In December, last year at Polly Farmer we had a visit from Jono (check out his awesome site) to show us how to do Claymation. Here are some of the results. I did the nerdy maths one and the kids did the more creative ones.
In Trump’s competition with China, China is winning
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from Dean Baker Donald Trump doesn’t have much interest in numbers and the
real world, but that is where the rest of us live so it is worth checking
in per...
The Kepler Problem (Part 10)
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The poet Blake wrote that you can see a world in a grain of sand. Today
we’ll see a universe in an atom! We’ll see that states of the hydrogen atom
corresp...
Resilient, Self-Reliant Life Is Hard
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*Every single thing that increases resilience and self-reliance is
impossible.*
*This reader's email cut through the clutter:* *"I'm seeing multiple sites...
Von der Leyen’s Surrender
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While European voters were left in the dark, the EU Commission handed Trump
everything he wanted — in exchange for a war Europe can't win.
The post Von de...
Monday Message Board
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Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion
and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the
sandpits,...
Fractured bones, fractured mind
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[image: Two x-rays, one showing lungs, the other showing a displaced and
fractured right clavicle.]Pretty pictures of my broken torso.
Five weeks ago my bi...
Exapátisiology
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The study of narrative coercion, the intoxicating rush some derive from
combining power with just enough deception to mislead—yet not so much as to
be caug...
New Climate Assessment Report from US DOE
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by Judith Curry Climate science is baaaack Energy Secretary Chris Wright
has commissioned a new climate assessment report: A Critical Review of
Impacts ...
Hyperdrive City
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Hyperdrive City is the birth of the American future. A reminder that we
once built soaring structures of steel, cement, stone, and steady certainty
in a be...
Ideal end states as source of creativity
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Something always felt off when labeling my internal benchmark as
perfectionism, and seeing as a remedy doing away with ideal imagined end
states and outcom...
What the women of Iran know
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A poem written by Tom Griffiths, read by me, with music by my late, much
lamented musician friend Peter Gelling (1960-2108), using some material
from his a...
Using time series models with IBM Event Automation
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Intro Imagine you run a city e-bike hire scheme. Let’s say that you’ve
instrumented your bikes so you can track their location and battery level.
When a bi...
AI Safety Course Intro Blog
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I am teaching CS 2881: AI Safety this fall at Harvard. This blog is
primarily aimed at students at Harvard or MIT (where we have a
cross-registering agreem...
Parallels between Generative AI and Humanoid Robots
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Anyone who reads just about anything these days will know there are two big
things in AI at the moment. They are Generative AI and Humanoid Robots.
There i...
Re. software engineering: Seeing the wheel
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Many years ago, I heard Alan Kay talk about software that’s commonly used
as being “a broken wheel.” I had trouble understanding what he meant by
that, but...
Good News Ukraine.
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Sorting out the real situation in the Russo Ukrainian war
https://billkerr1947.github.io/ukraineWar/ “Artillery Conquers, Infantry
Occupies” and drones are...
Papert’s 8 Big Ideas (Lithuanian Translation)
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Translation by Marius Narvilas Aštuonios didžiosios konstrukcionizmo
idÄ—jos Dr Seymour Papert 1999 Pirmoji idÄ—ja – mokytis darant. Visada
išmokstama ger...
Marble Maze Modules
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Beyond the Marble: How Modular Mazes Build Skills and Spark Wonder Building
a marble maze is more than just a fun challenge—it’s a gateway to exploring
a w...
Lifespan extension: separating fact from fiction
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Thinking about longevity practically is a tricky affair. On the one hand,
we have very little definitive knowledge about how to prolong your healthy
years ...
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