory of "chip day" in my old school. The cafeteria served chips one day a week. I was too shy to use the cafeteria myse...