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Since taking the plunge with mini-whiteboards (see this post) over the past few years my ability to know whether students are paying attention, thinking and practising has dramatically increased. Because I'm usually teaching groups of children I've not met before, I always draw out a seating plan and make sure I have everyone's names [...]

Good evening all. Talking Pictures TV have recently started a re-run of the surviving episodes of Dixon of Dock Green. Sadly, even at the rate of one a week that won’t take them that long (432 episodes were broadcast during 1955 and 1976, only 32 still exist). Given that so much is missing, it’s hard to get a feel for how the series developed during the 1950’s, 1960’s and 1970’s. …

I'm still trying to catch up on writing up some of the "old" diffusion experiments I did and models I made during 2022. This is another quick write up of a model designed to generate new images of a person's face given a single image of that face with no further fine tuning. There are now better models available for this purpose, in particular take a look at IPAdapter face …

We spent the end of the year in Minas Gerais, the massive Brazilian state next door to São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Because of our cat almost dying back in September, and him having FeLV, we’re still weary to leave him alone for too long. So, we didn’t want to go too far, nor for too long. Though, thankfully, colleagues of ours loved the idea of spending their end …

A huge amount happened in the Lean theorem prover community in 2023; this blog post looks back at some of these events, plus some of what we have to look forward to in 2024. Modern mathematics I personally am a member of the Lean community because of its phenomenal mathematics library mathlib, which was born around six and a half years ago and has now become a very fast-growing database …

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It’s snowing, and I have a mic that make me audible outdoors! So I got mildly snowed on while I rambled about board games as roguelikes, what matters when making games ‘different every time’, and how Dune Imperium pulls it off so well.

After a wonderful bop around the Southern half of New Zealand, we booked flights to head up to Auckland in the North. After renting a car in a super sketchy, dark parking lot, we made it to the attic-turned-Airbnb where we crashed for the night. We were raring to go on hikes, so we only […] The post Early Retirement Month Seven: A Bucket-List Trip to Australia and New Zealand …

If you found this article you probably have the same hand tool obsession that has provided income, enjoyment and at times, tranquility for many many generations. You probably also feel the same feeling that I do when I’m working in my shop and enjoying the peace and serenity of hand tool woodworking. The woodworking we do in our shops are our break from the world, it is how we unwind …

photo caption: a tree stump weathered by seawater and the elements. a small patch of grass surrounds the wood. the sky is gray and misting. honestly a lovely day! Hi y’all, I’m taking a quick break from work at Future Emergent and on this blog. I’ll be back by March. In my absence, I’ve queued up a few of my favorite blog posts in the newsletter I launched. A lot …

UPDATE 8/1/22: Some confusion about the date for this one. Some are saying that it was the end of November, but one newspaper article (coming to this page soon!) published on Tuesday 10th December indicates that the party took place on 7th December. A Spirals document entitled SPIRAL TRIBE’S CALENDAR OF POLICE HARRASSMENT AT FREE PARTIES – 1991-1992, still accessible via Wayback Machine, describes the bust at the end: 9.12.91– …

I did a lot of trying to say no to things and step down from things I wasn’t doing (well enough, or in some cases, at all) which was kind of my therapy homework and which was very difficult. Why is focusing so difficult? Why can’t we live 6 lives at once??? Why am I getting older and more tired? It just has to be. More centrally (the therapy part …

Yes, this is my first post in almost a year. I’m no longer prioritizing this blog, but I will still occasionally post something. I wrote ~2 years ago that it was hard to point to concrete opportunities to help the most important century go well. That’s changing. There are a good number of jobs available now that are both really promising opportunities to help (in my opinion) and are suitable …

Off-continent after 446 days!

Thinking back on the time that my Mum gave me the first six A Book Apart books as a gift when I first left Canada to start my career in the UK in 2011. They meant so, so much to me. Not just for the enlightening words within, but also because they were this tangible thing that reminded me of the encouragement from my very academic family to take on …