Category: Rant

  • 25/08/2020
    Specialisation and the division of labour is as old as humanity, and of course it goes way back further when…
  • 25/07/2020
    The Cognitive load of everyday life I’m struggling. There is this continuous battle to counteract the exaggerations and misinformation that…
  • 26/03/2020
    A majority of people in Britain now in their seventies spent some of their childhood growing up in social housing…
  • 19/03/2020
    Statistical significance and clinical evidence Two letters in Lancet Oncology. This bloody story never ends. We have not invented truth…
  • 21/08/2017
    Awhile back the University of Edinburgh changed some of their guidance around passwords. In my 1Password app, I counted over…
  • 28/02/2017
    Nice paper by Erik Driessen, and much more nuanced that my quotes might suggest. Worth a read. But still a phrase that…
  • 10/08/2016
    A comment in Science A well-stated hypothesis describes a state of nature. It is either true or not true, not…
  • 29/01/2016
    From Alan Kay. If it comes from a Turing award winner, maybe people might take notice. Perhaps not.
  • 09/09/2015
    Everywhere I look I see stuff about how 'unreliable' much science might be. For instance see here, here and here. In truth most of this is…
  • 05/08/2015
    John Kay of all people is surely not getting things quite correct. He starts the article with a complaint about the Economics…