Notes, essays and the occasional experiment from a physicist-turned-software-engineer in London.
- President Trump
My grandmother was American. That fact is not something I think about often. My scant memories of her are of a kindly old woman on what I am forced to assume was her death bed. I…
- Thing Explainer Short Story
Randall Munroe, the man behind XKCD recently launched a new book, Thing Explainer, where he describes complicated things using only 1000 common english words. Unfortunately, his…
- Musing on European Elections
Today is the European Elections in the UK, and (to my mild surprise) a lot of election related hashtags are trending on Twitter. However, a lot of people still seem rather…
- Royal Twins
Unless you've been living under a rock recently, you are well aware that Kate Middleton is pregnant and suffering from a severe form of morning sickness called hyperemesis…
- #dbmillion
Note: I wrote this article using up to date data on the Monday evening, shortly before the competition closed on the Tuesday. So, Derren Brown has decided to run a competition…
- Earned
This holiday season is the first time I've had some time off since last Easter one way and another, I just never got around to taking time off. This seemed like a reasonable idea…
- A Brief Respite
So it's the Christmas holiday unfortunately, it's the shortest holiday that I've had for years: a scant two weeks. The Ph.D. is certainly going, though not necessarily where I…