Tag: Politics
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Back to neural networks
Neural networks have fascinated me for a long time, though I’ve never had much luck applying them. Back in the early and mid 1990s the UK’s trade and industry department ran a public promotional programme to industry about NNs and I signed up, I even bought a book about how to build them in C++ […]
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Bitcoin is a political project, not a technological one
Bitcoin is getting more and more interest from mainstream media but the politics seem to be ignored and it is merely considered as a technological project. But politics are what this is all about. Here are a few reasons why Bitcoin should be seen as an exercise in politics and not technology: Monetarist dogma: A […]
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Smell you later (but I won’t vote for you)
There is a fascinating article in New Scientist this week on the science of disgust. Candidates in America have already been using paper impregnated with the smell of rotting garbage and covered in pictures of their opponents. Coming to Britain soon?
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Even for the Liberal Democrats this one takes the biscuit
I seem to keep saying “I don’t do politics here” and then writing about politics … so here I go again. The local Liberal Democrats (for US readers think ‘liberal republicans’) have just leafleted the street urging people to protest about (Labour-led) Haringey council‘s “wrong priorities” in spending £3.3 million on 4,500 computers. Apparently this […]
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