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Charles Miller

Charles Miller

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Apr 24, 2025

Whatever happened to Palewell Common Drive?

If you live in East Sheen and are familiar with Palewell Common — next to Richmond Park, near Roehampton Gate — you wouldn’t be surprised…

Whatever happened to Palewell Common Drive?

Charles Miller

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Feb 10, 2025

How to make an AI podcast about an academic subject

I’ve been trying Google’s Notebook LM to create podcast-like conversations from uploaded academic papers.

How to make an AI podcast about an academic subject

Charles Miller

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Nov 3, 2024

Why aren’t there more identical bags at the airport? I asked AI to explain.

Here’s a little experiment to compare AI services.

Why aren’t there more identical bags at the airport? I asked AI to explain.

Charles Miller

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Jun 9, 2023

‘Tell me what to do’: University staff grapple with AI policy

If there’s one thing academics don’t like, it’s looking out of touch. When it comes to AI, there’s an urgency to understanding what it can…

‘Tell me what to do’: University staff grapple with AI policy

Charles Miller

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Jun 6, 2023

AI: Another blow to human self-esteem?

For centuries, human beings have been learning that they are less and less important. Galileo insisted, to his cost, that the earth was in…

AI: Another blow to human self-esteem?

Charles Miller

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May 9, 2023

AI: Another blow to human self-esteem?

For centuries, human beings have been learning that they are less and less important. Galileo insisted, to his cost, that the earth was in…

AI: Another blow to human self-esteem?

Charles Miller

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Sep 27, 2022

How not to deal with foreign currency

I just got back from a week in Norway.

How not to deal with foreign currency

Charles Miller

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Dec 23, 2020

How to transfer notes and highlights from scanned books into a Word document or Excel spreadsheet…

The problem

How to transfer notes and highlights from scanned books into a Word document or Excel spreadsheet…

Charles Miller

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Apr 2, 2020

London has the plague again

The graph for deaths during the Great Plague of 1665 is instantly recognisable. In 2020, the numbers are larger and Coronavirus is hitting…

London has the plague again

Charles Miller

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Mar 10, 2020

How the dot com boom opened entrepreneurship to all

Exactly 20 years ago, the dot com boom was at its height. The high tech NASDAQ index hit a historic high point on March 10 2000. Then the…

How the dot com boom opened entrepreneurship to all

Charles Miller

Charles Miller

Writer and producer, CoinGeek. Former BBC documentary producer. PhD student in History, University of Roehampton @chblm

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