Random assortment of snippets about books, coding, sailing, statistics...
Biggest changes “Escape” (get out of temporary dialogues etc.) is not ESC but C+g ! Setup issues Had some weird issues at first, but restarting Doom ( SPC h r r ) fixed it. Sometimes you have to restart Emacs as a whole ( SPC q r )! Packages to install magit direnv - automatically activate python environments based on current directory config packages ( after! 'tramp ( setq tramp-terminal-type…
For many decades, Patrick Winston, professor in the CSAIL at MIT, gave a one-hour lecture on “How to speak”. You can watch it yourself on YouTube as well as on the official OCW course page where you can also find captions and transcript. There are many summaries of it already written; here is my own take on it. Why care about how to speak? Because success in life depends on your ability to speak,…
I finally finished “Black Box Thinking” by Matthew Syed. You can get a quick overview from watching his TEDx talk . It was an insightful read, in that I got a bunch of insights out of it. I was also getting quite frustrated by the book and its writing style. What I liked about it and took away from reading it It underlined the importance of embracing failure & learning from it. I would have said…
Here are some good visualizations and related articles that I’ve come across: Explorable explanations Visualized Notes on machine learning by Peter Roelants Visual Exploration of Gaussian Processes A Practical Guide to Gaussian Processes Creating effective figures and tables [ Source ] Friends Don’t Let Friends Make Bad Graphs
A lot of us use matplotlib for making plots & figures. This article contains simple tips & tricks for making prettier figures - especially when copy&pasting them for presentations. This is about easy suggestions (low effort, high impact), not perfectionising your figures! (Though I am happy to talk about how to improve the looks of your figures further…!) Also check out the extensive matplotlib…
Raring to go on a sunny Saturday afternoon in late July after journeys from all over the country, eight budding young sailors stood in Oban harbour beholding the good ship Skylark at the end of the pontoon… Guest post written by Jamie Bailey The first task after the arrival of the train carrying six of the eight members of the crew was to collect the food order from Tesco, about half a mile from…
After a gale killed a previous attempt at the same a few years back, this year there was finally another CUYC trip that went all the way to London’s Tower Bridge and back - in a weekend! With a police boat call-out, impromptu boat lift, and a nice force 7 on the way back, this was an adventure indeed. Read on for more… Adventure to London - 10th to 12th November Our trip already began with…
Tidal races and overfalls and rocks galore (of which we hit none, proving that it is perfectly possible to go into exciting cruising areas without damaging the boat!), sunshine and beaches and crazy shenanigans. Does that sound like your cup of tea, coffee, or other beverage of your choice? Read on … Our route: - Southampton Eastern Solent, English Channel - Braye, Alderney The Swinge, Little…
“What did you do on the weekend?” - Well, we paid a quick visit to Ostend, Belgium. Where ‘quick’ refers to how much time we spent IN Ostend, and most definitely NOT the time it took to sail all the way there - and back! Read on for what happened… Preparations On Thursday night it had taken me way too long to decide what should all go on our groceries order so we would have enough food to keep us…
Easter 2013 - the coldest since 1962. Nevertheless, two crews braved the wind and had lots of fun sailing around the South Coast. You can also watch a short video about our trip on Vimeo ! This post is a Trip Report for Easter Weekend on the Channel Islands Over a looong Easter weekend, we filled two boats with eight people each, from completely new to really-not-so-new to sailing. Starting in…