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Artificial Intelligence History, Toby Walsh, 2025

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Featured Image: An artificial intelligence ChatGPT created, Ghibli Studio styled representation, of an old bushwalking photo taken at Square Rock ACT. The request took seconds.   Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 22 September 2025 This is article two in a series on AI. The first article in the series is  1 Artificial Intelligence Explained. Toby Walsh The Shortest History of …

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Norfolk Island Postcard

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 Featured Image: Vista to Bird Rock from Captain Cook Monument   Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 27 July 2025 My postcard series is idiosyncratic. The postcards are short descriptions of travel and places, but there is no theme or rhyme or reason. They are short snippets about things that you might not have heard about or experienced otherwise. The series …

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Chinese Ceramics Treasures

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Featured Image: Detail from Vase with wucai polychrome decoration of one hundred deer motif, Wanlai reign, Ming dynasty 1573-1620.   Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony,  1 October 2024 My first visit to Taiwan was permeated with ignorance, which stimulated me to write articles because Taiwan fascinated me in unusual ways. The first article First Visit to Taiwan summarised what I …

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What is History 9: Jared Diamond Guns, Germs & Steel Overview

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   Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony,  2 December 2018 What is History 9: Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond, 1997: Overview & Critique My what is history series somewhat naively perhaps looks at history from the broad perspective of what processes an intelligent naked ape might go through to develop civilisation. From that perspective the study of human history …

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What is History 5: EH Carr Historians & their facts

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   Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony,  1 January 2017 My what is history series somewhat naively perhaps looks at history from the broad perspective of what processes an intelligent naked ape might go through to develop civilisation. From that perspective the study of human history should also consider the external forces, including geography, environment, disease and natural disasters that have …