Am I the only person to find Apple’s App Stores impossible to search usefully? There are times when […]
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English words do not inflect much; in fact you could claim that English is almost a non-inflectious language. […]
“Inventing Impressionism. Paul Durand-Ruel and the Modern Art Market” Edited by Sylvie Patrie; contributions by Anne Robbins, Christopher […]
Visit the Louvre or another gallery and you will see copyists, usually skilled artists making meticulous copies of […]
Make way for a replacement Turing Test: you can always distinguish between artificial intelligence and a real human […]
A compilation of cock-ups and other misadventures in and by Amazon, in my case, amazon.co.uk.
Why do those who make the law lack even the merest whiff of common sense?
The plein air painting season has at last got going here, with fine, warm, and very sunny weather. […]
There is something satisfyingly recursive about studying the contents of the first writing tablets on the latest of Apple’s tablets.
Are we confident that economists who fail to spot their computational cock-ups are a steady hand guiding the tiller of international fiscal policy?
The Eclectic Light Company 