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I’d love a set!
As computation becomes smaller and cheaper and more powerful, the big question remains "What are we going to do with all that?". Cell phones and iPhones are one answer to that question, but in some sense a boring one because they're mostly just littler laptops. Siftables, on the other hand, are representative of some of the genuinely new possibilities that these technologies enable, and are therefore much, much cooler :-).
Posted in Computing, Education, Music, Video Also tagged communications technology, electronic communications tools, electronics, technology, TED, toy, Video Comments closed
Huzzah for the mighty intarweb once again!
A simple web search saved a lot of headache in installing unnecessary software to allow Mac OS X to monitor our new APC battery backup system.
A tale of misery and (file format) woe
photo credit: hradcanska
As we were car-less in the UK last year, we would rent wheels at various times when we needed to move all three of us and lots of stuff over what passes for long distances on the small island. Our last rental, for our last week between Spain and our return [...]
Posted in File formats, Politics, Sabbatical Also tagged file format, image, information, Microsoft, open formats, proprietary formats, software Comments closed
Far too many photos from Dagstuhl
Regular readers here will likely remember various past posts extolling the virtues of Dagstuhl, this really wonderful computing research facility in Germany. I’ve been lucky enough to attend several seminars on the Theory of Evolutionary Algorithms in the past, and have taken (and posted) quite a few photos from those trips.
A few months ago [...]
Posted in Computing, Events, Photography, Research, Sabbatical, Science, Travels Also tagged conference, Dagstuhl, documentary photography, Germany, Photography, Research, Science, seminar, workshop Comments closed
So much to do – so little time
Sorry for the lack of activity here – an EPSRC grant with Riccardo came through, which is big happy news. The downside is that there’s a ton of research work to be done in a very short period of time. We were lucky enough to have Ellery Crane visiting for the last two [...]
So, so cool looking — but I can’t play yet!
Much chops to Bad Science for pointing out Phun, a simulation environment/game/construction engine thingie that (judging from the videos) is just super fun (ho, ho, ho) to fiddle with. It seems a wonderfully open-ended platform for making stuff, which is of course the great strength of a pad and paper, or a bucket of [...]
You know, basic editing and lit review = teh good
Just finished my GECCO reviewing, and I must say that is seriously sucks when people don’t attend to even the most basic of issues. Two things almost guaranteed to majorly annoy a reviewer:
Weird random floating fragments of text that are obviously the disemboweled remnants of some cut and paste action.
Only 8 entries in the [...]
Posted in Computing, Education, Research, Science, Writing Also tagged conference, evolutionary computation, GECCO, genetic programming, Research, reviewing, Writing Comments closed
Anyone want to pay their taxes in Sweden?
The Economist has an interesting piece on why government web services tend to suck, especially when compared with the best corporate services. Their take is that a significant part of it is that isn’t any kind of competition, so there isn’t much fall out if government web tools are wretched:
When Britain’s Inland Revenue website [...]
Posted in Computing, Education, Web development Also tagged government, internet, on-line communities, University of Minnesota, Web development Comments closed
A neat use of some of my photos