Sound designer for live music and theatre; consultant for weird, wonderful and unusual projects!

London, England
Joined May 2012
Facebook employees are now "Metamates". (?) Can't wait for: LinkedIn -> Inmates Amazon -> Primates Tinder -> Intimates Jira -> Underestimates Postmates -> Postmatemates
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Warren Snipe is the artist who just performed the National Anthem in ASL at the #SuperBowl. He stole the show
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Years ago when had more time, I bought the domain smarterpolitics.org w/ dreams of building a website where politicians could be held accountable for SMART goals / have a "lifetime trust" rating. I'm never going to build it - anyone want the domain (free) before I delete it?
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Come say hi! I'm in the Rockefeller Building :)
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tfw you're scoping out dudes at the beach
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Teehee, I'm the "outstanding" poster-child of @icunion! xitter.cf/icunion/status/7361303…
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Fun day yesterday brainstorming about ultra-large-scale μs-latency next-gen acquisition systems with @OpenEphys
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A pair of V-22 Ospreys just flew right over my roof in VTOL configuration. Woah
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I'm desperate. My 6mo baby, very fragile, is taken away from his parents for the sake of the precautionary principle rendeznousnotrebebe.wordpres…
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New paper in Nature Neuroscience: Spike sorting for large, dense electrode arrays nature.com/neuro/journal/v19… with @shabnamnkadir @mldhunter &co
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SQLite has a load of awesome features needed if you have lots of complex metadata: great! But too many people use it as a key-value store.
@gvwilson @cyrillerossant @ctitusbrown For simple metadata, JSON can be parsed in FORTRAN88, edited in Notepad, fulltext OS search...
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A relational database in a file is cool if you need the performance and features of SQL. But for our use-case, JSON is open and much better.
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New post: What's wrong with HDF5? cyrille.rossant.net/moving-a…
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NWB alpha standardises the nature of data ("what") as well as the format ("how"). As long as "what" is standard, converting "how"s is easy.
Oh look, I'm done spike sorting this set of blocks! Thanks #airflow #phy #klustakwik @SlackHQ
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Here's an elaboration of that last thought. Mathematicians are insane. Q.E.D.
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a small fact that many non-experts often misunderstand: the primary purpose of parallelism on GPUs is to -hide the latency of memory reads-
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GLSL has a really great specification
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It's 2015. How come we haven't found a simple way - even with a USB drive - to copy a 5GB file from Mac to Windows?! Seriously. #tech #fail
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