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proposals

A collection of 118 issues

Shrouded Attributes

What You Really Get For 'x'. I remember in my cubrep days incredulous prospects insisting that my competitor - despite playing extremely fast and loose with their true capabilities - claimed to do what we did, and came in at the same price. As they were invariably the larger, longer-standing,

Payback Per Pound

"Oxford University economist Daniel Susskind last year estimated that better train wi-fi could generate £376 million a year in productivity “savings”. Overlaying the industry costs of how much the exchequer would need to spend to fix on-train internet, the return on investment comes out at £49.70 for every £1

Boost Illusion

"Nobody buys efficiency. Ever" So runs advice handed down to each new generation of Enterprise reps. Riffing on the famed prediction of JM Keynes. Namely that due to inexorable technology leaps we should have long since been only required to work a 15-hr week. Feel like that today for you?

Draft Collab Key Points Check

"I love illegal immigrants. Sue me. Sometimes I just go down to Dover and I see a ______ dinghy with 60 of them on and I go, ‘Come on, welcome! Women and children first. Oh, there are no women — just you lads, is it?’ " Armageddon, Ricky Gervais (2023) Buried late within

Pledge Backdrop For Brussels

Above is the top of a piece from The Times [sub'n req'd] of London. Reporting on the week's speech for eurocrats cloaked with liberal elite alignment yet presumably principally aimed at extending niceties to Microsoft. As partly evidenced by the chosen url of said publisher; Microsoft vows to fight any

Tempted To Delve Into AI Prop Writing?

Over the Summer marking season, I noted a Uni philosophy lecturer had found a pattern in too many of the papers he was judging. Exeter's Dr Edward Skidelsky had found one give-away word; delve. In general such output, "is typical of the purple but empty prose that ChatGPT produces", he

Artist 30-Word Declaration Against AI Theft

“The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted.” AI is robbing creators. This week, over ten thousand and counting of their number took a stand to arrest the theft.

Bankster Slidedeck Reality

There's a third season of Industry out. A TV drama-cum-exposé of merchant bank traders. Despite the littering of finance jargon, favourable reviews flow. What I enjoyed about the PR prior the latest series, were the pieces that seek to judge the veracity of the show. Is real-life corporate gambling banking

Mapping in Circles

After eleven years, it's time to update my London Underground concentric-circles-and-spokes map. Completely redrawn from centre to edges, it's so much better than before, and more geographically accurate than the official map. pic.twitter.com/WMd8fkdphY — Tube Map Central (@TubeMapCentral) August 6, 2024 At inception an all-time classic in diagrammatic

Single Scale Continuum

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