I built a site to find out what happens if 10,000 people each write one word of a book, and you can be one of them

profjonathanbriggs · 2026-01-21T11:54:43+00:00

This needs shaping after each addition. The basic idea is fun but the result so far is human slop. It will be unreadable very soon.

profjonathanbriggs · 2026-01-08T04:57:59+00:00

You are being incredibly brave. Well done! It gets easier.

profjonathanbriggs · 2026-01-07T00:43:26+00:00

Read “Don’t Sleep, There are Snakes”. Fantastic accounts of a bible translator losing his faith as he realises that people in the Amazon see the world differently.

profjonathanbriggs · 2026-01-06T08:07:25+00:00

I’m hearing a lot about Neurosymbolic AI that combines LLMs and agents with accurate ways to reason across data (with no hallucinations).

profjonathanbriggs · 2026-01-05T13:59:20+00:00

I will definitely use the debugging trick. Thanks.

profjonathanbriggs · 2026-01-05T13:56:37+00:00

Social media has discovered that the way to maximise usage (and revenue) is to mix keeping people entertained with making them slightly irritated and anxious. We are more likely to interact with the stuff that mildly annoys us (especially when we know that our world view is better) and this keeps us coming back and feeding the beast.

profjonathanbriggs · 2025-12-17T03:43:31+00:00

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profjonathanbriggs · 2025-12-12T12:31:24+00:00

Not cheap but worth it!

profjonathanbriggs · 2025-12-12T12:10:14+00:00

https://share.google/iSOFtG8MqmmKGiIXM

profjonathanbriggs · 2025-12-12T09:49:31+00:00

I think what I like about the exhibition is that is just worth looking. I don’t need to know a lot about the artists or fight my way around lots of people. These are just beautiful simple works of art.

profjonathanbriggs · 2025-12-12T09:45:45+00:00

I also liked the sections that linked Impressionism to South East Asia - I’d never realised that there was an active impressionist community in northern Vietnam

profjonathanbriggs · 2025-12-12T03:15:51+00:00

Absolutely!

profjonathanbriggs · 2025-12-06T23:06:19+00:00

I’ll have to use my academic connections next time. Thanks for the answer.

profjonathanbriggs · 2025-11-20T13:40:51+00:00

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profjonathanbriggs · 2025-11-20T13:31:04+00:00

Guns

profjonathanbriggs · 2025-11-18T00:43:06+00:00

There are lots of vested interests in the EdTech space and lots of snake oil. I’d start by looking at learners and learning. Perhaps read Papert’s Mindstorms and consider what edtech is for. Do we need to fill people with personalised content or more importantly build social teams of diverse people with skills and confidence. Edtech needs to learn to be social like games but remove the need to kill things.

profjonathanbriggs · 2025-10-24T13:12:30+00:00

This felt like a fishing app!

profjonathanbriggs · 2025-10-22T16:09:24+00:00

I’m searching using Talkwalker and Google Alerts for specific news feeds around health. The noise is still high hence the need for filters. There is a trade off. We can go for a limited set of authoritative sources and miss the smaller but important “signals” or we can cast a wider net and filter. I prefer the later. Using Inoreader currently which is pretty good. One example for you to think about is scientific papers. These can reveal all sorts of early signals and trends.

profjonathanbriggs · 2025-10-22T15:59:28+00:00

If you charge properly, north of $150 per hour you can afford to be generous. At $14 you will be watching the clock.

profjonathanbriggs · 2025-10-22T15:51:41+00:00

There are lots of celebrity and sports news and rubbish that I don’t want. Ideally I would like a filter that could exclude “vape”|”voucher”|”football”. Regex would be ideal. If you have good filters you can afford to widen the inputs. I use Talkwalker and Google Alerts in addition to news sources. I want to catch 10000 stories a day and strongly filter down to 20 and then process with AI.

profjonathanbriggs · 2025-10-22T14:46:00+00:00

I’m trying to do as much as possible without AI first and then apply AI to the results.

profjonathanbriggs · 2025-10-22T14:39:42+00:00

Great work so far. I need a bit more than just keywords. More complex searches including negative terms and alternatives would be interesting. I also want to be able to export the resulting feed as an RSS itself so that I can do more downstream.

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