Anxious about AI? If the thought of a machine doing your job a million times better than you scares you, read on… I recently re-watched Hidden Figures, one of my favourite movies. It hit differently this time. As someone who builds AI technology for a living, even I get anxious from time to time. What Continue reading "Anxious About AI? Remember, Computer used to be a Human Job Title "
We have been calling for vitamin D to be used to fight COVID19 since March now seven months. The evidence was overwhelming then but fell on deaf ears. We published a preprint of a formal proof that vitamin D could end the pandemic six weeks later in May, urgently calling for goverments to use Continue reading "Vitamin D Prophylaxis Can End The Pandemic"
Four experts explain research that shows vitamin D is effective at protecting against and treating COVID19...
Are we having a second wave of COVID-19? No! We haven t even finished the first wave yet, and a second wave if it happens* wouldn t start until winter. So, why did Matt Hancock tell us we are? Because the UK government and their advisors are scientifically illiterate. * 2021 UPDATE: I was clearly Continue reading "Are we having a second wave? Of stupidity, yes."
Norton's Dome is a thought experiment that claims Newtonian physics is non-deterministic. This is utter rubbish and it's easy to prove why.
A proper understanding of the viral coefficient, K, can give insights that enable a more systematic approach to maximising it. Because K is hiding something pretty important...
Pidgin makes Flowcharts and Relations Diagrams fast and easy: just describe them and pidgin draws them for you.
How to set up your own Ubuntu instance of "neural-style", the deep neural network that makes fine art!
I ve grown to love MySQL, but every now and then it has some strange restriction that temporarily stumps me. Then I discover a marvelous workaround and fall in love with it all over again. This hack lets you overcome the restriction that you re not allowed to have a subquery in FROM clause of a VIEW. The trick is to Continue reading "A neat MySQL hack to create a VIEW with subquery in the FROM…
Crap. That was a mouthful. There seems to be a huge amount of stuff on Her Majesty s Interwebs about all of these topics, but very little explaining how to pull them all together into something coherent. There s a shit-ton of bad code to copy to get something bouncing around on screen, but none of it cares about scaling well Continue reading "Writing games in HTML5 and CoffeeScript combining Box2D…