There has been so much written about AI this week that I am tempted not to add to the mountains of uninformed opinion already created. But as the deluge of tariffs recently imposed have yet to make any sense to me, and have yet to be reacted to by their targets, I think AI is […]

It drives me crazy. Having gradually weaned myself off Instagram (too distracting and disruptive), then Facebook (increasingly irrelevant and then Mark Zuckerberg’s recent statement ending fact checking and promoting free speech being the final push I needed to eject) I am now left with LinkedIn. What was a relatively sober ‘professional social platform’ is now […]

The tagline on the presentation was “Uncertainty Is Expensive” promoting a data driven machinery monitoring package. My gracious hosts were gently bemoaning – over two bottles of very good Ikarian red wine (2012 vintage since you ask) – the lack of take up from the shipping industry, particularly the Greek shipping industry, of such packages. […]

Was it really like this last time? That’s the thought that went through my mind as I saw the headlines seep into my daily life last week: Trump says this, Musk tweets that. Was it really that stupid back in 2017? Was it really that outrageous? Was it really that self-contradictory? I really don’t know. […]

English is a deceptively simple language, but sometimes the addition of words here and there – especially in British English I suspect – can change the meaning of a phrase completely. For example: “To be afraid”. It’s a fairly simple phrase, and we all know what it means. I am afraid, you are afraid, she […]