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A stroll through the brambles of law, management, philosophy, language, technology, cricket, high finance and the verisimilitude of Toto's 1981 smash “Africa”.
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- Sep 18, 2026
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Autumn update (opens the original)
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Little arrows (opens the original)
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“It’s a situation where you have not got any really concrete evidence: one piece, like a CCTV camera footage or a witness, etc, all you’ve got is an accumulation of basically very low-level evidence — coincidences, etc — but when you actually accumulate a large number of these [using] something called a Bayesian analysis, it’s actually more statistically sound to have 100 little arrows pointing towards Lucy and none pointing away from her, and I think that’s how justice was actually reached.”—Cr
Shithousery, OODA loops and the craziest guy in the room (opens the original)
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Shithousery/ˈʃɪthaʊsəri/ (n.)Poor, but not unambiguously illegal, behaviour, especially in competitive sports. Disruptive or underhand tactics intended to gain an unfair advantage.Aboyne/əˈbɔɪn/ (v.)To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are
Voice recognition, local and distant networks (opens the original)
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We have hit the crazy summer season where JC will be bouncing around a bit more randomly than normal, and newsletters might become somewhat intermittent. Rest assured, much is going on behind the scenes at the Jolly Contrarian. Including the rollout of a new consulting arm!This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="email-input" name="email" tabindex="-1" ty
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