I'm on the rooftop in Barcelona in a t shirt and still hot. Might stay for the winter then.

I can't immediately tell if this issue is related to the fact that irreversibility is fuandamental to any measurement of a quantum system. I'll ask Mark (who I see here "splits his time between Abergavenny, UK, and Notre Dame de Courson, France", which is rather enviably wonderful).

MISSED. Fred is right.

It looks gorgeous Henry - congratulations!

I have written something on this, hopefully online next week. "Blueprint of a dictator" is, needless to say, a pretty terrible title.

That's how it should be - "compute" = verb, "computing" = noun. Tech bros don't bother about such grammatical distinctions.

Exactly - to the extent that, if you're old like me, it's weird to imagine otherwise. But then I still think of coding as programming.

Actually no, but perhaps that's because I learnt computing in 1972.

Always. I dread opening any of my books for the first time.

Oh I know. Still not sure why though.

Exactly so.

If there is life in Venusian clouds, its biochemistry will be nothing like Earth's.