Recent Comments
roycross on Tuesday, 28th January (Ri… syed_ahmad_dilshad on Tuesday, 28th January (Ri… Irene Lavington on Tuesday, 24th June (Cambr… roycross on Monday, 16th September (C… Christopher Graham on Monday, 16th September (C…
Category Archives: Uncategorized
Thursday, 28th May (Cambridge)
1. Ethan Mollick’s latest blog post, Choosing to Stay Human … …means choosing when and how to use AI, https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/choosing-to-stay-human If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look … Continue reading
Tuesday, 26th May (Cambridge)
Today has been very largely ‘guest edited’ by Maja Mandekić, most welcome after an exhausting weekend spent with inexhaustible little Mateo! 1. A piece by Shelley Galpin for The Conversation about one of my favourite novels, Jude the Obscure, Thomas … Continue reading
Thursday, 21st May (Cambridge) – revised version in order to circumvent LinkedIn’s ludicrous policy on intimate images
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
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Tuesday, 19th May (Cambridge)
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
Thursday, 14th May (Cambridge)
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
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Alveus Sanctuary, art, books, C L T, food, Ipsos Generations Report, technology, U K F I E T, Will AI make college obsolete?
Leave a comment
Tuesday, 12th May (Cambridge)
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
Thursday, 7th May (Cambridge)
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
Tuesday, 5th May (Cambridge)
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
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 50 Greatest Films, ablaut reduplication, Colm Tóibín, Comma rules, Michael Gubser, The New Yorker, U S A I D
Leave a comment
Roy Cross's Blog 