It's rained almost every evening in the Cotswolds this year. But tonight we had sun and beautiful skies. Huh.

Important result, worth a read👇

“Kötümserlikten kaçınma duygusal bir tepkidir; dengemizi ciddiyetle bozabilecek sonuçların ortayla çıkma ihtimalini kabul etmeyi kökleşmiş bir içgüdü ile redderiz.” Mustafa Süleyman ve Michael Bhaskar

Excellent fact

We re-framed the newly restored Battle of San Romano by Uccello last week. We replaced a 20th century gilded replica with a newly made 15th century style intarsia frame, made from walnut with boxwood inlay.

It's a small hill I will die on that the Booker Prize should never have been opened to American authors. Such an obvious and pathetic own-goal for British (and Commonwealth) writing.

me after reducing friend's wordcount by half

London could be affordable if councils allowed Islington style town houses, & Pimlico flats- or if govt created a permitted development for that. We could make London affordable: Labour are following the Tories in deciding not to. Big shame, especially for the young.

Suburban intensification in C19 Vienna, with mansion blocks replacing the older fabric still visible in the foreground. Maybe a 300% increase in density, and probably better sanitation and build quality. The modern form of most European cities is the result of this process.

What a project this was.

Hard agree with this. Britain needs to somehow create a cadre of MUCH better hardware jobs. Tech is preferable to finance where my entire generation of grads went, but still, there's so much more to be done here.

Can't stop thinking about Jack Clark's argument that if we stopped AI development right now there would still be years - decades maybe - of further improvements via capability overhang, applications and integrations, efficiencies and learnings. I agree.

Things like Project Naptime googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2024/06/projec… show us that today's AI systems are far more powerful than they appear - you just need to build domain-specific scaffolds

It's amazing and disappointing that already the government are pulling out of the exact measures that would support long term growth. Didn't think the doom loop would continue with this alacrity tbh.

Mike Moritz has some punchy questions for his fellow Silicon Valley titans who are backing Trump... ft.com/content/14f0a2… via @ft

“tell toranaga-sama this is just a temporary liquidity problem, not a solvency problem. our risk model didn’t account for this level of volatility but we are confident we can weather the storm” “the anjin was on the wrong side of the yen carry trade and is getting margin called”

Re-entering this world to say this is a big one from us at Microsoft AI: blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/10/0…

This next phase of Copilot marks the beginning of a fundamental shift in the way we connect with technology, as we give people a more natural, conversational, and personal AI companion.

So proud and delighted that Canelo is joining DK. This is an amazing outcome for the business. It's the fruits of ten years of hard graft, so many ups, downs, adventures and moments I'll never forget. Here's to the next chapter for Canelo! thebookseller.com/news/independe…

.Bill Gates has shared his holiday book recommendations for 2024. The philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder’s picks include Doris Kearns Goodwin’s AN UNFINISHED LOVE STORY, THE COMING WAVE by Mustafa Suleyman with @MichaelBhaskar, and others. ow.ly/s6Mm50Ukgju