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Dorkbot is AWESOME

20 Wednesday Jul 2011

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This evening, after our regular hackerspace meeting, we got together for the Calgary Dorkbot meeting for July.  And let me tell you, it was like being 9 years old again.  So much fun.  If your city has a Dorkbot, do yourself a favour and head down to their upcoming meeting.  You will only regret if you suck. Continue reading →

The worst blogger ever

20 Tuesday Apr 2010

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Well, another semester is done, and I find myself full of ideas I want to write down, and a blog that, save for the efforts of Nick, is full of cobwebs.  Sorry folks, I guess that’s just the way I am: fits and starts of motivation.  I’ve tried in past to keep this blog focused on the science and technology work I am interested in, but although that is an important part of my life, I’ve come to realize that a filtered blog, at least for myself, is an empty blog.  So, hopefully in the coming months I will be able to write more posts on a bit of a broader range of subjects than I used to.  Hopefully I’ll become a bit more Asimov and a bit less Salinger.

Google Fail 2: The Pharangulation

13 Tuesday Oct 2009

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atheism, google, google fail, pharangula

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On a related note, can anyone tell me why AdBlock Plus has stopped working for me in Firefox 3 for Windows Vista?

Aggregation Blog

28 Sunday Jun 2009

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I’ve created a new element to my website; a blog which aggregates all my writing from the two blogs I write for (here and the Terry blog). I’ll also write personal news etc. there. All the posts syndicated to the site link back to their original source, so comments etc will still be on the original blogs. The other great benefit is that I can have one destination and RSS feed for all my writing.

To do the aggregation I’m using a great WordPress plugin called FeedWordPress, which syndicated posts from RSS feeds into a WordPress blog. This plugin was suggested to me by Andre Malan. The theme is based on “Pretty-Parchment” by Lloyd Armbrust, with my own modifications.

Dear Facebook:

17 Sunday May 2009

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facebook, php, url, web

Why?

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UBC Terry Project Blogging

20 Friday Feb 2009

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blogs

I have recently signed on as one of the collaborators on the UBC Terry Project Blog. My posts can be found here.

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The Terry project is an initiative centered on using an open-minded, interdisciplinary approach to solving the world’s problems. Amongst other things, it serves to encourage sharing and openness between students from different faculties. As well as the blog, the project hosts a series of guest speakers (including Richard Dawkins last year), as well as an annual conference of student talks modelled on the TED talks. The videos from this year’s conference can be found on the site.

Papa LCD’s Contrast Ratio was TOOOOOOO high…

18 Sunday Jan 2009

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computers, technology

My new Acer Aspire One forms the perfect addition to my workspace family. Aww – isn’t it cute!

Papa LCD, Mama LCD and Baby LCD

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Back from Crazy-land

22 Monday Sep 2008

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As I am sure is quite obvious, I have not posted for about a month.  I’ve been ultra-crazy busy.  I’ve just started the 3rd year of my Physics BSc, been preparing for the inaugural event for CFI Calgary, manning the Freethinkers booth at clubs week, and I got a new job!  Starting Oct. 1, I will be working as a research assistant in the University’s Radio Astronomy department.  Updates will be finally coming in now, including the long overdue HOPE post.  I’ve also been hanging out with some friends of mine, Robin & Eran.  Eran is an incredibly talented artist, check her work out.

The Vancouver Trail

23 Saturday Aug 2008

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Some may call it crazy, including myself, but yesterday I flew from Vancouver to Houston to start a road-trip which will end up… back in Vancouver. My friend wanted to move his car up, so we figured it would make an adventure.

The goal: To make from Houston, TX to Vancouver, BC (2882 miles/4638 kilometers) in time to have a few days rest before classes start (September 2).

The car: A souped-up Honda Civic, designed for racing, not for coast-to-coast marathons:

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Ben’s Tweets

  • RT @OJ_Astro: A blog post by physicist Syksy Räsänen (@SyksyRasanen), who has published with us twice, about why overlay journals are an an… 1 day ago
  • RT @JokesAstro: If the Islands of Hawaii were very massive stars, Kauai would be going supernova soon. https://t.co/NEboP6FRWd 2 days ago
  • RT @AnicaSeelie: @gauravmunjal Imagine if there was a duck but it had human ears 2 days ago
  • RT @jfmclaughlin92: Friendly reminder that if you're at a public university, your institutional email can be searched basically whenever. B… 2 days ago
  • @rcrain_astro Academia has a lot of problems. Precarious employment, massive overworking of junior researchers, poo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 days ago

Nicholas’ Tweet’s

  • RT @michielsdj: New paper! Retrieval-augmented models are expensive. Make them faster by partially pre-computing passage representations. W… 5 days ago
  • RT @michielsdj: New paper! We propose FiDO, an improved version of Fusion-in-Decoder with faster inference and better performance. Work don… 1 month ago
  • @_julianmichael_ @LukeZettlemoyer @emilymbender @nlpnoah @ssshanest Congrats! 5 months ago
  • RT @michielsdj: Now accepted to @iclr_conf! 🎆 1 year ago
  • @mjskay Yeah, I feel a major point people were missing is that an endless spiral into the drain is actually the perfect visual metaphor. 1 year ago

Top Posts

  • Basic Data Plotting with Matplotlib Part 3: Histograms

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Blogs We Read

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  • Rationally Speaking
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