This is a cleaned-up archival note from 2016. The commands below belong to the CUDA 7.5, cuDNN 5.0, Theano and early TensorFlow era, so treat them as historical context rather than current setup advice. In 2016, I came across...
Corporate PKI is one of those things that usually stays invisible until a tool refuses to talk to an internal server. The typical setup is familiar enough: a company has its own root certificate authority, one or more intermediate...
In March 2016 I bought an Olimex MOD-WIFI-ESP8266-DEV. It was a tiny red board built around the ESP8266EX, with 2 MB of SPI flash, a PCB antenna and enough exposed pins to make a breadboard feel briefly important. The...
While looking at chocolate packaging, I had a mildly unnecessary but rather pleasing thought: what if the packaging were also a three-dimensional puzzle? Galileo’s Star Puzzle seemed ideal. Its interlocking pieces form an elegant geometric star, and each piece...
Marlborough is a historic Wiltshire market town with a broad High Street, handsome old buildings and considerably more history than one might expect to encounter during a quiet weekend visit. My trip coincided with a large re-enactment of the...
Dragons, demons, bishops, beasts and people caught in states of permanent astonishment populate the city’s walls and rooftops. Some look menacing. Others appear to have just received an unexpectedly large college dinner bill. Stone Faces Above the Streets On...
Farnborough is a curious mixture: part aerospace trade fair, part public summer airshow, part runway theatre. I went on the public Saturday in July 2014. The day had a bit of everything: the Avro Vulcan, the Breitling Wingwalkers, the...
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