I thought that over the next few weeks I might feature some of the songs which I was particularly fond of when I was a kid. I dare say my taste in music as a kid didn’t align with any of my peers, and in fact I have been told many times that I was born middle-aged and there’s probably a grain of truth to that.
As a kid I went through a phase where I wanted to grow up to be a bus. Not a bus driver, but a bus. I would run around the school playground being the bus on the 333 intertown route through Canberra with specific parts of the playground acting as various stops along the way. So with that in mind, it’s probably not surprising that I was fond of Red Simpson’s song “I’m a truck” which tells a story from the truck’s point of view rather than the driver’s point of view.
I was in Temora earlier this week and as often happens when I have some time away, I had some time to do some thinking. This particular topic is one I’ve been thinking about for a while, but I had some time to really pull my thoughts together while I was away.
In today’s video I discuss how my thought process has shifted from “AI sceptic” to “AI pragmatist” and how a book called AI Betting Edge helped to reframe the way I think about AI’s role in betting. I also give some thoughts on how I now approach the use of AI in betting and how I thinks approaching it with the right mindset can make it a useful and powerful tool for every bettor.
Today I’m taking you in my time machine back to 2003 for a look at a project I worked on in high school: a video mini-documentary about the photo finish camera.
The project was supposed to be a speech to the class about something electronic, explaining some of the history of the thing, how it works, and how it’s useful. As the spring racing carnival was well underway at the time, I thought the photo finish camera was a timely electronic object to focus on, and got the class teacher’s approval to put together a video presentation instead of a direct speech to the class, with the teacher’s stipulation that I must appear on camera during the video.
I have actually shared the mini-documentary itself previously, way back in 2007, but now with the benefit of much more hindsight I have the opportunity to not only share the video and some stories of its production, but reflect on how I might have done it differently if I could do it today, and also take a moment or two to correct a few factual errors in the video, which also have their own interesting backstories.
I’m sure just about everyone reading this blog today hasn’t seen the mini-documentary before, so I hope you enjoy it. Those of you who have seen it previously: I hope you enjoy the expanded information and reflection on it.