The third in a series of posts about how we think about coding and functional programming. The first was The Homunculus and the second was State

The subsections of programs referred to in the previous section are often called functions. In mathematics, the term function has a fairly strict definition …

For NaNoGenMo (national novel generation month) 2015, I wrote some Python which generates a series of loosely-coupled deepdream images, and adds eight-line surrealist 'poetry' to them based on the image categories used to draw them.

The full text is here: Neuralgae.

The source code and a fairly detailed description of …

If you think the title of this post is funny, and you have anything to do with science communication, we really need to talk.

In the couple of weeks I've seen infographics going around which try to correct non-technical people about the ways in which they use terms like "chemical …

The second in a series of posts about how we think about coding and functional programming. The first was The Homunculus

Even though I've complained about the metaphor of the homunculus, it can be used as a useful device to explain the differences between programming paradigms to a non-technical audience …

Here are visualisations of the 205 scene categories in the MIT Places Database using a variant of the same technique used to generate the thousand faces of Caffenet.

These are rendered on random grayscale noise rather than a photograph, so they're purely a manifestation of what the neural net has …

Here are the thousand image categories in the ImageNet Challenge data visualisation context, rendered onto a webcam photo of me using the deepdraw technique.

This is the set of image classifications which the standard Deepdreams imagery is based on: as more than one hundred of the categories are dog breeds …

Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism London: Verso Books, 2012

Slavoj Žižek

I've had problems with depression for my whole adult life: I am much better at managing it than when I was younger, but one of the bad habits which I find it hard to shake off is …

The Language of Science from the Fall of Latin to the Rise of English. London: Profile Books, 2015

Michael D Gordin

This book falls at the intersection of a few of my interests - language, the idea of an auxiliary or neutral meta-language, the history of science in general and academic …

This is the first in a series of posts about the way we think about programming, the influence these ideas have on how we write code and what languages we choose, and why I like the functional programming paradigm in general and Haskell in particular.

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Here are several sequences which ran on FSVO earlier this year.

The LITANY OF INFINITY - an incomplete catalogue of transfinite cardinals

MANY MOONS - a catalogue of the nature, population and attributes of the Solar System's satellites

An essay on MIGRATORY WORDS, their seasonal habits and reproductive cycle