Reading List

The Selfish Gene
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
Bad Science
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe


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Tuesday, 14 June 2016

4 Interesting Comments

Getting my daily dose of tech-trash-talk from the Vulture came across this interesting article:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/07/from_iwarp_to_knights_landing_james_reinders_leaves_intel/

About Intel's guru of parallelism taking early retirement, but it was the 4 comments that I liked as short insightful thoughts on the current state of concurrency despite long term work over decades:

http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2016/06/07/from_iwarp_to_knights_landing_james_reinders_leaves_intel/

As someone who dabbles in the field and with an MSc based on CSP by Sir Tony it is a shame that we are not much further on.

Thursday, 12 May 2016

R-Fiddle is jolly good!

R Fiddle is a web site where you try commands in R online

Similar to jsfiddle in that you can try things without hassle.



Thursday, 7 January 2016

Spotlight Schmotlight - Stopping runaway CPU usage by mds & mdworker nonesense!

photo credit: It's Murder, Watson! via photopin (license)

Have you tried switching it off and on again?

Disable Spotlight

The primary method is using launchctl, this will require the administrative password:

Monday, 21 September 2015

Qt Creator Android Kit Setup Made Easy With Homebrew Formulas


Getting toolchain components to hold hands.

Under OS X getting Qt Creator to cross compile  to Android requires a number of steps to install the necessary tools.

Using Homebrew Formulas with Homebrew makes the process easier under OS X:

Thursday, 3 September 2015

The Most Intelligent Robot in the World: A Theory of Robotic Motivation.



It was my first time at the Grimsby TechSpace Meetup tonight and what a lovely warm welcome from a very eclectic mix of folk. In amongst the hybrid vigour of ideas that ensued consequently I was witness to a small epiphany on the subject of artificial intelligence...


Saturday, 28 March 2015

Sunday, 18 January 2015

Documentation for libfbp


libfbp class diagram

libfbp draft documentation

The libfbp software is pretty close to an alpha release and seems to work quite well but I would like to work on some documentation for it before enacting some sort of official 'release'.