Chine McDonald discovers The Universal Turing Machine on BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day.
Richard Beard, award-winning author of The Day That Went Missing and Sad Little Men, thought he was writing his next book, a whole life memoir. In the event, he has written his way off the page and into …
My version of the Universal Turing Machine is only the beginning. The idea is that writers everywhere can use the thousand-words-a-year format to add their own memoir to an ever-growing chessboard, which will eventually become a neural network of memories …
Georges, Georges Perec, is that you?
No.
Come on, Georges, this is the first time I’ve summoned spirits from the dead. Would you consider giving me an interview?
No.
Georges, I have a Ouija board here on a small …
The first phase of the Universal Turing Machine is now available to read free online.
‘Utterly humane and utterly brilliant,’ Lily Dunn, author of Into Being; The Radical Craft of Memoir and its Power to Transform. ‘There are …
All the Right Moves
While people in the world of books, as in so many others, continue to suffer from the dull and ecologically unsound deployment of artificial intelligence, the writer Richard Beard has got on with doing something defiant.…
‘Utterly humane and utterly brilliant, outwitting computer technology by remaining one step ahead, always, in what can be read and in what order. There are many clever people out there, doing clever things, but it takes great skill to …
In the latest episode of Rathbones Inspired Minds, Daniel Norcross speaks to author Richard Beard. Richard is the winner of the 2018 Ackerley Prize for his memoir, The Day That Went Missing. As well as being a writer, Richard …