I’ve played with R a bit more, and figured out how to find intersections and draw overlap graphs, like this: This shows the overlap between the probabilities of the number 1 and number 2 song are correct. The line at 634 is the point at which the probabilities meet. You… Read More
I made it! Not that it was ever really in doubt, but you never know. There was a near disaster at Sydney airport when I put my passport and boarding passes in my back pocket, only to have my backpack knock them out. A couple of minutes later as I… Read More
Wednesday Wisdom: Wherein I share knowledge given to me by others wiser than myself. A tip from the book “The Now Habit”. Open a spreadsheet program and set up 7 columns, one for each day of the week. Down the left side, divide the days into half-hour increments. Or be… Read More
Get hold of a personal finance program of some sort. I use GNUcash, but it’s probably a bit industrial for the casual user who doesn’t know accounting. There are a bunch of online ones like mint.com. Get out all your bank statements for the last financial year. Enter them all… Read More
Max Daneel Warren, born 11 June 2010. Isn’t he cute? More photos in the gallery. Read More
I finally got around to uploading a gallery of photos I took from the Australian Synchrotron Open Day last year. What is a Synchrotron? A synchrotron is basically a particle accelerator, but instead of trying to find the Higgs-Boson (or create black holes and cause the end of the universe,… Read More
Last week I had quite a shock: The Australian domestic air travel experience is dramatically better than the US experience. I’ve heard various people complain about it, and it seemed to be much the same stuff as we get here: the security theatre, queuing, delayed flights, hassles and pain. Well… Read More
If you’ve ever dabbled in learning about theoretical physics, as I have, you will enjoy an excellent book by Brian Greene called The Fabric of the Cosmos. It’s the first book that has explained how time and space are related by Einstein’s theory of general relativity in such a way… Read More
I’ve been thinking a lot about music lately. Playing music. How I used to, and haven’t lately. I’ve been particularly obsessed with Chopin’s Prelude in E minor (Op. 28 No. 4) which is a heartbreakingly beautiful piece of music. And playing music is apparently good for your memory. So after… Read More
So here’s something that I really have to thank @Havi for catalysing. Her unique approach to what she calls ‘destuckification’ (which is an awesome word) really resonated with one particular thing I’d been struggling with. I suck. We all suck. At something. And that’s ok. Be OK with your suckitude… Read More
