November 2010
7 posts
A paradox: To reduce my to-read list, I read a paper. Reading yields >2 citations to add to the list, which therefore grows longer. Repeat.
I think this must be why people spend their entire lives in academia.
Generation Why? by Zadie Smith | The New York... →
“Watching this movie, even though you know Sorkin wants your disapproval, you can’t help feel a little swell of pride in this 2.0 generation. They’ve spent a decade being berated for not making the right sorts of paintings or novels or music or politics. Turns out the brightest 2.0 kids have been doing something else extraordinary. They’ve been making a world.”
Today, I am immersed in Category Theory, a.k.a. ‘Abstract Nonsense’
Day log, 3rd November 2010
I didn’t bother with a day log yesterday, as I was at my other job, washing casks and carrying sacks of malt. Today, however, I was back in front of the computer today, with a surprising amout to show for it; I’ve completed my final programming assignment, to create a visualisation of the Mandelbrot set, and have added a few extra features to it - the ability to scroll around the plane...
Setting up a Python development environment on...
I’ve got to do a few assignments in Python for university, and wanted to set up my laptop (running Ubuntu Maveric) to do this. When I’m doing any Ruby development I use the excellent RVM to create a personal (or even project-specific) development environment for my work, and wanted to do the same with Python, not least so that my tentative first experiments in it were sandboxed in some...