I spend quite some time on the bus, commuting to work, so I wanted a way to fill that time with something interesting to hear. What I really needed was some good podcasts. The problem was that when I'd
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Thesis Publication
Good News!
My thesis was just publicised at the High Performance Computing in Finance (Training in Modern Quantitative Methods and High-Performance Computing for Finance) website which is a 4-year multi-site
5 tools to set up a LaTeX work environment, for a thesis dissertation in OSX
As I mentioned in this previous post I wanted to get some things documented for future and third-party reference. Since the thesis I was preparing dealt with Financial Mathematics, the choice was more
Finally accomplished my thesis
It seems difficult to fully grasp the full repercussion of this event at this moment, but I've done it! I've successfully completed my MSc thesis and submitted it yesterday. The reason Dorando Pietri
Physics geekiness. Meeting Prof. Higgs.
I attended a talk today about the technological challenges and achievements that were delivered at CERN. The presentation was really interesting for most parts, but it wasn't until the end that there
Completed the Swimathon
I only just realised, that I haven't updated on the status of the Swimathon challenge. I didn't mean for it to skip my mind like that, but I've truly been a bit busy lately!
Without further ado then
MSc Thesis update
I've currently neglected this space, but not from lack of interest. I'm deep in the middle of writing up my thesis for my MSc degree. For this reason I've been unable to contribute any updates, of sufficient
Swimathon 2012
I've decided to set a challenge for myself. It's been a while since I actively did any kind of training/exercise. Partly because of feeling some anxiety from a recent hernia operation, I was hesitant
2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here's an excerpt:
A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,300 times in 2011. If it
Customising OSX
As I wrote some time ago, I recently migrated from linux to OSX. Since this OS was very new to me, it took me a while to figure out which applications were useful to me and which customisations added