On the ethical use of LLMs
The ethics of LLM use can be reduced to “don’t use it and not expect to get found out”
What’s in a pronoun?
While on holiday last year, a travel companion asked a question at dinner about kids these days and pronouns, that I wish I’d answered better. This is that answer. — Why do you wear clothes? Why do you wear those clothes? Is is out of habit? Have you ever wondered why you behave the wayContinue reading What’s in a pronoun?
In which Randolph almost dies by misadventure with a microwave
In August 2025 I did a live performance for the Calgary Fringe Festival, and told this story on stage. It has been said that I am the luckiest person I know, not least because I keep avoiding death by misadventure. At times I feel like Devon Sawa in Final Destination. One evening in November 2017,Continue reading In which Randolph almost dies by misadventure with a microwave
Finally, some sense! Too much water will kill you.
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Excuse me sir, are you carrying illegal isotopes?
"Vehicle goes by at 70 miles per hour," Giuliano told the crowd. "Agent is in the median, a good 80 feet away from the traffic. Signal went off and identified an isotope [in the passing car]."
The structure of the atom
For the sake of advancing research into the structure of the atom, I hereby present a theory. For the sake of copyright, I do not claim any ownership of the information that follows. I want this information to be public.
Why science fact is cooler than science fiction
"Because they so rarely interact with matter we can shoot them straight through the Earth, and most will travel through without doing anything. Of course, most of them travel right through our detectors as well, but once in a blue moon one of them will interact – about one or so per day." – Dr Lisa Falk Harris, a particle physicist at the University of Sussex, on the nature of neutrinos.