LLMs and Cryptic Crosswords
At the time of writing, one way to demonstrate the illusory nature of LLM intelligence is to get one to try and answer a cryptic crossword …
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Some Initial Thoughts About Civilization VII
Sid Meier’s Civilization VII is out today to much fanfare. After spending what top scientists are calling “far too long” …
Dithering Around
While off sick and under the weather I decided to play around with presenting the photos on this blog in a fashion more in keeping with the …
Push the right key
One of the absurd barriers to writing regularly is that my new post script is written to open the new markdown file in Neovim and until this …
The Lost Guide to CIV VI
I’ve written some guides about how to play as various leaders in Sid Meier’s Civilization VI, covering Hojo, Alexander, …
A Realisation
One of the best pieces of advice I have ever been given about how to tackle programming problems is to treat your code as comments that …
Fun With Chat-GPT
I asked:
On learning new tools
It strikes me that it is better to sit and think about what you need to do, rather than endless try out new tools and hoping you end up with …
A February Project
Hmmm it seems as though the ffi gem as installed by bundler is not compatible with a Mac that has an M1 chip. This limits my ability to …
Sprucing up the Blog
This post explains some of the modifications I made to a minimal Jekyll theme to get this blog as I wanted it. This blog (currently) uses …
Living in the Pi Hole
Ingrid bought me a raspberry pi for my birthday. I’ve set it up to run the Pi-hole software. Pi-hole is a nifty bit of kit that …
