http://www.insidereality.net/ A Soup of Computing, Maths and Philosophy en-us Nucleus CMS v3.24 © Weblog http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.insidereality.net//nucleus/nucleus2.gif http://www.insidereality.net/ http://www.insidereality.net/index.php?itemid=640 I'm afraid the time has come when I have to admit that I won't be able to update this blog anymore. My final year at university is about to begin and I simply won't have time to write anything substantial here throughout that period, so for now I ... Announcements http://www.insidereality.net/index.php?itemid=640 Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:20:13 +0100 http://www.insidereality.net/index.php?itemid=639 I'm building a personal server out of an old AMD Duron computer. Here are some experimental things I have planned for it: 1) Stream my music collection to any computer I happen to be using. 2) Run an SVN repository to keep hold of all my sou... Linux and unix http://www.insidereality.net/index.php?itemid=639 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:55:44 +0100 http://www.insidereality.net/index.php?itemid=638 Just when you thought cows couldn't be any more awesome, new research has shown that they may have a sense of the Earth's magnetic poles, as they tend to prefer to face in a north-south direction. And yes I fully admit that the quality of this ... Humour http://www.insidereality.net/index.php?itemid=638 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:54:25 +0100 http://www.insidereality.net/index.php?itemid=637 There seems to be a trend towards centralising larger amounts of personal data. For example right now you can use Google's services to store all your email, contacts, documents, newsgroup subscriptions, photos, and your calender. These 'free' s... Internet http://www.insidereality.net/index.php?itemid=637 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:29:22 +0100 http://www.insidereality.net/index.php?itemid=636 Throughout 2007 and 2008 I have been acquiring more and more taste for non-popular music, for want of a better description, or 'classical' in its more broad - and less correct - sense. I've always had a deep love for music, and after starting to l... Music http://www.insidereality.net/index.php?itemid=636 Fri, 1 Aug 2008 21:35:31 +0100 http://www.insidereality.net/index.php?itemid=635 I've finally got around to installing Fedora 9. The update install (from Fedora 7) didn't work, and I suppose I didn't really expect it to, so I did a fresh install in the end. Impressions so far: Things which work (which didn't in fc7 on my la... Linux and unix http://www.insidereality.net/index.php?itemid=635 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:09:37 +0100 http://www.insidereality.net/index.php?itemid=634 Over the last couple of years I have started to realise (or learnt the hard way) a few things about the process of studying mathematics which have gone against the assumptions I held before starting university. Maths isn't my main subject of study... General mathematics http://www.insidereality.net/index.php?itemid=634 Fri, 4 Jul 2008 21:38:03 +0100 http://www.insidereality.net/index.php?itemid=632 So earlier today I needed to look up cumulative probabilities over a binomial distribution with n = 30... as you do. Problem was I couldn't find any tables online which went that far. The obvious solution was to use a spreadsheet, which I did, ... Statistics and probability http://www.insidereality.net/index.php?itemid=632 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:50:08 +0100 http://www.insidereality.net/index.php?itemid=630 Following the release of Firefox 3, Microsoft sent Mozilla a cake to congratulate them. Isn't that nice of them? I'm pretty sure Microsoft didn't see any Firefox cake after IE 7 shipped. I suppose it beats a giant IE logo on your lawn. Internet http://www.insidereality.net/index.php?itemid=630 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:44:21 +0100 http://www.insidereality.net/index.php?itemid=629 ...having solved 4 out of 196 problems on Project Euler. Yeah that's right. Within hours of finishing my last exam (algorithm design and analysis), I had to find something to occupy the empty space in my mind left by having no more studying to ... General mathematics http://www.insidereality.net/index.php?itemid=629 Sun, 1 Jun 2008 21:12:00 +0100