There’s a great line in the Guardian piece ‘100 minutes in the life of Muammar Gaddafi‘:
Gaddafi certainly knows how to woo a crowd, particularly at important junctures such as this. This was after all his big chance to cement Libya’s re-entry into the bosom of the international community after 20 years in the wilderness.
The technique [...]
Noticed National Rail has a ‘virtual assistant‘, sceptically wondered how bad it could be:
Rejected by a natural language processor! That’ll teach me for being sceptical.
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 [...]
Stumbling through a load of OpenGL documentation I came across a demonstration of Conway’s Game of Life using the stencil buffer, which is simultaneously awesome and horrible:
Life in the Stencil Buffer
One way to create this game using OpenGL is to use a multipass algorithm. Keep the data in the color buffer, one pixel for each [...]
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 [...]
Edinburgh Uni hosts an i love kfc and horses also mailing list. I’ve been looking for this for years.
And: Why is GMail recommending me menstrual cups?
The BBC is claiming these twins set a world record for ‘accurately serving tea whilst bending backwards’. But what kind of teapot has a spout like that?
Righto.