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Cautionary Approaches

January 24, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

One of my school teachers used to tell a cautionary tale about a pedestrian who was killed when caught on a road at the bottom of a hill. He’d stepped between the lights of two oncoming bicycles. We were twelve or thirteen years old and not everyone in the class understood the silly joke.

today … looks like I feel when my brain hurts … a permanent network of confusion illuminated by a temporary coat of conviction … or just winter snow …
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Filed Under: Anchoritism Tagged With: Covid-19, financial times, pandemic, photo, tim harford, vaccination

Memory + Creativity = Alchemy?

November 13, 2020 by Simon Robinson 2 Comments

I went out into the garden this morning with a scissors. I clipped some leaves off a winter cherry, an acer, a butterfly bush, a willow and a wisteria. It’s autumn and the chlorophyll has been breaking down for weeks. The greens have been shifting to the shorter spectral wavelengths of yellow, orange and red as their hosts conserve energy for the winter. And it’s this process of energy conservation that creates the splendid autumn scenes that rival the flowering of spring. I blotted and pressed the leaves dry and flat before making arrangements on the scanner bed.

Still Learning.
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Filed Under: Anchoritism Tagged With: booklink, digitalartist, financial times, getcreative, joshua foer, pandemic, photo, plants

Resentments

August 13, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I was educated amidst resentments. Equality was a threat to the more equal and in Ireland, the more equal folk had a code word for denigrating the less equal. The code word was and is ‘begrudgery’. I grew up scared that begrudgery would undo society while the more-equal missed the point entirely.

Begrudgery is all about identifying resentment. It is resentment but it is also a pejorative term for the alleged resentful. And I wonder if begrudgery could itself go pandemic to become the single biggest threat after Covid-19.

  • 2016 Bouncy Castle
  • 2013 three day old clasp
  • 2016 Third Birthday Cake
  • 2003 Harefield Swans
  • 2010 Inukchuk Tableau
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A selection of this day memories.
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Filed Under: Anchoritism Tagged With: alexander betts, brexit, financial times, inukchuk, pandemic, risk, smart, ted, tim harford, xenophobia

Networth$

April 26, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

A 2017 Dalkey Book Festival talk I attended has lingered in memory. It was ostensibly about America, Russia and the new Cold War. It awoke something else in me. I was, at that time, professionally engaged in seeking geosicence applications for algorithms and machines that could learn. What I sought was time. I saw (and see) algos and ML as labour saving devices like the clothes- and dish- washers that continue to liberate people from drudgery. Freedom from repetitive, mind numbing tasks, creates the opportunity to pursue more rewarding things. And I sought to help my colleagues find unseen correlations, derive new insights and put their time to more creative uses. There wasn’t an easy answer to be had.

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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir, ManRom2021 Tagged With: albert einstein, alec russell, algorithms, book festivals, dalkey book festival, david mcwilliams, davos, economics, financial times, hans rosling, irish times, jana bakunina, philanthropy, sandra navidi

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