Nicola King

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Lovely day for it. Have a super lunch.

Yup, non-fiction books need an index.

Also super evidence that they didn't have zips in those day. All those tassles!

An interesting project which mostly aimed to find nothing! Great insight into the whole process of getting that visitor centre built.

Readers know that an index makes a book. A good index makes a better book.

The human side of AI: Delivery robots in Milton Keynes - Making Science Public This post has been written in collaboration with Alan Miguel Valdez, Lecturer in Technology and Innovation Management, The Open University, Milton Keynes *** At the beginning of November 2023, an international AI Safety Summit took place at Bletchley Park, the iconic location of World War II code breaking feats. What has perhaps not been stressed ...

Had them in Milton Keynes since well before Covid, still some about. Bizarrely couldn't see green cars at one point, maybe that's been sorted. A summary from a little while back here. blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingscienc...

Al- names need to be sorted under Khelaifi and Thani not Al-. See this helpful paper www.hedden-information.com/wp-content/u...

Also the pattern on Ravelry showed variegated yarn as the main colour so I chose it on the basis of that.

I saw the yarn at a summer yarn festival near me. Dangerous places. It went much further than the yardage suggested so I also have a nice hat and double sided scarf thing.

Thank you. All credit to the designer. If I did it again I'd take note of how to do the complicated thing with the long floats to catch them neatly, I have caught a few and dragged them. I am wearing it now, and it has washed well.

I'd rather eat broken glass than index another book... It's well worth the thousand bucks or so. #academicchatter

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Holbein: Renaissance Master by Elizabeth Goldring review – a magnificent portrait of the artist The first scholarly biography in more than 100 years of the man who immortalised the Tudor court does not disappoint

That's my holiday reading sorted. Just got to get to the end of all the things before Christmas. Possibly 4 books to finish indexing. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Thank you, credit goes to the designer

Dark teal with grey pattern jumper, pattern of arches and circles

#Showmeyourknits - Dark Academia by Sharon Hartley using Creative Anarchy Yarn Comfort in two shades. From two years ago. Both indi design and yarn

Me too. I wanted those shoes.

Squirrels in the churchyard here romping about. It rained all day yesterday so I guess they are a bit hungry today. Loads of them.

Our US colleagues are keeping an eye on that and would probably agree - indexing asindexing.org/ai-news/stat...

Hard to imagine anything an LLM would make more of an unholy mess of than a book index

That's often how people slip over that fence into the indexing world. It's different but similar, or so I am told.

Brimham Rocks?

AI doesn't do indexes, like a lot of things, it guesses what you might want to see. asindexing.org/ai-news/stat... Some humans are keeping an eye on the situation on both sides of the Atlantic.

Not every author-created index is dreadful, but the dreadful ones stink to high heaven.

One of @benaaronovitch.bsky.social talking ones?

A page full of pointing finger index stamps. Some labeled: Read Carefully; Notice: Special Attention To This, Returned to Writer; etc. Copy: Matthews of Pittsburgh THE HANDY INDEX STAMPS They help to get your message quickly read and help to make quick action. Furnished plain or with any lettering in the centre, similar to those illustrated.

A page of index stamps
From: “Matthews' Book of Marking Devices and Metal Signs”
Jas. H. Matthews & Co., Pittsburgh
1914

Image: TheHoard Collection via @archive.org; archive.org/details/matt...

I hope Douglas Adams is snorting with laughter at the current state of things.

St Leonards church, Hastings

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We couldn't do the work we do without our excellent freelance indexers. So much invisible labor goes into the creation of a great index. Book authors: today is a great day to show your indexer some love and appreciation!