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Dr Polding holds a PhD and MSc in Information Systems from The University of Sheffield. Specializes in user experience design and development methodologies for creating online applications and online marketing strategies. Research interests focus on Customer Centricity, developing quantitative models for analyzing organizations and understanding what makes companies truly Customer Centric. This has resulted in many recent publications in peer-review conferences and journals.

Previous research interests include e-commerce, web applications, mobile apps, RFID, and big data technologies. Past employment includes working as a CTO and company founder of Linotek, a company that created location aware digital tour guides for museums. He has also worked as a project manager, senior developer, network design manager, and in educational administration as a deputy head teacher at a Madrid school. Companies worked at include British Telecom, Indra, Greenpeace and as a contractor for the Spanish Army.

Currently, a lecturer in software design and development, digital anthropology, database design, information systems modeling, project management, data science and big data analysis.

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if you mainly play Switch 1 games, it's not worth the upgrade. I've got both and Switch 1 games are not dramatically better. The screen is certainly not as good as the Switch OLED, so if you have that and aren't interested in Switch 2 games you've made a good choice!

In my country 95% of people don't mind Meta tracking their location with WhatsApp, so I think the days of people caring about tracking are long gone!

I am the exception and believe in privacy, and I've not used a Meta app since I tested Facebook/WhatsApp back in 2010 and soon uninstalled them as I don't want a digital portfolio to be developed on me for advertisers. Same with Google, they can whistle for my personal information, but they won't get it!

I'm sure surveillance companies have an even easier time buying data from Meta/WhatsApp so that's even more worrying as people use different ISPs so 95% of people won't be traced by any one ISP, but Meta and Google have the location information of anyone gullible enough to use their services.

This brought back some memories. So nice to see art from an era where you really needed talent to be able to produce it. Such a nice contrast to the AI slop which takes no talent to produce!

AI is different 11 months ago

GenAI is a bubble, but that’s not the same as the broader field of AI, which is completely different. We will probably not even be using chat bots in a few years, better interfaces will be developed with real intelligence, not just predictive statistics.

It’s a good thing that most people don’t buy Macs for gaming, as they suck compared to any other platform. Anyone who expects a good experience is fooling themselves as they won’t get it! If you want to experience games as the developer intends, don’t play ports that use compatibility layers, just buy a console and play natively!

Maybe the industry will realize that most vegetarians and vegans find anything like meat revolting. They much prefer vegetarian meals that are not ultra-processed and still resemble the vegetable used to make them.

Personally, the taste and look of beyond meat make me urge and feel like vomiting. It looks and tastes too much like a dead animal. I never miss the taste of meat, in fact, I hate the idea of eating anything that used to be alive.