As a scientist, freedom of speech is very important to me, which is why I've given the Amnesty International banner a prominent placing above. Once speech gets shut down, thought can quickly follow.
I'm still working on getting my own speech out there. I'll post details of papers and software soon.
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I'm sure a lot of people have seen and tried Google Code Search by now, so I've had a look and compared it with my favorite code search at Krugle which has saved me hours of work on many occasions. The interface of Krugle is clearly modelled on Eclipse, but it handles plenty of languages alongside Java and covers a few extremely useful bases which Google doesn't. The two I find most useful are thye API/TechDocs searches which allow you to find easily how something works, and the function search which allows you to quickly find the definition of a particular function. They are incredibly useful for finding your way round a new project, especially where the documentation is still in flux.
My impression of the Google Code Search is that it works as a standard Google search over the domain of software, so it doesn't take advantage of the domain knowledge offered within the source code and related documentation. I have a feeling this may be a trend to come. Specialised searches within a domain can exploit knowledge and connections that are hard to generalise to other domains. Krugle is a great example of how this extra knowledge can really make searching easier and more powerful. The generic Google PageRank just can't cut it, at least not on the basis of what I've seen.
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I've just thrown this blog onto the new Blogger Beta to make my life a little easier, as I've already got a Google Account linked up.
I've used rich-text editors before, especially in Writely, but this seems quite nice. Not sure how new it is as I haven't posted here in a while.
Doesn't look that different so far, but at least it's easier to get into. Might see me posting more here, especially if Flock still works with the new beta.
C.
I thought I should write a bit more about myself and what I've been upto. I recently gradtuated in a Ph.D. in Computer Science, the details of which you can see in the links to the rights of this post. Outside the research, I've been doing some political work, integrating the spell checker from Speller Pages into the WriteToThem website, which provides an easy way to get in touch with your MP.
technorati tags:politics, web, programming, Ph.D.
Blogged with Flock
Very interesting project about the sonification of mathematical proofs, that's also used to analyse sound. The proofs are converted into MIDI for sonification.
Read more at us.metamath.org/mpegif/...
From the new "New Scientist" blog comes this very cool looking simulation.
Black hole flight simulator: "
Sci-fi writers have long imagined what being swallowed by a black hole might be like – now physics, supercomputers and computer gaming graphics have combined in an attempt to create a realistic simulation. And it’s a pretty wild ride.
The 'Black Hole Flight Simulator'was created by Andrew Hamilton, an astrophysicist at the University of Colorado, for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. The 23-minute show contains segments that required 90 hours of supercomputer calculation for each on-screen second. You can see the trailer here (and look out for the guy in the canoe).
Entering a black hole might sound like a certain death sentence, but not so if it has five dimensions. If you don’t fancy the gamble, astronomers can now detect the event horizon of black holes, as well as witness their brutal birth and messy feeding. (Image: Denver Museum of Nature and Science)"
