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Dictated to Arcturus In a few hours this country will have voted for a new government. At least it thinks it will be a new government but in fact the government of the country is unrelated to the former democratic … Continue reading →

Typed to Arcturus There’s an out-of-the ordinary candidate – Old Holborn – standing in Cambridge in the general election, whose face has never been seen. He always wears a mask and no-one knows who he is. It’s legal. Here’s his? … Continue reading →

Dictated to Arcturus Two amusements for chemists We are now at the stage where we can read the full text of a chemical experiment and extract much of the meaning out of it using natural language processing and other techniques. … Continue reading →

Typed into Arcturus Open Access week has been declared: http://openaccessweek.ning.com/ Every can and everyone should. Open Access is spreading inexorably. It’s taken about 15 years at least. Let’s get Open Data accepted as well and in a shorter time J

Typed and scraped into Arcturus In reporting http://election.theyworkforyou.com/quiz/ I’ve confused Democracy Club http://www.democracyclub.org.uk/welcome and MySociety. I arrived at the quiz from links from MySociety (I think) and both organizations are listed as contributing. The formal position is: “This [the quiz] … Continue reading →

Dictated to my machine Arcturus I get too many spams already on this blog perhaps 20 to 50 per day that get past Akismet (without which I would be swamped) and I delete them before reading. However one that caught … Continue reading →

Dictated to my machine Arcturus When I spoke at the ACS symposium in March in San Francisco I was delighted that Cameron Neylon was there because he was able to record my presentation. He has now put it online at … Continue reading →

Dictated to my computer (please report speakos! – the equivalent of typos) I was hoping to get some coding done but I have just discovered another brilliant site from the usual suspects at mysociety.org. It’s called the straight choice and … Continue reading →

I have been concerned with how to vote in the upcoming UK general election. I want this to be a responsible vote and it may have to be a balance between national parties and local issues. Currently I have no … Continue reading →

This document is being dictated to Arcturus. I have just dictated about half an hour’s work (with some struggle and the need to teach the machine new words) when some command was interpreted as “destroy all work up to now … Continue reading →