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A fun post for my 34th birthday. Inspired by aiweirdness.com , I trained a text-generating neural network, textgenrnn , on a dataset of mea...

The tl;dr version of this post is: If you want to vote Lib Dem, do that. If you want to vote Green, do that. If you want to vote Change ...

European Council president Donald Tusk has been getting a lot of stick from Brexiteers recently for this comment: I've been wondering...

"Spring"? Well, these varieties were on the shelves on 1st February, so I guess so. The snow outside must just be an illusion. W...

My main resolution for 2018 was to read more books, as this is something that had lapsed a bit in previous years. And I certainly kept to th...

Again with the recycling of varieties. Two of this year's three are exactly the same as last year's Winter-Kreationen (see this post...

Back in early 2017 I asked a group of estimable colleagues (aka my Facebook friends) to give me their opinions on which of the many, many H...

The selection of Ritter Sport this summer is pretty uninspired, though it's not that they taste bad. Two of the three have been sampled ...

I've been taking a MOOC in Medieval Icelandic Sagas, and one of the final assessments involved creating your own saga introduction. I th...

Sampling these was extremely challenging, as I am currently on a diet that allows strictly no chocolate. I hope you all appreciate how I...

Rejoice, for winter is upon us! Or, at least, Ritter Sport's Winter-Kreationen are upon us, and it didn't take me long to get hold o...

One thing that you often hear when at Cambridge, usually said by people not at Cambridge, is that you're going to university with people...

A quick and easy Ritter rating: Vollmilch Laktosefrei: 9/10 The reason this one is easy is that it literally tastes exactly the same as it...

I'll be voting for the Pirate Party in the upcoming general election. Here's why. Lack of digital literacy among the major parti...

Three new varieties for me to try! That means little that's new until the autumn... but I've already noticed some that have sneaked ...

Now that I'm back in Germany for good, it's time to get serious about Ritter Sport. The last time I summarized my 'findings'...

I ate some more chocolate - summer varieties 2016 this time. Here is the outcome. Buttermilch Zitrone: 6/10 This one's certainly fla...

On the way to China I had to change at either Amsterdam or Frankfurt. I chose Frankfurt for the Ritter Sport Winter-Kreationen. Vanilla Ch...

Some new flavours thanks to an invited talk in Frankfurt. Strawberry & Mint: 7.5/10 This one presents a pleasantly stratified experie...

I've been blogging elsewhere. Here are some links: The case for Open Access (PPUK, March 2013) Linguistic necromancy: a guide for ...