Archives for January, 2005
an intelligent lack of structure
Sunday, January 30th, 2005
New Scientist writes about a research project to extract the most semantically meaningful pairing of words by using google. they say: The finding could bring forward the day that true artificial intelligence is developed. a good read. they use the ‘normalised Google distance’ to determine how related a pair of words are, more search results [...]
cold and slanty
Saturday, January 29th, 2005
i’ve never seen ice like they did at Lake Geneva on wednesday: there’s plenty more..
easyAthens
Monday, January 24th, 2005
this weekend I discovered (with Sarah) that Athens is a fantastic place. highlights of this wonderful place: food. the acropolis, especially the parthanon, and visiting for free on sundays (saving €12) the market stalls bios. despite a slightly overpriced beer. lowlights: the traffic. there are so many cars and motorbikes, and very few pedestrians. the [...]
proof of concept
Thursday, January 20th, 2005
Subject: Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce Thank you for your enquiry. The spices and flavourings in our sauce are part of the secret recipe which has been unchanged since the sauce was first made and what give our sauce its unique and distinctive characteristics. We can say that we use only natural ingredients and if [...]
kaboom
Monday, January 17th, 2005
if you are a Weapons Systems Engineer, what are your use-cases?
excellent maths
Sunday, January 16th, 2005
there is some excellent maths (with respect to advertising of cheap oranges by Sainsbury’s) over at quinparker.
transportdirect dot NET
Sunday, January 16th, 2005
Today the Observer ran a story about how Transport Direct gives rubbish advice. A quick google search for Transport Direct turns up a case study at microsoft.com. I find titles like Fast Development, Lower Costs and Prepared for the Future. Best quote: We have been able to do it at a reasonable cost and in [...]
food:spaces
Saturday, January 15th, 2005
a long time ago i started writing food shopping lists. then i began ordering them according to the departments i might find the items in, in order to avoid unnecessary walking and time consumption. a short while ago i began adding prefixes to the beginning of each item on the list (much to the amusement [...]
i MUD
Friday, January 14th, 2005
Today I awarded myself a day off, I know, it’s a friday, but I think I deserved it. I got up just before 7, ate some porridge and got on my bike just after 7.30. I watched the sun rise as I passed Roedean, but had to battle some fierce winds which made progress a [...]
BOGOF
Thursday, January 13th, 2005
thought you might like to know, McDonalds are doing BOGOF on hamburgers until this sunday.