February 2010
62 posts
is reading ‘Implied Spaces’ by WJ Williams. Why is the post-singularity AI avatar controlling humans for its own amusement always a cat?
Last day of ‘Roasted’ in the Observer today http://www.misterandyriley.com/ :(
is going to play around with neural nets and physical modelling tools today.
#Pringles XTreme : Fiery Wasabi Flavour are a bit disappointing - needs more #wasabi.
is wandering around Cambridge.
#uksnow in Cambridge (just as I was planning to go out and get the paper)
wants a tachikoma. #gits
is relaxing at home after a short detour to the pub involving a discussion of consciousness and quantum mechanics. Also #beer.
Worried about #Google #Buzz blurring the lines between public and private? Welcome to the Transparent Society http://is.gd/8bkHl
Stop piping cats: http://is.gd/89HIY #UNIX good habits
‘Organizing Functional Code for Parallel Execution: (or, foldl is a bit harmful)’ by Guy Steele http://is.gd/86Nv9 #lisp #fortress
To mark the occasion of the arrival of #google #buzz, a pearoast from the #b3ta Twitter image challenge: http://www.b3ta.com/board/9425463
is watching dancing hexapod #robots http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msaWXY3OuQQ
is #buzzed. I predict it will be the biggest thing to hit teh interwebs since #google #wave. *cough*
is travelling back to Cambridge.
When you get buzzed it auto adds the people you email most to your public profile. ‘OMG! My bf/gf is cheating on me!’ stories in 5…4…
has successfully given lecture.
reached the train just before the hail did.
#Google #Buzz http://www.google.com/buzz Begun the social networking wars have.
The local #co-op has given up on only stocking #Freeminer #ales and now has a decent range. http://xkcd.com/418/ is relevant w/ bacon->beer
will be in Oxford on Wednesday (again), lecturing on Linear Algebra and #MATLAB. #svd FTW!
RT @walkingrandomly: Free #MATLAB toolboxes http://bit.ly/9Mdkqt (blog post on some _good_ free toolboxes. #chebfun is particularly cool).
is writing discrete events simulation training material and listening to #madcaspulemarkets.
‘Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design’ http://designinginterfaces.com/ I have a hard copy of this, very good.
Watching #anime: bit of a #geek. Buying ‘Ghost in the Shell SAC’ soundtrack: crossing the line to full-fledged #otaku #yokokannoftw
More #Cambridge #uksnow. Fairly light.
Heavier #uksnow. Starting to settle a bit.
‘The Most Common Errors in Undergradaute Mathematics’: http://is.gd/7V40N #maths #teaching
RT @jpstacey: Ahem, @gsightseeing RT @fffffat: BUGGED A #GOOGLE STREETVIEW CAR WITH A #GPS TRACKER IN BERLIN. http://is.gd/7SZH8
just finished ‘Soon I will be INVINCIBLE’ by Austin Grossman. Nice take on the #superhero / #supervillain dynamic #muhahaha
‘Born Poor?’ by #economist Samuel Bowles http://is.gd/7S15R ‘The greater the inequalities in a society, the more guard labor it requires’.
No #DMZ this week, ‘The Great #Fables Crossover’ is out so reading that instead. #comics
NIST makes a #quantum #logic #clock: http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/logicclock_020410.html #physics
#Aliens #rap http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcLTaMpRl2o :D
RT @MikeCr: The 62nd carnival of maths - just published: http://is.gd/7KZXy (Shameless self-promotion: links to #MATLAB Game of Life)
#L-systems in #MATLAB Symbolic Math Toolbox: » mupad; In notebook: ?plot::Lsys to bring up doc. #fractals
‘Voxopolis: 3D City via Conway’s Game of Life’ http://is.gd/7JRKs from @digitalurban blog. #life
#Facebook is rolling out a new navigation system: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=287459122130
regexp(f(f(f(f(f(f(f(f(f(‘X’))))))))),’([F+-])(?@g{pd($1)}())’); #MATLAB #lsystem part 4/4 Inspired by http://is.gd/7H3oI
p=@(c)find(c==[‘X’,’Y’,’F’]);r={‘-FX++FY-‘,’+FX—FY+’,”};f=@(s)regexprep(s,’([XYF])’,’${r{p($1)}}’); #MATLAB #lsystem part 3/4
is big in #Japan (~_^) http://twitter.com/matlabexpo/status/8638366444 #MATLAB #lsystem #regexp
g={@()e(‘b=a+h;line([a(1);b(1)],[a(2);b(2)]);a=b;’),@()e(‘h=rp*h;’),@()e(‘h=rm*h;’)}; #MATLAB #lsystem part 2/4
a=[0;0];h=[0;1];pd=@(c)find(c==[‘F’,’+’,’-‘]);e=@(s)evalin(‘base’,s);t=1/sqrt(2);rp=[t -t;t t];rm=rp’; #MATLAB #lsystem part 1/4
Substitution systems in #MATLAB: p=@(c)1*(c==’0’)+2*(c==’1’); r={‘10’,’0’}; f=@(s)regexprep(s,’([01])’,’${r{p($1)}}’); f(f(f(‘1’))) #regexp
‘Wolfram|Alpha Now Includes Substitution Systems’: http://is.gd/7FksI #wolframalpha c.f. ‘The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants’ #regexp
*sigh*
missed the 8:21 to Oxford, will now get in 10:30
misread the timetable, the 8:51 gets in to Oxford at 9:52 like I’d planned. Yay! #ukrail #annoyingstatusupdates
Unsurprisingly, people are now inventing rules for “strip iterated prisoner’s dilemma” http://is.gd/7B4UW http://xkcd.com/696/ #xkcd
is technically awake.