Oh, absolutely. There’s a wonderful piece in the literature of computing somewhere by a mathematician who worked on the early computers about the realisation that they were going to spend a significa… (View Post)

I believe (but will have to dig up some references to be sure) that the legal principle of computer infallibility came about during the early days of computing, when it was suggested in court that al… (View Post)

Didn’t those turn out to be in the possession of volunteer Westminster safety officers who go out at night handing them out to vulnerable women? (searches) Seems so: https://metro.co.uk/2023/05/07/wo… (View Post)

Actually, you know what /really/ ticks me off about this? It’s that we are crying out for commercial lab space in the research triangle & it seems to be impossible to get planning permission to b… (View Post)

Battery manufacture is going to be a race to the bottom, largest, most well capitalised entity takes all market. It’s never going to employ all that many people or transform the UK economy. This is l… (View Post)