Desiderium Sciendi

Immortality, Wikipedia and the Stories We Tell Ourselves

This was written to be read out loud so below is a recording of that.

Thinking about human-like AI avatars in government

GDS response to High Court sex and gender ruling

Coding with ChatGPT 4 : Absolutely unnecessary levels of detail

So, my latest home project has been very different from my usual attempts at creating software in two important ways. Firstly, I actually finished it and secondly it works!

My response to the Parliamentary Science and Tech Committee consultation on the new GDS

If you’re a subscriber and a real glutton for punishment you can read my excessively long response to this consultation below. I wish I had the time and energy to turn it into the…

Coding with ChatGPT 3 : Project failure (arguably not my fault)

So, this was a frustrating one. Sure, it really is my fault, even though I’d like to pretend it’s not. It’s another idea that’s been sitting in my list of potential coding projects for the better part of a decade. The…

What I’ve written in July and August

Once more following in Ben’s fine footsteps it’s time to do a quick round-up of what I’ve been writing recently. I started regularly blogging here again on Desiderium Sciendi (most pretentious blog name ever?) in March of this year after a gap of a couple of years…

Coding with ChatGPT 2 : XKCD for government

So, off the back of the success of my trivial but fun one day Android app build, I…

Losing weight with ChatGPT : His master’s voice