I had a very pleasant experience last week while I was reading through the RSS feeds I’m subscribed to. I came across two blog posts that were responding to blog posts of my own. Robin Sloan wrote a post clarifying his position after I linked to him in my post about the slipperiness of the term “AI”. Then Jim Nielsen wrote a deliciously satirical piece in response to my pithy little parable about research. I love it when this happens! Elizabeth Spiers recently wrote a piece called What ...| Adactio: Journal
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 […]| 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
