Software Developer, Physics Graduate and BJJ Enthusiast.
United Kingdom
Joined July 2009
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New blog post: Dealing with Needlephobia using Machine Learning. andrew.carterlunn.co.uk/prog…
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There is no “golden era of F1”. There are good individual seasons slapped between mediocre to passable seasons that contain a great race or two and that’s only sometimes. The list of actual great races to boring ones is so skewed it’s not even funny
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Oh and finally thanks to @AndrewCarterUK for his wonderful MNIST Neural Network in Plain C as a starting point for someone very familiar with C, and not so familiar with machine learning github.com/AndrewCarterUK/mn…
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A new Signals and Threads, this one discussing memory management with the inimitable Stephen Dolan. The discussion was wide-ranging and enormously fun. I learned a ton!
signalsandthreads.com/memory…
"If you care about latency, you shouldn't be using TCP"
Great overview of the tech behind financial exchanges
signalsandthreads.com/multic…
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My yearly post on what the interns did this year. Some fun stuff! A library for writing Wireshark dissectors in OCaml, simulated annealing for sharding trading systems, and working on a complex migration for a deprecated regexp library.
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I don't have time to maintain github.com/PiPHP/GPIO anymore (PHP library for the Raspberry Pi). It needs a bit of TLC and, as it still attracts interest from users, I plan on marking it inactive. If anyone would be interested in maintaining it instead, please let me know :)
Just found out John Conway died due to complications from COVID-19 😢 xkcd.com/2293/ His invention entertained me when I was learning to program. Just done some reading about him, and there is a lot more to remember him for!
The Day AppGet Died by @kbeigi link.medium.com/XXId6gK0K6
If I wanted to design a process that turned a good human into a murderer, I would come up with something similar to what @USPS have designed for their customer care service.
New blog post: Encrypting Integer Primary Keys in Python. This is presented as an alternative to using UUIDs which perform poorly as a primary key with index-organized storage engines. andrew.carterlunn.co.uk/prog…
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"It's almost as if 100,000 people chanting 'Oh, Jeremy Corbyn' at Glastonbury Festival doesn't quite cut the mustard in working class Blyth Valley."
@mrjamesob 😂
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Probably the most profound paragraph about British politics you'll read throughout this whole sorry election campaign. By Robert Crampton in the Sunday Times thetimes.co.uk/article/why-d…
Been reading bits and bobs about this p++ debate. I'm not sure if my example is worth anything to the debate, but I no longer use PHP on any projects. I've switched to Python and migrated our companies existing PHP code bases to Python too. (1/3)
Reasons include the machine learning ecosystem, I find it a better language for non-web development and experience shows it has less "gotchas" for new developers and is generally more predictable. (2/3)