Monthly Archives: May 2026

Thursday, 21st May (Cambridge) – revised version in order to circumvent LinkedIn’s ludicrous policy on intimate images

Posted on May 21, 2026 by roycross

1. You get two stories for free from the MIT Technology Review. Here’s one, which is a bit of a mind-boggler, We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/ The emissions from individual … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 21st May (Cambridge)

Posted on May 21, 2026 by roycross

1. You get two stories for free from the MIT Technology Review. Here’s one, which is a bit of a mind-boggler, We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/ The emissions from individual … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 19th May (Cambridge)

Posted on May 19, 2026 by roycross

Blog version: https://roycross.blog/ 1. Here’s one I put aside a while back and lost sight of, a piece in University World News, Huge progress on widening HE access globally since 2000, which looks in some detail at higher education in … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 14th May (Cambridge)

Posted on May 14, 2026 by roycross

1. Here’s a good ‘long read’ for the weekend from our correspondent in Ecuador, the first piece in a series for The New Yorker by Jay Caspian Kang, Will A.I. Make College Obsolete? https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/will-ai-make-college-obsolete A few weeks ago, while I … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 12th May (Cambridge)

Posted on May 12, 2026 by roycross

1. Radio 4’s Book of the Week this week is Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002w5pm Katja Hoyer’s ‘Weimar – On the Edge of Catastrophe’ – is informed by the meticulous diary of Carl Weirach … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 7th May (Cambridge)

Posted on May 7, 2026 by roycross

1. Here’s Michael Feldstein’s latest post on his eLiterate blog, Claude Interviews Me About How AI Works https://eliterate.us/claude-interviews-me-about-how-ai-works/ It’s a long read for the weekend, I suggest. Feldstein’s Claude has learnt (from Feldstein) to be very articulate. I’m returning (says … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 5th May (Cambridge)

Posted on May 5, 2026 by roycross

1. It only took me ten years to discover this one from 2016 by Mark Forsyth for BBC Culture, The language rules we know – but don’t know we know https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20160908-the-language-rules-we-know-but-dont-know-we-know You are utterly familiar with the rule of ablaut … Continue reading →

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