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Caves Weekend
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
Having not been to the Caves for two years was there twice in a weekend, first for the Big Red Door Fundraiser, second for Departure Lounge, with the Souljazz Orchestra, the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble and Bass Clef.
The Big Red Door was an interesting one .. the entire crowd looked like this. No exaggeration. [...]
Conjugate Gradients
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Revising for an exam on machine learning and pattern recognition bitsandpieces on Friday and I came across a paper titled ‘An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method Without the Agonizing Pain‘. Which is awesome.
The Conjugate Gradient Method is the most prominent iterative method for solving sparse systems of linear equations. Unfortunately, many [...]
Prickly Pear
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
I love the penultimate paragraph of the Guardian’s report on Man Utd’s total failure at Fulham last weekend:
As for Ronaldo, this was one of those wearisome afternoons when he played with the soul of a pickpocket, trying to get opponents sent off, eyeballing the officials, exaggerating injuries – in short, the whole everyone-is-against-me routine. At [...]
Esbjörn Svensson, I’m Glad I Knew You
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Esbjörn Svensson died yesterday, he was only 44, and I always think of you when it comes to Believe, Beleft, Below. You said you loved it, I think it was the first time I really stopped to listen properly and you were right, it’s a joy, another world between the storming Did They Tell [...]
Terrorists About!
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
The Metropolitan police are publicising a new campaign:
Thousands of people take photos every day. What if one of them seems odd?
Do you think that person is committing a crime? They probably are, most people are terrorists. Do you think ‘what a loony’? Do you sigh at the strange habits of foreigners? [...]
A Day in the Life
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Eleven hours in the labs and we’re not even in the last fornight :\
I made my Last.fm charts program available for anybody to use and it’s had a positive response, hurrah, though people are far too reluctant to give feedback. It’s good to know there’s others out there who like to investigate every inch [...]