Calton Hill, Edinburgh, April 30th.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
A Few Things
Thursday, September 20th, 2007
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 [...]
Five Fireworks
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Taken on 02/09, from Waverley Bridge. They had a soundtrack and everything, pretty cool. Bigger versions here.
Could do with a sixth eh