calm, almost too calm

Following the cancellation of his Spectrum 10K project, Simon Baron-Cohen has a new research project for which the University of Cambridge has received $34.5m from the philanthropist Lisa Yang. I made a couple of freedom of information requests to the University of Cambridge to get its grant agreement, as again, it was not published. (See my page Shining some light on large controversial autism research projects for the grant agreements of Spectrum 10K and AIMS-2-Trials as well as some…

Today in Sindang-dong (during the walk “Hipdang-dong” – Exploring the history and gentrification of Sindang-dong organised by the Royal Asiatic Society Korea and led by Matt VanVolkenburg) I encountered two tomasons (or Thomassons): Last year I posted on the Fediverse about my discovery of the words Thomasson and tomason. Today’s encounters make it a good occasion to share here what I wrote earlier: Thanks to Valérie Gelézeau & Benjamin Joinau I discovered the term ‘Thomasson’ though I’ve been…

The content of this website, words, photographs, html, etc. was authored by a human, the human writing this very post. (One way to assert ‘your commitment to avoid AI-generated content’ is to follow the human.json protocol. I have done so. If you have the same commitment and we know each other, email me and I'll vouch for your site.) A month ago I gave a presentation on GenAI to a local group. Below are the notes I wrote to accompany that presentation. These highlights some concerns about…