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Minor python optimisations

So let’s say you take some code e.g. getting a list of factorised numbers, filtering out some multiples and summing them (NB arbitrary example here + assumes positive-numbers only are...

Profiling in python

I’ve been wanting to start writing little notes here and there for useful tidbits I’ve found in my work over the years and somehow never get around to it. Work,...

The Anthropocene

I’m a sucker for nerdy facts or news, so when I saw a flurry of articles on the Anthropocene this last week it piqued me. Now, as far as I...

Sabal Palms

If there’s a few books I can entice you to buy, one of them would be by the author David George Haskell. Even if you don’t like reading a whole...

Wasp Factory Spoilers

Last year a friend of mine, having heard I’d never read The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks, immediately brought it off his shelf and into my temporary possession.

Shades of Evil

I’m reading a book I love right this movement and, for someone who grew up watching the films and revelling in the style, the fantasy, I still can’t quite point...

Microscopy (Fluorescence and otherwise)

The development of microscopy has an exciting past & has been the subject of a few Nobel prize awards. Some notable contributes include..

Clothes (comic)

Often I feel frustrated by the huge separation between clothes for men vs women. I’m all for optimising for body forms.. but why not just do exactly that?

The Three Responses (comic)

I was having a thought about “know it alls” - how they act without sometimes realising how their reaction can make others feel.

NG2 cells (an intro)

Before I forget all I learned, I’d like to put up a series of posts around the research I was doing in Bonn. Slightly glia-centric (on OPCs / NG2 cells...

Different Flavours of Research

Updated to a new blog! Beep Bloop Testing Testing..

Arguing for Brain Machine Interfaces

Written for Pi newspaper Amped up on scifi with films ranging from epics like Solaris to the big-time Hollywood hits Inception and Pacific Rim, it’s sometimes hard to distinguish fact...