This is genius: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7481715.stm Anyone whose tried to write rules-based systems for artificial intelligence will understand the problem here - too many rules leading to an inability to see the wood for the trees. Can't help thinking, though, that the ... [More]

Anybody who follows world news will no doubt have heard today that Robert Mugabe's only opposition in the presidential run-off in Zimbabwe next week has pulled out because of the relentless intimidation and, in probably many more cases that we have actually been told of (given the news black-o... [More]

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There are lots of things I could (and should) write about on this blog that could help other people.  And of all the things I thought my first series would be about, I never thought it would be about nuisance neighbours. Over the course of the next two or three posts, I shall introduce y... [More]