.. the chance of them having to face Justin Bieber are somehow above zero.
The caption attached to Kim Jong-il is brilliant:
Bet he is.
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Desperate times for the North Koreans
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Do not read this title
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
This signature is at the bottom of every email from a company I’m in contact with at work, emphasis mine:
This e-mail may be confidential and privileged. Do not open it if you are in any doubt that you are the intended recipient. You must scan this e-mail and any attachments for the presence [...]
Election Losers
Saturday, May 8th, 2010
Congratulations to Godfrey Spickernell for getting 17 votes for the Blue Environment Party in Chelsea & Fulham — as far as I can see, the lowest total in the country.
I was a little disappointed nobody matched the heroic efforts of Catherine Taylor-Dawson, of the Vote For Yourself Rainbow Dream Ticket Party, who managed to get [...]
Gadaffi
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
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 [...]
Ask Lisa
Sunday, July 26th, 2009
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.
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 [...]
Life in the Stencil Buffer
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
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 [...]