For years, I thought it was completely normal to know where every band came from. Radio DJs had a lot to do with it. Instead of repeating the name of a band, they would often use antonomasia and refer to “the Liverpool quartet”, “the boys from Manchester”. Music magazines and reviews did the same. I… Continue reading Which British music city punches furthest above its weight?
Chtonian Nature
I was listening to a podcast when, in a brief comment about the tension between the sacred and the profane, one of the hosts dropped this quote: “The daemonism of chthonian nature is the West’s dirty secret.” Powerfully succinct, beautiful sentence. That’s by the (very) controversial Camille Paglia in her book Sexual Personae. In the… Continue reading Chtonian Nature
Minimum Viable Model
A lot of the discussion around AI model routing starts from a common idea: don’t use the most powerful model if a cheaper one can do the job. Microsoft Research has explored this multiple times. In Hybrid LLM, BEST-Route, One Head, Many Models and, more recently in 2026, Switchcraft, the objective is broadly the same:… Continue reading Minimum Viable Model
Moore Computer
Westminster is one of the iconic fonts of the computer revolution. Probably its most famous use (apart from checks) is the Invisible Man video from Queen: … although arguably, that would be after its shelf life had expired. For me it was the Lode Runner (1983) font, which is burned in my retina. But Westminster… Continue reading Moore Computer
Classification, visualized
The other day, I was tinkering with model parameters and second-guessing myself. I wondered, wouldn’t it be cool if i could compare side by side the results of different models? Yeah, it would. I ended up building a small interactive explainer for seeing how different classification and clustering approaches behave on the same two-dimensional data.… Continue reading Classification, visualized