Since first starting this blog just over a year ago, I’ve had a number of people tell me they saw my posts before applying to my PhD Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT), ART-AI. Fortunately, none of these people have told me that they applied for a PhD in spite of that fact. Like many PhD… Read More »
I’ve decided to finally hop on the bandwagon and give the sensationally popular Squid Game a watch. Having finished the series last night, I can appreciate where all the hype was coming from. As a fan of similar death game works in the past, such as the archetypical Battle Royale and the terribly schlocky anime… Read More »
It turns out running a blog while starting on a PhD isn’t the easiest thing in the world. Who could’ve predicted that? With exam season in the dust and term two starting, now seemed like the best time to give an update on how it’s been so far. I’ll try to keep this one shorter… Read More »
Given that headline, we can all go home as there is no longer a blog worth reading here, yes? But before you click away from here, just hear me out. Yes, I’ve been reading around what I believed to be artificial intelligence for a number of months now, in preparation for my PhD on the… Read More »
If you’ve read my About page, you’ll know that I’m a PhD student. Specifically, I’m a student on the University of Bath’s Accountable, Responsible, Transparent Artificial Intelligence Centre for Doctoral Training, or ART-AI for short. In other words, it’s a PhD program with a focus on making AI easier to understand and implement in a… Read More »
After being hit with an obnoxious cold when I returned from my trip to Poland, I spent the next few days getting into a Netflix series called Aggretsuko. The anime follows the life of a Japanese millennial, named Retsuko, trying to make it in the corporate world by day, and taking her frustrations out on… Read More »
Last night I was watching my favourite season of South Park, season 19. In the finale of the season, it’s revealed that advertisements have become sentient beings, walking among humans looking like any other 2D cut-out resident of the South Park world, with the intention to price humanity out of its own planet by gentrifying… Read More »
