I’m a software engineer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. My interests include getting computers to behave, helping other people get computers to behave, open source, maths, and music.

When an experiment with existing open source technology does a “good enough” job

So far it has been tested only in simulated laboratory conditions, though.

A close look at two periods of degraded service on Coinbase.com during the week of June 24.

Chaser, often described as “the world’s smartest dog,” made headlines worldwide for being able to identify objects by their names.

There is, apparently, an increase recently in interest in the Dunning-Kruger effect. The Washington Post writes about this recently, making the obvious political observation (having to do with the current occupant of the White House). It's great that there…

Back before I first left the United States in 2012, I’d often use price comparison websites when trying to find parts for computers and system builds...

In previous work we gave a mathematical foundation, referred to as DisCoCat, for how words interact in a sentence in order to produce the meaning of that sentence. To do so, we exploited the...

The Lakeland, Florida police department is required to “encourage adoption” of Ring products as part of a secret agreement with the company.

Iron stylus uncovered at Bloomberg building site in City of London is ‘one of the most human finds’, say archaeologists

Neuroscientist Shane O’Mara believes that plenty of regular walking unlocks the cognitive powers of the brain like nothing else. He explains why you should exchange your gym kit for a pair of comfy shoes and get strolling

GNES is Generic Neural Elastic Search, a cloud-native semantic search system based on deep neural network. - GitHub - gnes-ai/gnes: GNES is Generic Neural Elastic Search, a cloud-native semantic s...

Most efforts to prevent suicide focus on why people take their lives. But as we understand more about who attempts suicide

Now that the Cologne meeting is over and we’ve more or less finalized (at least before the NB comments come in) C++20, I wanted to take the time to describe in detail one of the new language features we can look forward to. The feature is typically referred…

Free memory game to help developers to master command-line commands such as Linux and Git with examples

People who experience workplace rudeness report lower engagement, suffer more mental and physical health problems, and are more likely to burn out and quit their jobs. But while some research has indicated leaders take reports of bad behavior seriously, get…

The founders of FarmWise had an idea for a chemical-free method of removing weeds in big farming operations: an autonomous weeding robot. Then they realized they needed help to manufacture it. That's where Roush came in, and now the Silicon Valley and Rust…