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Richard Sharp: a model man of power

February 17, 2023 7 Comments
Richard Sharp: a model man of power

There’s been a lot of talk lately about advances in AI (artificial intelligence) and ML (machine learning), based on the storing and analysis of vast reservoirs of online words (the so-called ‘large language model’).  The publication of ChatGPT, which can respond in a conversational and explanatory way to natural language queries, has set teeth on […]

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Dido Harding: a failed state in microcosm

May 30, 2020 78 Comments
Dido Harding: a failed state in microcosm

I thought I recognised the name Dido Harding, when her name popped up on the news recently.  After all, Dido isn’t the commonest of names.  There’s Dido, the excellent singer, and Dido Twite, the heroine of Black hearts in Battersea and other stories by Joan Aiken.  And, of course, the original, wonderful and tragic Dido, […]

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