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• Have you visited the trials?

  I was having a chat with analysts that just had a project dumped on their lap. They were questioning previous…
  21 Jun, '24

• The AI House of Cards

  Many of the people pushing today for AI to be used in all organisations, particularly of the ChatGPT/LLM persuasion, were…
  20 Jun, '24

• Breeding: simple interfaces, complex strategies

  I found this text I wrote 20 years ago(*), part of a discussion document I prepared for a review of…
  14 Jun, '24

• Are PhDs a pyramid scheme?

  If you are a professor in academia you are supposed to form/train new PhDs. In the past, those new PhDs…
  6 Jun, '24

• Why is this trait I like getting worse in the breeding programme?

  The short answer: because the trait you like is not part of the breeding objective and, therefore, has not an…
  5 Jun, '24

• Last day of teaching

  …for this semester. I was really trying to keep my head above water, but gulp, glug, I kept on taking…
  31 May, '24

• Back of the envelope calculations: pulp mill

  Imagine that someone stops you on the street and asks “How many hectares of plantations do we need for a…
  12 May, '24

• Exposing rather than hiding complexity

  In the mid-1990s I was at Massey University in Palmerston North, centre of the known universe, where I was doing…
  9 May, '24

• Escogemos producir madera de baja calidad

  Tercera patita(*). La semana pasada participé en tres reuniones en el éter (online dirían algunos), discutiendo investigación en diferentes aspectos…
  28 Apr, '24

• A dollop of Spanish

  Most of my followers are English speakers (native speakers, second-language, third-language, nth-language speakers) so they could be confused by my…
  22 Apr, '24