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When drafting technical standards, there are natural tensions concerning the audience, purpose and language used. On the one hand, 'technical' implies complexities and precision in the content, with details relating to science and engineering. This generally means writing for a competent and knowledgeable professional audience, providing specific details to guide and enable them to get to grips with the subject matter. A technical standard on, say, nuts and bolts would typi

From Nvidia's triumphant press release yesterday : “Blackwell sales are off the charts, and cloud GPUs are sold out,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Compute demand keeps accelerating and compounding across training and inference — each growing exponentially. We’ve entered the virtuous cycle of AI. The AI ecosystem is scaling fast — with more new foundation model makers, more AI startups, across more industries, and in more countries. AI is going everywhere, do

'Me' putting the plug in the sink I've been circling the plughole this morning, trying to figure out why 3 of the ISO27k standards detailed pages had different URL structures to the other 97. Specifically, the URLs for the pages on ISO/IEC 27000, 27001 and 27002 contained something like 'title- here'. Wix offers a function to define the 'URL slugs' for the pages constructed dynamically from the CMS content, using one or more fields from the CMS to generate the last part of t

That's Google Gemini's AI representation of 'me' supergluing a broken hyperlink back together. Having copied-and-pasted content from the old website into Wix, I discovered that Wix faithfully replicates any hyperlinks in the original, but doesn't routinely underline them ... which makes them essentially invisible unless/until we mouse over them on the live website, or unless our browsers automatically underline all hyperlinks for us. Mine doesn't. Furthermore, many of the