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(Posting might be skewed this week, I am up an Alp with questionable signal. The fact that I am making excuses for reduced productivity is a harmony of form and content, read on). This is something I think might need to be considered if the UK is really moving in the direction of “Andynomics” – that sometimes what you need to promote regional growth is not investment from the centre at all,…
Read on Substack → Jul 3, 2026Something came to mind while reading this excellent essay by Tom Rachman, passed on by Conor Griffin . It’s not directly relevant to Tom’s specific subject, the role of human writing in the age of AI, but I think it’s in an area that sort of rhymes, and which is very important to me because it’s relevant to the subject of my next book, the one I guess I’m writing now, with short breaks to…
Read on Substack → Jul 1, 2026I’m writing this because I am going to need to refer back to it on Friday - I think that potentially this cute story from 2017 might be quite important for understanding what’s going on with the extremely impressive results that LLMs are getting in cutting edge mathematical research. Basically, Thomas Royen was a retired statistician who had worked in the pharmaceutical industry. While…
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