Babbage Society

The Babbage Society is for "the intellectually curious" - this evening's discussion was led by Mr Simon Balderson, who asked us to consider The Singularity - the point at which machine intelligence overtakes humans. We looked at the way in which the best machines (Deep Blue) can beat the best humans (Gary Kasparov) at chess - but not yet at Go.

Beating Retreat

Many thanks to the REME staff band who performed the ceremony of beating retreat this evening.

Sailing season

Great winds on the Thames today. This is why we joined the RN section.

6th form - a break

Conversation at break veers between 2nd order differential equations, the structure of a zygote, and the influence of hellenistic thought on existentialism.

Or so I'd like to think.

Sailing season

This is a quiet blog - we enjoy doing CCF things too much. The sailing season started today - when we also received a glowing report from our Bienniel inspection, so we were all smiling.