Gavin Clarke

Bringing technology and industrial heritage to a wider audience through interpretation and content strategy. I write the odd book, too.

[Gavin Clarke @BlendedPast]

With THAT date on the doorstep once again, one for you @Longshanks1307 https://t.co/OVQ3o8k27z

[Gavin Clarke @BlendedPast]

Keep up the good work @nationaltrust https://t.co/YVc3z9tOey

[Gavin Clarke @BlendedPast]

@PulpLibrarian 😂

[TNMOC @tnmoc]

Here one of our #Volunteers is refreshing the hand drawn labels on #Colossus 🎚️ Some of our rebuilt wartime #Exhibits have now been running for longer than the originals!

In order to continue our #Conservation work, we need your help. Please donate!

👉 https://t.co/cI0iCkKgYo

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@mrsvnorthwood @britishmuseum It saddens me to agree. Had a similar experience. Came dangerously close to putting my teen off of museums for life.

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Prepare your eyes: this is what the internet looked like in in 1995, based on some of those who would come to know (and do) better. https://t.co/hHjZBERz7w

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Well late, I know, but I like this take on D-Day. https://t.co/it9gTGuFdz via @ConversationUK

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Retro vibes on the South Western from Waterloo tonight.

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Have come across this and I can't quite believe it but of course it makes sense: Official Airline Guide - your handy reference to schedules, fares and other vital information. Plus ads.

Way before the internet and dynamic pricing - never mind the app in your pocket!

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"Fundamentally, humans respond to other humans": Interview with Lauren Johnson https://t.co/K2Sa6Utrb6

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@brian_bilston Thanks both for a fantastic evening! My 14 year-old was in guffaws and loved the grammar nerdery. Apparently, her English teacher has read Refugees out to her class!

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I note when we opened Flowers to Fibre @TNMOC, one attending parent remarked how - to her very young daughter holding one of the working, wired desk phones on display - all phones were portable and fitted in your pocket: https://t.co/C9CbZVbhxa

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His company gave us the first commercially successful portable computer. If by portable you meant weighing shy of 11kg, 65Kb memory and running two apps but - yeah - it fitted under an airline seat so that was something. You can see an Osborne 1 @TNMOC. https://t.co/m6LX6Yr0bQ

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Millennials "horrified" that iPods can now be considered "vintage". Comes to us all. Just faster now, thanks to tech cycles. https://t.co/nhHwRGkrZq

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@VictorianLondon Somewhat creepy, too. A super polished, dream-state-like finish. And, glitchy: peek closer at the images @VictorianLodon posted and you'll see some rather surreal holes: malformed figures & objects missing - the result of incomplete data or inadequate processing power.

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Generative AI is trained on exiting data - that's how it learns. By understanding what's been, Gen AI can - theory says - anticipate an event & respond. Fine in business for customer service, security or running processes. How's it enhancing to our understanding of the past....

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@VictorianLondon has founds some interesting examples of Gen AI depicting Victorian Britian: ehttps://twitter.com/victorianlondon/status/1763528992152240280?s=51&t=jRbXIL-pfyf4iEXUpecRTA.

Cliched and chocolate boxy and - apparently - copies of known works.

I would add...

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@armyflying @plane_richie Possibly my favourite helicopter.

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Concorde’s got a great women-In-IT story: world’s first all woman tech firm (founded by the inspiring Dame Stephanie Shirley) built the plane’s black-box flight recorder

[BBC Archive @BBCArchive]

#OnThisDay 1969: Concorde took to the skies. The Anglo-French plane took off from Toulouse on a test flight piloted by André Turcat.

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@EPICMuseumCHQ Scrutinise and challenge the outcomes of any Generative AI you use.

Work with makers of the Generative AI to improve their machine models – and get it right.

Repeat.

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OK: so, Google's Gemini AI got flamed for generating "woke" images of WWII German soldiers. Ticks the headline boxes, Google apologies, mistakes made etc, etc...

Less fodder friendly for the culture war and of greater concern to those in heritage should be this Generative AI...

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@EPICMuseumCHQ Generative AI is new, exciting, it’s got potential. People are looking at ways to introduce it into the interpretative experience. There’s three take aways from this whole experience...