Shane Richmond

London

Writer at Freelance

Freelance writer. Former Tech Editor. NFL tweets: @Pigskin_Books and @UKRavens (Tweets delete weekly-ish)

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Articles

What the Ravens' UK Expansion Means to This Brit

2 weeks ago | baltimoreravens.com | Shane Richmond
How to avoid the pitfalls when using AI to recruit new employees

Jun 20, 2024 | thetimes.com | Shane Richmond

It’s hard to avoid predictions about the impact of artificial intelligence on every area of business, but recruitment is an area that it is reshaping already. Almost two thirds of employers are using AI in some part of the hiring process, according to Workable, the HR software company, while a survey by the Institute of Student Employers found that more than a quarter were using it to recruit graduates, up from 9 per cent in 2022.
How do you showcase genuine expertise in an age of AI?

Mar 28, 2024 | firstword.co.uk | Shane Richmond

That equals bland writing, devoid of new ideas. It can be a solid starting point if you are willing to spend time improving the AI’s work, adding personality and checking facts and sources, but most sites pumping out this material are not doing that. Their game is publishing as much as possible, as quickly as possible, to draw in traffic.
Once A Giant by Gary Myers, review

Dec 8, 2023 | pigskinbooks.com | Shane Richmond

The 1986 New York Giants were a special team. After 30 years without a Championship, the team finally landed another title – the Giants’ first of the Super Bowl era – by beating the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXI. Led by Bill Parcells, the team put up a 14-2 regular season record and rampaged through the playoffs, destroying the San Francisco 49ers in the Divisional round, 49-3, and shutting out Washington, 17-0, in the NFC Championship Game.
AI hallucinations: why generative AI invents facts and how to manage it

Nov 18, 2023 | firstword.co.uk | Shane Richmond

It may harm your career if your chatbot tells you something you later rely on in court. But it’s not just lawyers who should worry about AI inventing facts; it’s a risk to everyone. What to do? It’s a familiar courtroom drama scene: the dedicated lawyer, working into the night, stumbles on the key to the case among the stacks of witness statements and legal reference books.
Football is a Numbers Game by Matthew Coller, review

Nov 8, 2023 | pigskinbooks.com | Shane Richmond

Football analytics, once a fringe pursuit for hobbyists, has over the last 15 years or so, properly entered the NFL. Teams now employ multiple analysts, TV broadcasts talk about ‘run success rate’ and coaches drop mentions of DVOA into interviews. This gradual process arguably has its origins in The Hidden Game of Football (1988). Unbelievably, at around the same time a British football fan was making his own entry into the analytics field.
AI prompts: six tips for better results from generative AI

Oct 30, 2023 | firstword.co.uk | Shane Richmond

AI tools such as ChatGPT are immensely powerful, but it can be hard to get the best from them. A few simple tips can improve your ‘prompts’ and deliver better resultsGenerative artificial intelligence (AI) technology, such as ChatGPT, has scarcely been out of the headlines for most of the past year.
The American Football Revolution by Ben Isaacs, review

Sep 20, 2023 | pigskinbooks.com | Shane Richmond

It’s more than 40 years since the UK’s Channel 4 decided that the NFL would make good Sunday evening viewing for a generation of Brits whose only other options were boring sitcoms or religious programming. To a young child, as I was, it felt like Sunday TV was entirely aimed at my grandparents’ generation. American football changed that. It was colourful, brutal and somehow exciting – even if you didn’t quite understand what was happening.
Rocket Men by John Eisenberg, review

Sep 10, 2023 | pigskinbooks.com | Shane Richmond

The first Super Bowl to feature two black starting quarterbacks was played in 2023. That’s a fairly mind-boggling statistic for a league in which black players make up 56 percent of the total. However, it has traditionally been hard for black players to be accepted as quarterbacks because of racist stereotypes that persist to this day. John Eisenberg’s Rocket Men traces the long fight against that racism and tells the stories of the men who have tried to beat it.
Top five American football books for autumn 2023

Aug 31, 2023 | pigskinbooks.com | Shane Richmond

A new football season means a new selection of football books, and this year is no exception. There are plenty of new titles coming, covering everything from a comedy take on the history of the sport to the story of one of the major names in football analytics. Here are five of my highlights. 1Rocket Men by John EisenbergSuper Bowl LVII, in February 2023, was the first time two black starting quarterbacks had faced each other in the NFL’s biggest game.