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Wright Around The World
A Radio Era has ended with the passing of Steve Wright. But whilst I knew him from his BBC Radio 1 & Radio 2 programmes, I was personally most impressed with one of his lesser-known programmes. Lesser-known in the UK, maybe, but broadcast world-wide on BBC World Service Radio: Wright Around The World. During the
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Reputation: so easily dented
Illustration: Reputation Monster: Imagined by DALL-E Large organisations can be excellent at what they do, but then be let down by minor backwaters of their business. Maybe even parts which they outsource but which retain their branding, or even which they consume as a “white label” service/product which is then given their branding. But if
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Passwords
“To set, or not to set: that is the question:Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous password rules,Or to take arms against a sea of hackers,And by opposing, end them? To change, to forget—No more; and by a forget to say we endThe heartache, and the thousand natural shocksThe
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Jira Ticket Hell
Many of us will, at least some of the time and on certain contracts or projects, end up using Jira. As most will know (if they’re still reading), Jira is a ticketing system for issue & problem tracking, often used alongside Confluence, both of these from Atlassian. Recently I’ve been pondering various different Jira systems
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Exploring AI to replace workers who have questionable (or few) ethics
One of the areas unlikely, in my view, to ever be replaced by AI is that of coming up with brilliant ideas. It’s so difficult to define this process because inspiration often has no logical basis other than perhaps, in some cases, being “obvious” once expressed, but not obvious enough to have been expressed by
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Explosion of non-attributed AI-created “content”
I’ve recently been discussing with staff in academic institutions the problems around detection of AI created content being submitted as original work. This is a big problem for the future, but currently for academia – aside from issues of scale – not so huge currently. The detection of such content is currently not too difficult;
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