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 [...]
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 [...]
Third year 0_o. I’ve chosen Operating Systems, Computer Design, an Introduction to Vision & Robots, Logic Programming, Agent Based Systems, Security and Language Semantics and Implementation (the best of a bad bunch, no way I’m doing ADS eh), along with a course in professional issues, an individual practical and a group project. We [...]
Taken on 02/09, from Waverley Bridge. They had a soundtrack and everything, pretty cool. Bigger versions here.
Could do with a sixth eh
Days are happy and spent watching Six Feet Under and thinking about going outside to museums of surgeons but we watch the rain fall instead and it’s much better. I have a new flat in a brilliant location but it doesn’t feel like a home, it feels like a student flat and it’ll take [...]
Paedophilia. Probably then followed by a ‘wait, I shouldn’t joke about that, should I? Because y’know, I don’t actually fuck six year olds (I prefer girls about nine)’
Girlfriends (and lack thereof). Expect reference to (1).
Lesbians/Gays
Annoying international stereotypes, like Oriental looking folk not understanding English, cue hilarious nonsense from comedian
Black people, if comedian [...]