Introducing Ada

Saturday, 01 November 2008, 4:00 pm

Ada Molly Reid Julieanne and I are very happy to announce the public internet debut of our daughter, Ada Molly Reid, born on the 26th of October, 2008.

Of course, we and our friends and relatives have been extremely snap-happy so there is no shortage of photographic evidence of her first few weeks.

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Bladerunner vs. The Republicans

Monday, 29 September 2008, 2:31 pm

Sarah Palin A comment on reddit that placed a questioning Sarah Palin in Leon’s role from the opening scene of Bladerunner got me wondering if there wasn’t a better character that Palin could play. The replicant Rachel in the scene where Deckard tests her seemed the obvious choice.

A quick search for the script, some judicious modification and voila!

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Earlier Posts

Technology + Language = Totally Book! 09 Apr 2008
Predictive Text Weirds Language

Bacon Saved! Thanks SuperDuper! 24 Oct 2007
Or, why you should back up your Mac now

Florid Citizenship 21 Oct 2007
Wattle they ask me next?

Not Sleeping, Waking 15 Oct 2007
An update on what's been keeping me busy

A LyX Thesis Layout for UNSW Theses 09 Sep 2007
Stop formatting and start writing!

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Bookmarks

Fresh and del.icio.us

The RESTful Chemical Tracking System
A series of articles describing the design of a RESTful interface to large and complex chemical data.

Eloquent JavaScript
This looks to be a very nicely designed introduction to JavaScript - complete with in-browser executable code snippets.

Aggregating algorithm
Vovk's page of key results on the aggregating algorithms in the prediction with expert advice framework (a.k.a. competitive online learning).

Sequences Project
J. Michael Steele has collected a number of good starting points within the literature on sequence prediction.

Machinarium
An amazing looking point-and-click adventure game from the makers of Samarost.

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