databases – Ruth Stalker-Firth

April 18, 2025 Musings

The phenomena surrounding interactive computing systems (1)

Recently, I have had a couple of experiences both as a consultant and as a user which have really brought into focus the idea of that major phenomena. Phenomena means experience: The experiences we have when we are designing/ using software.

May 16, 2020 Musings

Artificial Intelligence: Ghosts, Robots, Data

December 26, 2019 Musings

Myth making in machine learning

If you torture the data enough, it will confess to anything. – Darrell Huff, How to Lie With Statistics (1954).

September 5, 2015 Musings

Simplexity and the Internet of Things

What is now proved was once only imagined– William Blake In the brilliant (alas, cancelled) Forever series, Episode 17: Social Engineering, Detective

July 14, 2011 Musings

Goodbye Kubrick, hello twenty ten

Today I updated WordPress. Wow! I have blogged in the past about how much I love WordPress, but where have