The name of this site is...
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.
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!
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!
Primal and dual model representations in kernel-based learning
Overview of kernel methods.
Algorithmic Game Theory
A good collection of articles covering various topics in this area (Equilibria, connections with learning theory, combinatorial markets, mechanism design, etc). Edited by Vazirani and others, includes contributions from Blum and Kearns. (PDF non-printable without password)
How to Read Mathematics
Great set of tips to give to people unfamiliar with reading mathematics.
Shinmun
An Jekyll alternative that uses ERB templates and emulates the GitHub pages push-to-publish approach.
sofia-ml
C++ Suite of Fast Incremental Algorithms for Machine Learning. Includes methods for learning classification and ranking models, using Pegasos SVM, SGD-SVM, ROMMA, Passive-Aggressive Perceptron, Perceptron with Margins, and Logistic Regression.