The Fortnightly from Julian Girdham

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English teaching, AI and the thermostatic principle

English teaching, AI and the thermostatic principle

A one-off issue between Fortnightlies 172 and 173: the latter will be along this time next week, followed by an Occasional for paid subscribers in two weeks.

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Nobody knows anything, as the screenwriter William Goldman famously said about Hollywood and films:

Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what’s going to work. Every time out it’s a guess—and, if you’re lucky, an educated one.

Alan Jacobs refers to ‘the seductions of prediction’, and these seductions have been very much o…

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