Recently, the company that provides hosting for this website experienced some technical problems and my website went down. This was rather frustrating, and I sent them a Tweet to ask…
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One of the biggest realisations I’ve come to as part of my PhD, is how little people care about how I spend my time, they only care about what I…
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Google have released an open source project on GitHub called Grumpy that converts Python to Go, and then compiles it down to native code. It’s an interesting development, but since they…
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I was reading a paper by Pedro Domingos this evening which had some tips and advice for people using machine learning. I’ve written down some bullet points for my own reference…
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Recently, I helped establish BioSky – a website dedicated to making medical and health research accessible to people without a scientific background. As we’ve been adding content to the site, I’ve been…
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Deep learning is a type of machine learning based on neural networks which were inspired by neurons in the brain. The difference between a deep neural network and a normal natural…
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Over the past few years of blogging using WordPress I’ve found a number of essential plugins for the platform. I’ve written this post to provide as a resource for myself and…
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A couple of months ago I was approached by an organisation that provided programming training to staff at companies. They asked me if I was interested in becoming a trainer…
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I recently ran a fresh install on my Mac and thought I’d take the opportunity to document the libraries and programs I find incredibly useful. The Python libraries I’ll frequently…
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An issue I recently came across whilst using the Python requests module was that while I was trying to parse HTML text, I couldn’t remove the newline characters ‘ ‘…