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  • How I became a data scientist

    26 Aug 2016

    During the #firstsevenjobs trend on Twitter, I tweeted my rather standard career path into software. It piqued the curiosity of…

  • Yo dawg, I heard you like functions

    13 May 2015

    It’s hopefully old news to you all but the free lunch is over (NB this article is 10 years old).…

  • How Not To Do a Hackathon

    15 Jan 2014

    I’m a strong believer in learning by doing. I don’t think it’s necessarily the best way to learn because you…

  • Helping a stranger (and why you should understand NP-complete)

    28 Oct 2013

    Earlier this year I helped out a random Hacker News commenter. This was covered in a recent blog post where…

  • Designing your wedding ring with 13 year old code

    13 Apr 2013

    So often when faced with a programming task, you never truly solve the required problem from scratch. To be completely…

  • Idea A Day

    27 Feb 2013

    Perhaps the one constant in becoming an expert in any particular craft is to do it regularly – preferably daily.…

  • The Difference Between Mean and Median

    20 Jan 2013

    As a non-statistician who every now and then has to understand statistical concepts as if they were second nature, illustrative…

  • From Idea to Launch: A Website Dissection

    6 Jan 2013

    What’s New? MUSIC was recently launched, so for those of you who’ve already read about the idea, architecture and technology…

  • What’s New? Music

    8 Dec 2012

    At the beginning of the year I posed a conundrum on Twitter. I wanted some way to make sure I…

  • One year in…

    7 Aug 2012

    Happy Anniversary! In updating my Fantasy Football League Team Selector Spreadsheet for the new Premier League season, I realised it’s…

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