The Whitwell Players production of Wind in the Willows on 19-21 September, 2025 was held in All Saints’ Church, St. Paul’s Walden Bury. The venue presented many challenges to the technical crew, including setting up lighting, sound, and stage equipment in a Norman stone building. Another challenge was to recreate the pastoral setting within a […]
Taking up the idea of protocols as engineered arguments, this talk explores the timeless algorithms that give poetry its power to evolve—from an ancient mnemonic device to a transformational way of being. Drawing on both theory and practice, in this one-hour exploration we will look at various examples of poetry’s rule-making and rule-breaking, and even
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“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.” — B.F. Skinner In order to understand our current relationship to AI and where it might be headed, we must try to wrap our heads around some very big numbers. In doing so, though, we have a lot to learn about ourselves and
In Kyotowhen I hear the cuckoo singI long for Kyoto -Bashō I still remember the mixed feelings I had reading my first computer-generated haiku. It wasn’t Bashō, but it spoke to me somehow. This felt like a triumph, because I had written the software that wrote the poem, but also a bit confrontational, because I
Perhaps it’s time to stop sheltering geeks and start fostering teammates and leaders in technology who can unlock our human potential
Toward a new metric — Key Health Indicators — to assess healthy teams
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