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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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? [...]
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 [...]
Tape Loop, keeps on turning round, forever.
Hey, I reappeared, with everything intact.
Life went by, I spent a silly amount of time in Appleton Tower’s labs, and my musical life became electronica oriented – Amon Tobin, Venetian Snares, Pitch Black. I discovered the Amen Break and its extraordinary implications for the music we know. [...]
I’ve found a girl, lost a great friend, travelled something over 4,500 miles by train and realised that when I was small ‘2007′ was far away enough to be totally unimaginable; by then inventions on Tomorrow’s World would be around. I spent silly days in Korcula pulling faces and failing to guess ‘keys’ in a [...]