Poetry is no less a mystery than anything else on earth. One or two felicitous lines can hardly stir our vanity, since they are but gifts of Chance or of the Spirit; only the mistakes belong to us. I hope the reader will discover something worthy of his memory in these pages. In this world of ours beauty is quite common.| maya.land
The publication of the Independent Sentencing Review (ISR) marks a significant step forward in addressing the ongoing crisis of prison overcrowding. Commissioned in response to growing concerns about the sustainability of our prison estate, the review aims to ensure that we never again reach a point where the number of people in custody exceeds the […] The post Independent Sentencing Review report: will policy makers seize the moment to drive criminal justice system reform? appeared first o...| Catch22
Yesterday, The Times newspaper has released its Crime and Justice Commission report – an in-depth exploration of the future of policing, courts, sentencing, and prisons in the UK, accompanied by proposals for reform. Committed to building stronger communities and supporting people at every stage of the justice system, we are pleased to see that many […]| Catch22
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AI-generated stranger; I’m not so young/attractive| Do the Math
For many years now, I have made efforts to live differently—initially motivated by a sense of resource limits and the recognition that scaling back could have a dramatic effect if adopted widely. I was able to cut my domestic energy demand by a factor of four or five. I changed my habits of diet, travel, heating/cooling, laundry, showering, consumer activity, and much else.| Do the Math
I recently read Tomas Petricek’s Thinking the Unthinkable, where he argues that modern PLT makes several restrictive assumptions about the nature of programming. Our reliance on mathematics in CS is not fundamental and our obsession with formal logic and algorithms keeps us from seeing other possible paradigms. He proposes two other unthinkable paradigms that are unrelatable to modern mathematical programming. I disagree with his premises: I think there’s a very valid reason to ground asp...| Hillel Wayne
