Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Rainy wondering about Del Shannon’s “Runaway” (1961)

A mother and son listen to “Stayin’ Alive” in a poem by Evan Leslie

Pattern matching without knowledge and truth in LLMs

Contexts and the supposed irrelevance of meaning in Shannon’s "Mathematical Theory of Communication"

The irrelevance of content from Shannon’s theory of communication to Page Rank and Large Language Models

Hay-fever season 2026